US83151A - Improvement in seed-planters - Google Patents

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ass- JOHN M. GITCHE'LL, OF HAVERHlLL, ASSIGNOR TO J. F. MORSE,

NORTH HAVERHILL,

NEW HAMPSHIRE.

Letters Patent No. 83,151, dated October 20, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN SEED-PLAN'IERS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part. of the same.

' hill, in the county of Grafton, and Stateof New Hampshire, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Oorn or Seed-Planters; and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification, and

represented in the accompanying drawings, of which-- Figure 1 is a top view; Figure 2 a bottom view, and v Figure 3 a longitudinal section of a planter, as pro-'- Vided with my invention.

This planter, like many others in use, has not only a hopper, A, to receive the seed, but a furrow-opener, B, and two coverers, O 0, they being arranged in a frame, D, in manner as represented. Such frame is provided with two handles, E E.

The bottom of the hopper is a slide-plate, E, which has an opening, a, leading down through it. This opening is supplied with an adjustable g. uge-plate, b, which is provided with a screw, 0, by which it may be moved, so as to close A brush, (1, is also arranged in the front of the lower part of the hopper. In order that access may be easily had to the screw, it is arranged outside of the hopper,

as shown in fig. 3.

There is pivoted to the hopper a vibratory flame, G, which supports the shaft 0 of a wheel or roller, H, arranged just in rear of the covcrers. A gang of pulleys, f g h, on the shaft of the said roller or wheel, disposed with respect to another gang, t 7t 1, in manner as, shown in the drawings, is to impart rotary motion to the latter, by means of an endless band or chain working around one pulley of each of the two gangs.

the said opening more or less.

The gang t It t isfixcd on a shaft, m, which has a bell crank n at its middle and extends across and is iva a 7 p oted in the frame G. A pitman or connecting-rod, 0, is jointed to the said bell-crank and to the rear end of the slide-plate F. Consequently, while the machine may be-dragged along by a draught-animal, harnessed to the nose-piece 1) oflits name, the slider trill-have reciprocating rectilinear motions imparted to it through the action of the wheel'I-I, the endless belt or chain, the pulleys, (on which the belt or chain may be working,) the cranked shaft, and pitman or connecting-rod,

as. described.

The wheel 1-1 will not only perform the functions of rollingulown the earth which the covercrs may have replaced, the furrow, butwill aid in producing the movements of the slide-plate necessary to effect the (hopping of the seed from the hopper.

By means of the vertically-vibrating frame. G, supporting the crank and wheel-shafts, the wheel is enabled to bear on and accommodate itself to the surface of the ground, the pitman rising and falling with the frame.

I therefore claim, for effecting the reciprocating movements of the slider 1 by means of the wheel or roller H, the combination of the vibratory frame G, the pulleys, the cranked shaft, and the pitman, arranged with the slider, the wheel-shaft, and the hopper, in manner, and to operate with an endless band or chain, substantially as specified. I

. JOHN M. GITGHELL.

' Witnesses:

N. W. WESTGATE, CHAS. B. Gnrswonn.

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