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UNITED STATESPATENT OFFICE.
MARION N. CARLISLE, OF APPLEBY, TEXAS.
PLANTER.Specification of Letters Patent.
Patented July 20,1920.
Application filed September 20, 1919. Serial No. 325,054,
To all whomit may concern:
Be it known that I, MARION N. CARLISLE,
a citizen of the United States, residing at
Appleby, in the county of Nacogdoches and
5 State of Texas, have invented new and use-
ful Improvements in Planters, of which the
following is a specification.
The object of the invention is to provide
a seeder attachment for plows whereby an
ordinary one or two horse plow can be read-
10 ily converted into a planter adapted for
planting grains of all kind, including wheat,
oats, rye, barley, sorghum and other seed of
the sorghum family as well as peas, beans
15 and the like, means being provided in con-
nection therewith for the adjustment of the
parts to adapt the mechanism to plant at
different intervals between rows and at
greater or less rapidity according to the
20 character of the seed and the soil it being
possible to cover each row as it is planted
by employing a covering shovel in connec-
tion with the plow standards.
With these and other objects in view the
25 invention consists in a construction, combi-
nation and arrangement of parts illustrated
in the accompanying drawings, it being un-
derstood that changes in form, proportion
and details may be resorted to within the
30 scope of the claims without departing from
the principles involved.
In the drawings:
Figures 1 and 2 are side views, showing
opposite sides respectively, of a planter
35 mechanism mounted upon an ordinary plow
beam.
Fig. 3 is a plan view of the same, the
cover of the seed box being omitted.
Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section through
40 the seed box.
Fig. 5 is a transverse section of the same.
Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the bracket
for holding the discharge chute.
The plow beam 10 may be of the ordinary
45 form used in single and double team plows
having the handles 11 and the plow stop or
standard 12 to which may be attached a cov-
ering shovel 13. Secured to the beam by
means of hanger brackets 14 is a ground or
50 pilot wheel 15 while mounted upon the beam
in rear thereof, but preferably in advance
of-the plow stop or standard is a seed box
16 held in place by the clamps 17. In the
bottom of the seed box is formed a V-shaped
55 discharge opening 18 adjacent to which is
a guide 19 for the reception of the lateraledges of a seed slide 20 capable of move-
ment transversely of the seed box to expose
more or less of the discharge opening in
the bottom of the box, so as to control the 60
rapidity with which the seed or grain is fed
from the seed box to the seed tube or chute
21. This seed tube or chute extends under
the discharge opening of the seed box so as
to receive the seed or grain therefrom, and 65
conduct it to a point of discharge sufficiently
close to the surface of the ground to insure
the proper deposit thereof in furrows pro-
vided for the purpose, the discharge end of
said chute being movable toward and from 70
the vertical plane of the beam, so as to vary
the interval between the plane of said dis-
charge end and that of the covering or fur-
row opening plow used on the beam, the re-
quired position of said discharge end of the 75
chute being secured by a bracket 22 pro-
jecting from the side of the beam and hav-
ing a plurality of openings 23 for the recep-
tion of a fastening bolt 24 fitted with a
thumb nut 25. 6o
The regulating slide by which the open-
ing in the bottom of the seed box is con-
trolled is provided with a slot 26 engaged
by a bolt 27 fitted with a thumb nut 28 so
that said slide may be secured at the desired 85
adjustment.
The seed box is preferably provided with
a hinged cover 29 which may be secured in
its closed position by any suitable locking
means indicated at 30, and mounted trans- 90
versely in the seed box is a rocker shaft 31
carrying the agitator blade 32 and having
a crank arm 33 connected by a pitman 34
with a crank 35 on the axle of the ground
or pilot wheel, so that as the device pro- 95
gresses along the road, motion is communi-
cated from the ground wheel through the
pitman to the rocker shaft to cause the agi-
tator to loosen the seed or grain in the box
and insure its regular feed through the 100
opening to the chute for deposit in the fur-
row.
It is obvious that the feeding mechanism
consisting of the box with its attachment
and the means for communicating motion 105
to the rocker shaft thereof may be applied
as an attachment to an ordinary plow beam
or may be formed as elements of a planter
as originally constructed, and by its use
a series of furrows may be formed and suc- 110
cessively planted and covered in a single
operation to thus save time and facilitate1,347,441.
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Carlisle, Marion N. Planter, patent, September 20, 1919; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1259045/m1/3/: accessed June 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.