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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,
ZEDEtIAH W. GREEN, SR., AND ZEDEKIAH W. GREEN, JR., OF SABANNO, TEXAS.
PEANUT-HARVESTER.Specification of Letters Patent.
Patented Apr. 30, 1918.
'Applicationfiled May 25, 1917. Serial No. 171,055.
To: all whom it may concern:
Be it known that we, (1) ZEDEKIAH W.
GREEN, Sr., : (2) -'ZEDEKIAH W. GREEN, Jr.,
citizens of the United States, residing at
5 Sabanno, in the county of Eastland, and
State of Texas, -have invented certain-new
and.useful Improvements in Peanut-Har-
vesters; and we- do hereby declare the fol-
lowing to be a full, clear, and exact descrip-
10 tion of the invention, such as will enable
others skilled in the art to which is apper-
tains to make and -use the-same.
This invention relates to a machine for
harvesting peanuts, -potatoes or analogous
15 agricultural products, and the primary ob-
ject of the invention is to provide a machine
which will uproot the peanut plants, and
carry, them upwardly over a .perforated
plate, whereby the dirt will be separated
20 from the-plant, and the plant deposited upon
a carrier, from which they -may be dumped
in piles as desired. -
Another object of this invention is to pro-
vide a peanut harvester as specified, which
25 includes a supporting frame having a. per-
forated plate supported thereby at an in-
cline, and a' plurality of rods connected to
the lower forward end of the perforated
plate in spaced relation to each other and
30 extending downwardly to the delivery end
of an uprooting plow whereby the-plants up-
rooted by the plow will be forced upwardly
over the rods, and further to provide a novel
carrier structure for carrying the plants up-
35 wardly over the inclined perforated plate.
Another object of this invention is to pro-
vide a carrier -structure as specified, which
includes a pair of crank shafts having a
pair of substantially U-shaped, horizontally
40 positioned frames carried thereby, to which
frames are secured in spaced relation, a plu-
rality of plant engaging tines so that -upon
the rotation of the crank shaft, the tines will
engage the plants and carry them upwardly
45 over the upper surface -of the perforated
place and deposit them upon -a carrier.
With the foregoing and other objects in
view, this invention consists in such novel
features of construction, combination and
50 arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter
more filly 'described, illustrated in- -the ac-
companying drawings and claimed.
In describing the invention in detail, ref-
erence will be had to the accompanying
55 drawings 'wherein like characters designatelike and corresponding. parts throughout the
several views, and in which
Figure 1 is a side elevation of the im-
proved peanut harvester;
-Fig. 2 is a top plan view:of the harvester; 60
Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section through
the harvester;
Fig. 4 is a fragmentary horizontal section
showing : the .uprooting plow, spaced rods
and perforated plate over which the plants 65
travel;.
Fig. 5 is a detail view .of a part of the
frame construction of the harvester;
Fig. 6 is a detail perspective view of one
of the U-shaped supporting plates of the 70
carrier structure;
Fig 7 is a detail sectional view illus-
trating the manner of supporting and dump-
the carrier structure;
Fig. .8 is a detail perspective view of a 75
part of the frame structure; and.
Fig. 9 is a sectional view illustrating= the
manner of connecting the tines to the.U-
shaped supporting frames of the carrier.
Referring more particularly to the draw- 80
ings, 1 indicates the main supporting frame
of the harvester, which :is composed of side
rails 2 and 3. The side rails 2 and 3 have
their forward ends bent inwardly and se-
cured to an ear 4. The ear 4 is supported 85
by a standard 5. The standard 5 is rigidly
carried by the front truck structure 6. The
front truck structure is of any desired or-
dinary construction, and the standard 5 has
a collar 7 mounted thereon and held in 90
place by a set screw 8. The ear 4 is carA
vied by a supplemental frame structure- 9
which has a pair of collars 10 and 11 formed
upon the upper and lower ends respectively
of the same which- collars are, positioned 95
upon opposite sides of the collar 7 as clearly
shown in Fig. 5 of the drawings. An angled
bar 12 is pivotally connected as shown at
13 to the frame 3 and it is connected to the
frame 9 as shown at 14. A rod 15 is con- 100
nected to the rearwardly extending portion
of the angled bar 12 and to the lower end
of a hand lever 16, as shown at 17. The hand
lever 16 is pivotally carried-by the support-
ing frame 1 and it has a dog mechanism.18 105
carried thereby- which coacts with a .quad-
rant 19 for holding the hand lever in va-
rious adjusted positions. The hand lever
16 is provided for rocking the bell crank or
angled lever '12, for raising or loweringthe 1101,264,294..
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Green, Zedekiah W., Sr. & Green, Zedekiah W., Jr. Peanut-Harvester., patent, April 30, 1918; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1258405/m1/5/: accessed June 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.