Improvements in the Construction of Machines for Distributing Fertilisers on the Land.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Aug., 1893-Accepted, 18th Mar., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction of Machines for Distributing
Fertilisers on the Land.
ARTHUR WILLIAM LANGDALE, of 2, Claremont Villas, Forest Hall, Newcastle
on Tyne, Merchant. I 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:
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By the suspension of the bottom piece of the box or hopper, in which the
fertiliser is held whilst being distributed, of any machine intended to be used
for distributing fertilisers on the land, to the sides and or ends and or top of
the said box or hopper by means of hangers or handles so that this bottom piece
can be detached from its suspension to the sides and or ends and or top of box
or hopper by any simple fastenings such as pins, cotters wedges, screws, springs,
hooks, keys and the like, which are fitted to the machine for the express purpose
of dropping the bottom piece completely clear from the sides and or ends and
or top of the box or hopper, when required, to enable the machine to be cleaned
out quickly and thoroughly.
This can be performed by fitting the bottom piece under, and or against the
sides and ends of the box or hopper, in which the fertiliser is held whilst being
distributed, and suspending it to the sides, and or ends and or top of box or
hopper by hangers or handles which are held to the sides, and or ends, and or
top by any simple fastening which is fitted to the machine for the express purpose
of dropping the bottom piece completely clear from the sides and or ends, and
or top of the box or hopper. The number of hangers or handles required and
the material of which they are to be made will be determined by the size and
shape of box or hopper, and the weight of material required to be held up, but
the following will carry the invention into effect.
The reference letters refer to drawings.
The figures of drawings represent as follows:-
Fig. 1. One side of box or hopper.
Fig. 2. The opposite side of box or hopper.
Fig. 3. An end section of box or hopper.
Fig. 4. The bottom piece of box or hopper upside down.
Fig. 5. The bottom piece of box or hopper right side up.
If the box or hopper A is made of wood, and is six feet long, and five and a
half inches broad at bottom, and eleven inches broad at top, and sixteen inches
deep, all these being inside measurements of box or hopper, the bottom piece B
can be suspended by four hangers, or handles, two of these C to be bolted to
bottom piece and on the bottom side of it, and each to be placed one foot to
centre of hanger, or handle from each end of bottom piece on the one side of
under part of bottom piece, and the two other hangers or handles D to be bolted to
bottom piece, and on the bottom side of it, and each to be placed fifteen inches to
centre of hanger or handle from each end of bottom piece, on the other side
of under part of bottom piece.
The bottom piece B which has to be suspended to consist of a piece of wood,
nine inches broad and one and three eighths of an inch thick and six feet long,

page_text: each hanger or handle to be made of wrought iron, and to consist of two pieces
linked together, the one piece which must be bolted to under side of bottom
piece by two bolts, to be nine inches long, one and a quarter inches broad, and
three eighths of an inch thick, and must project one inch over edge of bottom
piece, and this projection to have an eye hole five eighths of an inch diameter
formed in it to receive the end of the other portion of iron hanger or handle.
this other portion of hanger or handle to be made of wrought iron one and one
eighth of an inch broad by three eighths of an inch thick, one end of it to be
drawn out, and twisted in a loop within the afore mentioned eye hole of the
first mentioned portion of hanger or handle bolted to bottom piece, this second
portion of hanger or handle to have a hole punched or drilled in it five eighths
of an inch diameter, and above this hole the hanger or handle to extend and be
bent over a convenient distance for a man to take hold of with his hands to lift
it from its fastening to the side of box or hopper A.
The fitting on which the hangers or handles are to be suspended to sides of
box or hopper to consist for each hanger or handle of a wrought iron plate E
fixed to side of box or hopper, and bent over top side of side one inch, and this
plate to be one eighth of an inch thick, and three and one half inches broad and
extend down side of box or hopper five and one half inches, and be bolted by two
bolts, and also screwed by two screws to side of side, and screwed by two screws
to top of side of box or hopper, this iron plate must have an iron pin F rivetted
in the centre of it, and this pin must project two inches and be tapered and be
at thickest part five eighths of an inch diameter, and able to pass through the
hole already mentioned to be punched or drilled in second portion of hanger or
handle and the position of this hole in the hanger or handle will be determined
by the length needed to enable the hole to fit onto the afore mentioned two inch
projecting pin F and a pin hole one quarter inch diameter must be drilled through
the afore mentioned two inch projecting pin and an iron pin G tapered to fit
the one quarter inch pin hole must be used to keep the afore mentioned hanger
or handle from slipping off the afore mentioned two inch projecting pin F when
suspending the bottom piece B of box or hopper A of machine for distributing
fertilisers and the withdrawal of this pin G passing through the aforementioned
one quarter inch diameter hole used for each hanger or handle will release each
hanger or handle from its suspension to the sides of box or hopper and enable
the bottom piece to drop completely clear of sides and ends and top of box or
hopper.
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:
The suspension of the bottom piece of the box or hopper in which the fertiliser
is held whilst being distributed of any machine intended to be used for dis-
tributing fertilisers on the land, to the sides and or ends and or top of the said
box or hopper by means of hangers or handles so that this bottom piece can be
detached from its suspension to the sides and or ends and or top of box or hopper
by any simple fastenings such as pins, cotters, wedges, screws, springs, hooks,
keys and the like which are fitted to the machine for the express purpose of
dropping the bottom piece completely clear from the sides and or ends and or
top of the box or hopper, when required, to enable the machine to be cleaned
out quickly and thoroughly.
Dated this 6th day of February 1899