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- UNITED
STATES
PATENT OFFICE.
THOMAS C. PATTERSON, OF HICO, TEXAS.
PLANTER.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.454,183, dated June 16, 1891.
Application filed November 151 1890. Serial No. 371,503, (No model)To all whom it malcy concer-n.
Be it known that I, THOMAS C. PATTERSON,
a citizen of the United States, residing at Hico,
inthe countyof Hamilton arid State of Texas,
5 have invented certain new and useful Im-
provements in Planters; and I do declare the
following tobe a full, clear, and exact descrip-
tion of the invention, such as will enable oth-
ers skilled in the art to which it appertains
io to make and use the same, reference being
had to the accompanying drawings, and to the
letters of reference marked thereon, which
form a part of this specification.
My invention has relation to planters; and
I5 it consists in the novel construction and ar-
rangement of its parts.
In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is
a side elevation of my invention. Fig. 2 is a
top or plan view of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a cross-
2c sectional view of Fig. 1, cut through on the
line x x. Fig. 4 is a detail sectional view of
Fig. 2, cut through on the line y y, showing
the attachment E in position. Fig. 5 is a de-
tail view of the attachment E, partly in sec-
25 tion.
My invention is described as follows: It
consists of a body'A, handles a, uprights a',
brace a2, and standards a', provided with
suitable shovels, all being secured in place
30 by proper bolts and nuts. The body A of the
planter is bulged in its middle, and these
bulges are provided with bearings B, in which
is journaled the axle b, which in turn is pro-
vided with agitators b' and b2, and the double
35 concave bearing-wheel b'. Said planter is
provided with hoppers C and D, one on each
side of the concave wheel. Said hoppers are
secured to the body A over the bulges in the
middle of said body. The detachable bot-
40 toms A' of said hoppers are similar, and are
provided with flanges c, in which are hooks
c', which catch over bolts c2 in the body A.
Said detachable bottoms also have flanges d,
through a perforation of which passes a bolt
45 d', that is attached to the bottom of the bear-
ings B, and thus it will be seen that by un-
hooking the hooks and releasing the flanges
d the said bottoms may be detached from the
planter. The arms of the agitator b' in the
50 hopper D meshes with the arms of an agita-
tor b4 in the upper part of said hopper. Agi-
tator b4 is journaled on a bolt in the wall ofhopper D, and is intended to keep the fer-
tilizer from banking, yet not to interfere
with the free passage of the same from the 55
upper to the lower part of the hopper.
The hopper C is adapted to receive a sec-
ond or inner hopper E, whieh fits snuglyin
said hopper C, (see Fig. 4,) and has in its
lower part a perforation e. Said inner hop- 6o
per also has a spring e', secured to its bot-
tom, and said spring is provided on its free
end with a double cut-off e2, one arm passing
up through the bottom of said attachment
and working over the inner mouth of the per- 65
foration e, and the other working over the
outer mouth of said perforation. The arms of
said cut-off operate alternately over said per-
foration and act as a double cut-off, the outer
mouth being closed while the inner is open, 70
and vice versa. This cut-off is operated by
the agitator b2 in the hopper C, as shown in
Fig. 4. Said inner hopper E is provided with
a handle e3, by means of which it may be
lifted out of said hopper C. The bottoms of 75
the hoppers C and D are provided with slides
F, which are adjusted and held in place by
thumb-screwf.
My invention is operated as follows: When
the grain is to be planted in hills, the bottom 80
of the hopper C is removed, and the hopper
E is placed in said hopper C, and the grain is
put in the inner hopper E and the fertilizer
in the hopper D, and the slide in the bottom
of said hopper D is adjusted to regulate the 85
flow of the fertilizer. As the planter moves
along, the front plow makes a furrow and the
wheel b" tracks in said furrow and serves as
a guide to the seed and fertilizer, and the rear
plows as cover the seed and fertilizer. When 90
the seed is to be sowed in rows, the attach-
ment E is removed from the hopper C and the
seed is allowed to flow through the opening
left by the slide in the bottom of hopper C,
and the fertilizer is distributed as above de- 95
scribed. The arms of the agitator b' mesh
with the arms of the agitator b and keeps it
moving, and the fertilizer is thus prevented
from banking up in said hopper.
Having described my invention, what I roo
claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters.
Patent, is--
1. The planter having the body A, bulged
in its middle, handles a, uprights a', stand-
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Patterson, Thomas C. Planter., patent, June 16, 1891; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth172718/m1/3/: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.