US Patent: 69,076
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| Hand Seeder
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Patentees:
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| Nicholas Clute (exact or similar names) - Schenectady, Schenectady County, NY |
| Oliver W. Marshall (exact or similar names) - Columbus, Franklin County, OH |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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| Granted: |
Sep. 24, 1867 |
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Joel Havens
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Description: |
| Abstract:
The nature of our invention consists in constructing a corn-planter that may he applied to the leg of person, so that the vibration of the leg bending or the knee in the act of walking will work a lever and operate the segment slides or valves, and deliver the seed to he planted; and in a hollow lever working on a pivot and carrying a perforated segment or slide, to receive and declive the seed itot and through the lever, and drop or plant it as required; and in the use and application of a perforated loose segment or slide between the delivering segment and the tube that supplies the seed; and in a stationary segment under the traversing segment, to stop and hold the seed until the proper time for its delivery and in a sliding segment, to retain and held the seed when it is desirable to stop planting.
Claim:
A seed-planter so constructed that when applied tendling of' the knee in the act of walking, will work lever the seed to be planted. We claim a hollow lever working on a pivot, and deliver the seed into and through the lever. |
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