IMPROVEMENTS IN DISTRIBUTING MANURES AND IN THE MACHINERY OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED THEREFOR
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Parker, of Stranraer, in the County of Wigton,
North Britain, for the Invention of " IMPROVEMENTS IN DISTRIBUTING MANURES
AND IN THE MACHINERY OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED THEREFOR."
Souled the 10th. T
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Parker at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 28th August 1876.
"
IM-
ROBERT PARKER, of Stranraer, in the County of Wigton, North Britain.
PROVEMENTS IN DISTRIBUTING MANURES AND IN THE MACHINERY OR APPARATUS
EMPLOYED THEREFOR."
This Invention relates to improvements in machinery or apparatus for the
distribution of manures.
The manure to be distributed is contained within a chamber, wherein is (or ale)
one or more vertical or inclined shafts provided with blades. The lower blades are
by preference placed at an acute angle relatively with the shafts or with cach
other, whereby they are caused to direct the manuie towards and to pass it through
openings in the bottom of the box or vessel. The upper blades on the vertical or
inclined shafts conduct or feed the manure to the lower or delivery blades. The
machine whilst being drawn over the ground is caused to rotate the vertical or
inclined shafts with the blades by means of bevil, spur, or equivalent mechanism
provided for that purpose, and which is capable of being thrown into and out of
gear when required. The holes or openings in the bottom of the box or vessel, and
through which the manure passes outwards, may either be made oblong, circular,
elliptical, rectangular, or of any other suitable figure.
Ünder a modification of the Invention instead of employing only inclined or
vertical shafts with blades for the purposes set forth a combination of inclined or
vertical shafts with a horizontal shaft or shafts may be used, in which case the
lower or delivery blades are situate on the said horizontal shaft or shafts, the upper
01 feeding blades being placed on the vertical or inclined shafts. With this
arrangement any desired number of delivery blades may be placed on the hori-
zontal shaft or shafts, and these may each be caused to pass manure through a
seperate hole or opening in the box; or two or more blades may deliver through
the saine hole or opening.

page_text: Under another modification the feeding blades are situated on a horizontal shaft
or shafts, the delivery blades being arranged on the shafts placed vertically or at
an angle.
In conjunction with either arrangement of the improved machine or shaft
rotating at a high speed, and on which fan shaped or equivalent blades are placed,
18 or may be situated below the openings in the box or vessel, so that as the
manure issues through the said holes or openings it is by the action of the fan-
shaped blades scattered broadcast over the surface of the field Such quickly
rotating shaft may be capable of being removed from the machine or otherwise
rendered inoperative when it is not desired to distribute the manure broadcast,
and in addition a shaft with further blades for scattering the manure broadcast may
be used.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Robert Parker in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 28th February
1877.
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ROBERT PARKER, of Stranraer, in the County of Wigton, North Britain IM-
PROVEMENTS IN DISTRIBUTING MANURES AND IN THE MACHINERY OR APPARATUS
EMPLOYED THEREFOR."
My said Invention relates to improvements in machinery or apparatus for
distributing manures
And in order that my said Invention may be properly understood I now procced
more particularly to set forth the system, inode, or inanner, in or under which the
same is or may be used or practically carried into effect, reference being had to the
annexed Sheet of Diawings, and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that
is to say:
On the Sheet of Drawings hereunto appended Figure 1 is a side elevation;
Figure 2, a plan, and Figure 3, an end elevation, partly in section, of the improved
machine constructed to distribute manures in accordance with my said Invention
As shewn by the Drawings the machine consists of a framing A mounted upon
a pair of carrying wheels B, or it may be mounted upon four such wheels, in which
case the forward pair arc or may be attached to a bogie frame to facilitate the
turning of the machine. On the rearward end of the framing A a box or recep-
tacle C, to contain the manures which are to be distributed, is situated, and, as
seen at Figure 3, the interior of the said box or receptacle is divided into compart-
ments, in each of which a vertical shaft D is placed. These shafts are cach
furnished with blades a and b, the upper series a being for the purpose of feeding
the manure towards the lower parts of the compartiments, whilst the lower blades b
deliver the manure through holes or openings E in the bottoms of each compart-
ment of the box or receptacle C. The lower serios of blades b are by preference
placed at an acute angle relatively with the shafts D and with each other, and
they are or may also have a twist or curve after the manner of a sciow propeller
upon them in the duection of their lengths, whereby they are caused the better to
direct the manure through the holes E, which holes may be made oblong, circular,
elliptical, rectangular, or of any other suitable figure. Whilst the machine is being
drawn over the ground the vertical or inclined shafts D, with the blades, are
rotated at the desired speed by means of a train of wheels, consisting of spur
wheel c fixed upon the axle of the carrying wheels B, and geared with a corre-
sponding pinion d carried on the extremity of a lover F, which is centred loosely
upon a pin or stud e fixed in the side of the frame A, as seen at Figure 1. The
spur pinion & gears with a pinion f, also carried upon the stud e, the said pinion in
d
its turn being geared with a spur wheel G secured upon a pin or stud fixed in the
end of the box or receptable C. A pinion g is also formed or fixed upon the axis

