US709442A - Seed-planter. - Google Patents

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No. 709,442. Patented sept. I6, |902.

.|."M.- HIGBE. 'SEED PLA'NTEH.

` (Applicatiqn led Jan. 2, 1902.) v(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet I /N VEN TOR UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES M. l-IIGBE, OF MANSON, IOWA.

SEED-PLANTER.

SPECFI'CATIN `iormrig part of Letters Patent No. 709,442, dated September 16, 1902.

Application filed January 2, 1902. Serial No. 88,063. (No model.)

y which the dropping mechanism is driven by frictional gearing from theaxle or other part connected with the traction-wheels of the planter. The gearing comprises two independently-operative trains, either one or both i of which may be thrown into action, as desired, and said trains acting independently uniformly to drive the dropping mechanism. This specification is a specific description of one form of the invention, while the claims aredenitions of the actual scope thereof.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts Ain the views.

Figure l is a side elevationof theplanter, showing the axle in section. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the planter, and Fig. 3 is a rear view.

p a. indicates the main framing, b the seedboxes, and c the shoes or furrow-openers.

'd indicates the traction-wheels, which are `fastened to the axle, and this axle is formed in two sections e and e', (seeFig. 3,) to which the wheels d are respectively connected.

f indicates the shaft which drives the dropping mechanism of the seedboxes, this shaft extending longitudinally along the center of 'the seed-planter and having bevel-gears f and f2 fastened thereto. Mounted in brackets a', attached to the main frame, and in a box `]"3,carried on the shaftf, are transverse shafts g, which carry bevel-gears h, meshed, respectively, with the bevel-pinions f' and f2. The

shafts g falsocarry friction-wheels g', and these friction-wheels areadapted to be connected with friction-wheels e2, respectively, on the axle-sections e and c by means of intermediate friction-wheels c'. These intermediate friction-wheels t' are carried in hangers i', arranged to slide in boxes 2, supported upon the `frame a by brackets 3. The hangers 7l' project above the boxes 'i2 and have foot-rests Q14 thereon, and within the boxes z2 are arranged springs, (see the dotted lines inl Fig. 1,) which serve to throw upward the intermediate friction-Wheels t'. When the operator presses down on the foot-rests 114, the wheels t are caused to engage the wheels g and e2, and thus the wheels h are driven from the wheels e2. It will be observed that the wheels t are independently operative and may be made one .to Work when the other is at rest or both may be Worked together.

In using the invention the operator may rest on his seat 7c, suitably supported on the framing a., and actuate either of the Wheels t', as desired. If one of the traction-wheels d is about to run against an obstruction,the wheel adjacent to said traction-wheel may be raised, and thus the erratic movement of the said traction-wheel d produced by the ob` struction will. not be transmitted to the seeddropping mechanism; but this mechanism will be evenly operated by the movement transmitted by the other train of gearing' from the other traction-wheel, which latter traction-wheel is then running evenly over the unobstructed ground. It both wheels are running evenly, both trains of gearing may be allowed to operate, and whenever an obstruction is reached the wheel infiuenced by the obstruction may be thrown out of gear with the dropping mechanism. When both trains of gearing are operating, the action is the same as though the axle were one structure; but either section of the axle and the corresponding traction-wheel may be thrown ont of action, as desired.

Zindicates a crank, (see dotted lines, Fig. 1, and full l-ines, Fig. 2,) which is fastened to the rear end of the shaftf and which enables the manual rotation of this shaft for the proper adjustment of the dropping mechanism when starting or at other periods in the operation of the machine. The mechanism may be so arranged that when this crank points in any direction-, i'or example, downward-the mechanism will be ready to drop, and. this enables the operator of the planter properly to start the action of the parts.

If desired, a quantity of colored markingpowder may be carried by the machine and dropped on the ground from time to time to show the track of the planter and to indicate where each row starts and ends.

Various changes in the form and details of ICO my invention may be resorted to at will Without departing from the spirit of my invention.

and two trains of gears running respectively from the sections of the axle to the dropping mechanism, said trains ot' gears being operated simultaneously or independently to uniformly actuate the dropping mechanism.

2. A seed planter, comprising dropping mechanism, a driving member, and .two trains of gears from the driving member to the dropping mechanism, said trains of gears being operative independently or sim nltaneously to uniformly actuate the dropping mechanism.

3. A seed planter, comprising dropping mechanism, adriving-axle, two'trains ofgears for driving the dropping mechanism from the axle, each of said trains comprising frictionwheels mounted on fixed axes, and an additionalfriction-wheel mounted to move toward and from the first friction-Wheel to connectI or disconnect the same.

4. A seed planter, comprising dropping mechanism,a driving-axle, two trains of gears for driving t-he dropping mechanism from the axle, each of said trains comprising frictionwheels mounted on fixed axes, an additional friction-wheel mounted to move toward and from the first friction-wheel to connect or disconnect the same, said friction-wheels being carried in independently-movable hangers, and brackets for sustaining the hangers.

5. A seed-planter, comprising a frame, a dropping mechanism, a longitudinal shaft in connection therewith, pinions fastened to the shaft, counter-shafts, gears carried by the counter-shafts and respectively meshed with the pinions, an axle, and friction-gears connecting the axle with the counter-shafts, said friction-gears comprising shiftable elements for throwing the sets of gears into and out of action.

6. In a seed-planter, the combination of dropping mechanism, a driving member, two independently operative groups of movement-transmitting means driven by the driving member, and a means (such as the shaft f) for connecting said groups of movementtransmitting means with the dropping mechanism.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this speciieation in the presence of two subscribin g witnesses.

JAMES M. HIGBE. Witnesses:

HUGH HARRISON BLACKMAN, ADONIRAM JUDsoN LANGDELL.

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