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Patented Oct. 20, 1931

UNITED STATES

PATENT OFFICE

LEWIS AUGUSTUS ASPINWALI, OF I.A. CROSSE, wisCONSIN, AssIGNOR, BY MESNE As

SIGNMENTS, TO OLIVER FARM EQUIPMENT COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF DELA

WARE

POTATO PLANTER

Application filed July 27, 1926, Serial No. 125,235. Renewed October 1, 1928.

Overcome these difficulties, and by the use of

these improvements the pickers and picker

arms as well as the gates controlling the dis

charge of the hopper are connected and dis

connected to and from their operative posi

tions in the planter by lowering and raising

August 27, 1907, as well as in the construc the plow. The gear construction by which

tions shown and described in various other these parts are operated is such that by the

changing of a single gear, the distance be

Letters Patent heretofore granted to me. tween

the potato seeds as laid in the furrow 5 5

() The invention furthermore relates especially may be varied, the axis of the picker shaft is

to that part of the apparatus by which the at the rear of the axis of the drive wheels

pickers and picker arms are driven and the

gates controlling the discharge of the pota thereby bringing the plow substantially with

the radius of the drive wheels to effect a

toes from the hoppers are operated. In the in

more even balance of the planter and to ob 60

patents to which I have referred the pickers tain

a substantially uniform depth in the

and picker arms are actuated from a sleeve furrow

as made by the plow, and because of

associated with the main axle in one instance, the

more even balance of the apparatus as

and from a counter-shaft in the other in

be understood, the weight otherwise car

stance, and in both and in similar cases suit will

ried

by the necks of the horses in drawing the 65

ably

constructed

gears

have

been

employed

20

is largely removed.

for revolving the pickers and picker arms planter

The

construction

by which the advanta

and suitably constructed clutch devices with geous features of my improved

planter

means for throwing the same in and out have are carried out in practice will potato

be

hereinafter

been employed for connecting and discon more particularly described in conjunction

70

25 necting the pickers and picker arms to and With the accompanying drawings in which

from the gears and devices for operating the Figure 1 is an elevation and partial longitu

same. In these and other constructions also, dinal cross section illustrating a planter made

it has heretofore been possible by changing

with this invention.

sets of gear to adjust and regulate the speed in accordance

Fig.

2

is

an

illustrating the gear

at which the pickers and picker arms revolve ing and parts elevation

associated therewith for oper

relatively to the speed at which the planter ating and controlling

of the

travels in order to vary the distance between pickers and picker armstheandmovement

hopper gates.

the potatoes as planted in the furrow made Fig. 3 is a similar view showing

the parts

by the plow of the planter. In these as well in another position.

80

as

other

constructions

the

axis

of

the

pickers

35

Fig. 4 is an enlarged transverse section

and picker arms has been coincident with or illustrating

arrangement of the gears.

in advance of the main axle or the axle upon Fig. 5 is athe

perspective

view of the concave,

which the drive wheels of the planter are and

mounted, and because of this construction Fig. 6 is a side elevation of the crank and

40 the position of the plow is so far advanced

as to lie outside of the radius of the drive lever and associated parts there with for op

wheels and to more or less unbalance the erating the hopper gates.

Referring to the drawings the planter in

planter, making a furrow of more or less which

my present invention is incorporated

irregular depth. In carrying out my inven

includes

the usual conventional parts com 90

tion

the

present

improvements

are

such

as

to

45

My present invention relates to a potato

planter and more particularly to improve

ments in the potato planter constructions as

shown and described in Letters Patent No.

658,562 granted to me September 25, 1900.

and Letters Patent No. 864,595 granted to me

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prising a suitable frame 10 in which there is ciated therewith are normally maintained

under tension which tends to swing these

connected a draft pole 11, a seat post 12, a

plow bar 13 with a plow 14 connected thereto

and a lifting bar 15 for raising and lowering

the plow, the coverer bars 16 in which the

parts in a counter clockwise direction as in

dicated in Figs. 2 and 3 so as to maintain the

pinion 25 in mesh with the drive gear 24

coverers 17 are mounted, the hopper bars 18 by a spring 42 which at one end is connected 70

in which the hoppers 19 are secured, and the to the arm 35 of the sleeve 33 and at the op

concaves

20 which are also suitably mounted posite end to a disk 43 which is mounted on

in the frame.