page_text: of the wheel G, and with it is geared a wheel h, from which rotary motion is
transmitted to the shafts D, and blades thereon, through the spur pinion h, hori-
zontal shaft i, and mitre gearing k, Figures 2 and 3 The shafts D are capable of
being thrown into and out of gear with the spur wheel c by so operating the
lever as to slide the pinion d into and out of gear with the teeth of the said
wheel, thereby rotating or stopping the wheels and pinions intermediate between
the wheel c and the shafts D
In lieu of this arrangement for rotating the shafts D, and the feeding and
delivering blades thereon, any other equivalent arrangement of gear which will
drive the said shaft and blades at the requisite speed relatively with the carrying
wheels B may be substituted; and further, instead of placing the shafts D
vertically, as seen upon the Drawings, they may be situated in an inclined position
within the chambers of the manure box or receptacle C.
Under a modification of my said Invention instead of employing vertical or
inclined shafts only, as and for the purpose herein-before set forth, a combination
of vertical or inclined shafts with a horizontal shaft or shafts may be used, in which
case the lower or delivery blades are situate on the said horizontal shaft or shafts,
the upper or feeding blades being placed on the vertical or inclined shafts. With
this arrangement any desired number of delivering blades may be placed on the
horizontal shaft or shafts, and these may cach be caused to pass manure through
a separate hole or opening in the box; or two or more blades may deliver through
the same hole or opening.
Figure 4 of tho Drawings is a vertical section of the manure box or receptacle,
with the arrangement last mentioned of the feeding and delivery blades shown
applied therein, the horizontal shaft on which the delivery blades are situated being
driven at the requisite speed from the shaft I by the spur gearing M, or it may be
driven from a spur wheel placed upon the axle of the carrying wheels B at either
side of the machine.
Under another arrangement the delivery blades are fixed on shafts placed
vertically or at an angle, whilst the feeding blades are situate upon a horizontal
shaft or shafts.
In conjunction with the several arrangements herein-before specified of the
improved machine a shaft N, rotating at a relatively high speed, is situated below
the openings E in the manure box or receptacle C; and on the said shaft a series
of fan-shaped or equivalent blades O are placed, as shewn by the several Figures
on the appended Drawings. By the blades O the manure as it issues from the
shoots X below the holes or openings E is scattered broadcast over the surface of
the field. The shaft N is rotated so as to effect this broadcast distribution of the
manure by a spur wheel secured upon the axle of the carrying wheels B, and
whose teeth are preferably made upon the inside of the periphery or rim. A
pinion m carried upon one extremity of a short shaft v gears with the wheel L,
whilst a spur wheel p secured upon the opposite extremity of the said shaft v gears
with a pinion g fixed upon the shaft N. The apparatus for scattering the manure
broadcast besides being used with the several arrangements of distributing
mechanism horein-before described may with equal facility be applied for the said
purpose to manure distributing machines generally, and it is especially applicable
to the machine described in the Specification filed in pursuance of Letters Patent
granted to me bearing date 10th April 1875, and numbered 1300, in which machine
the feeding and delivery blades are both arranged on horizontal shafts.
The fan shaft N when it is not desired to sow the manure broadcast is removed
from the brackets 1, wherein it is supported on the machine, or otherwise it may
be rendered inoperative by disengaging the spur wheels and pinions l, m, or p, q,
respectively
Lids or covers & are provided for the holos or openings in the bottom of each
compartment of the manure box or receptacle, these being operated when it is
desired to close or open the said holes by the hand wheel and screw t and bar w, or
by equivalent means.

page_text: Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and the system, mode, or manner, in or under which the same is or may be used
or practically carried into effect, I would observe in conclusion that what I consider
to be novel and original and therefore claim as the Invention secured to me by the
herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is,—
First. The improved manure distributing machine herein-before described,
wherein two series of blades, arranged and constructed as set forth, and situated
upon vertical or inclined shafts, or one series upon vertical or inclined shafts, and
the other series upon a horizontal shaft or shafts, are employed to feed and dis-
tribute the manure through holes or openings made in the lower part of the box or
receptacle containing it; and also wherein a rotating shaft provided with blades
or fans is used to scatter the manure broadcast over the field, substantially as
herein-before described with reference to Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4, of the appended
Drawings.
Second. The employment of the rotating shaft with the blades or fans O for
scattering the manure broadcast in conjunction with manure distributing machines
generally, and with the machine described in the Specification filed in pursuance
of Letters Patent granted to me bearing date 10th April 1875, and No. 1300.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Parker, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of February, One thousand eight hundred
and seventy-seven,