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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
SAMUEL TYNES, OF NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS.
COTTON-BUNCHER.
SP CIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 316,923, dated April 28, 1885.
Application filed January 26, 1885. (No model.)To all whom, it 7may concern:
Be it known that I, SAMUEL TYNES, a citi-
zen of the United States of America, residing
at Nacogdoches, in the county of Nacogdoches
5 and State of Texas, have invented new and
useful Improvements in Implements for Thin-
ning and Bunching Cotton Plants, of which
the following is a specification.
My invention has relation to improvements
Io in implements for thinning and bunching young
cotton plants; and the object is to provide an
implementof the kind named which is of cheap
and simple construction, and which will accom-
plish the end intended with certainty and in a
15 satisfactory manner.
My invention consists in the novel construc-
tion and combination of parts, as will be here-
inafter more fully described, and specifically
pointed out in the claims.
20 In the accompanying drawings, illustrating
my improvements and forming a part of this
specification, Figure 1 is a perspective view of
the completed implement. Fig. 2 is a topview
thereof. Fig. 3 is a side view of the wheel and
25 hollow cylinders.
The letter A designates a frame, made of
substantial strength, of any desired material,
comprised of two side pieces, a a', adjustably
united by threaded bars br cross-pieces b b'.
30 The letter B designates the plow-standards,
mortised in the side pieces of the frame, and
arranged so that the points of the plow shall
project forward of a vertical line drawn through
the axle of the bunching-wheel. The plow-
35 standards are properly braced, substantially
as shown. Handles C are fixed to the frame
by any convenient means and are of any con-
venient build. Fixed to the frame, about mid-
way of its length and somewhat to the rear of
40 the plow-points, are journal-bearings c, in
which the shaft of the bunching-wheel rests.
The letter D designates the bunching-wheel,
comprised of the hub d, having journals fitted
to the bearings on the frame, radial arms fixed
45 in the hub, as shown, and a tire or rim,f, se-
cured to the arms. This tire or rim f has
formed therein a multiple of hollow cylinders,
G, arranged midway between the points of
intersection of the arms with the rim of the
50 wheel. These bunching-cylinders are prefer-ably made somewhat tapering toward their
free end and are open at both ends. They are
made integral with the rim, and may be set
therein at any distance apart when making
the wheel, according to the distance proposed 55
to have the plants stand apart. By placing
the hollow cylinders in the tire intermediate
between the arms of the wheel, instead of mak-
ing them as cup-terminals of the arms, I am
enabled to make them without bottoms, and 60
hence better to preserve the integrity of the
plants bunched by them, since the tops of the
plants can project through the open ends of
the hollow cylinders and not be broken or
crushed, as happens when cups are used. 65
The plows pass on each side of the rows and
cover up all the plants except those protected
by the walls of the hollow cylinders, and the
labor of straightening the plants is much less
than when an implement is used having a wheel 70
provided with cups having bottoms. The con-
tact of the rim of the wheel on the ground re-
volves the wheel as the implement is drawn
forward.
What I claim as my invention, and desire 75
to secure by Letters Patent, is-
1. The cotton-bunching wheel herein de-
scribed, consisting of a hub provided with ra-
dial arms, and a circumferential ring or tire,
formed or provided with a multiple of hollow 80
cylinders open at both ends and arranged in
the tire between the arms, substantially as de-
scribed.
2. The frame comprised of adjustable side
pieces and provided with plows, in combina- 85
tion with a bunching-wheel journaled on the
frame back of the plow-point, and comprised
of a hub with arms having secured to them a
circumferential tire or rim, formed with hol-
low cylinders open at both ends and arranged 90
in the tire between the terminals of the arm
of the wheel, substantially as described, and
for the purpose stated.
In witness whereof I have hereunto signed
my name in the presence of two attesting wit- 95
nesses.
SAMUEL TYNES.
Attest:
GEO. F. INGRAHAMEI,
Tom R. JENNINGS.
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