US892906A - Chopper attachment for cultivators. - Google Patents

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No. 892,906. Q PATENTED JULY'7, 1908.

G. A. SNIDER.

CHOPPER ATTACHMENT FOR GULTIVATORS. APPLICATION IILBI) r33. 12. 1008.

glnueufot ell-Rwan a CHESTER A. SNIDER, OF HENNESSEY, OKLAHOMA.

CHOPPER ATTACHMENT FOR CULTIVATORS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 7, 1908.

Application filed February 12, 1908. Serial No. 415,577.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHESTER A, SNIDER, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Hennessey, in the county of Kingfisher and State of Oklahoma, have invented a new and useful Cho per Attachment for Cultivators, of which tlie following is a specification.

This invention has relation to chopper attachments for oultivators and it consists in the novel construction and arrangement of its parts as hereinafter shown and described.

The object of the invention is to provide a chopper adapted to be used for thinning out cotton to a stand and which is preferably in the form of an attachment which may be applied to the frame of a walking or sulkey cultivator.

The attachment consists primarily of a standard plate for attachment with a beam and upon which is journaled a disk, a .horizontally disposed blade is also attached to the said standard. A rearwardly disposed arm is pivotally connected to the standard and is provided with means for fixing the same with relation thereto. Links are pivotally mounted upon the rear end of said arm and are adapted to be adjusted laterally with means for fixing them in their adjusted positions. A supplemental standard is ivotally connected with said links and a disk is journaled-upon the last standard. Both of said disks are concave and their concaved surfaces are disposed in opposite directions. An adjustable fender is pivotally mounted upon the arm and means is provided for holding the fender in desired relation to the disk mounted upon the supplemental standard.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the attachment, and Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same.

The attachment is adjustably mounted upon the beam 1 which forms a portion of the frame of a cultivator or other implement. The standard plate 2 depends from the said beam and the concaved disk 3 is journaled for rotation upon the said plate. The said plate is provided with a rearwardly disposed eel ortion 4 and the blade 5 is fixed to the said l ieel portion. The said blade is horizontally disposed and pitched rearwardly at its outer end with relation to the line of draft. The arm 6 is pivotally connected with the upper portion of thestandard 2 and may be ad usted vertically and fixed in an adjusted end of the arm 6 and are arranged to be swung laterally and are held at a desired angle with relation to the arm 6 by means of the clamp bolt 9. A supplemental standard 10 is pivotally connected with the rear ends of the links 8 and the concaved disk 11 is journaled for rotation upon the standard 10. The con cavities of the disks 3 and 11 are diposed in opposite directions.

The arm 12 is pivotally connected with the clamp bolt 9 below the lower link 8 and the bracket 13 is pivoted at the rear end of the arm 12. The said arm 12 may be adjusted horizontally while the bracket 13 is free to turn horizontally The forward end of the fender 14 is ivotally connected with the bracket 13 am the rear end of the said fender lies opposite the rear portion of the disk 11. The rear end of the fender 14 is free to move vertically. The disk 3 is fixed at an angle to the line of draft while the disk 11 is disposed at an opposite angle to the line of draft.

From the foregoing description it is obvious that by adjusting the arm 6 the disk 11 may be raised or lowered with relation to the disk 3 and blade 5. And by adjusting the links 8 laterally the disk 11 may be moved laterally with relation to the disk 3; The arm 12 may be adjusted in order to properly position the fender 14 with relation to the (isk 11.

When in operation for thinning cotton the attachment or two or more attachments, as described, are drawn transversely across the row of plants. The disk 3 will cut the roots and cast the soil away from the lants to be left standing. The blade 5 w' sever the roots of the plants to be destroyed and the disk 11 will move the soil back against the roots of the plants left standing. The fender 14 prevents the soil from being cast by the disk 11 and thus the said disk in its operae tiop will not cover the standing plants with s01 It is'obvious that by the various adjustments provided that the disk 11 may be so positioned as to move more or less soil as desired and also to operate at several degrees of depth below the surface of the soil or furrow and that it may be pitched at such an angle with relation to the line of draft as to effectually perform its function undervarious conditions of soil. The attachment may also be used for cultivating crops, such as corn, sorghum etc.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. An implement of the character indicated comprising a standard, a concaved disk journaled for rotation thereon, a horizontally disposed blade connected with the standard behind said disks, a concaved disk located behind the standard and being connected with the same, said disks having their concavities disposed in opposite directions.

2. An implement of the character indicated comprising a standard, a disk journaled for rotation thereon, a'blade fixed with relation to the standard, a disk located behind the blade and being adjustably connected with the standard, and a fender located opposite the last said disk and means for adjusting the fender with relation to the said disk.

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

CHESTER A. SNIDER.

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