US973461A

US973461A - Cultivator attachment.

Info

Publication number: US973461A
Application number: US51996709A
Authority: US
Inventors: Fred A Reese
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1909-09-28
Filing date: 1909-09-28
Publication date: 1910-10-18
Anticipated expiration: 1927-10-18

Description

F. A. REESE.

GULTIVATOR ATTACHMENT. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 38,1909,

0 w 1 M N 6 .m i f6 t 6 as W A P v .7 a

k a m m a F. A. REESE.

GULTIVATOR ATTACHMENT. APPLICATION FILED sum. 28, 1909.

973,461. Patented Oct. 18, 1910.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

witnesses E mmgwm awake,

nu umuus Fri-Ens ca. wasnmarnn, n. c.

FPaZAJZeeS NITED STATES PATENT orrucn.

FRED A. REESE, 0F PIASA, ILLINOIS.

CULTIVATOR ATTACHMENT.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRED A. REESE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Piasa, in the county of Macoupin and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Cultivator Attachments, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to cultivators, and it has for its object to provide an attachment to be used in connection with machines of this class, said attachment being used as a hoe and also as a regulator.

A further object of the invention is to provide a simple and convenient attachment which may be applied detach-ably to a beam of a cultivator, said attachment being equipped with a ground engaging foot or runner and with a hoe adapted to engage the ground adjacent to the plants.

A further object of the invention is to provide improved attaching means for the device constituting the invention.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a device of the character described which shall possess superior advantages in point of simplicity, durability and general efiiciency.

lVith these and other ends in view, which will readily appear as the nature of the improved invention is better understood, the same consists in the improved construction and novel arrangement and combination of parts which will be hereinafter fully described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings has been illustrated a simple and preferred form of the invention; it being, however, understood that no limitation is necessarily made to the precise structural details therein exhibited, but that changes, alterations and modifications within the scope of the appended claims may be resorted to when desired.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the application of the invention to a cultivator, only a portion of the latter being shown. Fig. 2 is a side elevation showing the improved attachment removed from the cultivator. Fig. 3 is a top plan View of the same. Fig. 4 is a side elevation illustrating a. different application of the invention.

Corresponding parts in the several figures are denoted by like characters of reference.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 28, 1909.

Serial No. 519,967.

The attachment comprises two bars A and B, the former of which is provided at its front end with an upturned portion forming a bracket 5. Each of the bars A and B are provided adjacent to their terminal ends with apertures 6 for the passage of fastening or connecting members, such as bolts 7 The bar B may be connected with the bar A adjacent to the rear or front end of the latter, as shown respectively in Figs. 2 and 4 of the drawings, and said bar B is curved in such a manner that when connected to the rear end of the bar A, by one of its terminals, it will extend in an upward and rearward direction, while when it is connected with the upturned bracket 5 at the front end of the bar A by its other terminal, it will project in an upward and rearward direction from said bracket 5.

When the bars A and B are connected together, as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 of the drawings, the said bars combine to constitute a beam for supporting a foot or runner C and a hoe or digging attachment which will be presently more fully described.

The foot piece or runner C is provided with upwardly extending arms 8, having terminal lugs 9 adapted to lie adjacent to the sides of the bar A near the front end of the latter fastening members, such as bolts 10 being used for the purpose of securing the runner in position. The bolt or fastening member 7, which serves to connect the bars A and B together, also serve for the attachment of a suitable earth engaging tool or implement which comprises the following instrumentalities, viz: a pointed blade or picker, 10 the function of which is to engage such stalks and other trash as may be encountered, and to guide the same to one side removing it from the vicinity of the growing plants, a gage-blade 11, which extends rearwardly from the lower edge of the trash-picker, supporting the latter and riding upon the surface of the soil, a scraper 12 which is pivoted upon one ofthe bolts 7 and is provided with an arcuate slot 14 engaging the other bolt 7, thus enabling said scraper to be adjusted to various positions, for the purpose of drawing the loose dirt toward the growing plants; and a fender 13 to protect the plants; and a clamping plate, 12 It is to be understood that other earth engaging blades or implements of any de- Patented Oct. 18, 1910.

sired construction may be carried by the beam composed of bars A and B, and that no limitation is made to the particular form of the blades herein described and illustrated.

For the purpose of connecting the attachment, illustrated in Fig. 2, with a cultivator of conventional construction, I avail myself of a supporting device which includes a stirrup 15 provided adjacent to its upper end with forwardly extending lugs 16, said stirrup being pivotally secured adjacent to the arch 17 of the cultivator axle by means of bolts or fastening members passing through the upper extremity of the stirrup and through a clip plate 18 having a rearwardly extending lug 19, upon which cultivator beams 20 are pivoted in a convenient manner, said cultivator being thus connected with the axle for universal movement. The stirrup 15 serves to support a leaf spring 21, one end of which is permanently attached adjacent to the upper end of the stirrup slot 22, said spring being curved in a rearward, downward and forward direction, its free end being supported adjacent to the lower end of the stirrup slot. Firmly secured upon the free end of the spring is a link 23 having a vertically bifurcated front end which straddles the bracket 5 of the beam A upon which it is secured by a fastening member, such as a bolt 24. A collar or clip 25 of suitable construction serves to connect the rear end of the bar B with standard 26 of the inner cultivator beam 20. It is obviously intended to connect an attaclnnent of the character described with each cultivator gang. The upper extremity of the bracket 5 is connected by a link 27, or other suitable connecting means with one end of the lever D, which is suitably fulcrumed upon the cultivator frame, and which is equipped with a handle 28 whereby it may be adjusted to elevate the front end of the attachment against the tension of the spring 21; the lever D may be secured to various adjustments by means of a ratchet bar 29.

