An Improved Basic Slag and Manure Distributor, applicable also for Seed and other Granular Substances.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Dec., 1893-Accepted, 17th Mar., 1894
An Improved Basic Slag and Manure Distributor, applicable also
for Seed and other Granular Substances.
I ROBERT EDWARD COOPER of Henley-in-Arden in the County of Warwick
Estate Agent 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, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and
to the letters and figures marked thereon :-
This invention consists in placing upon a wheeled carriage of any suitable
description a receptacle constructed as hereinafter described which receptacle
extends across the carriage and is caused to revolve by means of any suitable
gearing with the wheels of the carriage.
The receptacle is formed closed at its ends and with three or more sides. Each
edge of each side that abuts against the adjoining one is faced with a piece of
angle iron. The sides are attached to each other at the angles where they abut
by means of adjusting-screws which will keep the edges ridgedly apart, (or
tightly closed when desired) thus forming apertures capable of being varied in
width through which the contents will pass.
When this receptacle is revolved as above described the manure, seed or other
substance contained therein will pass out through each aperture as it becomes the
lowest one and be thus distributed.
Referring to the accompanying drawings which illustrate the application of the
invention to a horserake carriage,
Fig. 1 is a side view in elevation.
Fig. 2 a back view in perspective. And
Fig. 3 an enlarged section of the meeting edges of the sides of the receptacle.
A is a triangular shaped receptacle having on the edges at B B B2 angle iron;
the distance of these edges at B B' B apart from one another being regulated by
the adjusting screws C.
The revolving action of the receptacle A may be brought about by the
application of any ordinary gearing to the wheels of the carriage.
I do not lay claim to any special arrangement of gearing by which the motion
of the carriage shall rotate the distributing box or receptacle A but I may use
such for instance as the cog wheels and chain D D1 and D2 as shewn by the
drawing in which the cog wheel D, upon the spindle which carries.the box A, is
connected with the cog wheel D' by the chain D', so that the movement of the
carriage wheel to which the wheel D is attached will cause the wheel D' to
revolve and by means of the chain work the wheel D which will carry with it the
box A. The spindle upon which the wheel D works is supported by the lever E
which is pivotted to a bar on the carriage at E¹ so that by lowering the lever E
the wheel D will be lowered and the chain D' be slackened thus throwing the
wheels out of gear. To throw them into gear again the lever E is raised by its
bandle thus lifting the cog wheel D and tightening the chain. The lever may be
fixed in various positions by a chained peg and holes as shewn at E³.
F. is a screen to shield the horse from the dust.
This construction of distributor is especially suitable for basic slag and other
extremely fine descriptions of manure as it enables the apertures to be adjusted
with great exactness.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :
1. A basic slag and manure distributor constructed substantially as herein set
forth and described.
2. Distributors of seed and other granular substances constructed substantially
as herein set forth and described.
Dated this 30th day of November 1802
HENRY F. TALBOT,
7, Cherry Street, Birmingham, Agent for the Applicant.