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UNITED
STATES
PATENT OFFICE.
WESLEY HOUSTON BASHAM, OF GLEN ROSE, TEXAS.
COTTON-SCRAPER.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 351,018, dated October 19, 1886.
Application filed July 13; 1886. Serial No. 207,921. (No model.)fTo all whom it nmay concern*:
Beitknown that I, WESLEY HOUSTON BASH-
AM, a citizen of the United States, residing at
Glen Rose, in the county of Sonlervell and
5 State of Texas, have invented a new and use-
ful Improvement in Cotton-Scrapers, of which
the following is a specification.
My invention relates to an iluprovemnentin
cotton-scrapers; and it consists in the peculiar
io construction and combination of devices that
will be more fully set forth hereinafter, and
particularly pointed out in the claims
In the drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of
a cotton-scraper embodying nly improvements
15 attached to a single-shovel cultivator. Fig. 2
is a top plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a
detail transverse section taken on the line xx
of Fig. 1.
This invention is adapted to be attached to
20 either a single or double shovel cultivator, or
to a turning - plow. As a master of conven-
ience, I have illustrated the cotton-scraper in
the accompanying drawings as attached to a
single-shovel cultivator.
25 A represents the beam of the cultivator. B
represents the curved standard formed at the
rear end of the beam.
C represents the shovel or plow, and D rep-
resents the handles which are attached to the
30o beam, all being constructed in the usual man-
ner.
E represents a vertical standard or bar, which
is provided at its lower end with a rearward-
extending arm, F.
35 G represents the cotton-scraper, which com-
prises a diagonally arranged wing, H, having
at its outer end a curved upturned broadened
blade, I. The front end of the wing is bent
vertically, as at K, and is provided at its up-
40 per edge with a laterally-extending flange, 1L.
In order to attach the cotton-scraper to the
standard E the front end, K, of the scraper is
placed against one side of the arm F, with the
flange L bearing on the upper side of the said
45 arm. A transverse bolt, M, extends through
the arm F and the front portion, K, of the cot-
ton-scraper to secure the latter to the said arm.
The standard E is secured to the rear side of
the plow - standard in a vertical position bymeans of a plate, N, which is placed on the 50
rear edge of the standard E, and clip-bolts 0,
which are passed around the front sides of the
plow-standards, elnbrace the standard E, and
have their rear threaded ends passed through
openings made in the ends of the plate N, and 55
provided with clailping-nuts, as shown. By
loosening the said nuts thestandard E may be
adjusted vertically with relation to the plow,
and stcured at any desired adjustment by again
tightening the nut. It will be observed that 60
the cotton-scraper projects laterally and rear-
wardly from the plow, and is thus caused to
run directly alongside the row of cotton-plants.
When the cotton-scraper is attached to a
turning-plow, it projects laterally in rear of 65
the mold-board.
The cotton-scraper may be fashioned so as
to fit either a right or a left hand plow.
Having thus described my invention, I
claim-- 7c
1. The combination, with the standard E,
having the reararward-extending aiii F at its
lower end, of the cotton - scraper having the
rearwardly and outwardly extending wing H,
having the upturned broadened blade I at its 75
rear end and the vertical portion K at its front,
adapted to bear against one side of the arm F,
and having the flange L to bear against the
upper edge of the said arm, substantially as
described. 80o
2. The combination, with the cultivating-
plow, of the vertical standard E, having the
horizontal rearwardly -extending arm F at its
lower end, the cotton-scraper attached to the
said arm and extending rearwardly and out- 85
wardly therefrom, and having the upturned
curved broadened rear end forming the blade
I, and' the clip-bolts O and clamping-plate N,
to secure the standard E to the plow-standard
and permit the said standard E to be verti- 90
cally adjusted, substantially as described.
In testimony that Iclaim the foregoing as my
own I have hereto affixed my signature in pres-
ence of two witnesses.
WESLEY HOUSTON BASHAM.
Witnesses:
JAS. W. VINCENT,
J. B. EARLY.
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Basham, Wesley Houston. Cotton Scraper., patent, October 19, 1886; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth171370/m1/2/: accessed June 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.