Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 7th June, 1899-Accepted, 2nd Sept., 1899
Figure 3 is a plan of the apparatus.
Upon the bottom of the hopper a which serves to contain the manure, there
is arranged a slide 6 by means of which the passage of the pulverulent materials
contained in the upper chamber, towards a chamber c arranged below said
bottom, can be regulated.
In front of one of the open longitudinal sides of this chamber which is closed
in on all the other sides, and parallelly to the same, there is arranged at a certain
distance therefrom, a horizontal shaft d which is cranked at several places, and
the cranked portions of which are arranged at a certain angle relatively to one
another (preferably at 90°). Flat or curved bars f are movably jointed to the
cranked portions of the shaft; they are supported and guided in ridges g which
are parallel to them and which are formed in the bottom of the chamber c. The
height of these cranked shafts with relation to this ridged bottom is such that
when the cranks e are in a horizontal position, the bars f will also be in a hori-
zontal position and that during their movement into a higher or lower position,
they will form a constantly increasing angle relatively to the ridges in the
bottom.
It is these bars which effect a uniform distribution of the manure that falls
into the chamber c. The bars, being moved rapidly from their horizontal posi-
tion in which they dip most deeply into the mass of manure, through the notches,
allow (in consequence of their receding movement and of the position which is
assumed by them and which becomes more and more oblique) the manure which
they have taken up by means of their flat or curved surface, to slip and fall
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page_text: down, whereby the manure is spread out by them uniformly over the surface of
the field (Figures 1, 2 and 3).
The rapid rotation of the shaft d is produced by means of the toothed wheels h
and i that are actuated by the shaft 7 which carries the road wheels of the cart.
The apparatus which is shown in the drawings as occupying only one half of
the cart, may be constructed of any desired size.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
(1) Apparatus for distributing manures or the like, characterized by a certain
number of flat bars f having flat or curved surfaces and being movably jointed
to the cranks e which are spaced uniformly apart and are keyed at a certain
angle relatively to one another on a horizontal shaft d which is rotated rapidly
by means of the axle that carries the wheels of the distributing apparatus and
that is parallel to the first named shaft which said bars by reason of their
different vertical positions that are always varying with relation to their sup-
porting surface, or in any other suitable manner, spread the manure uniformly
upon the field in the form of powder which falls from an upper collecting
hopper a through an aperture that is controlled by means of a slide 6 into the dis-
tributing chamber in which the said bars f project as set forth.
(2) The improved apparatus for distributing manure or the like, substantially
as herein before described and shown in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 7th day of June 1899.
ROBERT E. PHILLIPS, Assoc. M. Inst. C.E., M.I. Mech. E.,
Chartered Patent Agent,
70, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Associate Agent.