US180738A

US180738A - Improvement in grain-separators

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Publication number: US180738A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1876-08-08
Anticipated expiration: 1893-08-08

Description

J. M. WILLIAMS.

GRAIMSEPARATORS.

Patented Aug.8, 1876.

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JOHN M. WILLIAMS, OF SNAUHWINE, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN GRAlN-SEPARATORS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 1 80,738, dated August 8, 1876; application filed October 29, 1875.

To all whom it may concern: E is one axle of the vehicle on which the frame Be it known that I, JOHN M. WILLIAMS, is mounted, and G are the wheels, all of which of Snachwine, in the county of Putnam and are of ordinary construction, and in common State of Illinois, have invented a new and useuse. H and H represent staples put through ful Improvement in Anchors for Grain-Septhe posts B B and secured by nuts I I. J J arators, of which the following is a specificarepresent iron rods swiveled to the staples H tion; H, which cross each other and terminate in The present invention relates to means for eyes P P; To these eyes are swiveled short anchoring the t rods 8 8, which pass through between the spokes of the wheels and through clampingblocks K K, and are drawn tightly to the wheels, so as to bind them and the separatorframe firmly together, to prevent both from having a lateral and longitudinal movement. The last-mentioned rods being jointed is important; otherwise the attachment to the wheels could not be made.

When the separator is to be moved from place to place the clamping-blocks are to be removed, and the short rods turned inward, so that the outer ends of the rods J J will rest on the sills N. A grain-discharge spout,

has a support at its upper end, on a girt, M, or other suitable place, and its lower end lateral motion.

The nature of my invention consists in rods which are jointed to opposite sides of the separator-frame, and extend, crossing each other, to the sills of the frame, at which points they are provided with ointed extension -rods, which pass outward between the spokes of the wheels of the separator, and through clamping-blocks, which, by means of nuts and screws on the ends of the last-mentioned rods, are caused to hold the separator-frame and wheels firmly together, so that when the wheels are staked to the ground the shaking of the riddles cannot communicate any considerable motion to the separator-frame. The is bolted fast to one of the clamping-blocks means now used to stay the separator-frame K, that it may convey the separated grain to consist of simple braces, the lower ends of sacks or other desired receptacle. The grain which are placed on the ground, and the upmay be emptied at the back or front of the per ends put against the sides of the separawheel by inclining the block in the direction tor. These are objectionable in roaming the required. The grain, if to be discharged at efficiency of the separator, in their being in the opposite side of the separator, can be dethe way of manipulating the machine, and in livered at that point by reversing the clampthat they cannot be used when the separator ing-blocks, carrying the block attached to the is placed close by or between two stacks of spout with it. This saves the trouble of degrain. I obviate these objections by means of taching the spout from the block. As an my device, and, at the same time, prevent the equivalent device, strut or pushing rods may separator from having a longitudinal movebe used instead of rods J J, bearing against ment by the strain of the belt or otherwise. clamping-blocks on the inside of the wheels,

In the drawings, Figure l is a transverse holding them rigidly outward. sectional elevation of the frame of a grain- I claim and desire to secure by Letters separator to which my anchoring devices are Patentattached; Fig. 2, a longitudinal elevation of The combination of the staples S S, rods J the same frame, showing the clamping-block J, short rods 8 8, clamping-blocks K, wheels on one wheel, also the grain-spout in position G G, and frame B B, as and for the purpose -on the block. set forth.

N represents the longitudinal sills of the JOHN M. WILLIAMS. separator-frame; B B, the end posts, and B W1tnesses: B the middle posts of the same. M repre- W. H. WILLIAMS, sents girts running from posts B to posts B. E. D. 000K.