US17841A - Improvement in corn-planters - Google Patents

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n. A. LEWIS. Seed-Planter.

Patented July 21, 1857.

8, PNOTO-LITHOGRAFN ER. WASHINGTON, n a

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CORN-PLANTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 17,841, dated July 21, 1857.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, NORMAN A. LEWIS, of Glens Falls, in the county of Warren and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Machine for Planting Corn; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which Figure l is a longitudinal vertical section of my improvement. or m, Fig. 3,indicates the plane of section. Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section of the same. 1 g, Fig. 3, indicates the plane of section. Fig. 3 is a plan or top view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

My invention consists in the peculiar means employed for distributing the seed, and also for covering the same, as will be hereinafter fully shown and described.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct my invention, I will proceed to describe it.

Arepresen ts theframe of the machine, which is formed mainly of the bars a a, connected by cross-ties b b, and provided with legs 0. The ends of the barsa are fitted on the ends of the axle d ofa wheel, B.

To one of the bars a, and by the side of the wheel B, a hopper, O, is attached.

To the lower end or to the bottom of the hopper a conical band, 6, is attached, said band encompassing the axle d of the wheel B. The axle d (the portion of it within the band 0) has holes or recessesf made in it, and the inner end of the conical baud e is fitted or just passes within an annular chamber, 9, which is placed around the axle d.

To the chamber 9 two tubes, h 71, are attached. These tubes are placed radially within the wheel B, and their ends project a short distance through the rim of the wheel, as shown clearly in Figs. 1 and 2.

' To the end of each tube It a slide, i, is placed, and the sides are connected by a rod,j, which passes transversely through the axle d. The rodj is of such a length that when one slide is open or free from the orifice of its spout the ori-tice of the other spout is covered by its slide. The rod 9' has a small friction-roller, 7:, attached to each end, and a rod, 1, which passes through the axle d by the side of and parallel with the rod j, also has a friction-roller, m, at each end. The rod l is somewhat shorter than the rodj, as shown clearly in Fig. 2.

To the cross-tie b which is nearest the wheel B, a bar, D,-is pivoted. This bar has a spring, a, bearing against its under side, and a curved inclined plane, 0, is attached to the outer end of the bar-D.

To the ends of the axle d a frame, E, is attached. This frame is allowed to swing freely up and down, and a roller, F, is placed in the lower end of the frame, as shown plainly in Figs. 1 and 3.

Within the frame E a smaller frame, G, is placed, the frame Gbeing fitted on a cross-rod, p, in the frame E, the cross-rod passing transversely through the center of the frame G. The frame G is allowed to work freely on the cross-rod 12, and a hoe, H, is attached to the lower end of frame G. The upper side pieces or rods of the frame G project a trifle beyond the edges of the rim of the wheel B, as shown clearly in Fig. 3, and the rim of the wheel B has two plates, 9, attached to it at opposite sides of the axle d, "said plates projecting a trifle beyond the edges of the rim at each side, as shown clearly in Fig. 3.

The operation is as follows: As the machine is propelled along, the axle d, by its rotation, conveys the corn, which passes into the holes or recesses f in the axle, around into the band 6, the corn being placed in the hopper U. The holes or recesses f are made sufliciently large to hold the necessary number of grains or kernels for a hill. The corn passes into the tubes [L h, and as the ends of the tubes enter the ground their respective slides will be raised by the curved incline 0, over which the rollers k on the rodj alternately pass. The rollers m on the rod 1 form bearings for the curved-incline 0. Each slide 2' is raised as the end of its tube enters the ground, so that the corn will be properly deposited in the soil, and just before the hoe H reaches the hills or the places where the corn is deposited the hoe is depressed or sunk into the ground in consequence of the plates q striking against the end of the frame G, and the corn will be covered thereby, the hoe, as the plates q pass the end of the frame G, being raised by springs 1, which are connected with said frame. The roller F presses the earth upon the seed.

I do not claim distributing the corn or seed through hollow arms or through spouts placed radially in the driving-Wheel, so that the'corn or seed will be deposited in the soil from the periphery of the driving-wheel, for this has been previously done; but,

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

1. Having the slides i placed over the ends or orifices of the com eying-tubes h, the slides being attached to the ends of the same rod, j, and operating said rod by means of the curved incline 0, attached to the rod or bar D, and the pulley or roller attached to the rod j, the whole being arranged as shown, whereby the slides are actuated or opened and closed alternately,

for the purpose set forth.

2. The hoe H, attached to the frame Gr,which is placed within the roller-frame F, arranged as shown, and operated by the projections g on the driving-wheel B, for the purpose specified.

NORMAN A. LEWIS.

\Vitnesses:

' G. T. LEWIS,

WM. ROBINSON.

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