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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
TIHOMAS L. CROMER, OF O'DANIEL, TEXAS.
PLANTER.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 395,694, dated January 8, 1889.
Application filed August 22, 1888 Serial No, 283,419. (No model,)To all wlzona it ~cay e07oeerCb:
Be it known that I, THOMAS L. (ClOMER, a
citizen of the United States, residing at O'Dan-
iel, in the county of Guadalupe and State of
5 Texas, have invented a new and useful Im-
provement in Planters, of which the follow-
ing is a specification.
The invention relates to improvements in
planters, being adapted for attachment to any
io kind of plow having a beam; and it consists
in the construction and novel combination of
parts hereinafter described, and pointed out
in the claims hereto appended.
In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective
05 view of a plow having the invention attached.
Fig. 2 is a front end view thereof. Fig. 3 is a
plan view of the same. Fig. 4 is a detail see-
tional view of the hopper, showing the seed-
slide therein. Fig. 5 is a side view of the
20 hopper, showing the wiper and opening for
the seed-slide.
Referring to the drawings by letter, A desig-
nates a plow of common construction, consist-
ing of tile beam IB, the downwardly and for-
25 wardly inclined standard C, having a suitable
plowshare, c, secured to its lower end, and the
handles D, secured to the plow-beam at their
front ends and to the upper extension of the
standard by the cross-bar d.
30 E is a board attached to the upper side of
the plow-beam, and having the hopper E' se-
cured to its rear end, immediately above the
heel of the beam, between the handles and
adjoining the standard, which hopper is pro-
35 vided with the openings e e' in its sides, ad-
joining its floor, for the seed-slide, and has the
brush or wiper e2 secured in an extension of
the opening e, at the top thereof.
F is a dropping-tube secured to the side of
40 the standard, with its upper end immediately
below the opening e and its lower end iumme-
diately behind the wing of the share c, so
that the grain will descend into the furrow
made by said share. The dropping-tube is
45 preferably slightly tapered downward.
The board E is attached to the plow-beam
about midway of its length by the clip G, com-
posed of the upper and lower cross-plates g g,
and the bolts g', passing through suitable
50 openings in said plates on the sides of the
plow-beam and engaging nuts on their lower
ends.II II are bearing-arms secured together by
bolts h above and below the beam, adjacent
to the front end of the board E, with their up- 55
per ends lying against the sides of said board
and preventing lateral motion thereof, and
provided with bearings in their lower ends for
the shaft h', having a boss, h', between said
bearings, so that it cannot slip laterally. 6c
I I' are the conveyer-wheels retained on
the shaft h', the ends of which are threaded by
the interior collars, i, and the exterior nuts, i'.
J is an actuating-rod, a suitable distance
inward from the inner face of the wheel I 65
and with its outwardly-bent ends secured in
said face at diametrically- opposite points.
There may be as many as desired of said rods
at equal distances apart, the frequency of the
dropping, as will hereinafter appear, being in 70
proportion to the number thereof.
K is a double-armed lever pivoted or swiv-
eled on a bolt, k, passing through a central
opening in the top plate of the clip G, and
having its front ari, k', bent or inclined out- 75
ward from its pivotal point, so that it is in
the path of the rod or rods J when the wheel
I rotates forward. The rear arm, k2, of said le-
ver extends rearward to the center of the front
of the hopper, then bends at a right angle out- 80o
wardly, and again at a right angle rearward
to a point opposite the opening e in the hop-
per.
L is the seed-slide, secured to the end of
the arm k' of the lever, slightly curved in or- 85
der to pass freely into the openings e e' in the
hopper, and provided with the opening 1 at a
suitable point in its length, which opening
when the arm k is moved to the farthest ex-
tent outward passes out of the hopper, is 90
wiped by the brush e2, and drops the grain into
the open uppel end of the tube F.
M is the coverer-bar, secured to the lower
ends of the. integral spring-rods gnz i in rear
of the plow-standard, which arms extend up- 95
ward and frontward on the sides of the latter
and meet in a transverse bar over the plow-
beam and below the board E. The said arms
are connected below the plow-beam by the
bolt N and nut n, the bolt passing through oo
eyes in the arms to engage the nut.
It is evident that by means of the rod J the
lever-arm k' is moved inward and the arm k2
outward as the plow progresses, and the seed-
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Cromer, Thomas L. Planter., patent, January 8, 1889; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth171939/m1/2/: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.