Device for installing soil drainage means

• US 3,083,542 A
• Filed: 12/21/1959
• Issued: 04/02/1963
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/1959
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Floyd K. Summers, Samuel D. Summers
• Original Assignee: Floyd K. Summers, Samuel D. Summers
• Inventors: Summers, Samuel D., Summers, Floyd K.
• Application Number:
  US03/860,981
• Time in Patent Office: 1,198 Days
• US Class Current: 405/179
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 5/102 operatively associated with mole-ploughs, coulters rippers E02F5/32
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 5/12 with equipment for back-filling trenches or ditches

Claims

1. A DEVICE FOR INSTALLING SUBSOIL DRAINAGE MATERIAL COMPRISING AN ELONGATED FRAME HAVING FORWARD AND REAR ENDS, CONNECTING MEANS ON SAID FORWARD END OF THE FRAME ADAPTED TO BE CONNECTED TO A CONVENTIONAL THREE POINT HITCH OF A TRACTOR, A VERTICALLY EXTENDING BLADE CONNECTED AT ITS CENTRAL PORTION BY GENERALLY HORIZONTALLY EXTENDING PIVOT MEANS TO SAID REAR END OF THE FRAME, SAID BLADE HAVING A FORWARD SHARPENED EDGE EXTENDING BELOW THE FRAME AND A GENERALLY VERTICALLY EXTENDING REAR EDGE, A HOPPER MOUNTED ON THE UPPER PORTION OF SAID BLADE, A RECTANGULAR DELIVERY TUBE COMMUNICATING WITH SAID HOPPER AND HAVING A FORWARD EDGE CONNECTED TO THE REAR EDGE OF SAID BLADE SO AS TO FORM A PORTION THEREOF, SAID RECTANGULAR DELIVERY TUBE BEING PROVIDED WITH A REARWARDLY FACING OPENING ADJACENT THE BOTTOM OF SAID BLADE, A FILM DELIVERY TUBE EXTENDING GENERALLY PARALLEL TO SAID RECTANGULAR DELIVERY TUBE AND BLADE, SAID FILM DELIVERY TUBE HAVING A FORWARD EDGE CONNECTED TO THE REAR EDGE OF SAID RECTANGULAR DELIVERY TUBE WHEREBY THE FILM DELIVERY TUBE CONSTITUTES A REAR PORTION OF SAID BLADE, ADJUSTABLE FASTENER MEANS CONNECTING SAID FILM DELIVERY TUBE TO SAID RECTANGULAR DELIVERY TUBE IN SUCH A MANNER THAT THE FILM DELIVERY TUBE HAS ITS LOWER END ADJACENT SAID OPENING AND MAY BE ADJUSTED VERTICALLY RELATIVE TO SAID RECTANGULAR DELIVERY TUBE WHEREBY THE EFFECTIVE SIZE OF SAID OPENING MAY BE ADJUSTED, A REEL ADAPTED TO ROTATABLY SUPPORT A ROLL OF FILM MOUNTED ON SAID HOPPER, ROLLER MEANS MOUNTED ON SAID HOPPER AND FILM DELIVERY TUBE ARRANGED TO FEED A CONTINUOUS LENGTH OF PLASTIC FILM FROM SAID ROLL AND THROUGH SAID FILM DELIVERY TUBE, ADJUSTABLE CONNECTOR MEANS CONNECTED BETWEEN THE UPPER PORTION OF SAID BLADE AND THE CENTRAL PORTION OF SAID ELONGATED FRAME WHEREBY SAID BLADE MAY BE ADJUSTABLY PIVOTED ABOVE SAID PIVOT MEANS, A COLTER ROTATABLY MOUNTED ON SAID FRAME FORWARDLY OF AND IN ALIGNMENT WITH SAID BLADE BETWEEN THE ENDS THEREOF AND EXTENDING BELOW SAID FRAME.