A New or Improved Cultivator or the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: A New or Improved Cultivator or the like.
I, JOHAN BALAWAIDER of Przemysl, Galicia, in the Empire of Austria, Landlord
and Farrier, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
The object of the following Invention is to construct cultivators in an improved
manner so that the bolts or shares may be collectively and simultaneously adjusted
to the required depth and to adapt such cultivators or the like to transport.
The machine consists of an elliptical bow or arched shaped frame of T iron,
upon the upper
surface of which a pole or beam, and to the forward end, a splinter
bar, are swingingly suspended to the joints or hinges. The bolts or shares are
exchangeably fastened to the frames by means of screws, the shorter ones to the
further or back end and the longer ones to the front end of the frames.
The pole or shaft, consisting of an iron tube, is rivetted to the further end of the
frame, whilst it is connected with the front end of the frame by means of a ring,
furthermore, the said pole or shaft is stiffened or supported by suitable stays.
The frame is connected with the spindle of the wheels in the following manner.
The frame is provided with manacles on each side, secured by rivets, in which
a screw bolt is revolvably situated. The said screw bolt is made with a joint on
its upper end, above the frame, over which two plates, secured to the frame grip,
in such a manner, that the bolt cannot be pushed in a vertical position.
The bolts engage with the eyes or slots formed with screw threads on the end of
the axle, and are fitted with a hand wheel at their upper end.
Presuming now the screw bolts to be turned in either direction the axle is trans-
posed to the bolts, or screwed on to the latter upwards, and the frame, with the
bolts or shares, will be placed deeper or higher over the ground.
The advantages of the improved cultivator are as follows:-
The possibility of so simultaneously transposing the bolts or shares, that they
dig into the ground as far as desired, also that the machine requires no fore
carriage.
The improved cultivator can, in the most simple manner, be applied to street
transport, it only being necessary to turn it about 180° round its longitudinal
spindle, so that the bolts or shares become stationary upwards.
D1 01 1907

page_text: the following statement:
The present invention concerns a cultivator or weeder for tilling the hardest
lands as well as the softest, this labour requiring only two horses, and the imple-
ment bearing an arrangement for regulating the depth desired to be attained.
The annexed drawing gives as an example, a form of construction of the present
invention.
Fig. 1 shows a view in elevation of the implement.
Fig. 2 is a plan view of same.
Fig. 3 gives a plan view of part of the frame, showing the elevating screw of the
said frame.
Fig. 4 is a view in elevation of the same part.
The implement is composed essentially of a strong frame A, in T-iron, made in
an oval shape as shown by Fig. 2 in such a way that the large axis of the oval is
perpendicular to the working direction of the implement.
On the vertical web of the two T-irons forming the frame, T-irons HH are
bolted or rivetted, to each of which a coulter is firmly fixed, forming the working
part of the implement.
As will be seen in Figs. 1 & 2 there are 9 coulters and they are fixed under the
frame A in such a way that each of the coulters E fixed to the fore-part of the
frame, is in a centre-line with the distance existing between two of the coulters E'
which are fixed to the hind part. The result of this arrangement is that nine
furrows are opened at a time.
A cross-bar B fixed according to the small axis of the frame serves to strengthen
the system; along the axis of this cross-bar the pole T is fixed to the frame by means
of the rods FF. Upon the frame two loop-plates M, M¹ are bolted or rivetted,
to which the two swingle-trees P, 1" are attached by means of pins N, N'.
The two semi-oval parts forming the frame A are connected by means of
plates, D, D at each extremity of the large axis of the oval part; these junction-
plates connecting the 2 semi-ovals by means of bolts or rivets are forged so as to
form two coupling boxes X at their axis (Fig. 4) into which two very strong
screws are screwed each being provided with a head V bearing four small arms
for the working of these screws; these screws are threaded only underneath the
frame, beginning at a shoulder which is forged on them and upon which the
coupling box formed by the connecting plates of frame rests.
The two screws V₁ are screwed into two strengthened parts of the axle C, on the
extremities of which the two wheels of the apparatus are mounted. The strength-
ened parts have, for this purpose, a threaded hole; consequently the axle serves
as a nut to allow the rising and falling of the frame with respect to the said axle
by turning the two screws V and therefore regulates, ad libitum, the depth of the
tillage required.
To take the implement back to the shed it is turned upside down and the wheels
serve as those of ordinary vehicles. The implement has the advantage of requiring
two wheels only and it is guided by the driver of the horses, without having need
of a man behind it to give it its direction.
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:
(1) A weeder or cultivator with two wheels and a pole with two swingle trees
drawn by two horses, distinguished by a strong frame in iron supporting nine coulters
placed in quincunr so as to open furrows at a time, the depth of the furrows
being regulated, ad libitum, by the arrangement of the screws V₁ having their
shoulder upon the coupling-box formed by the connecting plates of the two semi-
oval parts forming the frame, and entering the axle which is strengthened for this

page_text: purpose and which serves as a nut for raising and lowering the frame and conse
quently the coulters, with respect to the axle of the wheels.
(2) A new or improved weeder or cultivator substantially as described and shown.
Dated this 19th day of November 1897.
L. DUVINAGE,
Agent for Applicant.