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(Application filed May 18/ 1898.)

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THE NORRIS PETERS CO.. PHOTO-LITHO.. WASHINGTON, Ο.ς.’

United States Patent Office.

JULIAN McLARTY, OF MONROE, NORTH CAROLINA.

GUANO-DISTRIBUTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 612,751, dated October 18, 1898.

Application filed May 18,1898. Serial No. 681,058. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Julian McLarty, a citizen of the United States, residing at Monroe, in the county of Union and State of North 5 Carolina, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Guano-Distributers; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to io which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in guano-distributers; and the object is to provide a simple, inexpensive, and effective device of this character.

To this end the invention consists in certain features of construction and combination of parts, which will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

The accompanying drawings show my in20 .vention in the best form now known to me; but many changes in the details might be made within the skill of a good mechanic without departing from the spirit of my invention as set forth in the claim at the end 25 of this specification.

The same reference characters indicate the same parts of the invention.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a view in perspective of the device, part of one of the han30 dle-bars being broken away to show the connection of the gearing with the ground-wheel, the trough being shown in section to disclose the spiral blade. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of the forward end of the feed-shaft 35 bearing.

1 denote the parallel handle-bars, and 2 the hopper to which they are secured.

3 represent the legs depending from the handles, 4 a cross-brace connecting the lower 40 ends of said legs, and 5 5 lateral diagonal braces connecting the legs to their respective handles.

denotes the ground-wheel, fixed on the axle 7, journaled in the forward converging 45 ends of the handles. The face of this wheel is formed with an annular concentric series of recesses 8, S', 8^s, and 8^s, each series being adapted to mesh with a sprocket or spur wheel 9, adjustably secured on the feed-shaft 50 10 by means of the set-screw 12. The forward end of this feed-shaft 10 is journaled in a bearing-box 13, fixed to a transverse sleeye

14, mounted on a stud-shaft 15, fixed in one of the handle-bars, and a spiral spring 16 encompasses said stud-shaft between the con- 55 tiguous face of the handle-bar and the sleeve, the tension of which is exerted to press the outer end of the feed-shaft toward the groundwheel, so as to retain the teeth of the sprocket or spur wheel in mesh with the recesses in 60 the ground-wheel.

Thelower end of the feed-shaft 10 is formed with a spiral blade 17, which rotates in the trough 18, fixed to the lower open end of the hopper. 65

19 represent the front and back ends of the trough 18, which also form bearings for the feed-shaft, and 20 represents the discharge-spout, extending downwardly from the rear end of the trough. 70

From the above description it will be readily understood that as the machine is propelled forward the ground - wheel rotates, which in turn imparts a continuous rotary motion to the feed-shaft, thus causing the 75 conveyer blade or screw to force the contents of the hopper rearwardly to the trough, where it falls through the trough into the previouslyformed furrow.

By the proper adjustment of the sprocket 80 or spur wheel on the forward end of the feedshaft any predetermined amount of guano maybe discharged per lineal foot of ground.

The machine is also well adapted as a cotton-seed planter, as well as in pulverizing 85 lumpy guano or other similar powdered fertilizer.

While I have shown and described the machine as a single-furrow walking-distributer, it is evident that by a mere duplication of the 90 feed mechanism any number of furrows may be simultaneously fertilized, and when so arranged additional carrying-wheels are provided, so that the machine may be drawn by horse-power. 95

To prevent the feed-shaft from rotating when the machine is not in actual use and is being transported from place to place—as, for instance, from one field to another or to and from the barn—I provide the sleeve 14 with 100 a thumb-screw 21, which may be used to clamp the sleeve and its bearing-box 13 on the stud-shaft 15 in such a manner that the sprocket-wheel 9 will be thrown out of gear

612,751 with the ground-wheel, and consequently the latter will revolve without rotating the feedshaft.

In case it should not be desirable to make 5 the ground-wheel of metal I attach a sheetmetal disk 22 to the face of the ground-wheel and provide it with the annular concentric series of recesses, as in the first instance, which mesh with the sprocket-wheel 9 and io impart motion to the feed-shaft, as hereinbefore stated.