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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
WILLIAM C. WITT, OF ALVIN, TEXAS.
DITCH-FILLING MACHINE.Specification of Letters Patent.
Patented Aug. 9, 1921.
Application. filed October 14, 1919. Serial No. 330,647.
To allwhom it may concern:
Be-it known that I, WILLIAM C. Wirr, a
citizen of the United States, residing at
Alvin, in the county of Brazoria and State
5 of Texas, have invented certain new and use-
ful Improvements in Ditch - Filling Ma-
chines, of which the following is a specifi-
cation.
This invention relates to new and useful
10 improvements in ditch filling machines.
One object of the invention is to provide
a machine of the character described, which
has been especially designed for the pur-
pose of filling ditches, which have been ex-
15 cavated in the process of laying pipe lines
or other under ground conduits. In laying
pipe lines or other under ground pipe, a
ditch is first excavated and loose earth is
thrown up along the side of the ditch and
20 when the pipe is laid in the ditch the loose
earth is then thrown back into the ditch to
cover the pipe and to fill the ditch. This is
quite a laborious process and the machine
herein described has been designed for the
25 purpose of filling said ditch with said loose
earth when the pipe has been laid.
Another object of the invention is to pro-
vide a machine which is of simple construe-
tion, which may be easily operated and which
30 may be cheaply and easily manufactured.
With the above and other objects in view
the invention has particular relation to cer-
tain novel features of construction, opera-
tion and arrangement of parts an example
35 of which is given in this specification and
illustrated in the accompanying drawings,
wherein:-
Figure 1 is a front elevation of the ma-
chine.
40 Fig. 2, is a plan view thereof, and
Fig. 3, is in enlarged side view.
Referring now more particularly to the
drawings, wherein like numerals of reference
designate similar parts in each of the fig-
45 ures, the numeral 1 refers to the land slide,
which is formed of angle iron, one wing of
which projects down into the ditch 2 and
the other wing of which lies flat upon the
ground surface adjacent said ditch, as shown
50 in Fig. 1. Spaced from said land slide there
is a long mold board 3 which is arcuate in
cross section. This mold board converges
rearwardly toward the ditch and terminates
a distance behind the rear end of the land
55 slide, and its lower edge is formed into a
scraper blade 4. The mold board is heldin fixed relation to the land slide by means
of the arcuate braces 5, 6, 7, and 8 to whose
respective ends the land slide and mold
board, respectively. are secured. 60
A t the front and rear ends of the mold
board there are the supporting rollers 9 and
10, which are adjustable relative to the mold
board and which hold it at the desired ele-
vation above the ground surface. The roller 65
9 is rotatably mounted in the frame 11,
which is pivoted on the extended end of the
brace 8 and this frame has the manual lever
12, which is rigid therewith and through
which the roller 9, is held at any point of 70
adjustment by means of the rack and dog
arrangement 13. The roller 10 is mounted
in a frame 14, which has the upwardly ex-
tending shank 15 adjustably mounted in the
side bearings 16 carried by the outer side of 75
the mold board 3.
In operation, the machine is positioned as
shown in Fig. 1, so that the downwardly ex.
tending wing of the land slide will extend
down into the ditch and rest against its side. 80
The machine is then pulled along either by
teams or by a motor and the scraper blade
and mold board will engage against the
loose earth at the side 'of the ditch and
gradually force the same toward the ditch 85
and the loose earth will be forced in to said
ditch in the rear of the land slide, thus
filling the ditch and disposing of the loose
earth excavated.
The numeral 17 refers to a water tank, 90
which is mounted on the machine and from
which the pipe 18 leads forwardly. This
pipe is connected to a transverse water pipe
19, one end of which is downwardly turned
and discharges water against the side of 95
ditch in front of the land slide, the flow of
water being controlled by means of the valve
20. The other end of the pipe 19, is turned
rearwardly and extended along the mold
board, said extended end being indicated 100
by the numeral 21. This extended. pipe is
perforated and discharges water along the
mold board, thus keeping said mold board
and the scraper blade 4 flushed with water,
so as to prevent the earth from adhering 105
thereto, the flow of this water being con-
trolled by the valve 22.
The front and rear ends of the land slide
have small casters as 23, which are provided
for the purpose of transporting the machine 110
from one place to another. These casters
may be permanently fixed in place or they1,386,829.
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Witt, William C. Ditch-Filling Machine, patent, August 9, 1921; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1259180/m1/2/: accessed May 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.