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and adjustably mounted, the said ends being
reduced and rounded to provide bearings 27
and having attached to the inner termination
thereof suspending links 28, which are piv-
5 otally attached, in advance, to the adjacent
inner edge portions of the bars 8. The beam
26 is accorded a swinging movement through
the medium of-the links 28 and is adapted to
be elevated or depressed, as well as turned,
to through the medium of adjusting devices,
which will be presently set forth, and having
an independent operation. The front edge
of the beam 26 is formed with a series of mor-
tises 29, which are inclined rearwardly in a
L5 vertical direction, and therein are removablyI
Mounted stocks 30 and 31, the former having
the hoes 32 secured on their lower extremities
and the latter bifurcated, as at 33, to provide
means for attaching intermediate pairs of
20 fenders 34, which have their front exposed
edges standing at an angle to a horizontal
plane. The outer stocks 31 are not bifur-
cated and thereto are attached single fen-
ders 34 for the reason that for a practical
25 operation a fender is necessary on eachside
of a hoe, and there being no hoes on the
outer side of the end fenders the latter are
used at this point in single form. The hoes
32 have flat bottoms 35, and each hoe is so
30 shaped as to loosen and throw up the cotton-
plants on opposite sides against the fenders,
with an obvious result. The fenders will also
protect or shield the rows of plants between
the hoes to prevent covering of the same by
35 the soil and loosened plants thrown up, and
thus facilitae the thinning operation. The
stocks 30 and 31 are held in the beam 26 by
clips 36, which are preferably of U-shaped
form, and in view of the seat provided in each
40 instance for the stock through the medium of
the mortises 29 only one of the clips is neces-
sary to firmly and properly hold a stock in
position, and with such firmness as to resist
accidental loosening. As a further beneficial
45 adjunct to this simple mode of fastening the
stocks the latter are angular in cross-section
and the mortises 29 are of a similar contour,
so as to prevent turning, and thereby always
insure a proper direction or position of the
50 hoes and fenders.
As convenient means of controlling the an-
gle of the hoes and fenders and for rotating
the beam 26 an arm 37 is secured to the front
side thereof and projects above the same ad-
55 jacent the outer edge of the support 9. To
the upper end of the said arm a link-rod 38 is
movably attached, and also at its rear termi-
nal to a shifting lever 39, carrying a sliding
locking-dog 40, cooperating with a toothed
6o segment 41, the said lever being pivoted to
the face of the segment and movable closely
against one side of the latter, as in ordinary
devices of this character. To strengthen the
arm 37 and prevent it from being pulled
65 loose, a strap or analogous brace 42 is secured
thereto and also to the rear edge of the beam
26, and it will be seen that provision is thus-made for shifting the lever 39 either for-
wardly or backwardly without danger of loos-
ening or breaking said arm 37. The beam 26 70
is also adapted to have a vertical adjustment
imparted thereto to vary the depth of pene-
tration of the hoes 32, and for this purpose
a toothed segment 43 is secured to the inner
edge of the support 10 directly above the 75
beam, and thereto is pivotally attached a belL-
crank shifting lever 44, carrying a locking-
dog 45 to engage the teeth of the said seg-
ment and having connected to the lower short
arm thereof a link 46, which is also attached 8o
to the top edge of the said beam 26. Bypush-
ing the lever 44 forwardly the beam 26 will
be raised to any elevation desired and the ads
justed position sustained by the dog 45 lock-
ing between two of the teeth of the segment 85
43. A rearward movement of the lever 44
will depress the beam 26, and after this ad-
justment of the beam in a vertical plane its
elevation m'ay remain undisturbed and the
lever 39 shifted either forwardly or rea- go
wardly over its segment to change the angle
of the hoes and fenders or to entirely Wjear
the same. The manner of attaching the sus-
pending links 28 to the opposite extremities
of the beam 26 is shown by Fig. I and is of 95
such a nature that the opposite bearings 27 of
the beam are free to turn in the terminals of
the links 28 engaging the same; but said links
prevent the beam from moving rearwardly
beyond a predetermined point and maintain xo>
its adjustment in the are of a circle. This
is particularly advantageous in view of the
fact that the points of the hoes 32 are caused
to first penetrate the ground and the flat bot-
toms 35 afterward brought squarely down in ;05
the soil and work in uniformity and unvary-
ing horizontal plane at a preferred depth be-
low the ground surface and until the vertical
adjustment of the beam is changed.
In operating the machine it is slid trans- x v
versely of the lines of hills, and the runners
13, as before indicated, span the said hills,
thus keeping the machine in a regtflar plane
of travel while the hoes 32 are uprooting and
cleaning out the superfluous growth of cotton- zJ3
plants, the plants left standing being shielded
by the fenders passing thereover, and through
the eliminating work carried on by the hoes
said standing plants are relieved of the dan-
ger resulting from overgrowth orchoking.- - r 20
The entire machine can be controlled by one
operator, and the particular work to which it
is adapted may be rapidly carried on. In
turning the machine the beam 26 is first ele-
vated by the adjustment in a proper direction x25
of the bell-crank lever 44, and, if desired, the
hoes and fenders may be swung rearwardly
by the lever 39 at the same time, though this
is not actually necessary. In transporting
the machine from a place of storage to the 13o
tract to be worked or in other movements
-thereof when not in use the hoes and fenders
are swung clear of the ground for obvious
reasons. The hoes can be removed at any
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Billingsley, William. Cotton-Thinner., patent, September 12, 1899; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth510252/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.