US9381A

US9381A - Improvement in hand seed-planters

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Publication number: US9381A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1852-11-02
Anticipated expiration: 1869-11-02

Description

'W. BULLOCK.

Hand-Seeder.

' No. 9,381. Patented Nov. 2. 1852.

AM. PHOTF-LITHD, CO NY, (OSBORNE?! IIIOCESSJ UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WVILLIAM BULLOCK, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN HAND SEED-PLANTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 9,381, dated November 2, 1852.

' same, in which- Figure 1 represents my machine as aside elevation, consisting of a seinicyliudrical receiver, a, with the conducting-receivers b, on one side; I), conducting-pipes for the grain from the receivers b to the casting 0. This casting has four dischargers, d, which holds the grain untildropped tothe ground by means of the action of the jaws, one being stationary, while the other is movable. The movable one is secured at the point 6 by a bolt, and a projecting arm, f, of the same is connected to a pitman, h, by means of the rods g. The pitinan h is attached to the crank t of the cylindrical piece j. To this piece are attached the arms it, having at their extreme end an arrangement for raising the grain.

Fig. 2 is a plan or top view, showing the grain-receptacle a, receivers l), and their counect on with the pipes 11' by dotted lines, arms 7.", and piece j, with the crank tand attachment.

Fig. 3 is a top view of the casting 0, dischargers (I, and arm f, and connecting-bar l, to insure a uniform discharge of the grain.

Action Place the grain in the receptacle a,

turn the piecej back, (drawing represents the arm k as having discharged the grain,) and as the arm is is drawn back the jaws of the dischargers (I open and allow the grain to escape.

This is effected by means of the pitman-rods, 85c.

What I claim herein as new and of myinvention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-- 1. A seed-planter having a tube or tubes,b, which in operating the planter is or are closed when placed in the ground, and so arranged that it or they can be opened White in the ground, for the purpose of letting the seeds out.

2. The arrangement of two or more tubes, 1) and I), in such a manner that the operator can place the seeds in a hill at specified distances apart.

3. The feeders k, havinga sloping cavity at the outer ends, and being so arranged that as the seeds are carried up they will slide outand pass into the tubes.

4. The arrangement of the feeders k and jaws e and d, or valves, of the tubes b, in connection with the handle by which the machine is carried, so that the feeders and jaws or valves can be operated by the samehand with which the machine is carried.

WM. BULLOCK.

\Vitnesses I. B. MURPHY, JoEL 000K.