US4553A - Improvement in plows - Google Patents

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J. M. CULLEK' Plow. v

Patented May 30, 1846.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JNO. M. GULLEN, OF BENTON, MISSISSIPPI.

IMPROVEMENT IN PLOWS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 4,553, dated May 30, 1846.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN MERRIL OULLEN, of Benton, in the county of Yazoo and State of Mississippi, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cotton-Cultivators; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of theprinciplc or character thereof, which distinguishes it from allother things before known, and of the manner of making, constructing, and using the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, making part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is an elevation of the landside of tho cultivator; Fig. 2, a front view, and Fig. 3 parts detached.

The same letters indicate like parts in all the figures.

Many attempts have been made to make a machine that would cultivate cotton; but they have generally been found of little use, being either deficient in covering the plants or else burying them too much. By my improvement I am enabled to work among the cotton with as much facility and expedition as plowing or Near the end of the beam forward a rake,'f,

is attached to the beam on .the landside, which runs in front of the projection c. This is formed of several teeth, like barrow-teeth, and placed obliquely one before the other, the first one being farthermost over on the landside.

In operating this cultivator the teeth and projection 0 above named pass over the rows of cotton plants and divest them of any superfluous earth that may have been thrown upon them. The teeth first knock 011' the clods and the scraper or projection finishes or levels the work.

Having thus described my improvements, what Iclaim therein as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of the scraper e and rake or harrowf with the cultivator, in the manner and for the purpose set forth.

JOHN MERRIL OULLEN.

Witnesses:

WM. BATTARLE, JEssE ALsoP.

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