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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
LOUIS S. FLATAU, OP PITTSBURG, TEXAS.
SEED-PLANTER.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 352,813, dated November 16, 1886.
Application filed September 6, 1886. Serial No. 212,848. (No model.)To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, Louis S. FLATAUT, of
Pittsburg, in the county of Camp and State of
Texas, have invented a new and useful Im-
5 provement in Seed-Planters, of which the fol-
lowing is a specification.
My invention is an improvement in the class
of walking planters. It is particularly adapted
for sowing cotton-seed, but will also plant corn
io and distribute fertilizing material.
The principal feature of the invention is the
construction of the seed-discharging device
arranged and rotating in the bottom of the
seed-hopper. The construction of the latter
15 and the frame of the machine likewise embody
novel and important features, all as herein-
after described and claimed.
In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a
- perspective view of the machine. Fig. 2 is a
20 central vertical section of the seed-hopper and
some attached parts. Fig. 3 is a perspective
view of the seed-discharger, showing its parts
separated. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a
modification of the seed-discharger.
25 The seed-hopper A is supported over a
wheel, B, and has a rear seed-discharge spout.
In front of the hopper is a furrow-opener, K,
held adjustably in an angular frame, H, and
in rear of the wheel covering-teeth, which are
30o attached to curved standards L, that extend
forward and are bolted to the hopper. The
handles Mi are bolted to the standards L and
supported adjustably by rods m.
I will now describe in detail all the parts
35 embodying my invention, and indicate their
connections with other parts not novel, but
necessary to form the complete machine.
The seed-hopper A is funnel-shaped. It is
formed of two parts, Fig. 2-to wit, a cast-
40 iron base, 1, and a sheet-metal top part, 2, the
same being riveted together, as shown. The
base 1 has a hollow cone, a, which rises from
its center. The skeleton seed-discharger C
(which will presently be described with more
45 particularity) is conical in form, and applied
to the cone a so as to rotate around it. Motion
is imparted to it by a vertical shaft, D, which
has its respective bearings in the apex of said
cone and in a horizontal cross-bar, 3, bolted
53 to the bottom of hopper - base 1 exteriorly.
The upper end of this shaft D is reduced andsquared, and the seed-discharger C has a corre-
sponding aperture to receive such reduced por-
tion. A seed-agitatori E, consisting of arms
projecting obliquely upward, is provided with 55
a screw-threaded aperture and screws on the
extremity of the shaft, thus clamping the seed-
discharger C at the same time. Itis apparent
that by this construction and combination of
parts the seed discharger and agitator may be 6o
readily detached when required.
As shown in Fig. 3, the cotton-seed dis-
charger C consists of a horizontal toothed rim,
4, and spokes or arms 5, which radiate ob-
liquely downward from the apertured hub or 65
center. The rim 4 is constructed with teeth,
whose function is to catch the seed and carry
it around to the discharge-opening b, Fig. 1,
in the rear of the hopper-base 1. This open-
ing.is a horizontal slot, and is directly over the 7e
mouth of the spout F, which conveys the seed
rearward into the furrow. The said opening
b is closed by a slide, b', that is held in the
required adjustment by a clamp-screw. The
toothed rim 4 of the seed.discharger C is made 75
separable from the arms 5, as shown, the latter
fitting in sockets in the former. This con-
struction enables the rim to be readily de-
tached, so that another may be substituted
when required. I propose, in fact, to employ 80
different rims having a different number of
teeth, according to the work to be. done, and
one set of arms 5 will serve for all of such
rims. The arms alone are not capable of dis-
charging cotton-seed in the proper manner, 8c
since they allow it to go out in "lumps" or
"bunches." This is prevented when the
toothed rim 4 is used, since the teeth take up
individual seeds and effect their discharge
successively and separately, so that they are 90o
deposited in the furrow equidistantly. The
rim 4 may be used for discharging corn; but
in such case it will have a less number of teeth
than shown. I prefer, however, the form of
rim shown in Fig. 4 for discharging corn, the 95
same having a series of semicircular notches.
Each notch will in practice take up a single
kernel of corn. The rim 4 lies in an annular
space at the base of the cone a and rotates
therein. Being loosely attached to the arms ioo
5, it ordinarily slides on the bottom of the hop-
per-base 1. On each side of the latter is cast
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Flatau, Louis S. Seed Planter., patent, November 16, 1886; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth171394/m1/2/: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.