US181564A - Improvement in beater and compressing presses - Google Patents

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Patented Aug.29, 1876.

MPETERS. 'FNQTQ-LITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON, D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.-

, GEORGE ERTEL, or QUINCY, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN BEATER AND COMPRESSING PRESSES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 181,564, dated August 29, 1876; application filed August 2, 1676.

To allwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE ERTEL, of Quincy, in the county of Adams and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Beater and Oompressin g Presses. of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

The invention relates to hay-presses operatin g upon the beating and compressing plan; and consists in certain improvements upon the devices for which Letters Patent of the United States N 0. 135,533 were granted to George Ertel, February 4,1873, for improvement in beater and compressing presses, as will more fully appear hereinafter.

Figure l is a top view of a device embodying the elements of the invention. Fig. 2 is a section of same through the lines '1 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detached perspective view of the shuttle.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents a platform, upon one end of which is mounted the beating and compressing mechanism, (Not shown.) Upon the other end of this platform is a pivot, which extends through the Wheel B and enters the base of the driving-shaft H, set firmly at the center of the wheel, a washer, to, being interposed about the pivot and below the wheel. Thus, as the drivin g-shaft is rotated the wheel revolves, and vice versa. Near the periphery of the wheel is provided the raised rim D, having in it the annular groove E, at the base ofwhichis provided in the wheel a vertical annular recess, F, the groove and recess being suitably formed to accommodate the shuttle T, which consists of a traveler, H, curved to conform to the face of the groove E, and of such dimensions that its upper edge shall fit smoothly within the upper part of the groove E, and its lower in the recess F. Upon this traveler is placed a concave plate of metal, I, having a threaded extremity extending through the base of the stop M. One end of the beater-rope L is socured by bolts 1), or in any other suitable manner, between the plate and the traveler, the end of which is provided with the upwardprojecting ear or stop M. It is plain that the shuttle will run smoothly upon the edge of the rim D without danger of escape from the recess and groove which'contain it. At the base of the driving-shaft H, on either side, are

placed the horizontal braces d, into one of 1 forces thebolt N outward. Below the outer,

parts of the bolt a slot, R, is cut in the wheel'B, to receive the stud h on the under side of the bolt, which stud is in contact with the head of the pin T when the bolt is thrown forward, the opposite extremity of the pin projecting beyond the periphery of the wheel to 'come in contact with the tripping-wheel V, secured on the platform A, when the wheel B is rotated.

At a suitable distance from the wheel V, in the direction in which the wheel B moves when operating, is provided the elastic bumper W, the base of which is secured to the bar 15, the opposite end of which bar forms a part of the platform A. X is an arm projecting from the driving-shaft H, and serves as a means of communicating movement thereto. The lever A is pivoted to the driving-shaft H, and is connected by the cord B to the balance-lever P, so that when the lever A is de pressed the lever P is lowered and the clutchbolt projects, as aforesaid. The Wheel B being in motion, the head of the bolt catches the front edge of the shuttle T, and the beaterrope is wound in the recess E, which operation continues until the pin T comes in contact with the tripping-wheel V, whereby the pin is forced inward, and with it the bolt. The gravity of the beater now acting upon the rope, the beater falls, drawing the rope, and causing the shuttle to move rapidly around the wheel until the movement of the shuttle is arrested by the stop M coming in contact with the bumper W. In practice, however, the stop seldom comes in contact with the bumper,

since, as the fall of the beater diminishes by the hay-pit becoming filled, the draft of the beater-rope is proportionally reduced, so that after the first few revolutions of the wheel the stop will not come in contact with the bumper. The head of the bolt would act as a bumper; but this is objectionable, as bringing in contact two unyielding surfaces.

As soon as the tripping-wheel V is passed, the weight of the balance-lever throws the bolt forward, and it again engages the shuttle,

nected by the cord B, with the balance-lever 1?, this same movement of the lever allows the balance lever to descend, throwing out the clutch-bolt and operating the presser-rope, as aforesaid. Axcontrary movement of the lever A operates to elevate the balance-lever, and thus determines the operation of beating, while it throws up the bolt, which arrests the sliding collar, thereby causing the operation of pressing to begin. Hence one movement of the lever A is all that is necessary to re- Thus, when the lever verse the operation of the device, and to cause it to operate either in its beaterflor presser capacity, as desired.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

-1. The shuttle T, in combination with the wheel B, providedwith a recess to confine its movement, as set forth.

2. The shuttle T, in combination with the wheel B, having the groove E and recess F,

substantially as shown and set forth. 3;. The shuttleT, provided with the stop M,

substantially as set forth.

4. The shuttle T, having the stop M, in combination with a' recessed wheel and an elastic bumper, W, as set forth...

5. The clutch-bolt N, for the purposes set forth.

the trippingwheel V and balance-lever P, substantially as shown and described.

7. The lever A, rod t, and cord B, for. the g purpose forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing improvement in heater and compressing presses, as above described,I have herennto'set'my hand this 10th day of July, 1876.

- GEORGE ERTEL. Witnesses:

J. N. CARTER, WM. H. GOVERT.

6. The clutch-bolt N, in combination with

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