US907440A - Renewable sole for worn planter-shoes. - Google Patents

Description

A. L. BAUGHMAN.

RENEWABLE SOLE FOR WORN PLANTER SHOES. APPLICATION FILED JULY 14,1908.

907,440. Patented Dec. 22, 1908.

gvwcntoi wmmm ALTON L. BAUGHMAN, OF WOLFLAKE, INDIANA.-

RENEWABLE SOLE FOR WORN PLANTER-SHOES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

. Patented Dec. 22, 1908.

Application'flled July 14, 1908. Serial No. 43,491

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALTON L. BAUGHMAN,

"a citizen of the United States, residing at sole thereof has become worn out.

Wolfiake, in the county of Noble and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Renewable Sole for Worn Planter-Sh0es, of which the followin is a s ecification.

This invention has re ation to soles for planter shoes, and it consists in the novel construction and arrangements of its parts, as hereinafter shown and described.

The object of the invention is to provide a renewable sole for planter shoes, whereby when one sole is worn out it may be replaced by another, thereby saving considerable expense, as it avoids the necessity of equipping i the planter with an entire new shoe when the Again by reason of the fact that the shoes used upon ordinary corn planters and the like are subjected to much wear and abrasion during the course of planting, the said shoes frequently become worn to such an extent as to become useless, and, when this occurs, considerable expense is entailed by providing new shoes, Frequently the shoes are worn after it has become impossible to obtain shoes of similar character or pattern for the reason that the shoes vary in pattern during different seasons.

It is therefore the object of the present invention to provide a renewable sole for such shoes also, and when the shoe has become worn the said sole may be applied thereto, thus rolonging the life of the shoe and saving t e expense as above stated.

With this object in view the renewable sole consists of plates of like pattern andv dimension which are joined together laterally at their lower portions and which are spread apart at their upper portions for the reception of the lower portion only of the planter shoe. The lower edge of the sole conforms to the original configuration of the lower edge of the planter shoe (provided it is a plied to a worn planter shoe), or in case t e sole is applied to a planter shoe in the first instance the lower edge of the said soleis a continuation of the curvature of the lower forward edge of the planter shoe.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a planter shoe with the renewable sole attached thereto. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the sole detached, and

Fig. 3 is a rear end'elevation of the sole detached.

In Fig. 1 of the drawing the numeral 1 represents the planter shoe and the dotted line 2, represents the ed e to which the lower portion of the said s cc has been worn during its use, or the lower ed e of the shoe as it may be made in the st instance. The graintube 3, is mounted upon the rear end portion of the shoe 1. The renewablev sole consists of the plates 4, which are of like configuration and like dimensions. Said plates 4, are secured together at their lower portions by welding, riveting, or otherwise, as at 5, and the lower edges 6, of the said plates conform to the original configuration of the lower edge of the planter shoe 1, or if the plates are applied to the shoe in the first in stance, the lower edge 6, thereof is a continuation of the curvature of the'lower for- The upper portions of the plates 4, are spacedapart for the reception of the lower portion of the shoe 1, and the upper portions of the said plates are secured to the shoe 1, by means of the rivets 7, which pass transversely through the said shoe and the said plates.

From the above description it is obvious that when the planter shoe 1, becomes worn. to such an extent as to be ractically useless, that the shoe may be applied thereto in the manner as illustrated in Big. 1, or should the planter shoe in the first instance be made substantially as shown in Fig. 1, the sole may be applied thereto and in both instances the lower edge 6, of the sole will be a continuation of the lower forward edge of the shoe, and the shoe and sole combined will have the general configuration of an ordinary planter shoe. Thus by applying the sole to a worn planter shoe the said shoe is transformed from a worthless condition into a serviceable one, and may be used indefinitely, for as soon as the sole becomes worn it may be removed and a new sole substituted in its stead.

While the description herein given has been directed articularlv to planter shoes,

it is obvious t at the sole may also be ad' vantageously applied to listers or similar im plements.

Another advantage gained by the present construction of the sole is that no part of the sole projects beyond the upper edge of the shoe 1, when the sole is applied thereto, and

consequently no shoulders or angles are provided which may accumulate soil and thus obstruct the proper operation of the shoe or add undue draft to the implement. It may be added further that by reason of the fact that the lower portions of the blades 4. are joined together laterally that the metal. throughout the said area is substantially doubled, and consequently the lower portion of the shoe possesses reater wearing qualities than if the metal otwhich the sole is composed were of the same thickness throughout.

At the same time the said sole does not add y l of the plates conforming to the curvature of undue Weight to the shoe for the reasons that the portions of the sole which overlap the side ortions of the shoe are relatively thin. It wi 1 also be seen that by reason of the fact that the'lower ortion of the shoe 1, is seated within the so e and has contact with the late 4, along the lines thereof wherethey egin to approach each other, that any jar ring to which the sole may be subjected is not transmitted in an entirety to the rivets 7, which secure the 'sole to the shoe. That is to say, the configuration of the sole in a great measure protects the rivets 7 against jarring and roug usage.

Having described my invention, what 1 claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters In combination with a lanter shoe having the lower rear edges of its side portions siaced apart, a renewable sole, comprising p ates of like pattern and dimensions integrally joined together laterally at their lower portions and spaced apart at their upper portions, to receive the lower portions of the sides of the shoe said plate having intermediate inclined portions which form rests for the lower edges of the shoes, the lower edges the lower forward edge ortion of the shoe, the upper edges of the so e terminating short of the upper edges oi the shoe, and securing devices passing transversely through the sides of t 1e sole and the shoe.

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

ALTON L. BAUGHMAN.

Vitnesses:

HENRY W. KLIoK, STANLEY L. SURFUS.

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