Planter

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR PLANTING SEEDLING TREES COMPRISING A TRACTOR INCLUDING A CLUTCH, A BRAKE AND FRMAES PIVOTALLY SUPPORTED AT THEIR FORWARD ENDS TO THE TRACTOR, MEANS SUSPENDING THE FRAMES REARWARDLY OF THEIR PIVOTED FORWARD ENDS, SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL WITH THE GROUNDS, SAID MEANS PERMITTING UPWARDLY MOVEMENT OF THE FRAMES AND INCLUDING MEANS FOR DAMPING DOWNWARD MOVEMENT,A SHAFT ON ONE FRAME, A COLTER AND PACKING WHEEL, MEANS MOUNTING THE COLTER AND PACKING WHEEL ON THE SHAFT IN ANGULARLY SPACED RELATION, MEANS ON SAID FRAME OPERABLE TO ROCK THE PACKING WHEEL OR COLTER INTO ENGAGEMENT WITH THE GROUND AND SIMULTANEOUSLY TO LIFT THE OTHER OUT OF THE GROUND SO AS TO MAKE A FURROW AND CLOSE IT, A DOUBLE-ACTING CYLINDER AND PISTON ASSEMBLY CONNECTED TO SAID LAST MEANS FOR EFFECTING OPERATION THEREOF, THE OTHER FRAME MOUNTING A SEAT FOR THE PLANTER, A TREADLE ON SAID OTHER FRAME, AND S TREADLE-OPERATED CONTROL VALVR, MEANS CONNECTING THE CONTROL VALVE TO THEDOUBLE-ACTING CYLINDER AND PISTON ASSEMBLY, SAID CONTROL VALVE BEING OPERABLE TO EFFECT MOVEMENT OF THE PISTON IN THE CYLINDER IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS, A CONTROL SHAFT ON THE TRACTOR OPERABLY CONTNECTED TO THE CLUTCH AND BRAKE SO AS TO DECLUTCH THE TRACTOR WHEELS AND SIMULTANEOUSLY APPLY THE BRAKE, AND MEANS OPERABLE, WHEN THE CONTROL VALVE IS OPERATED BY THE TREADLE TO EFFECT MOVEMENT OF SAID PISTON IN A DIRECTION TO RAISE THE COLTER, TO EFFECT OPERATION OF SAID CONTROL SHAFT TO STOP THE TRACTOR.