Improved Means of Distributing or Sowing Artificial Manures.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Dec., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 21st Sept., 1894-Accepted, 27th Oct., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means of Distributing or Sowing Artificial Manures.
We, ROBERT WALLACE Implement Maker Whitletts near Ayr, and WILLIAM
WALLACE Implement Maker Whitletts near Ayr, and ROBERT HOWIE SMITH
Farmer, Broomlands near Irvine N.B. do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention is for the distribution or sowing of artificial manures, and consists
of a hopper made of iron or steel, and mounted in an upright position on an iron or
steel frame, which frame is carried by a pair of wheels, whose axles project from
each side of frame. Frame is also furnished with a pair of shafts. The manure to
be distributed or sown is emptied.into the hopper and while there is kept in a
loose condition by means of prongs which revolve inside the hopper. These prongs
are fixed to a vertical spindle which is supported at top and bottom by bars fixed.
across the hopper, and driven by bevelled wheels from a horizontal spindle at top o
hopper, which in turn is driven by a chain from a wheel on one of the driving
axles.
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At the bottom of the hopper, two flat discs or wheels with prongs projecting at a
distance from the centre, are fixed to two short vertical spindles attached to a table
which is also fixed to frame in such a way as to allow these discs or wheels to
revolve horizontally across the bottom of hopper, and between the bottom of
hopper and top of table, so that when the manure passes through the bottom of
hopper it falls on the table and is immediately brought under the action of the
wheels which as they revolve draw out the manure. These two wheels revolve in
different directions one to the right and the other to the left, and sweep the whole
bottom of the hopper. A sluice is also fixed to hopper so as to regulate the quantity
requiring to be sown. Motion is given to the disc wheels by a spindle and bevelled
wheels underneath, driven by a chain from a wheel on one of the axles. There is
also a brush fixed so as to bear against the prongs on the disc wheels, to prevent
them from carrying the manure farther than is necessary.
Dated this 21st day of December 1893.
ROBERT WALLACE.
WILLIAM WALLACE.
ROBERT HOWIE SMITH.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means of Distributing or Sowing Artificial Manures.
We, ROBERT WALLACE, Implement Maker, Whitletts, near Ayr, and
WILLIAM WALLACE, Implement Maker, Whitletts, near Ayr, and ROBERT
HOWIE SMITH, Farmer, Broomlands, near Irvine, N.B. 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, that is
to say :-
This invention has for its object the distribution or sowing of artificial manures
in a regular and uniform manner.
In carrying out the invention a hopper is mounted on a frame, running on wheels,
and having fixed to it a pair of horse shafts. The manure to be distributed is

page_text: placed in the hopper, and while there it is kept in a loose condition by means of
prongs or knives revolving inside the hopper. Two disks, with prongs projecting
from their rins, revolve in opposite directions across the bottom of the hopper, and
between it and a flat piece or table fixed to the frame. The manure passes from
the hopper, through a regulating sluice or valve, on to the table, whence it is swept
into two shoots by the revolving disks, which are driven through suitable inter-
mediate parts, by the main axle of the machine.
And in order that the said invention and the manner of performing the same may
be properly understood, we hereunto append a sheet of explanatory drawings, to be
hereinafter referred to, and showing our improved apparatus.
Figure, 1, of the drawings is a plan. Figure, 2, is a plan drawn to a larger scale
of details only, and Figures, 3, and, 4, are sectional elevations, as taken at right
angles to each other.
In these drawings the same reference letters and numerals are used to mark the
same or like parts wherever they are repeated.
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A hopper, A, made of iron, steel, or other suitable material is mounted on a
frame, B, carried on the axle, C, of a pair of wheels, D, and having attached to it
a pair of horse shafts, E. The manure to be distributed or sown is placed in the
hopper, A, and while there it is kept in a loose condition by means of prongs or
knives, F, which revolve inside the hopper. These prongs or knives, F, are fixed
to a vertical spindle, G, supported in bearings in bars, H, which are fixed across the
hopper at the top and bottom. The prongs or knives, F, are driven by bevil
wheels, J, and a horizontal shaft, K, which is driven by a pitch chain, L,
and sprocket wheels, M, and, N, from the main axle, C. At the side of the
hopper, A, near the bottoin an opening is formed for the passage of the manure,
which opening is covered by a sluice or valve, P, capable of being raised by
screwed rod, P1, and disk, P 2, fixed to it so as to regulate the amount of opening.
At the bottom of the hopper, A, two flat disks, Q, with prongs projecting from
their rims, are fixed to short vertical spindles, R, turning in bearings in a transverse
part, B1, of the frame, B. The spindles, R, have on them bevil wheels, R1,
and, R2, which are driven by bevil wheels, R3, and, R4, on a horizontal
shaft, R5, driven through sprocket wheels, R 6, and, R 7, and a pitch chain from
the main axle, C, the disposition of these parts being such that the disks, Q, revolve
in opposite directions. The manure passes from the hopper, A, on to a flat piece
or table, S, which is carried by the part, B 1, of the frame, B, and extends to the
shoots, S 1. The disks, Q, revolve across the bottom of the hopper, A, and between
it and the table, S, and sweep the mauure to the shoots, S 1, from which it drops
into the drills. Kims, T, are formed on the disks, Q, to prevent manure from
getting access to the journals of the spindles, R, and they are cleaned by scrapers, T1,
which are fixed to the part, B1, and also serve to guide the manure into the
shoots, S 1. The shoots, S1, are connected by a part, V, which forms a guard to
the disks, Q, and a guide for the passage of the manure to each shoot.
When the apparatus is combined with a plough or ploughs, the plough or ploughs
may be arranged, as indicated by dotted lines, W, in Figure, 3, or in any other
suitable manner, the framing being modified to suit.
The length of the prongs of the disks, Q, may be varied to suit different manures,
and in the case of powdered manures, the disks may be made without prongs but so
as to nearly or quite touch each other, their frictional action being sufficient to
move the manures into the delivery shoots.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is :-
1. The construction, arrangement, and combination of parts, constituting the
improved apparatus for distributing or sowing artificial manures substantially as and
for the purposes hereinbefore described.

page_text: 2. In apparatus for distributing and sowing manures, a pair of disks arranged to
revolve between the bottom of a hopper and a flat piece or table, and move the
manure, dropping from the hopper, into delivering shoots, substantially as herein-
before described.
Dated this Twentieth day of September 1894
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicants' Agent.