USRE1039E - Improvement in seed-planters - Google Patents

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G. w; BROWN.

v Corn-Planter. No. 1,039. ReissuedSept. 11, 1860.

UNITED STATES GEORGE \N. BROWN, OF GALESBURG, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT lN SEED-PLANTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 9,893, dated February 2, 1853; Reissue No. 526, dated February 16, 185%,: Reissue No. 1,039, dated September 11, 1860.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. BROWN, of Galesbnrg, in the county of Knox and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and usemath: or machine dropping, as it is termed. Fig. 2 represents a side elevation of the same.

Fig. 3 represents the same machine arranged for hand-dropping. Fig. 4 representsa side elevation, and .Fig. 5 a top plan, of the machine as arranged for hand-dropping, as shown in Fig. 3.

Similar letters ofreference, where they occur in the several figures, denote corresponding parts of the machine in all the drawings.

It has been customary in seed'planting machines in which the seed-slides were operated automatically from some of the moving parts of the machine to mount the driver or conductor upon the machine; and it has also been customary to have the man who operates the seed-slides (when operated by hand) walk along behind or with the machine. I of course lay no claim to these things. I have discovered, however, that to mount the operator of a hand-planting machine upon the machine itself, where he can see the previously'made marks upon the ground and work his seedslides so as to drop the charge or charges of seed in exact conformity thereto, not only relieves him of much of his onorous duty, but enables him to do better work and plant with more regularity, regular planting-that is, planting in straight rows or hillsmaking.the cultivation of the young plants by machines much more certain and easy, and without throwing out or covering up such plants as would be outside of a regular line.

The nature of this part of my invention consists in so constructing a. seed-planting machine, wherein the seed-dropping mechanism is operated by hand, in contradistinction from mechanical or machine dropping, the so mounting of the operator upon said machine,

Drvrs as that he may readily and distinctly see the previously-made marks upon the ground, and operate the dropping mechanism to conform thereto; and my invention further consists in combining with a seed-planting machine composed substantially ot' frame-work, and upon which the person who works the seed slides or valves by hand sits or stands, a lover or its equivalent by which the driver who manages the team may raise or lower that part of the frame that carries the operator of the seeding apparatus, and thus ease the machine in passing any intervening obstacles or in turning it around.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use this invention, I will proceed to describe the same with reference to the drawings.

H represents a seat or stand which is occupied by the person who works the seed slides or valves. This seat is supported upon the frame-work of the machine, and is so placed that the occupant of it can readily see the seeddropping mechanism, as also the previouslymade marks upon the ground, which guide him in his operations. The operator holds in his hand a lever, c, which is connected with the seed slides or valves, and he when sees that the hoppers or seed-ducts are in the line of the previously-made marks or rows he moves his lever and causes a charge ofseed to fall from the hopper or tubes, into the furrow or gash made by the furrow-opener.

I found 'my invention upon the assumption that corn upon mucky or prairie soils cannot be planted with regularity by machinery--thatis, dropped automatically-for the slipping of the wheels, and the clogging and choking of such parts as are used in connection with corndropping machines, cause so much irregularity as to make the after cultivation of the plants by machinery almost, it not entirely, impossible without great loss by throwing out or covering up the plants. I drop the seeds by hand through proper mechanism; and that the operator may readily see his work, and not guess at it, I place him on the machine, where he rides; and I believe I am the first to mount the man who plants by hand on the machine that prepares the furrow, carries the seed, and covers it up, everything being mechanical exceot simply the dropping of the seed. I do the duty of tongues ordinarily.

everything that can be well and properly done by machinery by such mechanical devices as are herein shown. The planting, or, rather, dropping fo the seed, which I allege cannot be properly done by machinery, I do by hand, and by the hand of a person who rides upon the machine.

In the drawings I have shown an entire seeding-machine, to which the operators seat or stand, and the lever by which he operates the seed-slides, are affixed. From these drawings and positions the whole thing will be readily understood, and the application of them made. In a machine, however, upon which the person who operates the seed-slides rides, it is essential that someprovision be made for easing the machine over intervening obstacles, and in turning around. For this purpose I connect with the frame-work B, C, D, &c., a second frame-work, J 6 L M. The seed-slide operator may ride on the first-named framework, and the second attendant or driver, by pressing down upon the cross-bar M, can raise up the other part, with theattendant upon it,

and thus ease the runners. These two frameworks, or, rather, parts of frame-work, constitute the main frame, which is supported by the runners A and wheels K. and sometimes partially supported upon the tongue, which, being rigid on the frame B U D, may itself be called a part of that frame, while it also does The weight of the person who works the seed-slides is importantat times to hold the furrow-openers to as above described, of counteracting his weight by throwing a portion of it upon the wheels and tongue and suspending the seeding mechanism to them, or, in other words, removing the weight from the runners and its frame (except the tongue) and throwing it upon the wheels and tongue, thus putting the work, as well as the control of the machine, entirely under the supervision and direction of the attendants, and leaving nothing that requires judgment and skill to the machine itself.

Having thus fully described the nature and object of my invention, what I claim under this patent is- 1. In a seed-planting machine wherein the seed-dropping mechanism is operated by hand or by an attendant in contradistinction from mechanical dropping, the mounting of said attendant upon the machine in such position the seeding devices, and thus ease the ma chine in passing over intervening obstacles or in turning around, substantially as described.

GEO. IV. BROWN. Witnesses A. B. STOUGHTON, E. COHEN.

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