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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
WESLEY L. REEVES, OF TYLER, TEXAS.
ATTACHMENT FOR PLOWS.1,169,285.
Specification of Letters Patent.
Patented Jan. 25,1916.
Application filed June 5, 1914. Serial No. 843,237.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, WESLEY L. REEVES, a
citizen of the United States, residing at
Tyler, in the county of Smith and State of
5 Texas, have invented certain new and use-
ful Improvements in Attachments for
Plows, of which the following is a specifi-
cation.
This invention relates to improvements in
10 attachments for plows for the purpose of
cutting roots, sods, and the like, and has for
one of its objects to provide a simply con-
structed attachment which not only pro-
vides a suitable cutting implement but like-
15 wise includes a removable landside.
With these and other objects in view the
invention consists in certain novel features
of construction as hereinafter shown and
described and then specifically pointed out
20 in the claims; and in the drawings illustra-
tive of the preferred embodiment of the in-
vention. Figure 1 is a side elevation of the
landside base and the moldboard of a plow
viewed from the land side. Fig. 2 is a plan
25 view of the parts shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3
is a perspective view of the attachment de-
tached and viewed from the inner face.
Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the attach-
ment detached and viewed from the outer
30 face. Fig. 5 is a detached perspective view
of the main landside, illustrating its con-
struction.
Corresponding and like parts are referred
to in the following description and indi-
35 cated in all the views of the drawings by the
same reference characters.
The improved device may be applied
without structural change to plows of vari-
ous makes and forms, and it is not desired
40 therefore to limit the invention for use in
connection with any particular form of
plow. For the purpose of illustration the
improved device is shown applied to a con-
ventional landside base and moldboard of
45 a plow, the landside base being represented
conventionally at 10, the moldboard at 11,
and the share at 12, these parts being of the
usual construction and connected. in the
usual manner.
50 The improved device comprises a plate
enlarged at one end, as shown at 13, and
with a rearwardly and upwardly inclined
cutting edge 14 and with a reduced rear
portion 15. The plate is designed to dis-
55 place the ordinary removable landside por-
tion of a plow and to be disposed in itsplace, the reduced extension 15 having an
enlargement 16 upon its rear face to engage
in the socket or depression .21 in the outer
face of the base portion 10. The enlarge- 60
ment 16 conforms to the similar enlarge-
ment formed upon the ordinary removable
landside of the plow, and will be varied to
conform to plows of various makes. The
plate 13 thus bears closely against the land- 65
side of the plow and the landside terminal
of the share 12. At its forward terminal the
cutting edge 14 corresponds to the nose por-
tion 17 of the share, and rises for a consider-
able distance above the backwardly inclined 70
rear of the share and moldboard, as illus-
trated in Fig. 1, and thus forms an efficient
cutter constantly disposed above the line of
the share and likewise in advance of the
lower or forward portion of the moldboard. 75
The extension 15 is provided with bolt aper-
tures to receive the clamp bolts as indicated
at 18, the bolt apertures corresponding to
the ordinary bolt apertures of the landside
base, so that the same apertures 18 are uti- 8o
lized to receive the ordinary holding bolts of
the landside.
The plate 13 and the extension 16 are
preferably integral, but may be formed of
separate parts if preferred, and may be 85
drop-forged or otherwise produced and the
cutting edge highly tempered to withstand
the strains to which it will be subjected.
The inclined side of the cutting edge is pre-
sented outwardly, as shown in Fig. 2, so that 90
the plate may be sharpened, if preferred,
without removal.
At its lower edge the member 15 is pro-
vided with a downwardly and rearwardly
sloping shoe as represented at 19, and pref- 95
erably with a longitudinal channel 20 in its
lower face. By this means the grip of the
shoe upon the bottom of the furrow is mate-
rially increased, and the movement steadied
and rendered more easy to control. 100
The improved device is simple in con-
struction, can be inexpensively manufac-
tured and adapted, as before stated, without
material structural change to plows of vari-
ous makes and sizes. 105
Having thus described the invention,
what is claimed as new is:-
1. The combination with a plow includ-
ing a landside having a socket closed at the
ends and at the upper side and opening 110
downwardly and laterally, a cutter device
having a rearward extension bearing
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Reeves, Wesley L. Attachment for Plows, patent, January 25, 1916; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth859484/m1/2/: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.