Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Dec., 1899-Accepted, 17th Feb., 1900
I, STEFAN BEHRINGER, Locksmith, of Kapas-u 41, Budapesth 1I. Kingdom of
Hungary, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:-
The present invention consists of improvements in ploughs and of the details
of construction herein after set forth and particularly pointed out in the claims.
In order to render the present specification easily intelligible reference is had
to the accompanying drawing in which similar letters of reference denote similar
parts throughout the several views:-
Fig. 1 is a side elevation, Fig. 2 a plan and Fig. 3a iront elevation of one
form of carrying the invention into practice and Figs. 4, 5 and 6 are similar views
of a modified form of the invention.
Referring to Figures 1 to 3:-The plough share having the coulter f and the
mould board c is pivotally mounted at i in the frame h h and may be adjusted
in a vertical plane by means of the handles aa and a segment g having a series
of holes through which the pin k may be inserted. At the rear of the share a
wheel dis carried by a downwardly extending arm ², so that when it is required
to keep the share temporarily out of action the handles aa may be depressed and
the front of the share raised on the pivot, thus causing the wheel d to contact with
the ground and keeping the share above the ground level, the whole being sup-
ported on the hind wheel d.
The front ends of the frame bars are supported on a vertical bolt having
it upper and lower ends adjustable in a series of holes in the bridge piece and
the front wheel supporting bar s. The bar is of U-shaped cross section and
serves to support the bearing for the wheels p and o, the bearing for the latter of
whiph is vertically adjustable by means of a screw clamped rings and a ver-
tically upturned arm to the axle pivot. The pivot or axle pin of the wheel o
is fixed. Thus it will be seen that when the bolt is adjusted laterally the width
of the trench ploughed will be varied, at the same time the axle of the wheel p
may be adjusted to correspond. A bow shaped bar t carrying a central upwardly
turned arm is attached to the parts and laterally adjustable thereon by means of
a series of orifices, to any one pair of which it may be bolted and to the upwardly
extending arm is adjustably pivoted the bar m, connected by a chain to the
frame bars h h (Fig. 1). Thus it will be seen that the plough share is vertically
moveable on a pivot, the frame being laterally adjustable in the horizontal plane,
whilst the motion of the plough will be facilitated by means of the hind bearing
wheel d.
In the modification shown in Figures 4, 5 and 6 the share is rigidly attached
to the rear part of the frame the said frame being divided and the rear part being
The hind wheel is in this
pivotally attached at to the fore part of the same.
case adjustably mounted at e¹ on the share itself, and the rear frame part is adjust-
able on the fore part by means of a segment gl and a pin k inserted therethrough.
The front bolt is not passed through orifices of the bar s but through similar

page_text: orifices arranged on the bar which is attached to s and formed to a saddle, so as
to prevent weakening the bar or beam s. The bow t is made in two parts, the
front upwardly extending arm being adjustable on the bow part t as will be
evident from the drawings. The arm m is adjustable thereon and is connected
by a chain to the frame h¹. In both modifications a stay bar j extends from
between the bars hand is pivotally attached at the lower part of the bolt to
prevent the share from swerving.
Thus by raising or lowering the handles a, a, a deeper or shallower groove may
be cut in the ground.
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 plough the combination of a pivotally mounted share, having a rear
supporting wheel, supported either on a downwardly extending arm or on the
share, the plough frame being adjustable laterally and vertically and a chain to
connect the said share frame to the draw bar substantially as described.
2: In a plough the combination of a share pivotally mounted in the plough
frame, a rear supporting wheel for the same mounted on the share direct or on an
arm extending downwardly from the frame, a front wheel supporting bars having
a U-shaped bar supported thereon so as to be laterally adjustable, said bar carry-
ing an upwardly extending arm on which the draw bar is rearwardly and forwardiy
adjustable, said draw bar being connected to the share frame by means of a chain
substantially as described.
A modification of the device covered in Claim 1 according to which the
share is rigidly mounted in the rear frame part, the said rear frame part being
pivotally connected to the forward frame part, a segment for adjusting the move-
able frame part and having a pin to arrest it, the U-shaped bar at the front of the
plough being fixed to the front wheel carrier frame and having its upwardly pro-
jecting arm adjustably mounted thereon, and a chain to connect the draw bar,
mounted on said upwardly extending arm, to the front part of the frame substan-
tially as described.