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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
JESSE B. GANT, OP WHITNEY, TEXAS.
COTTON-CHOPPER.1,132,656.
Specification of Letters Patent.
Patented Mar. 23,1915.
Application filed January 29, 1914. Serial No. 815,190.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, JEssE 13. GANT, a.
citizen of the United States, residing at
Whitney, in the county of Hill and State
5 of Texas, have invented certain new and use-
ful Improvements in Cotton-Choppers, of
which the following is a specification.
My invention relates to new and useful
improvements in cotton choppers, and re-
10 lates more particularly to such cotton chop-
pers as are adapted to travel transversely
of the rows of cotton, simultaneously pro-
ducing a number of adjacent hills in each
row.
15 It is another object of the invention to
provide a cotton chopper of the above de-
scribed type equipped with means for, sepa-
rately producing vertical adjustment of each
earth turning member.
20 Another obiect of the invention is to pro-
vide a novel mechanism for maintaining the
earth turning devices in their proper spaced
relation, without restricting said members
from undergoing a slight lateral movement
25 in unison.
A still further object of the invention is
to provide a device of. the character de-
scribed that will be strong. durable, efficient
and simple and comparatively inexpensive
30 to produce, also one in which the several
parts will not be likely to get out of work-
ing order.
With the above and other, objects in view,
the invention has relation to certain novel
35 features of construction and operation,, an
example of which is described in the fol-
lowing specification and ilhfstrated in the
accompanying drawings, wherein:
Figure 1 is a plan view of my cotton
40 chopper. Fig. 2 is a view of the same in side
elevation, the right hand wheel being
omitted. Fig. 3 is a front view of the cot-
ton chopper. Fig. 4 is a detail sectional
view, the section being taken upon the line
45 x- of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a detail sectional
view, the section being taken upon the line
1-y of Fig. 3. Fig. 6 is a detail sectional
view, the section being taken upon the line
z-- of Fig. 5..
50 Referring now more particularly to the
drawings, wherein like reference charactersdesignate similar parts in all the figures,
the numerals 1 and 2 respectively denote the
horizontal central portion and the down-
wardly extending end portions of an arched 55
axle, and the numeral 3 designates a pair
of spindles which respectively project
rigidly outward from the lower extremities
of the members 2. Upon each of the spin-
dles -3, a transporting wheel 4 is rotatably 60
mounted.
To the upper end portions of the members
2, there are respectively rigidly secured the
rear extremities of two bars 5 which extend
convergently forward and receive between 65
their forward extremities the rear end of a
tongue 6. Upon the rear end of the tongue
6, there is rigidly surmounted a bracket 7
serving to secure to the tongue the horizontal
center portion of an arch bar 8. The two 70
extremities of the member 8 carry pipe T's
9 through which is rigidly passed a horizon-
tal rod 10 transverse with the direction of
travel of the machine. The member 10 pref-
erably will extend almost the entire width 75
of the cotton chopper, and its extremities
are rigidly connected by brace bars 11 with
the vertical portions 2 of the axle. Upon
the rod 10, there are loosely mounted five
sleeves 12, one of said sleeves being *dis- 80
posed between the T's 9, and two beiig
mounted upon each end portion of the rod.
Integral with each sleeve 12 at the rear
thereof, there is formed a vertical member
13, serving as a pivotal member to mount 85
a yoke 14 rigidly carried by the forward end
of a beam 15. The beams 15 will prefer-
ably be successively increased in length from
the center beam to the outer ones, as is
clearly shown.in Fig. 1., Beneath the rear 90
end of each beam 15, and in a rigid relation
with the same, there is mounted a small plow
16 preferably of the wing sweep type. The
two outermost plows 16.lie respectively be-
hind the transporting wheel and are car- 95
ried by bars 16a respectively projecting out-
wardly from the outermost beams 15.,
Upon the portion 1 of the axle just above
each beam 15, there is rigidly mounted a
bracket 17 forming a pivotal support' for 100
the lever 18. From the lower extremity of
each lever 18 a chain 19 is extended rear-
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Gant, Jesse B. Cotton-Chopper., patent, March 23, 1915; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth857830/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.