Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Nov., 1895-Accepted, 8th Feb, 1895
In the accompanying drawings
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of my improvement showing the potato-digger and
cultivator wings 3.
Fig. 2 is a front view of the body to which the various attachments are
secured.
Fig. 3 is a front view of an assemblage of parts forming a double turning plow.
Fig. 4 is a front view of the body 1, having the cultivator wings secured
thereto.
Fig. 5 is in part a cross sectional view of Fig. 2 on the line -.
Fig. 6 is an elevation of one of the potato-diggers 3, and cultivator
attachments.
My invention is described as follows: 1 represents the body portion to which is
secured the point 2, and the potato-digger and cultivator wing attachment 3. The
body 1, consists of a central portion 4 provided with a countersunk bolt hole 5,
through which a bolt is passed to secure the body to the plow standard. Said
body 1 is a segment and is provided with flanges 6 recesses 7, flanges 8, and a down-
ward extension 9. Said flanges 6 are provided with bolt holes for securing the wings
thereto and the downward extension 9 is also provided with bolt holes for securing
the point 2 to the same.
At the point where the flanges 6 turn out from the body 1 there are grooves 11,
Fig. 5, for the inner edges of the attachments 3, 12, and 13 to rest in, and the
flanges 8 on the upper edge of the body 1, are for the extensions 14 of the attach-
ments to rest against.
The bolt holes 5¹ in the body 1 are flared inwardly at their outer ends so that
when the bolts 15, Fig. 3 are passed through the bolt holes in the point 2, they
may be readily forced through the bolt holes 5'. These bolt holes 5' are made thus
flaring because in casting two pieces of metal it is difficult to, and sometimes we fail
in getting the bolt holes to register correctly.
My plow when put up according to Fig. 1 has wing-attachments 3 provided with
points 16, leaving on each side of the point 2 openings 17 and said attachments are
also provided with fingers 18.
Thus this construction pulverizes the dirt when we are breaking it up and
preparing it for cultivation and it acts as a sort of sieve in digging potatoes,
letting the dirt fall back while it throws the potatoes up into the front.
When constructed as shown in Fig. 3 it is a double shovel, but it may be
used with only one of the attachments 12, in which case it would become a
turning plow. When put up as shown in Fig. 4 with a point attached (not
necessarily the point shown by the number 2, but any suitable point) it becomes a
cultivator

page_text: I do not claim the point 2 nor do I confine myself to the use of this point, nor do
I claim the wings 13. The new and important features which are mine are the
recesses 7 (see Fig. 2), flanges 8, grooves 11, Fig. 5 and flared bolt holes 5¹,
Figs. 2, 4, and 5.
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. In a plow constructed substantially as shown and described, the combination
with the plow stock and standards, of the body 1, provided with a central counter-
sunk bolt hole 5, flared bolt hole 5', recesses 7 flanges 8, grooves 11, and perforated
flanges 6, plow point 2 and wing attachments 3, provided with fingers 18 and
downward extensions 16, substantially as shown and described and for the purposes
set forth.
2. In combination with a plow stock, the body having a central countersunk bolt
hole, flared bolt holes, one on each side of the downward extension 9, recesses 7,
flanges 8, and grooves 11, said body adapted to carry a perforated plow point and
perforated wings, substantially as shown and described and for the purposes set
forth.
Dated this 26th day of November 1895.
W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
31, High Holborn, London, W.C., Patent Agents for the Applicant.