US1092356A - Grain-stooker. - Google Patents

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R. HAMMOND.

GRAIN STOOKBR.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.18,1911.

1,092,356. Patented Apr. 7, 1914 2 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

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R. HAMMOND.

GRAIN STOOKER.

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RICHARD HAMMOND, 0F WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, CANADA.

GRAIN-STOOKER.

Application filed January 18, 1911.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 7, 1914.

serial No. 603,404.

To all 'whom 'it may concern.'

Be it known that I, RICHARD HAMMOND, residing at the city of Winnipeg', in the Province of Manitoba, in the Dominion of Canada, farmer, have invented new and useful Improvements in Grain-Stookers, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in grainstookers, wherein the stooker is attached to the binder, the object being to provide a stooker which will receive and collect the required number of tied or secured sheaves or bundles of graindirect from the binder while in operation and automatically deposit, dump and set the same up -in stocks or shocks of grain without having to tie the stook or stop the binder, the whole operation being performed and completed while the binder is in operation and motion; the novel construction and arrangement of the several parts being hereinafter more fully described and specifically defined and set forth in the hereinafter mentioned claims.

In the drawings and figures of reference marked thereon, which form part of the specification, like figures indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation ofthe machine. Fig. 2 is a plan view. Fig. 3 is a vertical cross section view from rear of the machine. Fig. 4 is a vertical longitudinal section of the machine looking from the wheel side, the broken lines indicating the receiver in reverse position. Fig'. 5 is a detached perspective view of the molding board and adjunctive parts.

Reference now being made to the accompanying drawings by numerals; l is a member rigidly attached to the binder frame below the deck and extending the full length thereof. Attached to 1 by hinges 2 is the main frame of the stocking machine consisting of members 3, 4 and 5 (5 being arched to clear the stook) 6 and 7 and counterframes 8 and 9. Attached to counter-frames 8 and 9 by clevises 10 is an axle 11. Revolving on this axle and supporting the outside of the frame is a wheel 12 having attached to the inside of, and concentric with it, a cog-wheel 13. Carried on frame members 3 and 6, at such a height as to clear the ground, by means of arms 14 and 15 operating in boxes 16 is a receiver 17. Attached to the binder deck is a leaf 18 and hinged to this by hinges 19 is leaf 2O which extends to the binder side of receiver. Carried on frame members 3 and 6 in front of and close to the receiver by rod 21 operating in bearings 22 is a molding board 23. Hinged to the rear side of 23 by means of hinges 24 and extending the full width of 23 is a folding leaf 25, and hinged to the upper edge of Ythe leaf 25 by hinges 26 is another folding leaf 27 which extends the full width of the leaf 25, the lower edge of leaf 27 being cut in a curve as shown in Fig. 3. Hinged to either side of 27 near its lower edge at 28 is a link 29 the other end of which is hinged to either side of the receiver by means of lug 30.

An automatic dumping-gear is provided as follows: Attached to arm 15 and close to the outside of the frame member 6 is a cog-wheel 31. Hinged on arm 15 and close to the outer side of cog-wheel 31 is a frame 32. Attached to frame 32 is an axle 33. Revolving on axle 33 and meshing with cogwheel 31 is another cog-wheel 34. Attached to free end of frame 32 at 47 is a link 35 the other end of which link is hinged to lever 36 at hinge 37. A lug 46 is provided on lever 36 which allows hinge 37 to pass slightly to the rear of the straight line between hinges 47 and 38, thereby locking the dumping gear in position as shown in F ig. 1. This lever 36 is hinged to frame member 6 by hinge 38. Attached to the upper end of lever 36 and extending inward toward receiver 17 is a pin 39. Hinged to the same end of 36 is a rod 40 which extends along and on top of frame member 6 to the front of the main frame where it is hinged to the outside end of lever 41. Lever 41 is hinged at its middle point to frame member 4. Hinged to the inside end of lever 41 is a rod 42 which extends along the front of the main frame and the front of the binder connecting at its binder end with mechanism operated by the foot trip on the binder. Connected to the free end of gear frame 32 is a tension spring 43 the other' end of which spring is attached to frame member 6. Attached to the outer side of receiver 17 toward the front thereof is a lug 48. Connected to the outside of receiver 17 on the binder-side at 44 is a semi-circular rod 45, the center of the curve of rod 45 coinciding with the center of arm 14. The rod 45 is used to push up the table or leaf 42.

lThe stooking machine being attached and secured to the side of and abreast with the binder, the mode of operating the same with the binder in motion at work may be described thus: The receiver being in the position shown in Fig. 1 with cog-wheel 34 out of mesh with cog-wheel 13 as described below the sheaves from the binder are carried over leaves 18 and 20 and deposited into receiver 17. When the desired number of sheaves are collected in receiver` 17 the operator by operating the foot-trip on the binder brings the dumping gear into the position shown in Fig. 1. The motion of the wheel 12 and consequent motion of cogwheel 13 is transmitted to cog-wheel 34 and by it to cog-wheel 31. This revolves the receiver forward and over through half a revolution depositing the butt ends of the sheaves forming the stock, on the ground and at the same time extends molding leaves 25 and 27 downward and rearward, molding the stook, and when the stook is on the ground pushing against the upper part of the sheaves, forming the front of the stook, thereby counteracting the forward momentum of the upper part of the stook due to the forward motion of the binder and the stocking machine and consequent forward motion of the stook.

