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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
LORENZO D. IIEATON, OF VICTORIA, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR OF
ARTHUR W. BURROUGHS, OF SAME PLACE.ONE-HALF TO
INSECT-POISON DISTRIBUTER.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 395,272, dated December 25, 1888.
Application filed September 15, 1888. Serial No. 285,462. (No model,)To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, LORENZO D. HEATON, a
citizen of the United States, residing at Vic-
toria, in the county of Victoria and State of
5 Texas, have invented certain new and useful
Improvements in Insect-Poison Distributers;
and I do declare the following to be a full,
clear, and exact description of the invention,
such as will enable others skilled in the art
io to which it appertains to make and use the
same, reference being had to the accompany-
ing drawings, and to the letters and figures of
reference marked thereon, which form a part
of this specification.
15 This invention relates to certain new and
useful improvements in devices for sprinkling
potato-vines and the like with powder-such
as paris-green-and has relation more particu-
larly to that class of such devices wherein are
20 employed revolving sifters, one at each end
of a rotary shaft; and it has for its object to
improve upon previous constructions of this
character and to render the same more effi-
cient in operation.
25 I provide for the ready adaptation of the
device to rows of varying distances apart. I
provide a shield applied, as hereinafter de-
scribed, to protect the animal as well as the
operator from the flying powder and to pre-
30 vent waste of the same. I also provide ready
access to the cylinders or sieves, as hereinaf-
ter described.
I improve in other details of construction,
which will be more apparent from the follow-
35 ing description when taken in connection with
the drawings. The novelty therefore resides
in the combinations and the construction, ar-
rangement, and adaptation of parts, all as
more fully hereinafter described, shown in the
40 drawings, and then particularly pointed out
in the appended claims.
The invention is clearly illustrated in the
accompanying drawings, which, with the let-
lers of reference marked thereon, form a part
45 of this specification, and in which--
Figure 1 is a perspective of a saddle with
my invention attached thereto. Fig. 2 is a
plan view of my device with a portion of the
frame and one of the sieves and shields in
50 longitudinal section and one sieve in fulllines with the shield removed. Fig. 3 is a sec-
tional view on the line x of Fig. 2, looking in
the direction of the arrow, of the frame with
sieves and other parts broken away, and show-
ing the position of the two braces and sup- 55
porting-rods. Fig. 4 is a section on the line
y y of Fig. 2, with parts broken away and a
portion of the saddle in dotted lines, showing
how the frame fits thereto. Fig. 5 is a cross-
section through one of the sieves on the line 6o
z z of Fig. 2. Fig. 6 is a perspective of a por-
tion of one of the shields.
In the drawings, A designates a suitable
frame of any preferred material, from which
frame rises the standards, a in the upper ends 65
of which is journaled the horizontal shaft B,
provided with a suitable handle, b.
C is the main shaft, carrying the scatterers
or sieves D D, and on this shaft, within the
sides of the frame, is the pulley c. Both the 70
pulley c and the pulley c' on the shaft B are
preferably provided with a peripheral groove,
in which runs the endless cord or belt d,
crossed as shown, so that, motion being im-
parted to the shaft B, the shaft C, and conse- 75
quently the scatterers or sieves, is given a
rotary motion. The equivalent of the band
and pulleys may be used instead of them.
The frame A is provided with a suitable
strap, E, for securing the device to the horn So
of a saddle, said strap being provided with a
buckle, as shown.
F is a stop-block secured to the frame A,
and having its face made concave or curved,
as shown, to fit the horn of the saddle, the 85
strap passing around said block, and the
pommel of the saddle being designed to slide
into the space just over the said stop-block
and below the blocks or pieces F' and F2, the
latter being concaved or cut away for the pur- 90
pose, all as shown in Figs. 1, 3, and 4.
G designates a collar, preferably of iron, to
adjust over the crown of the saddle, as shown
in Fig. 4, to make it rigid and give it support.
D D are the scatterers or sieves, each formed 95
of suitable heads, q, connected by longitudi-
nal strips r, which serve to hold the said heads
at a fixed distance apart, and also as a means
for supporting the wire-gauze, s, or other per-
forated material, which forms the covering of ioo
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Heaton, Lorenzo D. Insect-Poison Distributor, patent, December 25, 1888; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth171934/m1/3/: accessed June 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.