Oscillating plow and fertilizing apparatus

• US 3,296,985 A
• Filed: 05/24/1963
• Issued: 01/10/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 05/24/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Shelton, Dothan L.
• Original Assignee: Shelton, Dothan L.
• Inventors: Shelton, Dothan L.
• Application Number:
  US04/283,151
• Time in Patent Office: 1,327 Days
• US Class Current: 111/123
• CPC Class Codes: A01B 13/08 for working subsoil
• CPC Class Codes: A01B 49/04 Combinations of soil-working tools with non-soil-working tools, e.g. planting tools
• CPC Class Codes: A01C 23/025 Continuous injection tools

Claims

1. AN AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT COMPRISING IN COMBINATION:

(A) A FRAME MEMBER, (B) AT LEAST ONE CLAMP ATTACHED TO THE FRAME MEMBER, (C) A DEPENDING SHANK PIVOTED TO THE CLAMP ABOUT AN AXIS NORMAL TO THE DIRECTION OF DRAFT, (D) MEANS INTERCONNECTING THE CLAMP AND SHANK FOR OSCILLATING THE SHANK ABOUT THE AXIS BY WHICH IT IS PIVOTED TO THE CLAMP, (E) A PLOW POINT ON THE BOTTOM OF THE SHANK, (F) A TUBE ADAPTED TO CARRY FLUID SOIL TREATMENT MATERIAL ATTACHED TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SHANK, (G) A PORTION OF THE TUBE TRAILING BEHIND THE PLOW SO THAT THE FLUID MATERIAL IS EXPELLED AT A POINT TO BE SEALED IN THE GROUND, AND (GG) SAID PORTION OF THE TUBE TRAILING BEHIND THE PLOW CONSTRUCTED OF PLIANT MATERIAL.