US363269A - Baling-press - Google Patents

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(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1. O. E. WHITMAN.

BALING PRESS.

No. 363,269. Patented Mayl'Y, 1887.

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BALING PRESS.

(No Model.)

No. 363,269. Patented May 17 1887" UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES E. WHITMAN, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

BALING-PRESS.

QPIEICIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 363,269, dated May 17, 1887.

Application filed December 30, 1886. Serial No. 223,021. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern..-

Be it known that I, CHARLES E.WIIITMAN, of the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Baling-Presses, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, and in which Figure I is an end View of my improved press. Fig. II is a top view. Figs. IV and V are detail longitudinal vertical sections taken on line IV V, Fig. II, Fig. IV showing the traverser in its rear position, and Fig. V showing it in its forward position. Figs. III, VI, VII, VIII, and IX are detail views illustrating modifications.

My invention relates to an improved device for imparting power to the traverser of a ballng-press; and my invention consists in features of novelty hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents part of the body of a baling-press, and 2 the traverser. 3 represents a pitman, pivoted at 4 to the traverser, jointed at 5, and connected by its outer end at 7 to a gear-wheel, 8, or to two of such wheels, as shown in Figs. I and II.

The wheels are secured to shafts 9, journaled in boxes 10, and may be driven by any suitable connection with the power-shaft 11. I have shown them connected to the power shaft through means of pinions 12 on a countershaft, 13, the pinions meshing with the cogwheels, and by means of cog-wheels 14 on the outer ends of the shaft 13, which mesh into pinions 15 on the main driving-shaft 11, the main shaft being provided with a driving-pulley, 16. The object of this gearing is to regulate the speed and power of the press, but which forms no essential part of my invention.

Referring now to Figs. IV and V, it will be seen that as the wheels 8 turn in the direction indicated by arrows the traverser will be moved back and forth in the body of the press. In the absence of any other connection between the traverser and the wheels 8,it will be understood that the sweep or movement of the traverser would depend wholly upon the distance between the shafts 9,0n which the wheels 8 are secured, and the point of connection 7 between the pitman and the wheels. As this throw is not sufficient without having wheels To accomplish the throw of the traverser with a wheel or wheels sufficiently small to be practical in a baling-press is the object of my invention; and I accomplish this end by means of an arm, 17, connected at one end to the pitman 3, preferably at the joint, though it may be connected to one side of the joint and con nected by its other end to a fixed object such, for instance, as the frame of the machine, as shown at 18.

Now, it will be understood that as the traverser moves back, the arm 17 will force the pitman into the position shown in Fig. IV,

thus accelerating the movement of the trav= erser, whereby a considerably greater movement of it is obtained. It will thus be readily understood how the arm causes the additional movement of the traverser at each revolution of the cog-wheels, the position that the traverser and pitman would occupy in the absence of the arm 17 being shown by dotted lines in Fig. IV. Besides producing this additional stroke of the traverser, it also accelerates the speed of the traverser at the end of its backward stroke and at the commencement of its forward stroke.

Instead of using the cog-wheels 8,the cranks 19 (shown in Fig. VI) could be secured to the shafts 9 and connected at their inner ends to the outer end of V the pitman. The shafts 9 could then be rotated by any suitable form of gearing, or, if preferred, by a sweep; or, instead of using the cranks 19, eccentrics 20 (such as are shown in Fig. VII) could be used, the eccentrics being connected to the shafts 9 and to the pitman. Still another form is seen in Fig. VIII, where is shown adisk, 21,which may be secured to the shafts 9, or one of them, and which would beprovided with wrist-pins 22, to which the outerends of the pitman would be made fast. Either one or two of these disks could be used.

In Fig. IX is shown a crank, 23, which might be formed on shaft 9, and to which the outer end of the pitman could be secured. The shaft could be turned by any suitable means, either by gearing, as shown in'Figs. I, II, III, and IV, or by means of the sweep 24, as shown in Fig. III, the sweep having a continuous movement.

I'claim as my invention- 1. The combination, in a baling-press, of a traverser,j ointed pitman connected to the traverser at one end, means for imparting movement to the traverser, and to which the pitman is connected at the other end, and means connecting the pitman to a fixed object for the purpose of accelerating the movement of the traverser.

2. The combination, in a baling-press, of a traverser,jointed pitman connected to the trav- -erser at one end, means for imparting movement to the traverser, andto which the pitman is connected at its other end, and an arm connected at one end to the pitman at the joint and connected at its other end to the frame of the machine, for the purpose setforth.

3. In a balingpress, the combination, with a traverser, means forimparting movement to the traverser,and a jointed connection between the traverser and means for imparting the movement, of a means for accelerating the movement of the traverser by throwing the jointed connection out of line.

4. In a baling-press, the combination of a traverser, j ointed pitman connected to the traverser at its inner end, a driving-shaft, means for connecting the outer end of the pitman to said shaft, and an arm for connecting the pitman to a fixed object for the purpose of accelerating the movement of the traverser.

5. In a baling-press, the combination of a traverser, jointed pitman connected to the traverser at its inner end, cog-Wheel to which the pitman is connected at its outer end, drivingshaft to which the cog-wheel is secured, and an arm connecting the pitman to a fixed point, for the purpose of accelerating the movement of the traverser.

6. In a baling-press, the combination of a traverser, jointed pitman connected to the traverser at its inner end, driving-shaft, cog-wheel secured to the shaft, and to which the pitman is secured at its outer end, and an arm pivoted to the pitman at the joint at one end, and pivoted at its other end to the frame of the machine, substantially as and for the purpose set forth. 1

CHARLES E. WHITMAN.

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