GB469686A - Improvements in or relating to mowing, cultivating and other agricultural machinery - Google Patents

Abstract

469,686. Mowing &c. machines. BAKER, W., and MORGAN, D. T. Feb. 20, 1936, No. 5199. [Classes 6 (i) and 6 (iii)] The coachwork, rear wheels, and the rear portion of the chassis of a motor-driven vehicle are removed and a tractor attachment as described in Specification 469,685 secured to the shortened chassis, the rear end of the framework 1 of the attachment being secured by brackets 6 and its forward end by clamps 8 to the chassis 7. A power shaft 10 which extends longitudinally of the attachment is coupled at its front end to the driving shaft of the motor and drives through spur gearing 12, 13 and a substantially parallel auxiliary shaft, the differential gear of the rear wheel axle. A mowing or like machine is detachably suspended from the attachment so as to be between the front and the rear wheels of the machine and is driven from a countershaft 43 connected to the power shaft through chain-and-sprocket gear 23 and a clutch 22. The inclination of the knife bar 38 is adjusted by a hand lever 34 co-operating with a fixed quadrant. The mowing unit is adapted to be lifted out of operative position by a hand lever 27 fitted with a pawl engaging the teeth of a quadrant and fixed to a shaft 28 carrying an arm 29 from which a stirrup depends to a hinged transverse tie-bar. A foot lever may be arranged to assist the hand lever. In the Provisional Specification it is stated that ploughing, cultivating and like machines may be fitted instead of mowing and like machines.