IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR SOWING SEED AND MANURE
Year: 1884

page_text: DAVID JONES Warborne Lymington Hants Landowner and Farmer I do hereby
declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR SOWING
SEED AND MANURE to be as follows:-
To sow equidistant, seeds and manure, at the same time, both longitudinally and
transversely, whereby not only a great saving in seed and manure is effected,
but also the young plants can be hoed by machinery both longitudinally and
transversely.
In a machine constructed according to my invention a toothed wheel is fixed to
the shaft of the cylinders, which cylinders form the rollers of the machine. On the
said shaft an arm swings carrying on two separate studs two other toothed wheels.
gearing together one of which toothed wheels gears also with the aforesaid toothed
wheel on the shaft of the cylinders, by moving the said arm on its fulcrum the
other toothed wheel which it carries can be thrown in or out of gear with a similar
toothed wheel on another shaft which shaft has fixed to it the keys, or otherwise,
circular cases to receive the seed and manure separately. On the periphery of the
seed cases two or more keys (somewhat similar to the keys on a flute) are attached
which as the cases are made to rotate come in contract with adjustable catches,
which catch pressing on the key, causes it to open and allow either or both seed
and manure to fall into a metal cone conducting the seed to the coulter, which has
previously opened a furrow in the soil for it.
Two small wheels are adjustably fixed to the front part of the frame of the
machine to keep the correct longitudinal distance the one wheel travelling back in
the impress left by the other.

page_text: DAVID JONES Warborne Lymington Hants Landowner & Farmer I do hereby
declare the nature of my invention for SoWING SEEDS AND MANURE and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement:—
In a machine constructed according to my invention a cog wheel is fixed on a
shaft between two or more cylinders which cylinders form the rollers of the
machine, from this cog wheel by chain to another cog wheel on another shaft, on
this shaft are two or more circular seed and manure cases with virtical division
inside one part for seed and the other, for concentrated manure On the periphery
of the seed and manure cases are two or more keys attached which as the cases are
made to rotate (by the rollers) come in contract with adjustable catches which
catches pressing on the keys causes them. to open & allow either or both seed and
manure to fall direct into the coulter which has previously opened a furrow in the
land for it. Two small wheels are adjustably fixed on the front part of the frame
of the machine to keep the correct longitudinal distance the one wheel travelling
back in the impress of the other The seed and manure cases are four inches from
the ground There is a slide between the keys and the seed cases to regulate the
quantity of seed and manure, to be sown.
The novelty of tlie machine being
1st The keys, which have great power.
2 The revolving seed and manure cases, with keys.
3d A small pointed' brush attached to the key, to stir up the manure inside the
case, as the keys open and shut,,should-the-manure-become-clogged
4th With this machine seed, with or without manure, can be sown at any given
distance both longitudinally and transversely with a great saving of seed &
manure.
Dated this twenty ninth day of January 1885.