A. NEW OR IMPROVED MACHINE FOR SOWING, DEPOSITING, OR DISTRIBUTING MANURE OVER LAND, THE SAME BEING APPLICABLE FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henri Adrien Bonneville, of the British and Foreign
Patent Offices, 18, 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 FOR OTHER PURPOSES."
A communication from Louis Adrien Conteau, of Leonville, France.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henri Adrien Bonneville at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 3rd February 1881.
HENRI ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent Offices, 18, 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 MANURES OVER LAND, THE SAME BEING APPLICABLE
TO OTHER PURPOSES." A communication from Louis Adrien Conteau, of Léonville,
France.
The Invention relates to a machine principally intended to sow, deposit, or
distribute manures regularly and evenly over land, but which may also be used to
distribute other pulverulent matters on the soil, or as for example sand or gravel
in time of freezing or hoarfrost. This machine consists substantially of a hopper
with vertical and rectangular sides intended to receive the manure, and supported
by a frame mounted on two running wheels, and placed immediately over a rotary
cylinder, serving as bottom to it, and which cylinder is furnished with circular
grooves intended to carry the manure along during the rotation of the cylinder.
The quantity of manure to be distributed is regulated by an adjustable trap
mounted on the back of the hopper placed vertically in regard to the longitudinal
axis of the cylinder, and disengaging knives or blades actuated by a horizontal

page_text: motion right and left, and vice versa at the lower part of the hopper, and above
the grooved periphery of the cylinder, to prevent all gorging or stopping up on
leaving the hopper. This improved machine is completed by a small arbor or roller
along and near the grooved cylinder, to which a greater rotary motion is imparted
than that of the cylinder, and upon which the manure falls, which is thus more
thoroughly and evenly divided and distributed, and by a scraper or toothed
apparatus fixed horizontally to the lower part of the anterior vertical side of the
hopper, and of which the teeth enter the grooves of the said cylinder, to clean it of
what inanure may still be found upon it.
The rotary motion of the cylinder and the small arbor or roller, as well as the
motion to the right and left, and vice versa of the disengaging knives, are imparted
by any suitable mechanism through a bevil-wheel gearing into a toothed pinion
keyed upon the hub of one of the running wheels.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Henri Adrien Bonneville in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
23rd July 1881.
HENRI ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent Offices, 18, 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
FOR OTHER PURPOSES." A communication from Louis Adrien Conteau, of Leonville,
France.
The Invention relates to a machine principally intended to sow, deposit, or
distribute manures regularly and evenly over land, but which also may be used to
distribute other pulverulent matter on the soil, or as for example sand or gravel in
time of freezing or hoar frost. This machine consists substantially of a hopper
with vertical and rectangular sides intended to receive the manure, and supported
by a frame mounted on two running wheels, and placed immediately over a rotary
cylinder, serving as bottom to it, and which cylinder is furnished with circular
grooves intended to carry the manure along during the rotation of the cylinder.
The quantity of manure to be distributed is regulated by an adjustable trap
mounted on the back of the hopper, placed vertically in regard to the longitudinal
axis of the cylinder, and disengaging knives or blades actuated by a horizontal
motion right and left, and vice versa at the lower part of the hopper, and above
the grooved periphery of the cylinder, to prevent all gorging or stopping up on
leaving the hopper. This improved machine is completed by a small arbor or roller
along and near the grooved cylinder, to which a greater rotatory motion is imparted
than that of the cylinder, and upon which the manure falls, which is thus more
thoroughly and evenly divided and distributed, and by a scraper or toothed
apparatus fixed horizontally to the lower part of the anterior vertical side of the
hopper, and of which the teeth enter the grooves of the said cylinder, to clean it of
what manure may still be found upon it.
The rotary motion of the cylinder and of the small arbor or roller, as well as the
right and left motion, and vice versa of the disengaging knives, are imparted by
any suitable mechanism through a bevil wheel gearing into a toothed pinion keyed
upon the hub of one of the running wheels.
After having briefly described the said Invention I will now describe it more
particularly with reference to the accompanying Drawings, of which Fig. I. is a top
plan view of the said spreading machine, and Fig. 2 a side view of the same. In
both Figures similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. a is the
frame; b, the hopper; c, c, the running wheels; d, the transversely grooved
cylinder; e, the adjustable and moveable trap; f, the disengaging knives or
blades; g, the small disentegrating arbor or cylinder; h, h¹, the cleaning combs or
scrapers.
The several motions are imparted to the parts of the machine by the revolving
axle of the running wheels. For this purpose a bevil wheel i is keyed upon the
axle of said running wheels, which gears into a similar wheel ', keyed upon a
horizontal arbor j, upon which is mounted an endless worm k, which gears into a
toothed wheel & keyed upon the end of the shaft of the grooved cylinder d, to which
the rotary motion is thus imparted.
Upon the same horizontal shaft ja helicoid threaded wheel m is mounted, which
gears into the cogs of a similar wheel n keyed upon the end of the shaft of the
disintegrating cylinder g, to which the rotary motion is thus imparted. This
cylinder is also grooved transversely like the cylinder d, in such manner that its

page_text: grooves correspond with the ribs of cylinder d, and that the grooves of the latter
correspond with the ribs of cylinder h. The penetration of both cylinders onc
within the other ensures the manure being completely lifted off from the carrying
cylinder d. A. perfect cleaning of the cylinder is effected by means of the comb h
in front of the cylinder d,.and of another comb at the back of the same
cylinder.
The right and left horizontal motion is imparted to the disengaging knives or
blades by a crank plate o, by means of which the same horizontal motion is
transmitted through a connecting rod p to a horizontal flat bar q, in which the
said blades are set on pivots at r, having back ends pivoted at s upon an
immoveable bar t. These pivots are so 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 moveable trap e and the knives f may be raised or lowered at will at the
saine time to permit the passage of the manure in greater or smaller quantities, and
according to its condition more or less pasty or more or less pulverulent, and this
motion of rise and fall is obtained by means of a finger screw u or other device.
The parts of the machine are put into gear and disengaged by means of any
apparatus v, which may be arranged in any manner whatever.
After having described the said Invention, and the manner in which it is to be
carried out, I claim and wish to secure by the said Letters Patent, a machine for
sowing or spreading, depositing, and distributing manures and other materials,
consisting essentially of two cylinders of different diameters provided with trans-
versal and corresponding grooves and ribs revolving at different rates of speed, of a
hopper, the bottom of which is formed by the cylinder of largest diameter, of a
moveable trap regulating the exit of the manure, and of disengaging blades,
substantially as herein before specified and represented in the accompanying
Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty first day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty ono,
H. BONNEVILLE (L.S.)