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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
JULIUS HOLEKAMP, OF COMFORT, TEXAS.
SEED-PLANTER.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 236,223, dated January 4, 1881.
Application fild August 6, 1880. (No model.)To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, JULIUS HOLELuAlP, of
Comfort, in the county of Kendall and State
of Texas, have invented a new and useful Im-
5 provement in Seed-Planters, of which the fol-
lowing is a specification.
Figure 1 is a perspective view of the im-
provement. Fig. 2 is a side and a front ele-
vation of an extension drive-wheel. Fig. 3 is
so a perspective view of the seed-dropping cyl-
inder. Fig. 4 is a sectional end elevation of
the seed-dropping cylinder, takeF-through the
line x x, Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a sectional elevation
of the seed-hopper, the seed-dropping cylinder
r5 being shown in section, through the line y y,
Fig. 3. Fig. 6 represents a cover for the cot-
ton-planting part of the cylinder.
Similar letters of reference indicate corre-
sponding parts.
20 The object of this invention is to furnish
seed-planters for planting in hills or drills
corn, sorghum, beans, rice, cotton, and other
seeds, so constructed that the seed may be
planted in any desired quantity, and at any
25 desired distance apart, and with the rows at
any desired distance apart.
A represents a board or plank which forms
the frame of the planter, and which has its
forward end slotted to receive the drive-
30 wheel B.
The drive - wheel B may be an ordinary
wheel, as shown in Fig. 1, or it may be an ex-
tension-wheel, as shown in Fig. 2. The latter
construction I prefer, as it enables the distance
35 apart of the hills to be regulated by varying
the size of the wheel.
in the drive-wheel shown in Fig. 2 each
spoke C is made in two parts, with their ad-
jacent ends overlapping each other and fast-
40 ened together by a bolt, D, which passes
through a longitudinal slot in the outer part
of the spoke, and screws into a screw-hole in
the inner part of the spoke, so that the spoke
can be lengthened and shortened, as desired,
45 by loosening the bolt D.
The rim E is made in two parts, the ends of
which overlap each other and are slotted lon-
gitudinally to receive tenous formed upon the
ends of the two spokes C, opposite the said
50 overlapped ends of the rim, which tenons have
washers attached to them upon the outer sideof the rim, so that the said rim can be length-
ened and shortened as the spokes C are length-
ened and shortened. The outer ends of the
rim E have keepers or clasps attached to them, 55
to receive the edges of the parts of the rim be-
neath them, and thus hold the said outer ends
down. The ends of the other two spokes C
are riveted to the parts of the rim E.
The journals of the drive-wheel B revolve 60o
in bearings attached to the slotted forward
part of the frame A, and upon one of the
said journals is formed, or to it is attached, a
crank, F, the crank-pin of which is made of
sufficient length to receive the ends of two 65
connecting-bars, G H. Each of the connect-
ing-bars G H passes between two pins, I, at-
tached, the one pair to the upper part, and the
other pair to the lower part, of a standard, J,
the lower end of which is bent inward and 70
bolted to the frame A, so that the said pairs
of pins I will serve as fulrumns to the said
bars G H. The rear ends of the bars G H
extend back to the seed-hopper K, attached to
the rear part of the frame A, and are pivoted 75
to the cranks L M.
The crank L is formed upon or attached to
the journal of the stirrer-shaft N, which is
pivoted to the middle parts of the sides of the
hopper K, and has a bar, O, with four or more 80
arms attached to its middle part, so as to keep
the seed stirred op and fed down to the seed-
dropping cylinder P.
The crank IM is formed upon or attached to
the journal of the seed-dropping cylinder P, 85
which is pivoted in the lower part of the seed-
hopper K, with its upper side projecting
through a slot or opening in the bottom Q of
the said seed-hopper K, so as to receive the
seed from the said hopper and drop it into the 90
spout R, by whichitis conducted to the ground.
The dropping-cylinder Pis keptfrom carry-
ing out any more seed than enough to fill its
seed-dropping recesses by a cut-off brush, S,
attached to the rear part of the hopper-bottom 9g
Q. The cranks L I are arranged in the same
direction when the connecting-bars G H are
attached to them, so that the upper part of the
seed-dropping cylinder P and the lower part
of the stirrer O will always be moving in op- zoo
posite directions, which causes the said stirrer
to force the seed into the seed-dropping re-
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Holekamp, Julius. Seed Planter., patent, January 4, 1881; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth170097/m1/2/: accessed June 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.