US399988A

US399988A - hadley

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Publication number: US399988A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1889-03-19
Anticipated expiration: 1906-03-19

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(No Model.)

A. N. HADLEY.

SHOCK FORMING TABLE FOR CORN HARVESTERS. No. 899,988. Patented Mar. 19, 1889.

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ARTEMUS N. HADLEY, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

SHOCK-FORMING TABLE FOR CORN-HARVESTERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 399,988, dated March 19, 1889.

Application filed October 8, 1888. Serial No. 287,476. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ARTEMUS N. HADLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Corn-Harvesters, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in the shock-forming mechanism of that class of corn-harvesters in which the stalks, after be ing out, are conducted in a vertical position to a support in the rear of the cutters, where they are formed into shocks before being discharged.

The object of my improvement is to pro vide a rotary table on which the stalks may be discharged in a vertical position as they come from the cutters and means whereby the stalks are temporarily supported on said table during the formation of a shock thereon, as hereinafter fully described.

The accompanying drawings illustrate my invention.

Figure 1 represents a plan showing a part of the harvester-nlatforin, the rotary table, and its driving mechanism. Fig. 2 represents a rear elevation of the same. Fig. 3 represents a front elevation. Fig. 4: represents a central transverse section of the shock-table. Fig. 5 represents a side elevation of one of the shock-supports.

A is a driving-shaft, which is mounted in suitable bearings 011 the main frame 13 and is rotated by means of one of the carryingwheels (not shown) on which the main frame is mounted in the manner common and well known in this class of machines.

0 and D are bevel gear-wheels, which are secured 011 shaft A andoperate to drive a pair of rotary cutters, E E.

F is a circular table mounted on the main frame so as to rotate thereon in a horizontal plane. Table F is rotated by means of a gear-wheel, G, which is secured to the under side of the table, or on the same shaft therewith, a screw, H, which intermeshes with said gear-wheel, a shaft, I, having a universal joint, J, and carrying the screw H, and a bevel gear-wheel, K, and either one of a pair of bevel gear-wheels, L and M, mounted 011 shaft A, so

as to turn therewith. Shaft I is mounted in sliding bearings O and P on the under side of the main frame, which bearings are controlled, respectively, by levers Q ancLR and connecting-rods T and S, the purpose of lever Q being to throw screw H into or out of engagement with gear-wheel G, so that the table F may be turned by hand when desired, and the purpose of lever B being to throw gearwheel K into or out of engagement with either of the gear-wheels L and M, thereby stopping or reversing the direction of the rotation of table F.

For the purpose of supporting the cut stalks in a vertical position on the table during the formation of the shock, I mount on the table a pair of bent standards, a and '0. The lower ends of said standards are detachably secured to the table by inserting them in mortises cut in the table, and their upper ends are bent substantially at right angles, to form horizontal arms :20 and to, which extend above and across the table at right angles to each other. Arms and a: are bent at the point where they intersect, to form oppositely turned loops .2 and g which interlock and operate to hold the arms, when in position, in a fixed relation to each other.

1 and 2 are guide-bars mounted on the main frame B, so as to form a passage which guides the stalks from the cutters to the table F. The cut stalks are propelled along said passage by the centrifugal force resulting from the rotating movement of the cutters on which the butts of the stalks rest.

The operation of my device is as follows: Geanwheel K having been engaged with gearwheel L, and screw ll being in engagement with gear-wheel G, table F is slowly rotated. The cut stalks are thrown backward against and are upheld by the arms and aat their intersection. The shock is thus built up around the central support furnished by the intersecting arms to and 90, the operator keeping the table F rotating in the direction first started, or reversing the direction of rotation by shifting gear-wheel K from wheel L to wheel M, or allowing the table to stand still for a short time by holding wheel K out of engagement, as may be necessary to the symmetrical formation of the shock. When the building of the shock has been completed,

screw H is thrown out of engagement with wheel G, thus leaving the table free to be rotated by hand. The shock is now bound below the arms w and x, which are then lifted, with their standards, out of the shock and the mortises in the table, and the shock is slipped off the table.

I claim as my invention 1. The combination, with the main frame and the cutters of a coi'neharvester, of a turntable mounted on the main frame at the rear of the cutters and arranged to receive the cut stalks therefrom, and a support for the stalks mounted on said turn-table, so as to rotate therewith and adapted to sustain the stalks in an upright position.

2. The combination, with the main frame, the driving-shaft, and the cutters of a cornharvester, of a circular table mounted on the main frame at the rear of the cutters and arranged to receive the cut stalks therefrom, a support for the stalks mounted on said table, so as to rotate therewith, and intermediate connecting mechanism connecting the table and the driving-shaft, whereby the table is rotated, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. In a corn-harvester, the combination, with the rotating table arranged to receive the cut stalks, of a pair of intersecting arms extending horizontally across the table and detachably supported thereon above its surface, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

4. In a corn-harvester, the combination of 35 the rotating table and the pair of bent standards mounted thereon and having each a horizontal arm, said arms being arranged to intersect above the center of the table and to interlock at the point of intersection, all sub- 40 V. M. Hoon, H. P. H001).