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UNITED
STATES
PATENT OFFICE.
WILLIAM R. LEE, OF NELSONVILLE, TEXAS.
PLOW.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 476,802, dated June 14, 1892.
Application filed August 25, 1891. Serial No. 403,686. (No model,)To all whop' it may coLcerrm:
Be it known that I, WILLIAM R. LEE, a citi-
zen of the United States, residing at Nelson-
ville, in the county of Austin and State of
5 Texas, have invented a new and useful Plow,
of which the following is a specification.
This invention relates to improvements in
plows; and the objects in view are, first, to
provide a plow adapted to be used in connee-
ro tion with either single or double sweeps and
to facilitate the application and removal of
either thereof, and, furthermore, to provide
means for steadying the plow during opera-
tion.
15 Other objects and advantages of the inven-
tion will appear in the following description,
and the novel features thereof will be par-
ticularly pointed out in the claims.
Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a
20 perspective of a plow constructed in accord-
ance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a detail
in enlarged perspective of the shoe and its
supporting-standard. Fig. 3 is a rear eleva-
tion.
25 Like numerals of reference indicate like
parts in all the figures of the drawings.
In the drawings, 1 designates the plow-
beams, which are connected at their front
ends by suitable bolts and diverge toward
30 their rear ends. Handles 2 are bolted to the
sides of the beams, extend up and in rear of
the same, and are supported by suitable
braces 3, bolted to the handles and beams.
The rear ends of the beams 1 are provided
35 with transverse open recesses 4, and in the
same is mounted a transverse rod 5, the same
being provided at opposite sides of the two
beams with clamping-nuts 6. In rear of the
rod 5 bolts 7 are passed transversely or verti-
40 cally through the beams and through the slots
4, so that said rod is confined at the inner
ends of the slots, and by removing the bolts
7 said rods may also be removed or withdrawn
rearwardly from the slots. Upon the rod 5
45 are mounted the plow-standards 8, the same
being located at opposite sides of one of the
beams 1 and clamped in position by the nuts
6. Each standard is provided with a series
of perforations 9 near its upper end, through
50o any one of which the rod 5 may be passed.
Where a single shovel is employed the rod
5 is necessarily shorter than where two shov-els are used, and hence I provide the improved
means hereinbefore described for facilitating
the application and removal of the rod 5 from 55
the beams 1, and by this improvement I avoid
the necessity of removing and reapplying the
nuts at the inner and outer sidesof thebeams
1 upon the rod. By adjusting the standards
upon the rod 5 they may be made different 60
lengths, and hence adapted to plow upon in-
clines. Upon a bolt 10, passed through the
beams 1 near the middle of the same, is loosely
hung an eyebolt 11, the rear end of which is.
threaded and passed through the standard S 65
and provided with nuts 12, adapted to clamp
at opposite sides of the standard.
13 designates a triangular brace or stand-
ard formed of bar-iron and at its upper end
perforated, as at 14, and bolted adjustably, as 70
at 15, to the rear edge of the standard 8. The
lower branch or brace of the triangle extends
inwardly toward the foot of the standard S
and is then curved upwardly, as at 16, and at
its extremity bolted, as at 17, to the foot of 75
the standard by means of the heel-bolt.
18 designates a steel runner, the front end
of which is upwardly curved or bent, as at 19.
The runner is applied to the under side or
base of the triangular standard or brace 13, 80
and is secured in position by bolts 20, pass-
ing through the runner and brace, the front
bent end of said runner being seated in the
curved portion 16 of the brace, as shown. By
means of this runner attachment the sweeps 85
or shovels are steadied during operation and
their depth of penetration regulated by a
proper manipulation of the bolts 14 and 17,
which latter passes through a slot 21, formed
in the brace, and hence permits of an adjust- 90
ment of the lower end of the latter.
By reason of the bending at the lower front
end of the triangular brace a spring-like con-
nection is formed between the said front end
and the plow-standard, and hence the strain 95
of the connecting-bolt between the standard
and brace, and, in fact, of the brace itself, is
greatly relieved.
Having described my invention, what I
claim is- moo
1. The diverging plow-beams having their
rear ends provided with open recesses or
notches, combined with the rod passed there-
through and having nuts at opposite sides of
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