Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 15th May, 1886.
Complete Left, 8th Feb., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 8th Mar., 1887. .
1, HENRY REEVES of Bratton Iron Works, Westbury in the County of Wilts,
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object a more regular distribution of the manure or
material than is at present attained in manure distributors and manure and seed drills
by preventing the lodgment of the manure in the box.
In manure distributors and drills as at present constructed stirrers are employed
within the manure box to move the manure in the box so that it may feed regularly
to the delivering apparatus.
The most efficient stirrers are those which move about a centre to and fro through
a part of a circle. Such stirrers have been used and moved by an attendant by means
of the hand lever. Hence the movement is not done as often or as regularly as is
desirable, and the manure is not fed down regularly to the delivering apparatus.
Now by my invention this stirrer which runs through the length of the manure box
is moved to and fro a part of a circle by means of a crank, eccentric or cam worked
from the gearing of the drill.
My arrangements are illustrated by the drawings annexed.
In Figure 1A is a gear wheel fixed to the nave of the travelling wheel.
BB are spur gear wheels working from the nave wheel.
CC are a pair of bevil wheels working a crank.
Dis the crank it moves the stirrer.

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F is a connecting rod from crank working the lever G which moves a spindle I on
which are fixed stirrers H which are thus caused to move a part of a circle to and fro.
In Figure 2 A is a gear wheel fixed to the nave of the travelling wheel.
B spur gear driving delivery apparatus B1.
B2 spur pinion fixed on the back of B' and driving B³.
B spur wheel having crank stud rivetted into it which moves a stirrer G.
C crank pin on which connecting rod D works.
D connecting rod attached to lever E.
E lever fixed on spindle F.
F spindle on which are fixed stirrers & which move through a part of a circle to and
fro in the manure box.
This figure shows the application of my invention to an ordinary manure and
seed drill.
Agents for the Applicant.
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page_text: . COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Manure Distributors and Manure and Seed Drills.
1. HENRY REEVES of Bration Iron Works, Westbury, in the County of Wilts,
Engineer, 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 has for its object a more regular distribution of the manure or
material than is at present attained in manure distributors and manure and seed drills
by preventing the lodgment of the manure in the box.
In manure distributors and drills as at present constructed stirrers are employed
within the manure box to move the manure in the box so that it may feed regularly to
the delivering apparatus.
The most efficient stirrers are those which move about a centre to and fro through
a part of a circle. Such stirrers have been used and moved by an attendant by means
of the hand lever. Hence the movement is not done as often or as regularly as is
desirable, and the manure is not fed down regularly to the delivering apparatus.
Now by my invention this stirrer which runs through the length of the manure box
is moved to and fro a part of a circle by means of a crank, eccentric or can worked
from the gearing of the drill.
My arrangements are illustrated by the drawings annexed.
Figure 1 shows an end view of the box of a manure drill known as Chambers' drill.
In Figure 1A is a gear wheel fixed to the nave of the travelling wheel.
B, B, are spur gear wheels working from the nave wheel.
C, C, are a pair of bevil wheels working a crank.
D is the crank it moves the stirrer.
E is the manure box.
F is a connecting rod from crank working the lever G which moves a spindle I on
which are fixed stirrers H which are thus caused to move. a part of a circle to and fro.
In Figure 2 A is a gear wheel fixed to the nave of the travelling wheel.
B' spur gear driving delivery apparatus B*.
B spur pinion fixed on the back of B' and driving B³.
B³
spur wheel having crank stud rivetied into it which moves a stirrer G.
Ccrank pin on which connecting rod D works.
D) connecting rod attached to lever E.

page_text: F spindle on which are fixed stirrers G which move through a part of a circle to and
fro in the manure box.
This figure shows the application of my invention to an ordinary manure and
seed drill.
Figure 3 shows the end of the manure box of a manure distributor. In this Figure
A shows a gear wheel fixed to the travelling wheel and driving wheel B which is fixed
to the spindle of the delivering barrel. D is an eccentric also fixed to the spindle C.
Fis a connecting rod passing from the eccentric D to the lever G which is fixed to a
spindle I which passes through the box. H is the stirrer which is fixed to the
spindle I and is thus caused to move to and fro a part of a circle as before described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
My improvements in manure distributors and manure and seed drills consisting in
combining with them gear by which a stirrer in the manure box is automatically
moved to and fro about a centre substantially as described.