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Description

(No Model.)

H. RUSGHENEK.

GRAIN WHEEL POR MOWING MAGHINES. No. 846,443. Patented July 27, 1886.

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lINiTEn STATES PATENT @tarea HENRY RUSCHENEK, OF BROGKPORT, NEV YORK.

GRAIN=WHEEL FOR MOWING-IVIACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 346,443, dated July 27, 1886.

Application filed November 1l, 1885. Serial No.182ASS. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY ItUseI-TENEK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brockport, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Grain- Vheels for llIowing-Maehines, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure l represents a perspective View showing the track-clearer and outside shoe of a mowing-machine with my improvements attached. Fig. 2 represents a side elevation of the same with the supporting-wheel removed. Fig. 3 represents aplan view. Fig. Il is a detail illustrating in perspective the clip H.

My invention relates to certain improvements adapted to the outside shoe and trackclearers of mowing-machines; and the same consists in the construction and combination of devices, as well as in certain details, all of which will be hereinafter described, and spe-A cifically pointed out in the claims.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will now describe its construction and the manner in which I have carried it ont.

In the said drawings, A represents an outside shoe, and B the track-clearer, of a mowing-machine. The rear of the-shoe is provided with a boss, a,having a pin or bolt, b, which furnishes a fulcrum for a lever, D, which adjusts the position of the supporting-wheel C, as I shall hereinafter describe. The forward end of the lever D is formed on the arc of a circle, and moves freely within a curved guide-plate, e, east on the outer face of the shoe, and a bolt, d, projecting from the forward end of the lever, acts as a shaft or bearing for the supporting-wheel C.

The track-clearer B is pivotally secured to the shoe at e, and is provided with a plate, E, pivoted at one end to the track-clearer at f, its opposite end being slotted at g to receive a bolt or set-screw, h. The plate E also has an extension or rack, E', provided with openings 7: Z.

lVhen the end of the lever Displaced in the upper opening, 7J, it will raise the front of the shoe and the sickle to about the highest cutting distance from the ground, which is about five inches, but permitting the trackclearer, by reason of its pivoted connection with the shoe, to remain in its normal position on the ground. Vhen the end ofthe lever is placed in the lower opening, l, the shoe and cutters are loweredand in a pesition in which it is preferred to use the machine for cutting grass.

The forward portion of the shoe is provided with the usual means for sustaining the inger-bar Gr and guiding the movements of the cutters, and to the finger-bar I secure a clip, H, of peculiar construction, which is designed to close or nearly close the space in the rear of the cutter between the finger-bar and lower face of the slot S, thereby preventing the grass or other material from clogging and interfering with the successful working of the cutters. This clip H is bolted to the linger-bar at m, and is provided with an upwardly-extending flange, a, adapted to close the open space between the shoe and fingerbar, thereby preventing clogging, and an augular extension, p, which passes through the slot S, lying closely against the face ot' the cutters, and being secured to the 'finger-bar at r on the opposite or inner side of the shoe.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. The shoe A and the wheel C, in combina tion with a lever fnlcrumed upon said shoe, and having said wheel mounted on its forward end, a track-clearer pivoted to the inner side of said shoe, and a pivoted plate or rack for engaging and holding the rear end of said lever, whereby the forward portion of the shoe is elevated or depressed, substantially as described. l

2. The shoe A and the track-clearer B, pivoted to its rear, in combination with a means for elevating and depressing the forward end of the shoe, comprising a lever fnlcrumed upon the rear of the shoe, and having a curved forward end, a curved guide for said end,awheel mounted upon a bolt projecting from said lever, a plate or rack pivoted to the trackclearer, andfprovided with openings which are engaged by the rear end of said lever, substantially as herein described.

3. The combination, with the shoe and the IOO finger-bar of a mowing-machine, of the clip H, having a, forward extension, p, and an up- Wardly-extending flange, fn, formed upon the outer edge of said extension, substantially as 5 herein described.

4. In a mowing-machine7 the supporting- Wheel, the shoe, the track clearer pivoted thereto, and a lever fulcrumed upon the shoe and provided with a curved end, andjournal 1o for the supporting-wheel, in combination with a curved guide for the forward endof the lever, a plate pivoted to the track-clearer, and provided with an extension or rack,vvhere by the lever is adjusted, and a set-screw for securing the upper end of the plate, substau- 15 tially as herein described.

, HENRY RUSCHENEK. Witnesses:

L. T. UNDERHILL, J AMES BRENNAN.

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