In the operation of the device thus far described, the runner C constitutes a regulator whereby the forward end of the bar A will be supported. The gage blade 11 rides over the ground and supports the picker 10 the scraper 12 and the fender 13, and the cultivator is regulated in the customary manner by means of handles, one of which appears at 30, in Fig. 1.

To disengage the device from contact with the soil, the lever D is utilized to elevate the forward end of the bar A, the rear end of the bar B being lifted with the cultivator beam with which it is connected.

WVhen it is desired to use the regulator only in connection with the cultivator, the bar B is reversed and is then connected with A, and the upper extremity of the bar B is the upper end of the bracket 5 at the forward end of the bar E, as shown in Fig. t; the bracket 5 is now connected with the forwardly extending lugs 16 of the stirrup 15, the spring 21 and links 23 having been previously removed to enable the bar A to be fitted in the slot 22 of the stirrup.

The foot piece or runner C is shifted to a position adjacent to the rear end of the bar connected with the cultivator beam by a flexible element, such as a chain 81. Under this arrangement it will be readily seen that the foot piece or runner C, which is disposed a short distance in advance of the cultivator blade or shovel 32, will serve to regulate the depth to which the shovel may enter into the ground without interfering with the lateral movement of the cultivator beam. Should an obstruction, be encountered the g5 runner will ride over such obstruction, and in so doing the rearward end of the bar A will be tilted upwardly, thus throwing the upper extremity of the barB in an outward and forward direction, transmitting an upward movement to the cultivator beam through the chain 31, thus lifting the blade or shovel 32 out of the way of the obstruction and avoiding injury to the implement.

From the foregoing description taken in 95 connection with the drawings hereto, the operation and advantages of this invention will be readily seen. The improved attachment is simple in construction, inexpensive, and it may be readily attached and used in connection with any cultivator of conventional construction for a variety of purposes as herein described.

Having thus described the invention what is claimed is:

1. A cultivator attachment consisting of two separably connected and end for end i11- terchangeable bars, and means for connecting the same detachably with a cultivator.

2. A cultivator attachment comprising 110 two separably connected and end for end interchangeable bars, an earth engaging implement carried at the junction of said bars, and means for connecting the same detachably with a cultivator.

3. A cultivator attachment comprising two separably connected bars, an earth engaging implement supported at the junction of said bars, means for resiliently supporting the forward end of one bar, and means 120 for detachably connecting the rear end of the other bar with a cultivator standard.

at. A cultivator attachment comprising two separably connected and end for end interchangeable bars, an earth engaging 125 shoe detachably connected with one of said bars, and means for connecting the attachment with a cultivator. I

5. A cultivator attachment comprising two separably connected bars, an earth en- 130 gaging implement supported at the junction of the bars, a shoe carried by one of the bars, and means for connecting the attachment with a cultivator.

6. A cultivator attachment comprising two separably connected bars, an earth engaging implement supported at the junction of the bars, an earth engaging shoe supported by one of the bars, resilient supporting means for the free end of one bar, and detachable supporting means for the free end of the other bar.

7. A device of the character described including two separably connected bars, a shoe carried by one of the bars, a stirrup, supporting means for said stirrup, and means for connecting the stirrup with the shoe carrying bar.

8. A device of the character described including two separably connected bars, one of said bars being provided with an upwardly extending bracket at the forward end, a shoe carried by one of the bars, an earth engaging implement supported at the junction of the two bars, a stirrup, a leaf spring fitted in said stirrup, means connecting the free end of the spring with the upwardly extending bracket, and means for detachably supporting the rear end of the rearwardly extending bar.

9. A device of the character described comprising two separably connected bars, an earth engaging implement supported at the junction of the two bars, a shoe carried by one of the bars, means for resiliently supporting the forward end of the front bar to yieldingly resist the upward movement of the same, means for detachably supporting the rear end of the rear bar, and means for attaching and securing at various adjustments the forward end of the front bar against the tension of the resilient means.

10. A device of the character described comprising two separably connected bars and an earth engaging implement supported at the junction of said bars and including a traslrpicker, a gage-blade, a scraper and a fender.

11. A device of the character described comprising two separably connected bars, an earth engaging implement supported at the junction of said bars and including a trash-picker, a gage blade, a scraper, and a fender, and a runner supported in advance of said earth engaging implement.

12. The combination with a cultivator, of a compound bar supported in approximately parallel relation to the cultivator beam, and a runner and an earth engaging implement upon said compound bar in advance of the cultivator foot, said implement including a trash picker, a gage blade, a scraper and a fender.

13. The combination with a cultivator of a runner and an earth engaging implement supported in advance of the cultivator foot, said earth engaging implement including a gage plate.

14. The combination with a cultivator of a runner and an earth engaging implement supported in advance of the cultivator foot, said earth engaging implement including a gage plate and a trash picker.

15. The combination with a cultivator of a runner and an earth engaging implement supported in advance of the cultivator foot, said earth engaging implement including a gage plate and an adjust-ably supported FRED A. REESE.

Vitnesses H. L. CLownR, GEO. H. CLARK.