Hand Seed Sowing Apparatus for Sowing Small Seeds.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Apr., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 10th Jan., 1896-Accepted, 15th Feb., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Hand Seed Sowing Apparatus for Sowing Small Seeds.
GEORGE QUADLING High Street Dereham, Ironmonger and Plate Worker do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The apparatus is made of tinned plate or sheet metal. It is worked by a lever,.
with thumb piece, which opens and shuts two slides. These slides are provided
with holes through which the seed is discharged. When not in use these holes are
closed and are only brought into action by the pressing down of the lever which is
kept raised by means of a spring. The holes are so placed in the slides that
while one is open the other is shut & thus only a certain quantity of seed can pass.
at a time.
Dated this 19th day of April 1895
I, GEORGE QUADLING of High Street, East Dereham, in the County of
Norfolk, Ironmonger, 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:-
This invention relates to apparatus for sowing seeds and consists in a small and
convenient form of seed sower which can be used by hand, and by means of which
an equal and determined quantity of seed can be deposited in each of the holes.
made. It is simple in construction, and consequently very unlikely to get out of
order.
For the purpose of assisting any person to understand my apparatus, I append a
sheet of drawings in which :-
Fig. 1 is a plan of a seed sower according to my invention.
Fig. 2 is an elevation (part section) of same shewing the slides in position for
seed to pass into the chamber.
Fig. 3 is an elevation (part section) of same shewing the slides in position for
the seed to drop from the chamber into the hole in the ground.
A tapered tubular receptacle or container A is formed of tin plate or other sheet
metal having a cover a', and at its bottom is partially closed by the annular
plate a. Below this the container A is continued downwards and is bent to form a
hollow spout a which is of a size and shape suitable to be thrust into the ground
for the purpose of forming a hole and guiding the seed thereto. Close below the
annular plate a the tube A is pierced with transverse slits at two places, the one
for the slide B which is placed close under the annular plate a, and the other for
the slide C which is placed at a short distance below the other, thus leaving an
intermediate space D which forms a chamber for the reception of seed. Close
below the lower slide C is a second annular plate a² and between the slides B
and C is arranged an inverted hollow truncated cone E which forms a guide or
funnel for the seed passing through. In the slide B is a hole 6 and in the slide C
n .

page_text: is a similar hole c both being of a size equal to the holes at and a³ in the annular
plates a and a and eccentrically disposed to each other.
A lug rigidly attached to the container A is bored at a for a pin which forms a
pivot for a lever G by means of which the slides B and C are operated. At the
end g the lever is made of a suitable shape for pressing by the fingers, and at its
lower end it has pins gl and g³ by means of which it is conveniently jointed to the
slides B and C respectively. A spring normally retains the lever and slides in
the position shewn in Fig. 3.
In Fig. 2 the receptacle or container is shewn as of a short length which
involves the stooping of the user; but in Fig. 3 it is shewn as broken off and may
be extended to any convenient length it being understood that the upper end of
the lever G must be correspondingly extended so as to bring the part g close to
the hand of the user.
The "hand seed sower" is used as follows:-
C
The slides being in position as shewn in Fig. 3, and the upper part, A having
placed in it the required quantity of seed, and being covered with the cover a',
the upper part is grasped by the hand or hands of the user in such manner as to
bring the part g of the lever in convenient proximity to his fingers. The point a
is thrust into the ground to a suitable depth, and the part g of the lever pressed
by the finger of the operator until the slides occupy the position shewn in Fig. 2,
with the hole in the slide B coinciding with and being open to the hole a', but
the hole in the slide C closed to the hole a³. The seed in the receptacle A is
thus free to drop into the interior of the funnel shaped chamber E either until it
is filled or until the finger of the user is removed from the part g of the lever G.
When this is done the spring 3 pushes the lever out and causes the slides to
assume the position shewn in Fig. 3, in which case the hole b is closed to aª but
the hole c coincides with and is open to the hole as. Consequently no seed can
fall from the receptacle A into the funnel E but that seed which has previously
fallen into the funnel drops out through the holes c and a, and through the
hollow spout a into the ground. The spout is then withdrawn from the ground
and the apparatus is in position for sowing a second seed or seeds.
It will be seen that when one hole is open the other is invariably closed to the
passage of the seed, thus enabling any desired quantity of seed to be delivered.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what. I
claim is:
1. A hand sced sower having slides with holes so disposed that any desired
quantity of seed can be deposited at each operation, substantially as shewn and
described.
2. A hand seed sower consisting essentially of a receptacle or container having
slides which are disposed at the bottom thereof and arranged in such manner that
a chamber is formed between them and that the movement of a lever deposits a
desired quantity of seed, substantially as shewn and described.
3. In a hand seed sower the combination of the receptacle A, the spout a', the
slides B and C with holes b and c, the chamber D formed by the annular plates a
and a² and the lever G having a spring g³, substantially as described and shewn.
4. A hand seed sower constructed and operated substantially in the manner and
for the purpose described and shewn.
Dated this 10th day of January 1896.
WILLIAM J. MUNDEN,
106 Priory Park Road, Kilburn, London, N.W.,
Agent for the Applicant.