Improvements in or connected with Drills for Distributing Manure and like Substances.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd July, 1898
Complete Specification Left. 22nd Apr.. 1899-Accepted, 10th June, 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Drills for Distributing Manure
and like Substances.
I, HENRY LIVERSIDGE, Junior, of The Elms, in the City and County of York,
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention. to be as follows:-
My invention refers to drills for distributing manure and like substances, and
my object is to construct the said drills in a more simple manner than heretofore;
whilst at the same time the manure or other substance, is distributed in an even
and regular manner, the amount of feed being speedily regulated as desired,
according to the nature of the land or the material being fed.
According to my invention, I employ a hopper having an adjustment board
and a roller delivery at the base, and the roller feed is actuated either continuously
or intermittently by an adjustable throw ratchet gearing, actuated from a main
shaft. Below the hopper a shute is attached, for the purpose of directing the
discharge in a downward direction, and at the mouth of the shute two rotary
distributors are employed, which are composed of discs carrying beaters which
overlap with each other, the gearing from the main shaft for driving the distributors
being set so that the beaters time in without coming into contact with each other.
The drill may be constructed with ordinary wheels, and the working parts would
then be actuated from the axle or from one of the wheels; or the drill could be
made on a separate frame suitable for attachment to the back of an ordinary cart,
in which case the main shaft would be driven through the medium of a chain,
from a spur wheel temporarily attached to one of the wheels of the cart.
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BREWER & SON,
London and Leeds,
Agents for the Applicant.
UUMIDELE DITITIVATION.
Improvements in or connected with Drills for Distributing Manure
and like Substances.
I, HENRY LIVERSIDGE, Junior, of The Elms, in the City and County of York,
Merchant, 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:-
My invention refers to drills for distributing manure and like substances, and
my object is to construct the said drills in a more simple manner than heretofore;
whilst at the same time the manure or other substance, is distributed in an even

page_text: and regular manner, the quantity of feed being speedily regulated as desired,
according to the nature of the land or the material being fed.
In order that my invention may be clearly understood I will proceed to describe
the same, with reference to the accompanying drawing in which similar letters
refer to like parts in both figures.
Figure 1 is an end elevation of a drill constructed according to my invention
and Figure 2 is a side elevation of the same apparatus.
I have illustrated the drill as constructed in a separate apparatus suitable for
attachment to the back of a cart, the power required for driving the drill being
communicated from a toothed wheel carried on one of the wheels of the cart
through a chain gearing with a pinion A on the main shaft B of the drill. C is
a hopper having an adjustment board D, and a delivery roller E at its base, and
the roller is fed step by step by means of a crank pin F which through a connect-
ing link G transmits a short movement to a bell crank lever H carrying a pawl J
on its outer end. The pawl J rests on a ratchet wheel K carried on a shaft L
which also carries the roller E, so that the movements of the pawl J are imparted
to the roller E and cause the material to be fed from the hopper C into a spout M
at the required speed. The crank pin F is carried on a bevel pinion F which
has its bearing in a bracket F2, and the bevel pinion F1 gears with a bevel wheel N
carried on the main shaft B of the machine. N¹ is another bevel wheel also
carried on the shaft B, and these bevel wheels N and N¹ transmit motion to two
spindles P, carried in a bearing on the sides of the spout M through beveled
spur pinions R, R. S, S¹ are discs carried on the lower ends of the spindles P, P",
and the upper surfaces of the said discs are provided with beaters T, T, which
are set so that the beaters time in with each other, the beaters on one disc passing
opposite to the spaces between the beaters on the other disc.
The manure or other substance to be distributed, is fed into the hopper C, from
whence it passes at a speed dependent on the adjustment of the board D and the
speed of rotation of the roller E, to the spout M. The falling substance then
falls direct onto the discs S, S¹ and beaters T, T₁, which break up any caked
particles and distribute the material in a finely divided state in an uniform manner
over the ground.
Although I have described the apparatus as being attached to an ordinary
cart, it could if desired be mounted on an independent pair of wheels, in which
case the cart would be dispensed with.
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. In apparatus for distributing manure and like substances, the discs S, S¹,
and the beaters T, T', substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
2. In apparatus for distributing manure and like substances, the combination
of the main shaft B, spur wheels N, N1, pinions R, R¹, spindles P, P¹, discs S, S¹,
and heaters T, Ti, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
3. In apparatus for distributing manure and like substances, the combination
of the adjustment board D), roller E, ratchet wheel K, pawl J, the latter being
actuated from the main shaft B through a bell crank lever H, link G,, crank pin F',
pinion F and bevel wheel N, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
Dated this 21st day of April 1899.
BREWER & SON,
London and Leeds,
Agents for the Applicant.