US642268A - Potato-bug destroyer. - Google Patents

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HANS ll. SlElI AND CHRISTIAN I-IOLSTEIN, OF MILLARD, NEBRASKA.

POTATO-BUG DESTROYER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 642,268, dated January 30, 1900.

Application filed August 11,1898. Serial No. 688,386- NO modem To all whom it may concern/.-

Be it known that we, HANS H. SIEH and CHRISTIAN HOLSTEIN, residing at Millard, in the county of Douglas and State of Nebraska, have invented certain useful Improvements in Potato-Bug Destroyers; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

This invention has relation to a new and novel improvement in potato-bug crushers.

The object of our invention is to provide a device which will be adapted to be carried through a potato-patch and be arranged to brush and knock off the potato-bugs, which are thrown into the receptacle, at the bottom of which they collect and where they are crushed and killed, the remains dropping through the rollers to the ground.

In the accompanying drawings we have shown in Figure 1 a top View of a potato-bug crusher embodying ourinvention, while Fig. 2 shows an under view, with portions broken away, of a potato-bug crusherembodying our invention.

Our device embodies, essentially, an axle A, of any suitable size and preferably round, to which axles are secured ordinary wheels 2 2 and from which axleA extends the tongue 8, to which the draftanimal is secured. The tongue 3 is strengthened by means of the transverse bars 4:, as will be noticed in referring to Fig. 1. "Working upon the axle A and revolving with the same is a sliding clutchcollar 15, which clutch-collar can be thrown backward and forward by means of an ordinary operating-lever 17, which by means of a pin 1Sis secured to an ordinary supporting-bracket 16, extending from the rear trans verse brace 4 and riding upon the axle A, as is shown.

Loosely working upon the shaft A is a clutch-collar 1%, provided with a sprocketwheel, from which extends a chain 13, which chain in turn works over a sprocket-wheel 12, which pulley forms part of a stub-shaft 11, which stub-shaft is held within a bracket 29, forming part of rear depending vertical bar 5, as is clearly shown in Fig. 3. This bar 5 is secured to the bar 4 and is additionally supported by means of an ordinary stay-rod 19. Mounted upon the opposite end of the stub-shaft 11 is an ordinary bevelgear 10, which bevel-gear meshes with a second bevelgear 9, which bevel-gear 9 is socured to a shaft 6, which works through the vertical bars 5 5 and is provided with a hub 7 from which hub extend the reeds or switches 8 8. Now should it be desired to revolve these reeds or switches 8 while the ve hicle is being carried forward it would simply be necessary to throw in the clutch to engage the clutch 14:, so that the rotary move ment of the shaft A would be imparted to the stub-shaft 11 and through the gears to the reeds 8.

Opposite to the point where the reeds-supporting hub 7 is in position is a receptacle B, provided with the back and a bottom 21, a portion of which bottom 21 is opened, as is shown in Fig. 1, and within this opening are held two ordinary crushing- rollers 23 and 24, one being provided with a shaft 27 and the other with a shaft 22, as is shown in Fig. 2. These rollers are made to revolve toward one another by means of the meshing gears 25 and 26. Secured to the shaft 27 is an ordinary pulley 28, over which the ordinary belt 30 passes, which belt 30 at the other end passes over pulley 31, mounted upon shaft 6,

supporting the bevel-gear 9, as is shown, so

that as the brush is revolved the rollers are also turned, so that the bugs as they are brushed off of the potato-vines, which vines are adapted to come out at a point approximately below the brushes or reeds 8, will be swept off and into the receptacle B, where they will be crushed by the rollers.

The device is light and readily operated, and,

Having thus described our said invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination with a suitable supporting-frame, of a wheel-rotated supportingaxle, a sliding clutch working upon said axle, a suitably-supported lever to operate said clutch, a rotating counterpart-clutch loosely mounted upon said axle, provided with a sprocket-wheel, a suitably-supported stubshaft, a sprocket-wheel and bevel-gear upon said stub-shaft, a chain connecting said stubbrush-shaft, all arranged substantially as and shaft sprocket to said c1utch-sprocket,abrushfor the purpose set forth.

shaft suitably supported, a bevelgear se- In testimony whereof we aflix our signa- 4 cured to said brush-shaft and meshing with tures in the presence of two witnesses.

5 said stub-shaft gear, a plurality of reeds or brushes extending from said brush-shaft, a E E' depending receptacle positioned below and adjacent to said reed-provided shaft, crush- Vitnesses: ing-rolls within said receptacle, and beitcon- G. W. SUEs,

iO nection between said crushing-rolls and said GRACE GRAY.

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