IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR SPREADING OR DISTRIBUTING MANURE
Year: 1879

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Carl Kesseler at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 18th October 1879. A communication
from Carl Jaeschke, Neisse-Neuland, Prussia, Empire of Germany.
CARL KESSELER, of 63, Mohrenstrasse, Berlin, W., in the Empire of Germany,
Civil Engineer and Patent Solicitor. "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR SPREADING
OR DISTRIBUTING MANURE." A communication from Carl Jaeschke, Neisse-
Neuland, Prussia, Empire of Germany.
This machine is designed for spreading or distributing all kinds of artificial
manure, and by the apparatus all the defects inherent to those hitherto in use
are eliminated.
I consists of a distributor having at its bottom a hinged trap, the closer or
more distant position of which will determine the quantity distributed over a
given space of soil. The hinged trap can be accurately set by means of four
regulator devices, for which purpose each is provided with an upper setting-
stirrup.
The correct setting is determined by means of a marking link working on a
segment guide. In refilling the trap can be altogether closed; in working, the
lever of the hinged trap is pushed up to the marking link and there fixed by a
thumb-screw, by which means the uniform distribution is again obtained.
In the distributor all rotatory motion is avoided, and only a double longitudinal
(sliding) movement takes place. The box contains two rakes, the upper rake with
iron points is a stirring rake which will cause the manure to fall evenly. The
distributing rake is made with thin plates of steel, and will cause the manure to be
evenly spread from the distributor box. Both rakes receive motion from the
supporting or road wheels of the machine by means of bevil gearing, one bevil wheel
being fitted on the hub of the said wheel which gears with a bevil wheel carrying
a crank for reciprocating the distributing rake. The proportion of these wheels is
fully 1 to 3, and the rake movement is about 2 inches.
The opposite road wheel carries and drives the gearing for the stirring rake, and
has a transmission proportion of about 1 to 2. This.stirring rake receives motion
from an eccentric cast on the lower bevil wheel, and has a stroke of 2
therefore the rake motion is 2½ inches, but I will not be restricted to these
proportions or dimensions. This stirring rake has in the case of some manures that
inches,

page_text: will settle more closely to overcome a greater resistance, and therefore machines as
hitherto built with a simple crank-pin in the lower bevil wheel for the same purpose
have proved ineffective through wearing out too soon. By the eccentric which it is
now proposed to use a longer leverage is given to the wheel, and hereby and by the
eccentric stirrup the working is rendered very quiet and certain, and the machine
is vastly improved.
On each side of the machine the bevil gearing may be thrown out of gear for
transport, whereby the rake motion is of course stopped. The two upper sliding
plates are appropriately cut out to allow the lever to be fixed in its position. To
prevent the loss of light manures by wind the machine is provided with a cover of
American leather, which is hung up by irons or hooks on both ends and in the
middle.