a pin 44 upon which the plow bar 13 is also

O

In this potato planter the drive wheels are mounted and is adapted to swing. With 75

mounted on stub shafts which are suitably these parts in this position, that is with the

fixed in the frame of the apparatus. For ex pinion 25 in mesh with the drive gear 24 the

ample one drive wheel 21 is mounted on a lower side of the adjusting plate as indi

stub

shaft 22 which is secured by suitable

EY

5 bolts 23 in a recess provided therefor in the cated at 45 rests upon the frame

above that portion in which the adjacent

stub

frame of the planter. The drive wheel is axle is secured. Connected to the adjusting 80

adapted to turn on the stub shaft and is se plate there is a latch 46. As indicated in the

cured thereon by a suitable cap or otherwise. drawings the latch 46 is pivotally connected

Also mounted on the stub shaft 22 and suit to the adjusting plate by a bolt 47 so as to

20 ably connected to the drive wheel 21 there is

swing relatively thereto. The latch 46 is

a drive gear 24. This drive gear 24 meshes fitted with a nose 48 adapted to be received 85

with a pinion 25, the hub of which is con in a recess provided therefor in the frame to

d'. fit over a portion of the hub 26 maintain the adjusting plate and the parts

of an associated pinion 27 which is mounted associated therewith in position during the

on a stub shaft 28. The hub of the pinion operation of the planter. A spring 49 is enr

25 is provided with a non-circular sleeve 29 ployed by being connected at one end to the

adapted to be received in a complementary latch 46 and at the other end to a portion of

socket 30 provided for this purpose in the the

adjusting plate for normally maintain

hub of the pinion 27, these parts acting as a ing the latch in its operative position. Also

30 clutch whereby the pinion 27 is turned by and

secured to the adjusting plate is a strike plate

with the pinion 25. The pinions 25 and 27 are 50 which may be connected thereto by means s

retained on the stud shaft 28 by castellated of rivets 51 or otherwise. The plow bar is

washer 28¡¯ and cotter pin 29'. The pinion 27 provided

with a throw out lever 52. When

meshes with a gear 31 fixed on a picker shaft the plow and plow bar are raised from an op

32. Fitted over this picker shaft 32 there is erative to an inoperative position the upper

a sleeve 33. The sleeve has oppositely dis end of the throw out lever 52 first engages OO

posed

projecting arms 34 and 35. In the arm the inclined end of the latch 46 and unlocks

34 there is a bearing 36 in which the stub the same, swinging it on the bolt 47 against

shaft 28 for the pinions 25 and 27 is fixed so the action of the spring 49 and in the con

that the pinions are adapted to swing with tinued upward movement of the plow bar

the sleeve 33 upon the picker shaft 32. The in raising the plow the end of the throw out 105

sleeve 33 and the picker shaft 32 are jour lever 52 comes in contact with the strike plate

naled in a bearing 37 provided therefor in 50 and thereby swings the adjusting plate and

the frame of the planter.

parts associated there with against the

In this planter I also employ an adjusting the

action

of the spring 42 and thereby moves O

plate 38. The lower portion of this adjust the pinion

25 entirely out of mesh with the

ing plate is forked as indicated at 39 and is drive gear 24 so as render the picker shaft

adapted to fit over and rest upon the sleeve and the parts actuated thereby entirely in

33 between the outer end of the bearing 37 operative.

and the adjacent portion of the arm 34. In On the picker shaft there is a collar 53 to

this adjusting plate 38 there is a slot 40 ar which the picker arms 54 are suitably con 15

ranged concentrically with the axis of the nected. At the extremities of these picker

picker

shaft. Mounted in the arm 34 there arms the same are provided with picker de

is a bolt 41 which passes through the slot vices each including a pair of picker points

40 and with a spacer intervening between the 55 for impaling a potato as the same passes 120

arm 34 and the adjusting plate 38 is adapted through the concaves, and a liberator plate

to secure the arm and sleeve to the adjusting and roller 56 pivotally mounted at the end

plate in any desired position depending as of the picker arm for freeing the potato and

will be understood upon the diameter of the permitting the same to drop through the

pinion 25 which may be employed to deter chute 56 at the rear of the plow so as to he 1925

mine the

of the revoluble pickers and properly conducted to the furrow.

consequently the space at which the potatoes In my improved planter I also employ a

or parts thereof forming the potato seed are novel form of concave which is illustrated in

placed in the furrows. The sleeve 33 and Fig. 5 of the drawings. This concave com

the adjusting plate 38 with the parts asso prises

frames 57 which are suitably connected 30

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