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UNITED
STATES
PATENT OFFICE.
JOHN A. WARD, OF HUBBARD, TEXAS.
PLOW.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 681,598, dated August 27, 1901.
Application filed May 23, 1900, Serial No. 17,726, (No model)To all who m it imay conicernL:
Be it known that I, JOHN A. WARD, a citi-
zen of the United States, residing at Hubbard,
in the county of Hill and State of Texas, have
5 invented a new and useful Plow, of which the
following is a specification.
This invention relates to cultivators, and
has for its object to provide an improved hand-
propelled device for use in gardens and also
:o to provide an improved form of frame for
bracing the handles of the device and for
mounting the rear wheel thereof.
It is also designed to provide an improved
arrangement of cultivator-teeth and to pro-
15 vide for the convenient interchange of differ-
ent forms of teeth.
With these and other objects in view the
present invention consists in the combination
and arrangement of parts, as will be herein-
2o after more fully described, shown in the ac-
companying drawings, and particularly point-
ed out in the appended claims, it being un-
derstood that changes in the form, proportion,
size, and minor details may be made within
25 the scope of the claims without departing
from the spirit or sacrificing any of the ad-
vantages of the invention.
In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective
view of a garden-cultivator constructed in ac-
30 cordance with the present invention. Fig. 2
is a side elevation thereof having another
form of cultivator-tooth applied thereto. Fig.
3 is a detail perspective view of a modified
form of teeth.
35 Corresponding parts are designated by like
characters of reference in the figures of the
drawings.
Referring to the drawings, 1 designates the
cultivator-beam, which is provided at its op-
40 posite ends with the respective front and rear
bifurcations 2 and 3. In the front bifurca-
tion is mounted a wheel 4, and received with-
in the opposite bifurcation is a standard 5,
which is secured to the beam by means of a
45 transverse bolt or other suitable fastening 6,
and said standard projects in opposite direc-
tions above and below the beam. The oppo-
site handles 7 are of the form common to plows
and have their lower ends connected to the
50 beam in advance of the standard. The up-
per end of the standard extends between the
opposite handles, and the latter are connect-ed thereto by means of a transverse brace-
bar 8, that passes through the standard and
the handles. 55
Projecting rearwardly from the opposite
sides of the lower portion of the standard are
the substantially U-shaped wheel-brackets 9,
which are connected to the standard by means
of corresponding bolts or fastenings 10, which 6o
pass through the respective opposite ends of
the brackets and also the standard. The lat-
ter is provided with a plurality of vertically-
alined perforations 11, so that the brackets
may be vertically adjustable. A small rear 65
wheel 12 is mounted between the wheel-brack-
ets, and by reason of the vertical adjustment
of the brackets the lower end of the standard
may be adjusted to assume different heights
from the ground. 70
As shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings, the cul-
tivator is provided with a triangular tooth-
frame 13, which has one corner directed for-
wardly, so that the opposite side or base there-
of may lie transversely of the beam, and each 75
side of the frame is provided with a plurality
of pendent teeth or pins 14. From the for-
ward corner or end of the tooth-frame there
rises an arm 15, which is secured to the un-
der side of the beam, so as to connect the So
tooth-frame to the frame of the cultivator and
to brace the former. The rear side or base
of the tooth-frame abuts against the front
side of the lower portion of the standard, so
as to brace the frame and relieve the arm 15 85
of considerable strain. Also the rear side
of the tooth-frame is held against upward
movement by means of a bolt 16, projecting
forwardly from the lower portion of the stand-
ard and overlapping the rear side or base of 90
the frame. It will be understood that the
brace 15 is detachably connected to the beam
in any desired manner-as, for instance, by
having its upper end reduced and screw-
threaded and passed upwardly through an 95
opening in the beam--there being a nut ap-
plied to the upper projected end of the brace
to prevent accidental displacement thereof
and also to facilitate the removal of the brace.
In some instances it may not be desirable 100
to use the toothed harrow-frame, and there-
fore the latter may be removed and an ordi-
nary cultivator-shovel 17 applied to the lower
end of the standard, as shown in Fig. 2, the
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Ward, John A. Plow., patent, August 27, 1901; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth509099/m1/2/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.