On this day in 1899 Jacob J. A. Morath was granted the patent for AGRICULTURE MACHINE. U.S. Patent No. 635,501.
This invention relates to improvements in agricultural machines for performing the necessary farmwork, such as plowing and harrowing the ground, planting the seed, and for various other kinds of work necessary to be done on the farm.
One object that I have in view is to provide a comparatively simple and compact apparatus in which is embraced a propulsion mechanism adapted to penetrate the ground and to plow its way therethrough for the propulsion of the machine, such propulsion mechanism having cutting edges which sever the roots of vegetable growths on the land. With such propulsion mechanism is associated means for giving vertical adjustment thereto in order to move such mechanism into or out of operative positions.
A further object is to provide traction devices adapted to transport the machine over the field or road when the propulsion mechanism is out of service, and such traction devices are adapted to be driven in a manner to propel the machine in a straight course or to assist in steering the machine around curves or bends in a road.
