Apparatus, to be attached to Seeding Drills, for Pulverizing Manure and Mingling and Dis- tributing the same with Grain or Seed to be Sown.
Year: 1853

page_text: Apparatus, to be attached to Seeding Drills, for
Pulverizing Manure and Mingling and Dis-
tributing the same with Grain or Seed to
be Sown.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Charles Frederick Stans-
bury at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 23rd November 1853.-A communication.
1, CHARLES FREDERICK STANSBURY, of the firm of Nourse & Co.,
American and General Patent Agents, of 17, Cornhill, London, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN APPARATUS TO BE
ATTACHED TO A DRILL FOR SOWING GRAIN OR OTHER SEEDS, FOR THE PURPOSE
OF MINGLING GUANO OR OTHER PULVERIZED MANURE WITH THE GRAIN OR
SEED TO BE SOWN, AND DEPOSITING IT IN THE GROUND AT THE SAME
TIME WITH THE SEED, THEREBY GREATLY DIMINISHING THE QUANTITY OF
GUANO OR OTHER MANURE REQUIRED TO PRODUCE THE BEST FERTILIZING
EPPECTS," (being a communication from Thomas Frederick Nelson,
of Clarke County, Virginia, in the United States of America,) to be
as follows:-
This apparatus constitutes an attachment to be added to any form of
seeding drill that may be preferred. It is fastened on the back part of

page_text: the drill by means of bolts or other suitable means. It consists of a
box about four inches wide at bottom and eight inches wide at top, and
of a proper height to contain the apparatus about to be described. This
box is as long as the width of the drill to which it is attached. In its
upper part is placed a cylinder having upon it curved teeth which
operate in connexion with teeth of opposite curvature placed two
concaves. The teeth are so arranged that they come near each other
and tear and divide any substancec that may be subjected to their
action. Below the cylinder and concaves thus described is placed a
seive, to which a vibratory motion is imparted by any suitable attach-
ment to the moving parts.
Below the sieve is a chamber in which revolves another cylinder,
which, by the peculiar arrangement of its teeth, distributes any substance
that may be placed in the chamber equally to the apertures in its
bottom, which are kept clear by a perforated vibrating bar.
These apertures lead to tubes which pass down into the trough which
receives the grain previous to its passing through the seeding tube or
teeth into the ground. The upper openings of the seeding tubes are
kept from becoming obstructed by a vibrating bar, having curved wire
teeth, which move over the openings and clear away any substances that
might tend to prevent the free action of the machine.
The machine operates as follows:-The guano to be sown is fed into
the upper hopper or chamber, where it becomes minutely divided by the
action of the cylinder and concaves. It then passes through the sieve
into the second or lower chamber, whence it is evenly distributed through
the tubes before described to the trough which receives the grain on its
descent to the seeding teeth of the drill. Here it becomes mingled with
the grain or other seed to be sown, and passes with it through the
seeding teeth to the earth.
It is found by experiment that one fourth of the quantity of guano
usually employed will, by this method of sowing, produce fertilizing
effects equal to the best results obtained by the old method.
Having thus described my Invention, what I claim therein as new.is,
1st, the grinding apparatus for reducing the guano to a. fine powder
constructed substantially as above described. 2nd, the distributing

page_text: apparatus constructed substantially as herein described. And finally,
I claim the plan, substantially as described herein, of sowing grain and
guano (or other pulverized manure) together, through the same seeding
tooth, thereby producing the best fertilizing effects with one fourth of
the quantity of guano usually employed.