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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
HARRY L. KERN AND WALTER GERHOLD, OF BEAUMONT, TEXAS.
PLANTER ATTACHMENT FOR PLOWS.Specification of Letters Patent.
Patented Oct. 31, 1916.
Application filed February 21, 1916. Serial No. 79,743.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that we, HARRY L. KERN and
WALTER GERI-OL, citizens of the United
States, residing at Beaumont, in the county
5 of Jefferson, State of Texas, have invented
certain new and useful Improvements in
Planter Attachments for Plows; and we
do hereby declare the following to be a full,
clear, and exact description of the invention,
10 such as will enable others skilled in the art
to which it appertains to make and use the
same.
This invention relates to planter attach-
ments for plows.
15 The object of the invention is to provide
a planter attachment which can be easily
associated with an ordinary turning plow
and when so associated will efficiently op-
erate to drop the desired seed, the plow
20 serving to cover the seed after they are
dropped.
A further object of the invention is to
provide an attachment of the type named
which when applied to a plow can be easily
25 controlled by the operator.
With the above and other objects in view
the invention consists in the details of con-
struction and in the arrangement and com-
bination of parts to be hereinafter more
30 fully described and particularly pointed out
in the appended claim.
In describing the invention in detail ref-
erence will be had to the accompanying
drawings wherein like characters of refer-
35 ence denote corresponding parts in the sev-
eral views, and in which-
Figure 1 is a side view of a plow having
the improved attachment associated there-
with; Fig. 2, a plan view of what is shown
40 in Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a front view of the plow,
and Fig. 4, a section on the line 4-4 of
Fig. 1.
Referring to the drawings A indicates
generally a turning plow including the
45 usual beam 10, handles 11 and brace bar 12
connecting the handles 11 adjacent their
free ends.
Pivoted to the beam 10 is a controlling
lever 13 which moves in a guide 14 mounted
50 upon the bar 12. The forward end of this
lever is provided with a lateral extension 15
from the free end of which is hung a
U - shaped member 16 having rotatablymounted therein a hub 17. Fixed to the
hub 17 is a disk or wheel 18 and formed in- 55
tegral with this disk is a cylindrical seed
casing 19 of less diameter than the disk and
having its periphery provided at spaced
points with rows of seed discharge openings
20. Secured to the forward end of the beam 0
10 is a bracket 21 having a laterally extend-
ing portion 22 the free end of which has
pivotally connected thereto one end of a
connecting bar 23, the other end of said bar
being pivotally connected to the hub 17. By 65
this construction it will be obvious that when
the lever 13 is free the disk 18 will descend
under the influence of gravity and engage
the ground so that both the disk 18 and the
casing 19 will be rotated as the plow is 70
moved along the ground. During this ro-
tation of the casing 19 the seeds will be
dropped at intervals through the discharge
openings 20 and as the plow proper is in
the rear of the casing 19 it will serve to 75
cover the seeds dropped in advance thereof.
The bar 23 will serve to hold the disk 18
and casing 19 against assuming an angular
relation to the beam 10. If it is desired to
stop the planting operation it is only neces- 80
sary to press down the rear end of the lever
13 and raise the disk 18 from the ground.
What is claimed is:
The combination with a plow including
a beam, a lever pivoted on the beam, a lat- 85
eral extension on the forward end of the
lever, a U-shaped member hung from the
free end of said extension, a hub rotatably
mounted within the member, a disk fixed
on said hub, a cylindrical seed casing fixed 90
to the disk and of less diameter than the
latter, the periphery of said casing being
provided at spaced points with rows of seed
discharge openings, a bracket secured to the
plow beam adjacent its forward end, a lat- 95
eral extension on said bracket, and a con-
necting rod pivotally secured to the free
end of the last named lateral extension and
to said hub.
In testimony whereof, we affix our signa- 100
tures in the presenceof two witnesses.
HARRY L. KERN.
WALTER GERHOLD.
Witnesses:
0. K. MCCLAIN,
CHARLES LEE SCHUBECK.Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the "Commissioner of Patents,
Washington, D. C."1,202,852.
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Kern, Harry L. & Gerhold, Walter. Planter Attachment to Plows, patent, October 31, 1916; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth857884/m1/2/: accessed July 2, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.