Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 30.h Nov., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 30th Aug., 1895-Accepted, 16th Nov.,
1895
We WILLIAM RUCE BOWEN, and THOMAS CALLIHAM BUTLER both of East
Palatka, Florida, U.S.A., Inventors, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to an improved apparatus for sowing seels.
The apparatus consists of a preferably circular receptacle of convenient size,
fitted with a lid provided with a suitable handle, and having its bottom inclining
towards its centre. The lid is preferably spun with a screw-thread to engage a
similar thread upon the seed-receptacle.
The bottom of the receptacle has suitable openings which can be regulated to
permit a large or smaller quantity of grain to fall through them by a disc having
similar apertures, and fastened to the bottom so that it can be moved to bring its
perforations to register more or less with the apertures in the bottom of the
receptacle as required.
Dated this 30th day of November 1894.
W. H. MUNNS,
Agent for Applicants.
We, WILLIAM RUCE BOWEN, and THOMAS CALLIHAM BUTLER, both of East
Palatka, Florida, U.S.A., Inventors, 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 :-
Our invention is an improvement in hand sowers and has for an object to provide
a simple inexpensive device which may be conveniently carried in the hand and
which is constructed to properly sow any one of the ordinary garden seed and also
to sow broadcast, certain small seeds, fertilizers, insecticides &c., as will be more
fully described.
The invention consists in the novel constructions, combinations and arrangements
of parts, as will be hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims.
In the drawings-Figure 1 is a side view. Fig. 2 is an inverted plan view, and
Fig. 3, is a vertical section of my improved planter.
The planter is shown as formed with the cup A and the cover B threaded
together, and the cover being preferably provided with the handle C. At its outer
end this handle C is hollow or socketed so that it can receive the end of a long
wooden handle when it is desired to operate the device with the body of the planter
close to the ground or at a distance from the operator. This may be desired in
planting certain seeds when there is a strong wind and in dusting some of the
poisonous insecticides as will be readily understood. The bottom of the A is
preferably rounded as shown and is provided near its centre with an opening D
usually made larger than the largest of the various sized openings of the dropping
wheel presently described.
cup

page_text: To the bottom I journal discs E and F which for convenience of reference I term
respectively the dropping disk and the broadcast disk. The dropping disk E is
provided with a series of openings e varying in size ranging from a small opening
of proper size to permit the discharge of mustard seed to an opening large enough
for radish or lettuce seed. The disc may be adjusted to bring any one of its said
openings in register with the opening Ď of the cup bottom so that the seed being
sown will pass through the said opening D and thence out of the opening e of the
disc Any one of the said openings e may be brought into register with the
opening to suit the particular seed employed, the disk being provided with a
handle a preferably secured to the rivet A to which the disk is secured and by
which it is held to the bottom of the cup. It should be noticed that the dropping
disk is curved correspondingly to and fits closely to the curved bottom of the cup.
In the bottom I also form a series or number of openings G and the broadcast
disk F has openings f so arranged that they can be set into register with openings G
when it is desired to discharge the seed broadcast or dust insecticides such as Paris
green, London purple, &c., or out of such register when it is desired to shut off
such discharge. This disk like the disk E, is curved to correspond to the curvature
of the cup bottom and has a handle secured to the rivet to which the disk is also
secured and by which it is held to the cup bottom.
By the described construction any of the various sized garden seeds may be sown
and the seed may be seen as it is dropped so that the operator can know at all
times whether the device is operating.
It will be understood that in practice the seed are to be sifted through the holes
by agitation, the sower being shaken horizontally over the furrow or trench to be
seeded.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:
(1.) A hand seed sower substantially as described comprising the cup having its
bottom formed with the large opening and with the series of small openings, the
disk having a series of graded openings movable consecutively into register with
the said large opening, and the disk having the series of openings into and out of
register with the series of small openings in the cup bottom all substantially as and
for the purposes set forth.
(2.) A land seed sewer comprising the cup, the top threaded to said cup; such
cup having a rounded hottom provided with a large opening and with a series of
snill openings, the dropping dish curved to courtspel to id botton lying
a series of graded openings movable coscentively into register with the larg
opening of the cup bottom and the broad-east disk curved to correspond with cup
bottom and having a series of openings movable into and out of register with those
of the cup button substantially as al for the purposes set forth.
(3.) The improved hand seed sower herein described consisting of the t, the
handle secured to and extended from said top, the cap screwed to aid top living
the rounded bottom provided with the large opening and with the sprit of mall
openings, the dropping disk having a series of graded openings moving consecutively
into register with the large opening of the cup bottom and the broad cast disk
curved to correspond with the curvature of the cup bottom and having a series of
openings movable into and out of register with the small openings of the cup
bottom, the rivets to which said disks are secured and by which they are held to
the cup bottom and the handles secured to said rivets by which they and the disks
may be turned all substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
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W. H. MUNNS,
AgA;