Improvements in Seed Drills.
Year: 1897

page_text: Improvements in Seed Drills.
JOHN FORD, The Hough, near Wilmslow, in the County of Chester, Farmer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The continuous cavity V roller turnip seed drill can be made to sow one or
two drills at once the cavity to be made by a suitable number of wheels or other-
wise at the bottom of which the seeds are sown so as to be protected from the
ravages of the fly, the drill named as above to be made with two rollers of a suit-
able form, and put together in a suitable way, to clip the drill and form the
V cavity at the bottom of which the seed is to be sown in the intermediate space
between the two rollers and near the leading roller will be the sowing part, near
the hind roller will be a brush or something suitable to harrow the seed in, of
which the hind roller will finish, to have a suitable handle, the hind roller to be
constructed to rise or fall. This machine is to sow one drill at a time to have
a suitable motion to put it in and out of gear. The seed part to be worked with
an endless belt or chain from a pulley or toothed wheel on the leading roller shaft
to a pulley or toothed wheel on the seed receptical shaft.
Dated this 12th day of April 1897
JOHN FORD, The Hough, near Wilmslow, in the County of Chester, Farmer,
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:-
The continuous cavity to be made with two rollers of a suitable form and put
together in a suitable way to clip the drill and form the V cavity at the bottom of
which the seed is to be sown to protect it from the ravages of the fly. In the inter-
mediate between the two rollers and near the leading roller will be the sowing
part, near the hind roller will be a brush or something suitable to harrow the
seed in, of which the hind roller will finish, to have a suitable handle, this machine
to sow one drill at a time, to have a suitable motion to put it in and out of gear,
the seed part to be worked with an endless belt or chain from a pulley or toothed
wheel on the roller. If for a horse four rollers and everything else in proportion.
In order to enable my invention to be fully understood I will proceed to describe
the same by reference to the accompanying drawings in which
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page_text: Figure 1 represents a vertical section of drills t, π, and o, is a vertical section of
a, in
half the leading roller, shaft, and pulley. «, in Figure 1 is top of drill.
Figure 2. is top of drill, the hind roller and leading roller are alike in
section with the exception of differing at c, in Figure 1 and c, in Figure 2 as
shown. x is the seed bed, e, bottom of drills in Figure 1 and bottom of drill in
Figure 2. g, section of drills. k, in Figure 2 is a brush or router m, in Figure 2
is a seed spout sheilded by coulter to have suitable scrapers to rollers. d, and d,
on Figure are sections of gauge wheels. d, on Figure 2 shows position of the
gauge wheel.
o, in Figure 1 and Figure 2 toothed wheel or pulley. b, in
Figure 1, and 6 in Figure 2 shows same depth of cavity, the hind roller to be con-
structed to rise at headlands.
invention
Having particularly described and ascertained the nature of my
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-