US314425A - James b - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES Arena OFFICE,

JAMES B. BROWN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE NEW YORK PLOW COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

PLOW.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 314,425, dated March 24,1885.

(No model.)

1' 0 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES B. BROWN, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Plows, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of plows in which the standard is curved on its front edge in rear of the mold-board to prevent clogging or choking.

The object of my invention is, first, to re lieve the standard of a portion of the strain on the beam when the plow is in use; second, to vertically adjust the plow-beam; third, to stiffen the plow. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompany ing drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of a plow in which my invention is embodied. a sectional detail of the plow-beam, taken at the line 00 m of Fig. 1.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in the views.

A is the plow-beam; A, the plow-head; A the rear end of the beam, pivoted to the ban dle C.

B is the standard, which terminates in an enlarged plate or h6t(l,-B', provided with a series of bolt-holes, B.

O is the right, and O the left or landside, handle.

D is a block interposed between the handle 0 and the beam end A D is abolt which connects the beam A to the handle 0, and forms a pivot for. the beam, to turn on, as is shown.

E is a bolt which adjustably connects the beam A to the standard-head B. It will be seen that the beam is pivoted to the handle 0 at A and that its free end or plow-head A can be raised or lowered and fastened in the desired position by the bolt E being passed through one of the series of holes B in the Fig. 2 1s standard-head B; also, it will be seen that the connection of the beam, handle, and standard in this way constitutes a triangular brace, and that the strain of the beam is divided between the standard and the handle; and, further, that the weight and first cost of manufacture and of repair is much reduced, less metal being required in one standard than in two, and also that as one-half of the beam strain falls upon the wood handle of the plow, should any breakage take place it would in all probability give way before the standard, which breakage can be easily and cheaply repaired by even a farmer himself without loss of time, while in the case of a plow having the beamstrain on. say, two standards,in the event of one of them being broken the entire plow-casting is destroyed, and the plow can only be repaired at the cost of a new casting and more or less loss of time.

I do not wish to be understood as claiming, broadly, a plow-standard having a slot or a ratchet-slot'in its upper end or head, as I know such have been made and used. I disclaim such.

I am aware, also, that it is not new to secure a plow-beam adjustably to a single standardseat or to attach it to a plow-handle, and do not wish to be understood as broadly claiming such; but

\Vhat I claim is- The standard B, as shown and described, having its front edge formed to curvesharply back from the mold-board seat, and provided with a handle socket, b, and a single beam'bearing, B, having adjusting holes, in combination with plow-beam A, handle C, block D, and bolt D, securing the beam to the handle, as set forth.

JAMES B. BROWN.

Witnesses:

J. H. SIMoNsoN, GEO. W. Jonas.

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