US1047164A

US1047164A - Cotton-picker.

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Publication number: US1047164A
Application number: US66691311A
Authority: US
Inventors: George Butenschoen
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1911-12-20
Filing date: 1911-12-20
Publication date: 1912-12-17
Anticipated expiration: 1929-12-17

Description

"G. BUTENSCHOBN.

COTTON PIOKER. I APPLICATION FILED DEC. 20, 19-11 1 047,164, PatentedQec. 17,1912;

' George .Bukqwdhoen.

UNITED enoitsn aurnnsononn, or pavement, r'owa;

' corroi rIcKER,

' Spei iification of Letters Patent-' Patented Dec.'17, 1912 Application filed December 20, 1911. Srial'No. 666,913.

To all whom it may conccrnl' Be it known that I, GEORGE, BurialssoHoEN, a citizen of the United States, re-

siding at Davenport, in the county of Scott and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cotton- Pickers, of which the followingis a specification, reference being? had to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to new and useful improvements in cotton pickers and more particularly to a pneumatic apparatus for conveying the cotton when picked from the plant to a receptacle carried by the operator, and my object is to provide a device of this character which may bereadily and quickly applied to the body of the operator to be carried from place to place.

A further object of the invention resides in providing a flexible back plate or the like which may be readily applied to the back of the operator and which carries a suction fan by which the cotton may be conveyed, after being picked, to a receptacle.

also carried on this flexible plate.

A still further object resides in provid ing a device which is extremely simple and durable in construction, inexpensive to manufacture, and one which is very ellicient and useful in operation.

With these and other objects in view, my invention consists in the novel. features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter referred to and more particularly pointed out in the specification-and claim,

In the accompanying drawing forminga part of this application, Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the device applied to the back of an operator. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same showing the arrangement of the straps and buckling means for the application of the same to the body, and Fig. 3 is a Vertical section through the casing carryingthe suction fan.

In describing-my invention, I shall refer to the drawing in which similar reference characters designate corresponding parts throughout the several views and in whic h- 1 indicates a flexible plate of any desired 7 size which is adapted to fit the back of an operator, said plate being formed preferably of leather, and secured to the lower ends of the same at opposite sides, are the belt straps 2 and 3, respectively, which are adapted to be drawn around the waist of t-he'wearerand secured together means of a buckle or the like 4:. Engaged with the plate lat opposite sides of its upper end,

are the shoulder straps 5 and 6 which are adapted to extend over the opposite shouL ders of the wearer to be engaged with the belt straps 2 and 3, by means of the bucklesi 7, and it will be seen that when these waist and shoulder straps are properly applied, the plate will be securely held on the back of the operator A casing 8 is riveted 'or otherwise secured to the upper portion of theplate l at the points 9, said" casing having 'revolubly mounted therein, the usual or anyprefe'rred form ofsuction fan 10, and a compartment 11 formed in the .upper portion of the casing' has extending from opposite-sides thereof, the tubular arms 12 and 13. This compartment 11 formed in the casing 8, is divided from the compartment containing the fan 10 by means of a screening material 14, permit-ting" only air to pass therethrough, and the one tubular arm 13 has connected therewith, 'a flexible tubular connection 15 which is adapted to extend over the one shoulder of the operator having the free end thereof provided with an enlarged nozzle arrangement 16,, while the other tubular portion112 is connected by means of a flexible connection 17 to a receptacle 18 also carried on the plate 1. This receptacle may be of wood, metal, leather or of any other desired material, whatsoever, and from this construction, it will be seen that as the fan;

is rotated to cause a-suetion in the compartment 11, all matter wit-l1 which the nozzle 16 comes in contact, will be drawn through the flexible connection 15 into the compartment 11, from where it will be conducted to the receptacle l8-through the inedium'of the flexible connection 17. {One end of the re ceptacle 18 is provided with the perforations 18, which-are too small to permit the passage of the cotton, but which are vlarge enough to allow the escape of the air which is forced into the receptacle by the fan.

In order to provide means for the operation of the suction fan 10, I provide a storage battery 19 (which is adapted to be carried in a pocket or the like 20 formed on theone belt strap 2. The wires 21 from this battery may be readily extended over the shoulder of the operator not having the connection 15 thereover, said wires having connection with the usual motor of the fan,

- thfough the fields, picks the cotton cells,

whereby it Willhe ep precistetl that the tievice may be readily set in operation and continued or discontinued at the will of the operator. 7

In operation,- after the device has been. properly appliel to theoocly of the person, and the tubular connection disposed over the one shoulder of the. cotton picker so that the nozzle 16 at the free'end thereof, it?! is dispose at the Wrist or hand of the picker, the ten may be set in operation,

whereupon it Will be seen that the suction Will CfiillSfi till articles with which the nozzle comes'in contact',.to he passedinto the re ceptacle 1 The picker then walking end, in applying the nozzle in contact With the picked cotton, causes the latter to he di'cwnnnd conveyed to the receptacle 18. This inay he continued 'until the recepteclehns become filled, whereupon the SELIHG may-lee emptied andfthe operation continueti.

From the foregoing, .itwill be seen that l have provitleol an improyecl cotton picker,

"which apparatus is designei to automaticelly convey the picked cotton into it receptecl'e cortical, by the operate! on picker, I It will further be seen that ltlheve ni'ovzcied. 3

device which may be readily earned the body of the picker Without CiLUSlll -y unnecesse r strain, the same being extremely light in construction and compact in tot-2n, and it Willfu'rt-her be seen that the sense is hoclyoi any person dcsiri signsture in the so (i651 as to be readily he use of: the some. Furthermore, it will i e sccn tlmt the tlcvicc is one which is extremely simple and durable in construction, ii1c. 1 c.nsivo to manufacture, and one which will. he very efficientend useful in operation.

What 1' claim is:-

An apparatus of the class (lescrihetl, com.- prising a flexible plate, a plurality of straps curried thereby adopted to be disposed 41-" around the Waist and, over the shoulders of the operator, o.v casing czii'tictl on said plate, escreening device lisposed in said casing dividing the some into a pair of computments, 2, suction tun disposed in one of the reach of the operator.

in testimony whereof I hereunto viii): my" presence of t to Witnesses.

GEORGE BUTEN SCHGEK. Witnesses H. I OE'JJZMANN, Cit-nines H. QQHLAPF.

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