US135896A - Improvement in clod-fenders - Google Patents

Description

. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT L. DIRST, OF SEWARD, ILLINOIS.

'IMPROVEMENT IN CLODFE`NDERS-l Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 135,896, dated February 18, 1873.

shield may be set at any desired angle with the pl0w-beam, so as either to run parallel with lthe same or scrape the earth along to or from the plant, as may be desired, and at the same time fend the plant from the large clods that the plow might turn onto the saine.

Figure l is a perspective View of the de vice attached to a plow. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of one of the fender-bars of the device. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the device by means of which the shield is attached to the plow-beam; and Fig. 4 is a plan view on the top f the shield.

The shield or clod-fender is constructed of metal` or any suitable material in about the form shown in Fig. 1, only it may have any number of fender-bars S desired, instead of two shown.

AThe shoe t terminates at its upper end in an elbow, c, as shown, which att-aches to the elbow `r, which attaches by means of a bolt to the plow-beam B, as shown in Fig. l. The vertical portion of the shoe a is furnished with a slot, rc, extendingfrom Where the shoe touches the earth to the elbow c, which slot receives the forward ends of the fender-bars S S, as shown in said figure. Tle bars S S are held in place by bolts passing through the transverse slots n through the shoe a, as shown.

It will be perceived that inasmuch as the fender-bals S rest upon the shoe a at the angles or offsets o, that by raising up the forward ends of the said bars in the slot rc, by means of loosening the bolts in the slot u passing through the same, the rear ends of the A said bars may be elevated or depressed at will, so they may be set at any distance apart from each other, so they will appearto radiate from a common center like the spokes in a wheel, or may be arranged parallel with each other at any distance apart, by means of which any desired amount of earth may be allowed to fall between them next to the plant. Fig. 4-

shows more particularly the construction ofthe device in that regard.

The elbow c of the shoe c is furnished with transverse slots t, through which pass the bolt m through the elbow i', by means of which they are attached to each other. The use ot" the slots t is to allow of an adjustment of the shoe a., so it will run parallel with the beam,

or at any other angle desired, as before stated, and for the purpose described.

The device may be attached taany kind of l a plow or cultivator, but'is designed to be used on corn ory cotton cultivators.

Claim.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows:

The shoe a having the slots a and t, in combination with the bent adjustable bars S, arranged as shown, whereby the spaces between the bars and the distance and angle from the i

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