US1714930A - Haystacker - Google Patents

Description

F. SMITH HAY STACKER May 28, 1929.

2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed Jan. 11, 1928 an mate c May 28, 1929.

F. SMITH HAY STACKER nated in the several views of the drawings 'Pat ented May 28, I929.

UNITED STATES 'A'rer .rrics.

FRANCIS SMITH, or sin'r, oononano.

HAYSTACKER.

I Application filed January 11, 1928. Serial No. 246,001.

This invention relates to appliances for forming hay, straw, and like material into stacks or ricks, and provides an article of the nature indicated which may be readily transported from one place to another, and

which is adjustable and capable of being For a full understanding of the invention and the merits thereof, reference is to be had to the following description and the drawings hereto attached, in which,

Figure 1 is a top plan View of a hay stacker embodying the invention.

- Figure 2 is a vertical, longitudinal sectional View thereof, the dotted lines showing an adjusted position of the stacker and the movable sections pushed in to reduce the length of the device for convenience of handling and storing.

Figure 3 is a fragmentary view.

Figure 4 is a front view of the hay pusher.

Figure 5 is a detail view of a portion of the base and the uprights pivoted thereto.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and desigby like reference characters.

The stacker comprises a base which 1ncludesrunners 1, cross braces 2 and end bars 3. Posts 4 extend upwardly from the front ends of the runners 1 and other posts 5 are pivotally connected at their lower ends to the rear ends of the runners 1. Plates 6 are secured to opposite sides of the posts 5 and their lower ends embrace opposite sides of the runners 1 and are pivoted thereto, as indicated at 7 Braces 8 connect the upper ends of the posts 4 to the runners l, and support a windlass 9, which is operable by means of a crank 10. A pin 10 insertable in openings formed in the brace 8 adjacent the crank 10 is adapted to engage the latter and hold the Windlass 9 in the required adjusted position. Posts 11 are slidable on the posts 5 and are held thereto by means of loops or keepers 12 and 13,'thc loops 12 being attached to the posts 5 and loosely re-' ceiving the posts 11 and the loops 13 being attached to the lower ends of the posts 11 and loosely engaging the posts 5. Guide pulleys 14 are i the posts 5. Guide pulleys 15 are provided at the lower ends of the postsll. A cable 16 fast at one end to the Windlass 9 passes around the guide pulleys 14 and 15'and is attachedat the opposite end tothe posts 11. Rotation of the windlass' 9winds the cables 16 thereon and elevates theposts 11 which provided at the upper ends of maybe held in the adjusted position by 9 means of the pin 10? engaging the crank 10. Cross braces 1? connect the postsll. v

A sectional hay rack is mounted upon the posts rising from the base 1 and is pivoted to the upper ends of the posts 4 and rigidly connected to the upper ends of the posts 11.

The sections comprising the rack are of similar formation. The main section of the hav rack is designated generally by the numeral 18 and the supplemental section by The section 19 is adapted the numeral 19.

to be extended, indicated by the full lines in Figures 1 and 2 or it may be pushed in to'reduce the length of the stacker, as indicated bythe dotted lines in Figure 2. The section 18 comprises side members 20 and transverse members 21. Across piece 22 connects the side members 20 adjacent their lower ends and is mounted in the upper ends of the posts 4 to turn freely therein. Spaced longitudinal bars 23 are attached to the transverse members 21 and form the bed of the rack section 18. Braces 24 extend between the lower endsof the posts 11 and the side. members 2().- The extension rack section 19 comprises transverse members 25 and longitudinal bars 26. The bars 26 pass through the spaces formed between the bars -23, forward displacementof thesection 19 being prevented by the. upper rear transverse member 25 engaging the rear of the bar 22. lVhen the section 19 is drawn forv ward, it is supported upon the ground and upon either the cross piece 22 or the lower transverse member 21.

A hay pushing device is provided to cooperate with the stacker and includes a frame 27 mounted upon rollers 28 and a cross head 29 at the forward end of the frame 27. A push pole 30 is adapted to bedetachablyconnected withthe frame 27, and

. nions which in the side members 01 the frame 27, and v1n length to suit the stacker so as to move the hay, or like material there over in the formation eta stack or rich. A cross bar 31 at the forward end of the push pole 30 is provided at its ends with trunengage circular seats 31 formed may be of any this manner connection is provided for between the push pole and frame 27, with allowance for a turning of the parts incident to the travel of the frame 27 over thesections lS'and 19 of the hay rack. A team 01 horses is adapted to be hitched to the rear 7 end of the push pole 30, wherebyto advance r the pusher and move the hay or Other material over the device in the formation of the stack or rich.

Having thus described the inventioinl claim: Y

1. A hay stacker comprising a base, a rack mountedupoii the base and comprising similar maiii and supplemental sections,

each of the sections including spaced longttudln'al bars and transverse members con necting the bars, the main section being pivoted to the base, and the supplementalseo tien being slidable to I vary the effective length of the rack, and having its bars passa sectional rack mounted upon the base and comprising a n'iain'pivoted "section and a supplemental sliding section, each 0t the sections including spaced longitudinal bars and transverse members connecting the bars,

the lower transt-erse member of the main section being pivotally mounted in the said front posts and forming supporting means for the upper rear end of the supplemental sliding section, and serving to limit the for- Ward movement of the s'liclingseetion by engaging the upper rear transverse member thereof. c

In testimony whereofI affix my signature.

FRANCIS SMITH. [L. s]

Images