US247974A - Hay and cotton press - Google Patents

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. A. WIOKEY & A. A. 'GEHRT.

4 HAY AND COTTON PRESS. No. 247,974. Patented 0013.4, 1881;

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ANDREW YVIOKEY AND ALBERT A. GEHRT, OF QUINCY, ILLINOIS.

HAY AND COTTON PRESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 247,974, dated October 4, 1881.

Application filed February 26, 1881. (No model.)

, To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, ANDREW VVICKEY and ALBERT A. GEHRT, both citizens of the United States, residing at Quincy, in the I county of Adams and State of Illinois, have operated by a lever or sweep} which engages with a cogged segment, the said follower and pitman being provided with suitable springs for regulating their movements.

Our invention further consists in providing a bale-chamber with a screw-adjusted top and a sliding pivoted reversible end provided with tie-tubes of a novel construction, as hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of the horizontal press; Fig. 2, a plan view; Fig. 3, a side view of the tietube, and Fig. 4 a cross-section of the same.

The horizontal frame A is constructed with its bale-chamber a of somewhat larger diameter than that of the follower-chamber a, in

order'that the piston or follower may have ad-- vantage in pressing the material to-be baled from a smaller to a larger space, while the shoulders so formed will serve to hold the material, as the piston is repeatedly withdrawn to admit new charges. The bale is thus built up gradually, and is consequently more compactly formed than where a large quantity of material is pressed by a single movement of the piston. This method of pressing necessitates apeculiar mechanism for operating the follower b,whioh consists in a pitman, B, terminating in a double-geared rack-bar, b, which is operated by means ofa cogged segment, G, and an 0scillating sweep, e. The said pitman, which is pivoted in a fecess in the piston, is provided with a straight steel spring, b secured thereto,

and having one end planted in the follower, for

With a lug or pin, 0 for engaging with either end of the segment, communicates the desired motion. The end of the double-geared rack-bar 'is placed in gear between the two centralcogs of the segment, so that the pitman will be in line with the follower, and the latter consequently at the farthest end of its chamber. Then, as the segment is turned either to the right or the left and the end of the rack-bar passes the dead-center, a spiral spring, d, connecting the follower with a sleeve on the vertical shaft 0, causes the follower to spring back from the bale-chamber, giving a sudden and rapid movement to the segment until its ends are in line with the press. The material to be pressed is then placed in the bale-chamber at the top opening, and as the movement of the segment is reversed by the lever the piston or follower is forced back into the chamber until the rack baragain passes the dead-center,when the tension of the spring again withdraws the follower, and the sudden movement of the segment is repeated in a reverse direction. In this manner the rack-bar passes alternately upon each side of the vertical shaft 0, and a double action is given to the follower.

It will be seen that by this method of pressing a bale may be easily made of any desired length.

To facilitate the removal of the completed bale from its chamber, we construct a pivoted reversible end piece, E, consisting of avertical rectangular post, e, journaled in the top and bottom of the press, and a sliding horizontal G at its ends for fitting the bale-chamber, said frame being held adjustablyto said post by density as well as the length of the bale may be regulated.

The heads G G, as well as the follower-head, are provided with suitable grooves for receiving the longitudinally-bisected metal tie-tubes H, which are designed to project slightly from said heads to form corresponding indentations in the surface of the bales, for receiving the tiecords when the sections of the tubes drop ofl in consequence of the expansion of the bales after the pressure of the chamber is released. The said heads are also provided with spurs or claws h on their side edges for holding the bale, while the end piece, E, is turned upon its pivot c, to eject the same through either one of the side doors, I. This object may be still more easily accomplished by releasing the clamp-screw J and allowing the top of the chamber to yield and thereby loosen the bale.

It will be observed that the end piece, E, may be reversed by sliding it endwise after being turned about its pivot.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. Aportable horizontal hay and cotton press having its bale-chamber larger than its follower-chamber, and provided with a springat'tuated follower and double-geared rack-bar,

in combination with a cogged segment and oscillating sweep, substantially as shown and described, and for the purposeset forth.

2. In a press for hay, cotton, 800., a bale-chamber having side doors and an adjustable top, in combinationjwith a sliding reversible end piece having claws upon the lateral edges of its heads, substantially as shown and described, whereby the pressed bale may be more easily ejected from its chamber, as set forth.

3. In a hay and cotton press, a bisected metal tie-tube provided with lugs for holding it in position, in combination with suitably-recessed baling-heads, substantially as shown and de scribed, said tube being arranged to divide and drop off from the cord, as set forth.

4. In a hay and cotton press, a cogged segment loosely mounted upon a sleeved vertical shaft, in combination with an oscillating sweep and a double-geared rack-bar, substantially as shown and described, the said rack-bar being provided with a spring for holding it in gear, as set forth.

ANDREW WIGKEY. L. s.] ALBERT A. GEHRT. L. s.]

Witnesses:

H. F. DENNY, J. A. ALLEN.

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