US692908A - Cultivating-plow. - Google Patents

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" No. 692,908. Patented Feb. n, |902.

J. Y. REYNOULDS. cuLTlvATmG PLow.

(Appucaeion mea oct. 1e, .1901.)

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JAMES YEWING REYNOULDS, OF MOLINO, TENNESSEE.

CULTIVATING-PLOW.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 692,908, dated February 11, 1 902.

Application tiled October 16, 1901. Serial No. 78,878. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.:

Be it known that I, JAMES YEWING. REY NOULDS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Molino, in the county of Lincoln and State of Tennessee, have invented a new and useful 'Cultivating-Plow, of which the following is a speciication.

My invention is an improved reversible cultivating-plow which is adapted to be used also as a harrow; and it consists in the peculiar construction and combination of devices hereinafter fully set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a cultivating-plow embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a top plan View of the same. Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the plow reversed and adapted for use as a side harrow. Fig. 4 is a vertical transverse sectional view taken on a plane indicated by the line a a of Fig. l.

In the embodiment of my invention I provide the frame 1, which comprises a longitudinally-disposed central bar2 and cross-bars 3 4 at the ends thereof, which cross-bars eX- tend in opposite directions. The crossbars 3 are shorter than the cross-bars 4 and are provided With adjusting-openings 5. In practice the bar 2 and cross-bars 3 4 are made of iron or steel Welded together or are formed integrally, and that portion of the bar 1 to which the bars 3 are attached is bifurcated, as at 6, to receive the upper end of a standard 7, which is adapted to carry a cultivating shovel, point, or other suitable soil-stirring device or implement. The upper endof the said standard 7 is secured in the fork or bifurcation of the bar 2' by a bolt 8 and is re- Versible therein, as will be understood.

A pair of draft-bars 9 are adapted to be secured either to the cross-bars 3 or the crossbars 4 by bolts 10, and hence may be caused to extend from either end of the frame 1. A draft-yoke 11 is connected to the said draftbars 9 by links 12 and is provided with adjusting-openings 13 for the attachment of the said links thereto at any desired distance from its ends, so that compensation is made for the varying distances between the said draft-bars 9, owing to their being adapted to be attached to either end of the frame, as hereinbefore stated. At the ends of the said draft-yoke are hooks or other suitable devices 14 for the attachment of singletrees, if a pair of horses are to be harnessed to the plow, or for the attachment of the traces when a single horse is to be attached thereto.

In connection With the frame 1 I providea pair of beams 15, each of which is provided at suitable regular distances apart with a se-y ries of laterally-extending offsets 16. The ends 17 of the said beams are turned outwardly therefrom in opposite directions and are adapted to'bear between the bars 3 and 4 of the frame 1. Pivotal bolts 18, which are disposed in appropriate openings in the said bars 34, pass through openings in the outturned end portions 17 of said beams 15, and thereby the latter are connected pivotally to the said cross-bars of the said frame, and the said beams 15 are adapted to be turned axially on theirsaid pivotal bolts 18. The standards 19 of suitable shovels, points, or other soil-stirring implements 20 are secured to the said beams 15 in the angles formed by the lateral offset portions 16 thereof by bolts 21, and the said standards 19 may be reversed, as will be understood, to adapt the cultivating-plow to be run in either direction. It will be understood by an inspection of Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawings that the beams 15 diverge in one direction. It Will be further understood that by turning the said beams 15 axially on their pivotal bolts 1S the soil-stirring devices carried thereby may be moved toward and from each other. In order to thus enable the said beams to be turned, I attach the handles 22 to the said beams, respectively, as at 23, said handles being adapted to be reversely disposed on the said beams. Each handle is further connected to one of the beams by a brace 24. Springs 25, which are here shown as of inverted- U shape, are disposed transversely between the bar 2 and vthe beams 15, their inner ends being bolted to opposite sides of the said bar 2, as at 26, and their free ends bearing against the inner sides of the said beams 15. The said beams are normally retained with the standards 19 in vertical position by theaction of the said springs 25; but the plowman by pressing the handles 22 toward or from each other may turn the said beams axially to move the soils stirring devices carried thereby either toward or from each other, as may be required by variations in the width of the spaces between 'the rows or by irregularities in the rows.

In practice the standards will be provided with series of bolt-openings to enable the ploWs to be vertically adjusted. The beams may be provided with' any desired number of the oftsets 16 to enable any desired number of the plows to be used.

Having thus described my invention, I claim 1. In a cultivating-plow, a frame comprising a longitudinal bar and cross-bars at the ends and projecting from opposite sides thereof, in combination With beams carrying soilstirring devices, said beams having their ends pivotally connected to the said cross-bars and handles attached to the said respective beams, whereby the latter may be turned axially to move the soil-stirring devices carried thereby, toward or from each other, substantially as described. n

2. In a cultivating-plow, the combination of a frame, beams mounted and adapted to be turned therein in planes at right angles to their axes, and handles attached respectively to the beams, whereby the latter may be turned to move the soil-stirring devices carried thereby laterally,toward and from each other,substantially as described.

3. Inacultivating-plow, the combination of a frame, a pair of beams, means for mounting the beams in the frame for rotary movement in planes at right angles to their axes and for laterally adjusting the beams in the frame, toward and from each other, and handles attached respectively to the beams, whereby the latter may be turned to move the soil-stirring devices carried thereby, laterally toward and from each other, substantially as described.

4c. In a cultivating-plow, the combination of a frame having cross-bars at its ends, a pair of beams having their ends pivotally connected to said cross-bars, whereby said beamsare adapted for axial movement, handles reversibly connected to said respective beams, and soil-stirring devices having standards reversibly attached to said beams, whereby the said cultivator plow is adapted to be run with either end foremost, and said beams are adapted to be turned axially to move said soil-stirring devices toward and from each other, substantially as described.

5. In a cultivating-plow, the combination of a frame comprising a longitudinal bar and cross-bars at the ends thereof, a pair of beams carrying soil-stirring devices, said beams having their ends pivotally connected to said cross-bars and thereby adapted for axial movement, handles attached to said beams, respectively, and 'springs secured to said longitudinal bar and bearing against saidbeams, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aiiixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

h JAS. YEVVING )l REYNOULDS.

mark lVitnesses:

W. B. DOUTHAT, G. N. PARKS, J r.

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