Fertilizer spreader

• US 3,336,627 A
• Filed: 07/21/1965
• Issued: 08/22/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 07/21/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Fred W. Nemoede, Yates J. Allyn
• Original Assignee: Fred W. Nemoede, Yates J. Allyn
• Inventors: Nemoede, Fred W., Allyn, Yates J.
• Application Number:
  US04/474,216
• Time in Patent Office: 762 Days
• US Class Current: 222/613
• CPC Class Codes: A01C 15/16 with means for pushing out the fertiliser, e.g. by a roller

Claims

1. A FERTILIZER SPREADER, INCLUDING:

(A) A CYLINDRICAL SHELL HAVING A PLURALITY OF SPACED OPENINGS FORMED THEREIN THROUGH WHICH FERTILIZER CAN PASS INTO THE INTERIOR OF SAID SHELL AND THEREFROM ONTO A GROUND SURFACE AS SAID SHELL IS ROLLED THEREOVER;

(B) TWO CIRCULAR END PALTES THAT ARE AFFIXED TO AND CLOSE THE ENDS OF SAID SHELL, WITH SAID END PLATES HAVING ALIGNED, CENTRALLY DISPOSED OPENINGS FORMED THEREIN;

(C) A TUBULAR SLEEVE THAT EXTENDS THROUGH SAID OPENINGS AND ROTATABLY SUPPORTS SAID END PLATES THEREON, WHICH SLEEVE IS SUBSTANTIALLY LONGER THAN SAID SHELL;

(D) AN ELONGATE, TRANSVERSELY CURVED BAFFLE DISPOSED INSIDE SAID SHELL AND ADJACENT TO AN UPPER PORTION THEREOF;

(E) FIRST MEANS FOR RIGIDLY SUPPORTING SAID BAFFLE FROM SAID SLEEVE;

(F) A SHAFT EXTENDING THROUGH SAID SLEEVE TO ROTATABLY SUPPORT THE SAME, AND PROJECTING FROM THE ENDS THEREOF;

(G) A HOPPER HAVING FORWARD AND REAR SIDE PIECES THAT ARE CONNECTED BY TWO END PIECES, IN WHICH END PIECES ALIGNED OPENINGS ARE FORMED THAT ROTATABLY ENGAGE END PORTIONS OF SAID SLEEVE, WITH THE LOWER EDGES OF SAID SIDE PIECES BEING DISPOSED ADJACENT TO THE EXTERIOR SURFACE OF SAID SHELL, AND SAID HOPPER HAVING A LOWER OPEN END;

(H) A YOKE THAT ENGAGES THE OUTER ENDS OF SAID SHAFT;

(I) AN ELONGATE HANDLE CONNECTED TO SAID YOKE;

(J) SECOND MEANS FOR SO CONNECTING SAID HOPPER TO SAID HANDLE THAT WHEN SAID HANDLE EXTENDS UPWARDLY AND REARWARDLY AT A DESIRED ANGLE SAID HOPPER IS SUBSTANTIALLY VERTICALLY DISPOSED;

(K) AN ARM RIGIDLY CONNECTED TO SAID SLEEVE AND DISPOSED ADJACENT TO ONE OF SAID END PIECES OF SAID HOPPER;

AND (L) THIRD MEANS FOR REMOVABLY HOLDING SAID ARM AT ANY ONE OF A PLURALITY OF POSITIONS RELATIVE TO SAID HOPPER, WITH SAID ARM WHEN IN EACH OF SAID POSITIONS DISPOSING SAID BAFFLE IN A DIFFERENT POSITION RELATIVE TO SAID LOWER OPEN END OF SAID HOPPER TO REGULATE THE RATE AT WHICH FERTILIZER IN SAID HOPPER IS DISCHARGED INTO SAID SHELL FOR DISTRIBUTION ON THE GROUND SURFACE OVER WHICH SAID SHELL ROLLS, WITH SAID BAFFLE WHEN IN ALIGNMENT WITH SAID LOWER OPEN END OBSTRUCTING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN SAID HOPPER AND THE INTERIOR OF SAID SHELL.