A NEW OR IMPROVED MACHINE FOR SOWING, DEPOSITING OR DISTRIBUTING MANURE OVER LAND, THE SAME BEING APPLICABLE TO OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henri Adrien Bonneville, of the British and Foreign
Patent Offices, 8, Rue de la Chaussée d'Antin Paris, France and 90 Cannon
Street in the City of London Patent Agent for an Invention of A NEW
OR IMPROVED MACHINE FOR SOWING, DEPOSITING OR DISTRIBUTING MANURE
OVER LAND, THE SAME BEING APPLICABLE TO OTHER PURPOSES A com-
munication from Louis Adrien Couteau, of Léonville, in the Republic of
France
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Henri Adrien Bonneville at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 6th March 1882.
HENRI ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent Offices, 8, Rue
de la Chaussée d'Antin, Paris France, and 90 Cannon Street in the City of
London, Patent Agent. A NEW OR IMPROVED MACHINE FOR SOWING, DEPOSITING,
OR DISTRIBUTING MANURE OVER LAND, THE SAME BEING APPLICABLE TO OTHER
PURPOSES. (A communication from Louis Adrien Couteau, of Léonville in the
Republic of France.)
The Invention relates to improvements in the machine specially intended to sow,
deposit, or distribute manures over land patented under the date Feb 3rd
1881. and numbered 489, the said improvements being illustrated in the
accompanying Drawings in which Fig. 1 is a top plan view of the machine Fig. 2
a back perspective view of the same; Fig. 3 is an elevation of one of the sides, and
Fig. 4 an elevation of the other side.
These improvements, made with a view to a better working of the machine and
to make the manufacture of it simpler and less costly, consist in substituting for
the grooved rotating cylinder, a rotating cylinder with a smooth periphery, in
suppressing therefore the scraper or toothed cleaning apparatus, and replacing it by
two scrapers specially arranged, one in front of the rotating cylinder, and the other
behind the small arbor or disentegrating roller, in suppressing the combs, in
placing the organs transmitting the motion at each end of the axle instead of only
at one end, and finally in adding at the back of the machine, a little underneath
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page_text: the disentegrating roller, a flat board suspended vertically and furnished with
several rows of parallel spikes, which being arranged in diagonal or chequered
form, cross the fall of the manure, and ensure a more complete reduction into small
particles before its fall or distribution upon the soil.
A is the frame, B the hopper, C¹ C¹ the running wheels, D the new smooth
surfaced cylinder, E the adjustable and moveable trap, F, the disengaging blades,
G the disentegrating arbor or roller, H, H' the new cleaning scrapers consisting of
four iron bars whose ends are fixed to the frame A so as to be parallel lengthwise
two by two one of the two pairs of bars in front of the rotating cylinder D, and
the other behind the small arbor or roller G, and provided with projections made
with pieces of angle irons rivetted upon each bar at a certain distance one from
the other so that any matter adhering to the surface of the cylinder D, or of the
roller G is first furrowed and then scraped by the alternating projections on each of
both bars.
As in the first machine, the rotary motion is imparted to the cylinder by the
revolving axle of the running wheels C C upon one end of which a bevel wheel I
is keyed which gears into a similar wheel I¹ keyed upon an horizontal arbor J,
provided with a worm K which gears into a toothed wheel L keyed upon the end
of the shaft of the cylinder D to which the rotary motion is thus imparted.
In the same way, the right and left horizontal motion is transmitted to the
disengaging knives or blades F by a crank plate O mounted at the end of the
arbor J and by means of which the same borizontal motion is transmitted through
a connecting rod P to a flat bar Q in which the said blades are set on pivots at R
having back ends pivotted at S upon a fixed immoveable bar T; these pivots are
80 arranged that the back working ends of the blades have a certain play so that
the anterior ends of the same may be raised or lowered at will.
The rotary motion is imparted to the small arbor or roller G¹ by means of a
toothed wheel M mounted on the end of its shaft which gears into the cogs of a
similar wheel N, keyed upon the other end of the axle of the running wheels CC:
as previously, the moveable trap E together with the knives F may be raised and
lowered at will, so as to allow of the passage of the manure in larger or smaller
quantities, and according as it is more or less pasty or powdery, and this rising or
falling motion is obtained by means of a thumb screw U, or other device.
The various parts of the machine are put into gear or disengaged by means of
the same apparatus V, as before, and which apparatus may be arranged in any
manner whatever.
Having thus described the said improvements and the manner of carrying the
same into effect, I claim and desire to secure by the said Letters Patent a machine
for sowing, spreading, depositing or distributing manures or other pulverulent
matters, consisting essentially, 1st of a smooth surfaced drum or cylinder, and a
roller, smooth surfaced also, revolving at a greater speed than the cylinder, 2nd of
a hopper with vertical sides, the bottom of which is formed by the cylinder,
3rd of a moveable trap regulating the exit of the matter, and 4th of the disengaging
blades or knives and cleaning scrapers substantially as hereinbefore specified and
represented in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, have hereto set my
hand and seal, this Fourth day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty two.