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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
BENGT JOHAN SVENSON, OF MANOR STATION, TEXAS.
IMPROVEMENT IN CORN AND COTTON PLANTERS.
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 1380164, dated Aigust 20, 1872.To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, B. J. SVENSON, of Manor
Station, in the county of Travis and in the
State of Texas, have invented certain new
and useful Improvements in Corn and Cotton
Planters; and do hereby declare that the fol-
lowing is a full, clear, and exact description
thereof, reference being had to the accompany-
ing drawing and to the letters of reference
marked thereon making a part of this speci-
fication.
The nature of my invention consists in the
construction and arrangement of a "corn and
cotton planter," as will be hereinafter more
fully set forth.
In order to enable others skilled in the art
to which my invention appertains to make
and use the same, I will now proceed to de-
scribe its construction and operation, referring
to the annexed drawing, in which-
Figure 1 is a perspective view, and Fig. 2
a longitudinal vertical section, of my ma-
chine.
A represents the frame, constructed sub-
stantially in the form shown in Fig. 1, with a
graduating clevis, B, attached at its front end
for the purpose of regulating deep or shallow
plowing. C is the seed -box, arranged, as
shown, upon the frame A, and provided with
a shaft placed horizontally through the sides
of the box. This shaft is provided with a
series of arms, and forming a revolving feeder
or agitator, D, to assist in passing seeds to
the cups in the revolving planting-wheel E.
This wheel is placed in the lower front part of
the seed-box C on a shaft or axle, which rests
in boxes on the frame A. This wheel E is in
its circumference provided with cups i i and
e e to receive the seed, and carry the same
around to the lower side where it is to be de-
posited. The larger cups or holes e e are for
cotton, and the smaller (round) cups i i for
corn; pieces fitting and filling the cotton-cups
are screwed into them when planting corn,
and vice versa. At the front part of the aper-
ture in the bottom of the box C is a brush, a,
which rests upon the surface of the planter
E, and brushes back all surplus seeds from
the cups, leaving three or four grains of corn,
or eight to ten cotton-seeds in the cup. Theseed which are received into and dropped by
the cups in the planter E, fall into a funnel,
G, through which they pass to the drill. The
front of this funnel or conductor is formed by
the shank of the drill-plow H, which shank is
semi-tubular or concave on its rear side, and
attached to the under side of the frame A,
and suitably braced. In rear of the planting-
wheel E and on each side of the frame is a
covering-plow, I. In the rear part of the
frame A is mounted a roller, J, the circum-
ference of which is concave. This roller packs
the earth over the planted corn or cotton, and
at the same time furnishes the motive-power
for the agitator D and planter E. In rear of
this roller is a scraper, K, to prevent clogging
of the same.
Motion is communicated from the roller J
to the agitator and planter by the following
means: Upon one end of the shaft or axle of
the roller J is a crank, b, which by a lever or
pitman, L, is connected with a crank, d, upon
one end of the agitator-shaft or axle. This
crank d is by a similar lever or pitman, P, con-
nected with a crank, f, on the planter-shaft or
axle. The two levers or pitmen L and P are
both slotted longitudinally, and a headed pin
or screw, h-, passes through each into parts of
the frame. By this arrangement the agitator
and planter receive the required rotating mo-
tion. A portion of the side of the box C im-
mediately above the agitator-shaft may be
made movable, so that the agitator can be re-
moved when desired.
Having thus fully described my invention,
what I claim as new, and desire to secure by
Letters Patent, is-
The combination of the concave driving-
roller J with crank b, slotted levers or pitmen
L P, with headed screws or pins h h, and cranks
df, formed respectively upon the journals of
the agitator and planting-wheel, substantially
as and for the purposes herein set forth.
In testimony that I claim the foregoing I
have hereunto set my hand this 23d day of
May, 1872.
BENGT JOHAN SVENSON.
Witnesses:
J. W. HOWARDI
S. W. PALIT,
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Svenson, Bengt Johan. Improvement in Corn and Cotton Planters., patent, August 20, 1872; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth166789/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.