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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE
J. C. BENTHALL, OF OAKLAND, TEXAS.
IMPROVEMENT IN SEED-PLANTERS.
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 23,071, dated March 1, 1859.To all whom it may concern :
Be it known that I, J. C. BENTIALL, of Oak-
land, in the county of Lavaca and State of
Texas, have invented a new and useful Im-
provement in Seeding - Machines; and I do
hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,
and exact description of the same, reference
being had to the annexed drawings, making a
part of this specification, in which-
Figure 1 is a side sectional view of a seed-
ing-machine constructed according to my in-
vention, x x, Fig. 2, indicating the plan of sec-
tion. Fig. 2 is a plan or top view of same.
Similar letters of reference indicate corre-
sponding parts in the several figures.
This invention consists in a novel way of ar-
ranging the driving or operating parts of the
seed-distributing device, as hereinafter fully
shown and described, whereby the seed-distrib-
uting device may be attached to the leg of the
attendant and operated by the natural move-
ment of the attendant while walking along be-
hind the machine.
To enable those skilled in the art to fully un-
derstand and construe my invention, I will pro-
ceed to describe it.
A represents the beam of the machine, which
may be constructed of either metal or wood.
B is a furrow-share, which is attached to a
standard, C, secured to the beam A, near its
front end, and D D are covering-shares, which
are attached to standards E E, the upper ends
of which pass through a bar, F, one near each
end. The bar F is secured at its center to the
lower .end of a standard, a, which is secured
in a socket, b, on the beam A. The ends of
the bar F are attached to one end of rods b' b',
the opposite ends of which are secured to the
front part of the beam A. (See Fig. 2.)
On the beam A a seed - box, G, is placed.
This seed-box has a spout, II, attached to its
lower end, said spout extending down just be-
hind the furrow-share B, as shown clearly in
Fig. 1.
I is a slide, which passes longitudinally
through the box G, at its bottom. The slide
I has two holes, c c, made through it at a suit-
able distances apart, and at the center of the
box, directly over the slide I, a cut-off brush, d,is placed. The bottom e of the hopper has a
hole, f, made in it, said hole being directly un-
derneath the cut-off brush d. (See Fig. 1.)
The back end of the slide I has a rod, J, at-
tached to it by a joint, g, and the outer end of
the rod J is attached to a pendant, h, which is
secured to a roklr-shaft, K, which is placed be-
tween the handles L L, said handles being of
the usual form and attached to the back end of
the beam A. The rock-shaft K has a spring, i,
attached to it. This spring may be attached
at one end to one of the handles L, and coiled
around one end of the rock-shaft and attached
to the same, the spring having a tendency to
keep the slide I thrown forward at the end of
its forward movement.
To the pendant h a pendent rod, M, is at-
tached, said rod extending down a suitable
distance and connected, when the machine is
in operation, by a strap to the attendant's knee,
as shown in red, Fig. 1.
The operation is as follows: The box G is
supplied with corn or other seed to be planted,
and the machine is drawn along in the usual
manner, the lower end of the rod M being
attached to the attendant's knee or leg. The
attendant grasps the handles L L, as usual,
and the natural movement of the leg of the
attendant in walking, in connection with the
spring i, will communicate a reciprocating
motion to the slide I, the leg that is attached
to the pendant M drawing back the slide I as
said leg straightens, and the other one, with
the machine, moves forward, and the spring i,
throwing the slide forward as said leg (the
one to which the slide is attached) advances.
The seed is distributed in precisely the same
way as in the generality of cases where recip-
rocating seed -slides are used, the holes c c
filling with seed when within the box, and
discharging their contents when brought by
the movement of the slide underneath the cut-
off brush d and in register with the hole f in
the bottom e.
By this invention the seed-slide I is operated
with certainty, and without any trouble or at-
tention on the part of the attendant.
I do not claim as new any part pertaining
to the seed dropping or distributing mechan-
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Benthall, J. C. Improvement in Seed-Planters., patent, March 1, 1859; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth165068/m1/2/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.