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THOMAS-H) WIBLE,'1QF oUiNCY,, 1LL1NoIs.

er'z Patent Na. .rsssafized Mms 81, 1888.

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` ;Be n knows nm I, THOMAS H. wmm, Bf the city of Quinzy', in nie county of Adams, and sms ofimnoie have in vented 'a new and useful machine for dropping andfplantin'g corn, which I call The'G'em Corn-'Dropper and Planter;" and I'flo hereby declare that the followitigis'a full, clean-,end exact 'descni'ption'of the constructionisnd operation of the Ssmrefeienee being had to thel accompanying (lrawings, making part of this specification, in'which- I I I F-ignre? 1`is a-fi'ont view, v Figura 2 a. side vi'evfi. I v w Figre 3 a' Vertical section-of fig.A 2, in the lino'afa'hd Figure 4 a too'ievt of thmmdsand levers usedtolcommnnic'ate m'otion-to the several parts. The machine ishand-nlanten" constrneted, arranged, andv operated as hereinaft'er`descrihed, for the 'pni-peso' of depositinggrsinsof icorn' or other seed in sepsrate holes, at fixe'd distances, in each hill, with -ease .a and b are hifnrctedjyvs, cohnected near their lower extreniitjes bj' means of platespp', in which the 'ijw bis pit'oted.: The points l andbl-b, w-hich`-enter the ground, are Vplated with; metal on their, ontsides, -snd are he'velledon.theirv interio'l'v surfaces, so as to fit together` when closed. They also have concavities to direct the conrse of. the seed. i

Two other nsir'slof'jnws, 'cdandiefi are placed, one on each side of a 1),. and athight angles theret o, in such-amsnnerthst' their pioints, When closed, shall 'be in ,the same plane, and their. relative positions those of the angles-of a s qnare. vThe jsws o and e l:tre fixed, parallel to each other, to the edge of a, by means of the cross-hate 'in m'.. The jaws'a, c, and e',.and their a'ppurtenances, may'be'consideredrelatively to b, d, andas the-stationary .parts of the machine, and the latter as'the movable parts.

I w lHandlesl law are nttachedto the-'upperlendsof a and in anconvenientma-nner, but when arranged as shown in the drawings,'conformto thenatnral position'ofthe-hands, nnrt enable them to operate the machine wit'hout undne'stmin'npon the irrists. z

- A 'seedbox orv reser'voir, i, is'fiedtothe jaw a, having a. dropping-slide, 8, of the fnll' width of its'bottoin, passing'freely throngh hor'izo ntul slots. This slide, in the present'instance, has fourO conireying-holcs', o, of a. size' suitable to carry one grain of oi'n or' 'other seed, and' is atta ched by a hoo'k' or hinged fastening to the jawib. When b is scpara'ted froin to itsffullest extent,.the slide 8 is drawn out of the box i, bringing the holes inimcdiately over the upper end ,of the "fomltubes t, 'whichz lead resoectively-to the lower portions of thejaws' ,a b, c d, and ej. The back of the box s'isremovedin fig, 2, for thefpnrnose of showing four cnt-off slides, l, i .let into thethickness of the' jawi a, and' held "down' b'zlight'spiral Springs. The function of'theseslides is to orerent the passage of more thanvone'g'rain iix veach hole, but-it` by accident two grains should get wedged into one hole, or'th co'rn shhuld get edgeways, or` be of extra sie, th'ey yield and let it pass, 'thns preventing jmming or injnry to the 'imtchinev 1 gusrdrg, is secured above the ^hol eso,` to present waste, should any gmins pass aocitlentally beyond the holes- A stop-block, n, is-'fixed on'thelinside of a, to prevent the tops of a and b from :ipproaching too closely. The slide scan he suhstituted by others with sets of'hol'es suitable for diiferent kinds'pf grain; The

movement of theinni bfrom or towards the stationary jan' a gii'es motiont'oa system of crank=levers, u'and 21,-'and rrids 9:, vshown in fig. 4 inboth positions, which canse'thc movah'lejaws'ol andf to assume, respectively, ;in relation tc the stationary'jaws, c nd e,' t`he same relative position that b assumes .towards a;z and ht the same ltimejV thns,`by means of the moveme'nt'giv'en by the hand of the operator to the jaw`5, cause the four pairsf of'points to open or close siinultoneosly..

niongthe important odvantafges realizned in .this machine is, th'eplanting of each grain of'seed in 'a separate'hole, at a certain fixednlistance from the lo t'ljers' -in the ssme'hill', therehy prevehting the most advanced stolks'frons cronidingand impeding the dci'elopment of those in' the some hill which may germinate later than theiothe'rsi I I `In operatiomtheplonter' is grasped in both'hnnds by the handles h. a and b are seprated, a grain of jseeil drops -into' each tube, and pnsscsilown to the lowenp'ortion of thejaws',v which, being-closed,`prevent'them from passing'through. 'It is'then thrnst vertically into the ground to a proper depth, the hands are brought

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