Apparatus for Thinning Turnips and such like Crops.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Sept., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 19th June, 1894-Accepted, 21st July, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Apparatus for Thinning Turnips and such like Crops.
I, EDWARD EUGENE DULIER, of No. 27, Sloane Gardens, Chelsea, in the
County of London, Retired Military Officer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to apparatus for thinning turnips and such like crops, that
is to say removing portions of the rows of young plants at the summit of each drill, so-
as to leave intervals of regular width between those groups of plants which are left
to grow. For this purpose, I provide a wheeled truck which can be drawn along
the furrows between drills, and from the wheels I work through suitable gearing
cranks eccentrics or cams which move vertical arms carrying blades at their lower
ends; each of these arms is so moved that its blade is caused to travel to and fro
across the summit of a drill, removing from it at each stroke a portion of the soil
and the plants growing in it, and depositing the portions thus scraped off in the
furrows at each side of the drill. As the truck advances a certain distance while
the blade is changing the direction of its motion, a portion of the row of plants is.
left untouched for each stroke of the blade.
Dated this 27th day of September 1893.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.
Apparatus for Thinning Turnips and such like Crops.
I, EDWARD EUGENE DULIER, of No. 27 Sloane Gardens, Chelsea, in the
County of London, Retired Military Officer, 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 :-
My invention relates to apparatus for thinning turnips and such like crops, that.
is to say removing portions of the rows of young plants at the summit of each drill
so as to leave intervals of regular width between those groups of plants which are
left to grow. For this purpose I construct apparatus as shewn in the accompanying
drawings, Fig. 1 is a vertical section, Fig. 2 a front view and Fig. 3 is a plan..
I provide a wheeled truck which can be drawn along the furrows between drills, its-
wheels W being coned to bear on the sloping sides of the drill D and from the
axle A I work through a belt and a pair of pulleys P P or chain and sprocket.
wheels or other suitable gearing a countershaft S on which is a cam C having an
undulated rib which revolves between pins on a vertical arm V carrying a hoe
blade H at its lower end. The arm V which is pivotted at F is thus so moved
that its blade H is caused, to travel to and fro across the summit of the drill D.
removing from it at each stroke a portion of the soil and the plants growing in it,
and depositing the portions thus scraped off in the furrows at each side of the drill..
As the truck advances a certain distance while the blade is changing the direction
of its motion, a portion of the row of plants is left untouched for each stroke of the
blade H. In order to consolidate the soil on each side of the plants left growing
I fix on the wheels W blades B which, as the wheels revolve come successively to.
bear on the upper part of the drill.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
Apparatus for thinning turnips and such like crops, substantially as described
with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 10th dow of Tune 1904
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant..