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UNITED STATESPATENT OFFICE
MERIDETH T. MALLORY, OF MINEOLA, TEXAS.
SEEDER AND PLANTER.Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Dec. 23, 1913.
Application filed August 13, 1912. Serial No. 714,885.To all whoa it may concern:
Be it known that I, MERIDETH T. MAL-
LORY, a citizen of the United States, residing
at Mineola, in the county of Wood and State
5 of Texas, have invented new and useful Im-
provements in Seeders and Planters, of
which the following is a specification.
This invention relates to seeders and
planters, and it has for its object to produce
10 an improved leveling board to be used in
connection therewith for the purpose of
leveling the soil and crushing the clods and
for the additional purpose of regulating the
depth to which the seed shall be planted.
15 With these and other ends in view which
will readily appear as the nature of the in-
vention is better understood, the same con-
sists in the improved construction and novel
arrangement and combination of parts
20 which will be hereinafter fully described
and particularly pointed out in the claim.
In the accompanying drawing has been
illustrated a simple and preferred form of
the invention, it being, however, understood
25 that no limitation is necessarily made to the
precise structural details therein exhibited,
but that changes, alterations and modifica-
tions within the scope of the claim may be
resorted to when desired.
30 In the drawing,-Figure 1 is a top plan
view of a planter equipped with the im-
proved attachment. Fig. 2 is a side view
of the same. Fig. 3 is a perspective view,
showing the improved attachment removed
35 from the planter. Fig. 4 is a sectional detail
view taken on the line 4-4 in Fig. 2.
Corresponding parts in the several figures
are denoted by like characters of reference,
The planter frame 1, which is provided
40 with handles 2, whereby it may be guided,
supports the seed hopper 3, a furrow opener
4 and a seed spout 5, whereby seed may be
discharged into the furrow opened by the
member 4. A supporting wheel has also
45 been shown from which, in practice, motion
is transmitted to the seed dropping mecha-
nism. The side members of the frame 1
are curved downwardly at their rear ends
to form standards 7 carrying the shovels or
5o covering members 8 whereby dirt is thrownin the direction of the furrow to cover the
seed.
The improved attachment comprises a
board 9 which is bolted or otherwise secured
on a pair of bars or straps 10 of steel or 55
other suitable resilient material, said straps
being positioned relatively near the ends
of the board and in parallel relation to each
other. The lower edge of the board 9 has
a shallow arcuate recess 11. The bars or 60
straps 10 are suitably spaced apart to en-
gage the curved standards 7 upon which
said straps are firmly secured by means of
clamps 12 having clip plates 13 and nuts 14.
When thus secured it will be noted that the 65
straps 10 extend rearwardly of the stand-
ards 7 to support the board 9 in such posi-
tion that it will drag on the ground in rear
of the planter. It will also be noted that by
moving the straps forwardly, the leveling 70
board 9 will be raised, while by moving the
straps rearwardly on the curved standards
7 the leveling board will be lowered with
reference to the covering members 8. Again,
by moving the clamps 12 along the arcuate 75
standards 7, the position of the straps 10
may be varied to various inclinations be-
tween an approximately vertical and an ap-
proximately horizontal position, thus en-
abling the distance between the leveling 80
board and the covering members to be
varied, and enabling the most advantageous
position for the work in hand to be obtained.
It follows that by properly adjusting the
leveling board the covering members as well 85
as the furrow opening member 4 will be
caused to engage the ground to a greater
or lesser depth, thereby regulating the depth
to which the seed will be deposited and cov-
ered. The board 9 also serves to level the 90
soil and to crush or pulverize the clods, and
the arcuate recess 11 at the lower edge of
the leveling board will form a pronounced
ridge along the line where the seed is de-
posited, thereby facilitating subsequent cul- 95
tivation.
It is obvious that while the improved
leveling device has been shown as attached
to a planter, it may be efficiently used in
connection with various agricultural imple- 1001,082,430.
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Mallory, Merideth T. Seeder and Planter., patent, December 23, 1913; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth859376/m1/2/: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.