Just before receiver 17 attains the full half revolution as indicated by broken lines on Fig. 4, lug 48 on the wheeleside of receiver 17 engages pin 39 releasing the trip mechanism by raising the upper end of lever 36 and thus throwing hinge 37 into a position forward of the straight line between hinges 47 and 38 thereby allowing tension spring 43 to raise frame 32, bringing cogwheel 34 out of mesh with cog-wheel 13 and thus stopping the revolution of the receiver, which by its own weight automatically falls back into the position shown in Fig. 1 ready to receive the sheaves from the binder for the next stock. During the half revolution of receiver 17 the semicircular rod 45 engages the lower edge of leaf 20 raising it into position shown by broken lines in Fig. 3, thusy holding back any collected sheaf or sheaves from the binder made while the dumping operation is in progress; upon receiver 17 falling back into the position shown in Fig. 1 leaf 2O is released and drops into original position again, thus allowing any sheaf or sheaves collected and retained to be deposited into the receiver.

' Being aware thatgrain stookers or shockers have been attached to binders -for stooking grain, and that the same have been made with some parts somewhat similar in appearance to the parts of the stocker herein described, I am not'aware that any grain stocker has been made, shown or described the same as my invention herein is shown and described. Therefore, having described myinvention, I do not claim the invention broadly, but

What l do claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is r- 1. The combination with a binding machine frame and the deck of said binding machine, of a stocking machine frame hinged to the binder frame at one side, a counter frame carried by the stocking maL chine frame at the opposite side, a rotatable carriage wheel supporting the latter side of the stooker frame, a dumpable shock forming receiver carried by suitable arms pivotally mounted on the stooker frame and located to receive material passed over the deck aforesaid, a drive gear rotatable with the carriage wheel, a gear wheelfixed on one of the arms adjacent the drive gear, a suspending frame pivotally mounted on the latter arm, an idler gear wheel carried by the latter frame and meshing with the gear wheel on the arm, a link pivotally secured to the suspending frame, a lever centrally pivoted to the frame one end of said lever being pivotally secured to the link, a lug extending from the lever and engageable with the link, a spring passing between the lower end of the suspending frame and the shocker frame, said lug acting as a stop for the lever to lock the gears in engagement and said spring disengaging said gears when said lever has been unlocked, means operated from the binder for shifting the upper end `of the lever to engage the idler and drive gears,l

and automatically operated means for shifting the upper end of the lever to disengage the idler and drive gears, immediately after the receiver is turned a half revolution as and for the purpose specified.

2. The combination with a binding machine frame and the deck of said binding machine, of a stocking machine frame hinged to the binder frame at one side, a counter frame carried by the stocking machine'frame at the opposite side, a rotatable carriage wheel supporting t-he latter side of the stocker frame, a dumpable shock forming receiver carried by suitable arms pivotallymou'nted on the stocker frame and located to receive material passed over the deck aforesaid, a drive gear rotatable with the carriage wheel, a gear wheel fixed on one of the arms adjacent the drive gear, a suspending frame pivotally mounted on the latter arm, an idler gear wheel carried by the latter frame andl meshing with the gear wheel on the arm, a trip mechanism operated from the binder, for engagingthe idler and drive gears, a lever for disengaging the idler gear wheel and main gears, a pin extending fromrthe upper end of the lever and toward the receiver, a pivoted molding board secured to the stocker frame forwardly, a pair of hinged leaves one of which is pivotally connected to the molding board, and links connecting one of said leaves to the receiver, a lug on said receiver arranged to strike the pin aforesaid and shift the lever to disengage the idler and drive gears, upon the receiver turning a half revolution as and for the purpose specified.

3. The combination With a shocking machine frame and a receiver rotatably mounted on the frame, of a molding board carried by the frame in advance of the receiver, a leaf pivotally secured to the molding board, a second leaf pivotally secured to the former leaf, and links connecting the second leaf to the receiver pivotally as and for the purpose specified.

4. The combination with a shocking machine frame and a receiver rotatably mountn ed on the frame, of a pivotally mounted molding board carried by the frame in advance of the receiver, a leaf passing across, but contained Within the frame', and having the lower edge thereof pivotally secured to the molding board, a second depending leaf hinged to the upper edge of the former leaf, and links pivotally connecting the lovver edge of the second leaf to the receiver as and for the purpose specified.

Winnipeg, 10th January 1911.

RICHARD HAMMOND. Signed in the presence of RICHARD THOMAS, HENRY F. TENGH.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for iive cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C.

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