Improvements in Cultivators.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application (in United Kingdom), 30th Mar., 1893
Complete Specification Loft, 30th Mar, 1003 Accepted, 22nd July 1903
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cultivators.
I, MATTHEW CASEY, of Smithfield, in the County of Johnston, and State of
North Carolina, United States of America, Gentleman, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to improvements in cultivators; the object of which is to
provide an improved device for cultivating young corn or cotton, and by
rearranging the parts may be used for cultivating between rows of plants; and the
invention consists in the construction and combination of the parts, as will be
hereinafter fully set forth and particularly pointed out in the claims.
In the accompanying drawings forming part of this Specification :
Fig. 1 is a side view of a cultivator, the parts being arranged for cultivating over
plants, such as young corn or cotton.
Fig. 2 is a plan view.
Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view, showing the device arranged for cultivating between
rows.
Fig. 4 is a detail view of one of the cultivators detached, and,
Fig. 5 is a sectional view of the same.
A designates the beam of the cultivator, to which the handles B B are secured in
the usual manner. The lower ends of the handles project beyond the beam and are
secured to the lower end of a short standard C, said standard being rigidly
attached to the beam. The lower end of this standard is provided with spring
teeth a, which depend below said standard and are curved or bent rearward; the
teeth being preferably made of spring steel or other resilient material. These
spring teeth are only of sufficient strength to remove from the growing plants the
earth which may fall upon them in cultivating.
D D' designates short beams to which the cultivators or shovels E are secured
by means of bolts or in any suitable manner. These beams are adapted to be secured
to the front portion of the standard C, and in front of said beams is attached a
block through which the securing bolts pass.
When the cultivator is arranged as shown in Fig. 1 a bar or beam d extends from
the outer ends of the shovel carrying beam to the main beam A, and these bars
may be provided with depending teeth adapted to remove trash away from the path
of the cultivator blades. The cultivator blades are constructed so that they are
curved forwardly at their cutting edges, and are made up of semi-annular plates of
metal, the ends of which are provided with bolt holes to receive bolts which pass
into the beams D. It will be noted that the cultivators in Fig. 1 extend forwardly
on each side of the standard, so that when in use the earth will be thrown toward
the plants. The standard C passing over the plants, and the soil being removed
therefrom by the teeth a.
In Fig. 3 of the drawings I have shown another arrangement of the cultivator
shovels, which arrangement is adapted to be used in cultivating between rows of

page_text: growing plants; and in this case one of the beams D₁ is secured directly to the
forward portion of the short depending standard C, and a block is placed in front of
the same to which the other shovel carrying beam is secured. When thus arranged
the shovel carrying beams will have their ends extended beyond each side of the
standard, one beam extending a suitable distance on one side of the standard while
the other beam extends the desired distance on the other side. The bars d extend
from the ends of the shovel carrying beams D to the main beam and serve as
braces.
The device herein before described is simple in construction, can be cheaply
manufactured, and can be arranged so as to provide the user with two implements,
which are adapted to cultivate the plants at different stages of growth, and when
arranged as shown in the drawings will cultivate on each side of the growing plants,
and also between the rows.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In a cultivator, the combination of the main beam A carrying a short
depending standard C, handles attached near the rear end of the beam and to the
lower end of the standard, bars or beams carrying cultivator knives semi-annular in
form, said bars being removably attached to the standard and provided at their
outer ends with brace rods, substantially as shown, and for the purposes set forth.
2. In a cultivator for the purposes set forth, the combination of the main beam
having a short depending standard and handles, of spring teeth attached to the
standard so as to depend below the same, the lower ends of said teeth being rear-
wardly inclined, beams carrying cultivators attached to the forward portion of the
standard so as to project laterally therefrom and locate the cultivators on opposite
sides of the standard, bars or rods d attached to the outer ends of the cultivator
beams and to the main beam, substantially as shown, and for the purposes
set forth.
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3. The combination in a cultivator, of the main beam, short depending standard,
and handles, rigidly secured to each other, substantially as shown, cultivator
carrying bars or beams D', brace bars extending from the ends of said cultivator
beams to the main beam, the brace bars being provided with depending teeth,
substantially as shown and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 30th day of March 1893.
F. W. BARKER,
Applicant's Agent.