AN IMPROVED POTATO SETTING MACHINE
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Carl Meinecke, Engineer, and Albert Riessler, Manu-
facturer, both of the City of Zerbst, in the Duchy of Anhalt, German Empire,
for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED POTATO SETTING MACHINE."
Sealed the 6th May 1879, and dated the 8th November 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Carl Meinecke and Albert
Riessler at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 8th November
1878.
CARI. MEINECKE, Engineer, and ALBERT RIESSLER, Manufacturer, both of the
City of Zerbst, in the Duchy of Anhalt, German Empire. "AN IMPROVED POTATO
SETTING MACHINE."
The improved machine consists of a holder for carrying the potatoes to be set
or planted combined with an endless rack furnished with arms holding double cups
passing through the holder as the machine travels, said rack being driven by a
band off the axle of the wheel, together with a curved depositing tube furnished
with a slit, through and by which the arms are passed and the cups directed in the
tube. The cups are double, one placed inverted below the other. As the cups are
passed through the holder they each pick up a potato, which, when about to turn
over the summit pinion on which the endless rack is mounted, is projected into the
inverted cup next below, and so ready for depositing in the furrow or hole previously
made by a digger or hoe attached to the machine, and actuated by its progressive
movement. The parts may be of metal, or of metal and wood combined.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Carl Meinecke and Albert Riessler in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 6th May 1879.
CARL MEINECKE, Engineer, and ALBERT RIESSLER, Manufacturer, both of the
City of Zerbst, in the Duchy of Anhalt, German Empire. "AN IMPROVED POTATO
SETTING MACHINE."
The Invention relates to mashing
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consists chiefly in constructing a vertical or slightly inclined depositing tube placed
before, at the side, or after the potato holder, which, latter is attached to a frame
mounted on a wheel or wheels, together with an endless band or chain furnished
with arms holding double cups passing from the bottom, through the holder, as the
machine travels, thereby taking up potatoes, and carrying them through the said
depositing tube to the soil. The apparatus may also be provided with a share or
tool for digging furrows. The accompanying Drawings, Sheet 1 and 2, show two
examples of the improved potato planting machine, Fig. 1 being a longitudinal
section, Fig. 2 a plan, and Fig. 3 a back view of a machine with one wheel to be
worked by hand, while Sheet 2 shows a longitudinal section of a machine to be
worked by horses. A is the potato-holder; B, the depositing tube placed, in this
instance, before the holder, bent backwards at the top, and enlarged like a funnel.
It is provided with a slot a, through which the arms b for the cups & pass, these
arms being attached to an endless band of passing over the two rollers g, and set in
motion from the axle D of the wheel by a strap or other suitable means.
cups d are made double for a reason afterwards to be explained, and alternating
with the pins h. In the bottom of the potato-holder A is an opening provided
with projections i, which prevent any potatoes from falling through said opening,
and the cups are provided with corresponding recesses, shown in Fig. 2, which
allow the cups to pass through the opening into the potato-holder. The cups
ascend in the direction of the arrow, Fig. 1, through the holder, each taking
up a potato o, and carrying it into the funnel of the depositing tube B, which
is partly closed by the entering cup. When the cup passes over its highest
position and begins to descend inside the depositing tube the potato falls on the
back of the preceding cup, as shown by Fig. 1, and leaves the cup only after its
arın has nearly reached its vertical position. F is the share or furrowing tool
turning on the axle D, and capable of being lifted; O is a lever for disengaging
the pulley m, which drives the upper roller g. In the two-wheeled machine illus-
trated on Sheet 2 the elevator is driven by tooth wheels, the whole mechanism
being mounted on a frame E, which may be moved to and fro by means of the
lever Land a connecting rod in order to bring the tooth wheels in or out of gear.
The furrowing tool F can be lifted by the lever R. N are two boards for closing
the furrows; P is the trace-book. This machine may be constructed with two or
more rows.
CLAIMS.
1. The construction of the double cups & fixed on a band or chain for the purpose
described.
2. The combination of these cups & with the depositing tube B.
3. The combined machine substantially as illustrated, all for the purposes and in
CARL MEINECKE.
(L.S.)
ALBERT RIESSLER. (L.S.)