US100716A - Improvement in straw-stacking machines - Google Patents

Description

Straw Stacker.-

' Patented March I5, 1870.

MPETERS. PHOTOLITHDGRAPHER WASHINGTON I? C Wzirzesses. 20

'lo all whom it hug concern.-

ILLIAM nodes, or oovtaorox, OHIO.

Letters. Patent No. 100,715, dated JIa'rch 15, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN STRAW-STACKING- MACHINES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

Be it known that 1," WILLIAM Boeos, of (lovington, in the county of Miami, and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ma-' chines for Stacking Straw, and I do hereby declare that the the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and general arrangement of a straw stacker, as will be hereinafter fully set forth.

In order to enable othersskilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, 1 \vill now proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to the annexed drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical section, and I Figure 2 is a plan view of my machine.

A represents the chute, which rests upon-four legs .13 .B, the front ones of which are constructed in some suitable mannerfso that they can be extended and conseqnently the front end of the machine elevated to any position desired.

At the front end of the chute is placed the shaft 1 O, which at one end is provided with a crank, 1), and

so arranged in its bearings that it can be reversed so as to operate the machine from either side at pleasure.

Upon the shaft is placed a pulley, 15, directly opposite the center-of the front end of the chute.

At the rear end of-the chute is another shaft, G, provided with a similarly-placed pulley, H, and around the pulleys E and H is placed, a cord, 1, which thus passes longitiulinally across the center of the chute and on top of the bot-tom. thereof, as seen infig. l.

' At proper intervals on-the rope I are placed grooved blocks J J, on 'top of which are placed rakes .K K, said rakes extending across the chute A, as seen in fig. 2.

The blocks J and rakes K are slotted in their centers so that the cord I can be drawn up through the same, and a pin, a, passed under the cord on top of the. rake, which thus efiectnally secures them together. i

The rakes K K,-thns arranged on the cord I, form the carrier for conveying the straw, and the blocks J J are guided by ways b b in the center of the bottom of the chute, said guides or ways and blocks being dovetailed so that the blocks cannot slip up.

4, Upon the shaft G is a pulley, L, designed to be connected to a thrashlug-machine and run or operate the carrier by the same power and at the same time belt or rope, J

the thesher is worked. It can be'run by as a groove is cut in the pulley for a rope.

' At the rear end of the chute A is hinged an apron,

M, to prevent the straw or chaif from falling down when the front end of theniachine is elevated. On each side near the front end is a loop, 11, to which cords are attached, which cords extend backto the thrasher and hold the carrier in a horizontal position so as to carry the straw on the top of the stack acting as a substitutefor the extension legs.

Having thus fully described my invention,

Whatl claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is Y I 1. The. arrangement at the rear end of the chute A of the shaft (-l, with pulleys H L and hinged apron M, all substantially as shown and described.

.2. The combination and arrangement of the chute I with guides b b, shafts O Ur, pulleys E H I), carrier 1 J K, and apron M, all constructed as described, to

operate substantially in the manner and for the pur-' poses herein setforth.- a

In testimony that 1 claim the fin'egoing as my own,

I attix my signature in presencev of two witnesses.

- WILLIAM BOGGS.

Witnesses DAVID J. MARTA,

JOSEPH Menus.

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