US139586A - Improvement in corn-huskers - Google Patents

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c. A. LANG. Corn-Huskers.

NO. 139,586, Paltentedjune,18'73.`

CHARLES A. LANG, OF PALMYRA, MAINE.

'lMPRovEMENT IN .coRN-HusKERs'.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 139,586, dated J une 3, 1873 application filed February 15, 1673.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known, that I, CHARLES A. LANG, of

` Palmyra, in the county of bomerset, and State husking machine; Fig. 2 is a horizontal section;

ig. 3 is an end view.

My invention relates to certain improvements 1n corn-husking machines; and it consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter particularly described and set forth.

In the drawing, A represents the ear-holder, which consists of a tapering recess formed by bending a strip of sheet metal midway of its length and attaching the ends to the front bar of the frame-work of the machine. B B represent a pair of arms pivoted to a horizontal shaft, D, journaled in the side rails of the frame-work. Each arm carries on its front end a double-bladed knife, C, or a knife, the cutting edges of which resemble two chisels placed side by side with a narrow interval between them. Attached rigidly to the shaft D, midway between the arms B B, is a bar, E, which terminates immediately in rear of the knives C, and is attached to a transverse bar e, which has a fork at each end, in which the arms B B play laterally. Flat springs j' f are attached to the bar E so that their free ends bear against the rear portions of the inner sides of the arms B B and tend to keep the knives C C closed together. Attached to the bar e, and extending downward, is a threesided box or casing, y. J J represent two semicircular metallic bars, having their ends attached to the side rails of the frame-work. At the front portion of the frame-work the distance between these bars is sufficient to allow the ends ofthe arms B B to pass freely between them; but from a point about midway between their ends the distance between them is lessened for the remainder of their length, so that the knives C are forced together as they pass between them. L represents a hanging loop, consisting of a wire rod bent midway of its length and having its ends inserted in sockets in the upper part of the frame-work so that the loop is suspended between the bars J J at the narrowest portion. K is an inclined board or trough, which serves to conduct the ears of corn to a basket or' other receptacle placed under it.

The operation is as follows: An ear of corn is placed in the ear-holder A with its stem or butt end downward. As the crank is turned the shaft D revolves, bringing the knives C upward. Just before reaching the ear-holder the ends of the arms carrying the knives are opened by the action oftwo inclined bars, l l, at the rear end of the frame-work, which press the opposite' ends of the arms towards each i other. The knives remain openuntil they reach a point in their orbit opposite the stem end of the husk, when they suddenly close together, grasping the ear at the butt end point where theyf are separated, the husks are dropped and the knives are ready to receive another ear.

What I claim as new, and desire tolsecure l. The double-bladed knives C C, arranged and operating substantially as shown and described.

2. The semicircular bars J J, in combination with the arms B B carrying the knives` C G, substantially as shown and described, and for the purpose specified. 1

3. The bars L l for compressing the rear ends of the pivoted bars B B, and separating; In testimony that I claim the above, I the knives C C, substantially as shown and have hereunto subscribed my name in the described. presence of two Witnesses.

4. The loop L for releasing the ear from the knives, arranged substantially as shown and described.

5. The stripping-knife k, on the board K, arranged substantially as shown and described, and for the purpose specified.

CHARLES A'. LANG.

Witnesses:

NoRRrs KEENE, JACOB BERRY.

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