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long handles to be managed by hand are
used, as shown in Fig. 5, revolving disks or
large blades of any pattern may be substi-
tuted for the blades described and be at-
5 tached to the frames by any of the well-
known methods.
I am aware that machines have been made
with fenders to protect the plants from being
covered with dirt, and machines with pui-
to verizing-blades that are intended to cultivate
the plant on different sides; but in such ma-
chines, the fender and the blades being made
to move forward simultaneously, the eye is
required to watch them and the muscles to
15 manipulate them while they pass the plant,
and if close and exact work is to be done the
eye and the muscles cannot be used quick
enough for the purpose without requiring the
machine to pass very slowly. A motion must
20 be made at the very instant of passing a cer-
tain point; sooner or later will not do.
In my invention I introduce a new princi-
ple in hoeing-machines and other cultiva-
tors-i. e., an independent motion in the pro-
-5 tecting and guiding device whereby to gain a
margin of time for its management. The op-
erator is enabled by moving the fender for-
ward quickly to gain time for placing it more
deliberately and exactly in position without
30 checking the motion of the pulverizing-blades
or requiring the machine to pass so slowly by
the plant as it otherwise must. One foot or
hand can easily be moved forward at more
than double the speed that the body moves
35 in walking at an ordinary pace, leaving more
than half the time for each hand or foot to
place the fender in position and hold it in
place until the blades pass, and by this means
perfect hoeing may be done without checking
40 the speed of an ordinary walk.
A machine to be propelled by hand may be
constructed as shown in Fig. 5. A side shaft
reaches back and is strapped to the waist and
the implement pushed in front, and in this or
15 either case the fender may be provided with
along handle to be managed by hand, instead
of being fastened to the boot.
Several pairs of hoeing-frames may be at-
tached to a long cross-bar mounted on wheels
50 and several rows be hoed at the same time,
having a horse to pull or to push it and one op-
erator to each row; and it will readily be seen
that a set of fenders may be made to answer
the same purpose as above described and yet
55 not be so entirely independent in their con-
nection and support of the blade-support, but
still have that independent movement where-
by a margin of time is gained, as I have de-'scribed; so I desire not to limit or confine my-
self to any precise form, arrangement, or 60o
manner of constructing any of the parts de-
scribed or to one particular manner of apply-
ing the principle of my invention, but to ex-
plain somes modes in which I have contem-
plated applying that principle. 65
Having thus described my invention, I claim
as newand desire to secureby Letters Patent-
1. The combination, in a hoeing-machine,
of frames or supports adapted to carry culti-
vating-blades on both sides of the plants and 70
a fender that controls the movement of the
blades in respect to their distance from the
plant by taking a position in reference to the
plants independently and in advance of the
means of cultivation and remaining in that 75
position while the blades cultivate around
the plant, substantially as shown and de-
scribed, and for the purposes specified,
2. The combination, in a hoeing-machine,
of hoes or blades and a fender or plant-.pro- 80
tector, each controlled and operating inde-
pendently of the other, that the protecting
device may remain at rest while the blades
cultivate around the plant, substantially as
shown. 85
3. The combination, in a hoeing-machine,
of hoeing-cranes 30 30, each carrying a blade-
supporting frame 2 2, with handle 6 and 10,
arm 40, and wheel 20, all substantially as set
forth. 90
4. In a hoeing-machine, the combination of
blade-supporting hoeing-frames 2 2 with fend-
ers S 8, said fenders being adapted to be
controlled independently of the movement of
the frames, substantially as described, and 95
for the purposes specified.
5. In a hoeing-machine, the guiding-fender
8, adapted to protect the plant and to guide
the blades, as and for the purposes specified.
6. In a hoeing-machine, the combination, ioo
with cultivating-blades of or knives connected
to a machine or frame and arranged to pass
on both sides of a row of plants and to cut
between the hills in a row, of a fender or
plant-protector adapted also to cause said 105
knives to pass around a hill and to control the
distance of the blades from the hills or plants,
the fender having a movement independent
of the blades, whereby the fender may take
position near the plant in advance of the cul- Ito
tivating -blades and remain at rest till said
blades have passed, for the purpose specified.
JUDSON B. HURD.
Witnesses:
J. P. SMITH,
W. H. YOUNG.
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Hurd, Judson B. Hoeing-Machine, patent, December 10, 1889; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth172222/m1/4/: accessed July 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.