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UNITED STATESPATENT OFFICE,
CAUGlIEY C, VANCE, OF E1PHIIS, TEXAS.
CULTIVATOR-FOOT.Specification of Letters Patent.
Patented June 1, 1915.
Application filed November 12, 1914. Serial No. 871,747.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, CAUGHEY C. VANCE,
a citizen of the United States, residing at
Memphis, in the county of Hall and State
5 of Texas, have invented certain new and use-
ful Improvements in Cultivator-Feet; and I
do hereby declae the following to be a full,
clear, and exact description of the inven-
tion, such as will enable others skilled in
10 the art to which it appertains to make and
use the same.
This invention relates to improvements in
cultivators and the primary object of the in-
vention is to provide a cultivator foot by
15 means of which the shovels or blades may be
quickly and conveniently attached to or de-
tached from the shoe and the supporting
arm of a cultivator.
Another object of this invention is.to pro-
20 vide a cultivator foot constructed so that
the shovels or sweep blades may be attached
thereto in various adjusted positions for
regulating the inserting step of the blades
or shovels, and also to. provide a cultivator
25 foot which may be adjusted at various
angles upon the shovel carrying arms of the
cultivator for regulating the incline.of the
shovel blades..
With the foregoing and other objects in
30 view this invention consists in such novel
features of construction, combination and
arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter
more fully described, illustrated in the ac-
companying drawings and claimed.
35 In describing the invention in detail ref-
erence will be had to the accompanying
drawings wherein like characters designate
like or corresponding parts throughout the
several views and in which:-
40 Figure 1 is a side elevation of the im-
proved cultivator foot showing the same at-
tached to a cultivator shoe supporting arm
showing the shoe in different adjusted posi-
tions in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is an edge view
45 of the improved cultivator foot. Fig. 3 is
a central section through the improved cul-
tivator foot. Fig. 4 is a sectional view on
the line 5-5 of Fig. 4, and Fig. 5 is a cross
sectional view on the line 6-6 of Fig. 3.
5o Referring more particularly to the draw-
ings, 1 designates the improved cultivator
foot as an entirety, which is composed of the
supporting body 2 which has its upper end
bifurcated as is indicated at 3, forming arms
55 4 and 5 which are provided for receiving
therebetween the lower terminal end of ashoe supporting standard 6 of an ordinary
cultivator construction. The arms 4 and 5
have projections formed upon and.project-
ing laterally from their edges, which pro- 60
jections and the upper ends of the arms are
provided with arcuate slots 7. The arcuate
slots 7 receive therethrough a bolt or other
suitable fastening element 8 which is insert-
ed through an opening in the arm 6 for ,,
holding the shoe structure 1 in different ad-
justed positions as indicated in solid and
dotted lines in Fig. 1 of the drawings. The
arms 4 and 5 are provided with openings 9
and 10 respectively, which aline with each 1o
Other and are provided for receiving a bolt
or other suitable fastening member 11 which
is inserted therethrough and through an
opening (not shown) formed in the end of
the standard 6 for pivotally connecting the 76
foot to the standard.
The body 2 of the cultivator foot 1 ex-
tends forwardly at an angle to the arms
4 and 5 and it has its lower end cut in sub-
stantially a horizontal plane forming a 30
pointed end upon the foot as is indicated
at 12. The angled portion 13 of the body 2
of the foot 1 is provided with a side recess
14 formed in one side thereof which com-
municates with recesses 15, 16 and 17 that 85
are formed in the angled portion 13 of the
foot 1. The recesses 15, 16 and 17 extend
across the width of the portion 13 of the
cultivator foot and have their walls con-
verging toward the forward end thereof as 90
is clearly shown in Fig. 4 of the drawings.
The recesses 15, 16 and 17 are provided for
receiving at different times, a lug 18 which
is formed upon a plate 19. The lug 18 has
an enlarged head 20 mounted upon the end 95
opposite to the one which is connected to
the plate 19, which head rests against the
rear edge of the foot 1 and, in connection
with the plate 19, together with the converg-
ing walls of the recesses, longitudinal sliding s 9
movement of the lug 18 within any one of
the recesses is permitted. The side recess 14
has a plate 21 removably seated therein and
held in place by a locking bolt 22. The
locking bolt 22 extends through the section 10
13 of the cultivator foot and through a slot
23 which is formed in the plate 21, having a
T head 24 formed upon its terminal end, so
that after it has been forced through the
slot 23 and a half turn is imparted to the 110
bolt the T head will extend transversely of
the slot 23 and engage the outer surface of1,141,32.
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Vance, Caughey C. Cultivator Foot., patent, June 1, 1915; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth859353/m1/2/?rotate=90: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.