US38803A - Improvement i int plows - Google Patents

Description

J. R. BEGGS.

Plow.

Patented June 9, 1863.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES R. BEGGS, OF NEW ALBANY, INDIANA.

IM PROVEM ENT IN PLOWS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 38,803, dated .Tune 9, 1863; antedated.

` Aprii 1e, 1863.

To all 'whom 'it may concern Be it known that I, JAMES R. BEGGS, of New Albany, in the county of Floyd and State of Indiana,have invented a new and Improved Plow; and 'I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specitication, in which- Figure I represents a perspective view of Iny improved plow. Fig. 2 is a top view of the plow, showing clearly the peculiar arrangement of the mold-board. Fig. 3 isa view look ing toward the landside of the plow, showing clearly the Inanner ot attachingthe mold-board and handles to the plow-beam.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspending parts in the three figures.

-This invention consists in constructing light turn-plows in such manner that the drat't will be in a vertical plane with the middle of' the mold-board, or so that the mold-board will be divided equally with reference to the line of draft on the beam, the object ot' which is to lessen the side draft on the mold-board, thus giving greater steadiness to the plow, and to regulate the line of draft, so as to make thev plow cut olf a regular slice of equal breadth without any great force being applied by the plowman who holds the stilts.

lhe peculiarity ot' the invention is to so arrange one mold-board or turn-furrow that the pressure on it in cutting oft' and in turning over the slice will be'equally divided on each side of the plow-beam. At the same time the beam will be at a sutticient height from the top ofthe mold-board to prevent the slice from coming in contact with it while turning; and, in conjunction with a mold-board thus arranged, it consists in attaching the same to the beam by two peculiarly-curved standards, which proceed down under the middle of the mold-board, and are bol-ted together and to the mold-board by suitable bolts, hereinafter described, the hind standard serving the twofold object ot' a brace for the forward standard and a means ot' securing the handles to the plow; a right-angular projection from the rear brace and standard, the bottom ot' which serves fr a support for tite heel ot' the plow and a fulcrum for regulating the depth the plow is intended to run, to prevent it from going too deep into the ground or rising out of it while the plow i: going on, all as will be hereinafter described. v

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

In the drawings, A represents the beam, which may be ot' the ordinary construction, and B is a mold-board of a suitable shape for turning the slice to the greatest advantage.

. U is an iron standard, that is secured b v suitable bolts to the beam A, passes down and is curved under the mold-board, as clearly represented in Fig. 3, and secured to it by two bolts,'a a.

D is a standard-brace that proceeds down from the beam behind the standard and under the mold-board, and is secured bythe bolt a.

E is an angular heelpiece and a projection of the standard-brace D, that runs in the middle ot' the t'urrow and serves an important object. as a support for the rear part ot' the plow. The share ot' the moldboard and the horizontal portion ot' the heel-piece E form the sole 0f the plo\\'and it wil be seen that the friction on the bottom ot' the furrow or subsoil is very slight.

The handles G G are each bolted together by a bolt, b, which passes through the brace D at their lower ends, and secured to the beam at the required distance apart b v tapering blocks and a bolt, c, that passes through the brace D,and Ibeam A.

J is a eolter, that is secured to the beam A with two staples, d d, and which is curved out from thebeam and carried down in a line with the laudside ot' the plow.

Having thus described tn v invention, whatr I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination ot' the beam A, moldf'board B, standard C, brace D, and heel-piece E, all arranged as and for the purpose lt'erein set forth.

JAS. 1t. BEGGS.

Witnesses: l'

DAVID W. LAFoLLETfIE, JoHN 0. GREENE.

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