Improvements in Cutters for Hoeing-machines.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Oct., 1898-Accepted, 26th Nov., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cutters for Hoeing-machines.
I, HERRMANN ROSEMANN, of Scheibsdorf, near Leignitz, in the Empire of
Germany, Constructor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement;
Although the hoeing of the products of the fields, or, in other words, the
weeding out of noxious herbs from the surfaces infested by them, with the aid
of implements, has a very considerable advantage over hand-weeding, there has,
nevertheless, always been the drawback in connection therewith, that on warm
damp days, although the roots of the weeds are completely removed from the
ground, the weeds grow again, through the root-ends coming into their former
position in relation to the soil and thus in intimate connection with the same.
The object of this invention is to provide hoeing machine cutters which
thoroughly break up and crumble the clods of earth cut out of the fields, and
containing the top root-ends and the weeds themselves, and at least to insure
their remaining a considerable time without being re-united with the soil, and
in this manner to thoroughly meet the difficulty which arises from the re-growing
of the weeds.
In the accompanying drawing:
Fig. I is a side view and,
Fig. II a plan of a hoeing-machine cutter, constructed according to this inven-
tion.
The cutter 1 is made in one of the usual forms-in the form, illustrated by way
of example, it is triangular-rectilinear, and is seated on the haft 2, which serves
for fixing the cutter in the hoeing machine.
On both blades of the cutter, teeth 4 4' are fixed; these are made of round iron
or other suitable material and can be somewhat varied in form, or of different
cross-section. These teeth constitute a rake. They can be attached to the cutter
in a somewhat rounded form as shown in the present example, or they may be
rectilinear and rise somewhat at the back. Instead of round iron, triangular
iron may be used, one edge being turned upward, in order to effect the cutting
up into pieces and breaking up of the detached clods of earth. None of these
variations affect the essential feature of the invention.
The fixing of the rake-teeth on to the cutter is effected in a suitable manner,
either by welding, riveting or otherwise. It is also possible to produce the whole
cutter in one piece with the teeth, from cast-steel or other suitable material or
of malleable iron, the cutting surfaces being suitably steel-tipped.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is.
1. The improved hoeing-machine cutters, the distinguishing feature of which
is that on the sides of the cutter fixed to the haft the teeth 4 4₁ which form a
kind of rake, and are of suitable form and cross-section are attached for the

page_text: purpose of breaking up and crumbling the clods of earth holding the weeds, and
so as to prevent the roots of the weeds from coming again immediately into
contact with the soil, and thereby to prevent also the re-growing of the weeds.
2. The improved cutter for hoeing-machines substantially as described with
reference to the drawings.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.