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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
BENJAMIN B. REED, OF FORESTBURG, TEX&S.
LANDSIDE-CUTTER FOR PLOWS.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 349,406, dated September 21, 1886.
Application filed May 55, 1886. Serial No. 203,243. (No model.)To all whon1, it n7ay concern:
Be it known that I, BENJAMIN B. REED, a
citizen of the United States, residing at Forest-
burg, in the county of Montague and State of
5 Texas, have invented a new and useful Im-
provement in Landside-Cutters for Plows, of
which the following is a specification.
My invention relates to an improvement in
landside-cutters for plows; and it consists in
io the peculiar construction and arrangement of
devices that will be more fully set forth here-
inafter, and particularly pointed out in the
claims.
In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective
15 view of a plow provided with my attachment.
Fig. 2 is an elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is
a rear elevation, partly in section. Fig. 4 is
a detail perspective view of my landside-cut-
ter.
20o A represents the plow, of the usual con-
struction, of which a represents the mold-
board, b represents the point or share, and c
represents the landside. In a plow thus con-
structed the resistance of the earth when the
25 plow is in operation is entirely upon the mold-
board side, therebygiving theplow atendency
to turn-diagonally in the furrow, and impos-
ing upon the plowman the necessity of keep-
ing the plow straight by grasping the handles,
30 and also greatly adding to the draft of the
plow. To avoid these objections, I provide an
attachment, B, which is formed of a metallic
plate bent to form a vertical side, d, and a
horizontal outwardly-projecting wing or cut-
35 ter, e, which extends from the lower side of
the side d. This cutter or wing has its front
edge beveled or rounded, as shown, and its
vertical side d is bolted to the landside of the
plow, as shown. In Fig. 2 I show a colter, f,
40 which is also bolted to the landside of the
plow and projects beyond the front edge of
the mold-board. The space between the rearedge of the colter and the front edge of the
vertical side d of the landside attachment is
filled by a plate, g. If preferred, the colter 45
may be formed in a single piece with the land-
side attachment, or the latter may be con-
structed and used without the colter.
When the plow is in operation, the wing e
-enters the land side of the furrow on thesame 50
plane with the bottom thereof, and thus cuts
into the landside side of the furrow beneath
the turf, thusloosening and cutting the ground
preparatory to the action of the share and
mold-board in plowing the succeeding furrow 55
and adding greatly to the efficiency of the
plow and lessening its draft. The resistance
offered to the landside-cutter partly compen-
sates for the excessive strain on the mold-
board, and thus causes the plow to run more 6o
smoothly and evenly in the furrow and neu-
tralizes the tendency of the plow to turn di-
agonally in the furrow, as before pointed out.
Having thus described my invention, I
claim- 65
1. The combination,with a plow, of the col-
terf and the landside attachment B, secured
to the landside of the plow, the said landside
attachment B having the laterally-extending
cutting-wing e, substantially as described. 70
2. The combination,with a plow, of' the land-
side attachment having the lateral horizontal
blade or wing e, the plate g in front of the
landside attachment, and the colter fp on the
front edge of the said plate, substantially as 75
described.
In testimony that I claim the foregoing as
my own I have hereto affixed my signature in
presence of two witnesses.
BENJAMIN B. REED.
Witnesses:
J. W. BOWERS,
N. D. BARRETT.
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Reed, Benjamin B. Landside Cutter for Plows., patent, September 21, 1886; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth171346/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.