US779137A - Fertilizer-distributer. - Google Patents

Description

Patented January 3, 1905.

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CHARLES E. ROZAR, OF DUBOIS, GEORGIA.

FERTILIZER-DISTRIBUTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 779,137, dated January 3, 1905.

Application filed June 10, 1904. Serial No. 212,002.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLEs B. RozAR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dubois, in the county of Dodge and State of Georgia, have invented a new and useful Fertilizer- Distributer, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to fertilizer-distributers; and it has for its object to provide a device of this class which shall possess superior advantages in point of simplicity, durability, and general efliciency, which may be easily manufactured at a small expense, and by means of which fertilizing material shall be distributed evenly and regularly, the distributing mechanism being operated automatically during the progress of the machine.

Another object of the invention is to provide for the tilting of the fertilizer-hopper in a forward direction and for maintaining it in its tilted position whenever it shall be desired to suspend the operation of dropping the fertilizing material, as when turning corners or when the machine is to be transported from one place to another.

With these and other ends in view, which will readily appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the improved construction and novel arrangement and combination of parts, which will be hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings has been illustrated a simple and preferred form of embodiment of the invention, it being, however, understood that no limitation is necessarily made to the precise structural details therein exhibited, but that minor changes as to shape, proportions, and exact manner of assemblage may be made within the scope of the invention.

In said drawings, Figure l is a perspective View illustrating as much of the improved fertilizer-distributer as is necessary to disclose the invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view laidr transversely through the beam in front of the hopper and looking in the direction of the latter.

Corresponding parts in the several figures are indicated by similar numerals of reference.

In the construction of my improved fertiliner-distributor is included a beam 1, carrying a plow-standard 2, which may be of the ordinary well-known bifurcated pattern or of any other suitable construction and which carries at its lowerend the furrow-opener 3. The standard is connected by a brace with the rear end of the plow-beam, to the sides of which handles 5 5 are likewise bolted.

Suitably bolted to the sides of the beam, preferably at a point between the standard and the handles, are a pair of brackets 6 6, the upper ends of which diverge in a forward direction and the lower ends of which are curved downwardly and rearwardly and are likewise made to diverge from each other. Between the lower divergent ends of the brackets 6 is mounted an axle 7, carrying a ground-engaging wheel 8 and also provided with a tappetwheel 9, which may be of any convenient shape or conformation. Between the upper divergent ends of the standards 6 is pivotally mounted a hopper 10, which is pivoted near its upper front corners, so that the rear part of said hopper shall be capable of vibrating within a considerable range of movement. The bottom of this hopper is formed by a chute 11, opening rearwardly and discharging into a spout 12, which is secured to the rear end of the plow-beam, extending forwardly and downwardly over the ground-engaging wheel 8, and terminating in rear of the furrow-opener carried by the standard. It is not absolutely necessary that the discharge-spout 8 should be extended downwardly as far as the lower end of the standard. It may be found preferable to shorten it somewhat, as shown in the draw.- ings, to permit the fertilizing material to spread somewhat as it is being deposited. It is to be understood, however, th at the length of the discharge-spout is a matter of degree only and that it may be made of any suitable and desired length. The amount of discharge from the hopper may be regulated by means of a slotted slide 10, secured upon the rear side of the hopper by means of a set-screw 17, whereby the said slide may be raised or lowered and secured at any desired point.

For the purpose of imparting to the hopper a vibratory motion an operating-rod 13 is seextremely-moderate expense.

cured to one side of the same, said rod being extended downwardly and provided at its lower end with a bent portion or shoe 14, lying in the path of the tappets of the wheel I 9, so that as the latter rotates the operatingrod and the hopper will be vibrated thereby, thus agitating the contents of the hopper and causing it to escape over the chute 11 into the tube 12, to be thence conveyed to the ground. By this simple mechanism the contents of the hopper will be discharged very evenly and with a great degree of regularity.

When it shall be desired to suspend the operation of dropping the fertilizing material, the hopper may be tilted forwardly and supported in such tilted position by means of an arm or handle 15, extending rearwardly from the body of the hopper and engaging a shoulder 16, formed upon a spring-bar 17, which is secured to the inner side of one of the handles and which by engaging the arm 15 will sustain the hopper in a tilted position. The spring 17 is extended upwardly to form a handle 18, which may be conveniently manipulated by the operator to withdraw the supporting-shoulder 16 from under the arm 15, thereby permitting the hopper to drop back into its normal operative position. It is obvious that when the hopper is tilted forwardly the operating-bar 13, having the shoe 14, will be thrown out of engagement with the tappet-wheel upon the ground-engaging wheel and that consequently the machine may be transported upon the latter by simply depressing the handles so as to elevate the earthengaging implements above the ground.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the drawings hereto annexed, the operation and advantages of the invention will be readily understood by those skilled in the art to which it appertains. My improved fertilizer distributer is simple and easy of construction and may be manufactured at an At the same time it will perform the operation of distributing fertilizing material as efficiently as more complicated and higher-priced implements.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is 1. In a fertilizer-distributor, a beam having a standard and furrow-opener, brackets secured to the sides of said beam and diverging upwardly in a forward direction and downwardly in a rearward direction, a ground-engaging wheel journaled between the lower rear ends of said brackets and having a tappet-wheel connected therewith, a hopper pivotally mounted between the upper ends of the brackets and having an operating-bar provided with a shoe engaging the tappet-wheel to impart to said hopper a vibratory movement, said hopper being provided with a rear wardlydischarging bottom chute. I

2. In a fertilizer-distributer, a beam having a standard and a furrow-opener and provided with standards near its rear end, brackets upon the sides ofsaid beam, a vibratory hopper mounted between the upper ends of said brackets, a ground-engaging wheel journaled between the lower ends of said brackets and carrying a tappet-wheel, an operating-arm upon the hopper having a shoe engaging the tappet wheel, a rearwardly extending discharge-chute connected with the hopper, and

a tube receiving the discharge from said chute and conveying the same to the ground in rear of the furrow-opener.

3. In a fertilizer-distributer, a plow-beam having rotary supporting means and a pivotally-mounted hopper provided with a rear-- wardly-dischargingbottomchute,ashouldered spring-catch connected with one of the plowhandles, and an arm extending rearwardly from the hopper and provided with an arm adapted to engage the shouldered springcatch to thereby retain the hopper in a forwardly-tilted position.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto afiixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES B. ROZAR.

Witnesses:

W. L. TAYLOR, J. D. TAYLOR.

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