US415124A

US415124A - Grain-binder

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Publication number: US415124A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1889-11-12
Anticipated expiration: 1906-11-12

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GRAIN-BINDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 415,124, dated November 12, 1889.

Application filed Novemherll, 1887. Serial No. 254,921. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM M. PIATT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mac-ocheek, in the county of Logan and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Grain-Binders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement on those grain-binders which form the sub ject-matter of Letters Patent No. 377,731, dated February 7, 1888, and Letters Patent No. 384,07 2, dated June 5, 1888.

In my present improvement Itranspose the needle and knotting mechanism so as to bring the knotting mechanism above the binding-table and the needle underneath the latter. The knotting mechanism I employ is of that form which I have shown, described, and claimed in my said Letters Patent No. 384,072, and the operating mechanism which I employ is of that form which I have shown, described,

and claimed in my said Letters Patent No.2

My improvements consist in certain features of construction hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

In order that my invention may be fully understood, I will proceed to describe it with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure I is aside elevation of myimprovecl grain-binder, partly in section, looking from the grain side. Fig. II is a vertical section of the machine on the line II II, Fig. I, looking from the rear side thereof. Fig. II is a plan view of the floor-plate of the casing of the knotting mechanism. Fig. 11 is a plan view of the knotting mechanism. Fig. III is an elevation of the machine, looking from the rear side. Fig. IV is an elevation of the machine, partly in section, looking from the stubble side. Fig. V is a vertical transverse section of the machine through the runninggear. Fig. V1 is an elevation of' the grainwheel portion of the machine, looking from the grain side. Fig. VII is a side elevation of the drive-wheel portion of the machine, looking from the stubble side.

1 is my improved main frame,whichI show, describe, and claim in my Letters Patent, No. 377,731. This main frame has a binding-table level therewith, on which the grain is packed and bound without being elevated. The main frame is supported on a drive-wheel 2 and grain-wheel 3 bythe following means:

4 is the drive-wheel portion of the main frame, to which at its forward part is pivoted, by means of shaft 5 and stud 5 a yoke 5, embracing the drive-wheel. In the upper part of the yoke is journaled an axle 8, on which the drive-wheel is mounted loosely. On the drive-wheel portion of the main frame, one at each side of the wheel, are rigidly secured upwardly-extending rack-bars 9, curved forward, so as to have their racks concentric with the pivots of the yoke. Keyed to the ends of the axle, on the outside of the yoke, are gear-wheels 10, meshing with the rackbars. Secured to the stubble side of the yoke is a rack-segment 11, engaged by a springlatch 12 on a lever 13, keyed to the axle.

1 1 is a sheave or pulley keyed to the axle on the inner side of the drive-wheel, between the latter and the yoke.

Mounted on the grain-Wheel 3, by a spindle '15, is a standard 16, on which the carrier or platform portion 17 of the main frameis adapted to slide.

Brackets 18 are secured to the main frame for supporting sheaves 19, under which is passed a chain or wire cable 20, secured at one end to the sheave on the axle and at the other end to the top of the standard.

By the above-described devices the main frame can be lifted bodily and evenly without tilting, using the axle as a Windlass.

21 is the binder-supportingstock, having rearwardly-extending arm 22 formed with a .head 23, on which is supported a casing 24,

having floor-plate 25 formedwith a needleslot.

26 is the main shaft, carrying at its front end the mutilated gear-wheel 27, (operated by the means shown in my Letters Patent, No. 377,731,) and at its rear end the mutilated gear-wheel 28, formed with a cam-groove 29 in its front face, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. II, and with a cam-groove 30 in its periphery. The main shaft is formed with an extension 31, beyond the gear-Wheel 28, to provide support for a pendent frame 32, in which the knotter 33 has bearing in horizon tal position with its head toward the inner side of the head of the stock. This knotter is similar in construction. to that shown in Patent No. 384,072. The knottcr is formed with an outer jaw 34, inner hinged jaw 35, hollow shaft 39, and shank 37, sliding in the hollow shaft for opening and closing the inner jaw. Surrounding the head of the knotter is a guard or shield 38, beyond which the knotter ope ates and by which the inner jaw is concealed when the latter is. open. Contiguous to the guard or shield are the gripper-plates or clamp-plates 39, between which the gripper 40 rotates. The gripper is formed with a sleeve 41 and large gear-wheel 42. (See Fig. Ill) Directly beneath the outer end of the main shaft and parallel therewith is a counter-shaft 43, supported in hangers 44, secured to the arm of the stock and to the pendent frame, respectively. The countershaft carries the gear-wheel 45, having a delay-shoe 46, the cam 47, and the bevel gearwheels 48 and 49. The mutilated gear-wheel 28 operates to rotate the gear-wheel 45, which is arrested in its movement by the shoe 46. The gear-wheel 48 meshes with a bevel gearwheel 50 on the knotter-shaft to rotate the latter, and the gear-wheel 49 meshes with the gear-wheel of the gripper for imparting rot-ation thereto in the opposite direction.

51 is a lever secured by means of a bracket 52 to. the arm of the stock alongside the counter-shaft. The lever is connected to the shank 37 at one end and acted upon by the cam 47, to open the inner jaw of the knotter by sliding the shank in one direction, and pressed by a spring 53, (see Fig. 11",) to close the inner jaw by sliding the shankin the op posite direction.

54 is a pivoted knife operating between the guard or shield and the clamp-plates. It is mounted on a stud 55, secured to the pendent frame 32, and vibrated by an arm 59, working in the cam-groove 30.

57 is a rock-shaft beneath the table, having a crank-arm 57 at the front of the stock connected by a pitman 58 with a wrist-pin 59 on the mutilated gear-wheel 27. This rockshaft carries at its rear end a curved needle 60, working upwardly through a slot in the table and through the slot in the bottom plate of the casing across the path of the knotter and gripper.

61 is a cut-off link secured to the outer end of the needle, workin g upwardly through the needle-slot in the table, and having rollers 62 beneath the table running in ways 63, also beneath the table. The needle and link cause a complete separation of the incoming grain from the bundle. To the lower portion of the stock and in a frame 71 on the head is journaled an outer ejector-shaft 67, having gear-wheel G9, engaged by the mutilated gearwheel 27.

83 is the main apron, which delivers the grain to the packers.

Journaled in the packer-frame are the outer and inner packer-shafts 7 2 and 7 3, supporting camtraeks 74. The bottonpparts of the cam-tracks are suspended onlinks'75, to adapt them to be raised and lowered by a lever 79, having a pin 77, working in the camgroove 29 of the wheel 28, and at the outer end supporting a pivot-pin 78, connected to the bottom parts by pitmen 79.

are sprocket-wheels, 81 chains, and 82 fingers of the packers, which transfer the grain delivered to them by the main apron to a position in advance of the path 01": the needle. The packer is located between the binding devices and the inner end of the main apron.

84 is a short inner ejector-shaft supported beneath the arm of the stock. Supported on the outer and inner ejector-shafts, beneath the arm of the stock, are cam-tracks 85 and sprocket-wheels 86, carrying the sprocketchains 87 and fingers 88. Mounted in brackets 89 on the stubble side of the stock is the compressor-shaft 90, having at its front end a geanwheel 64, engaged-by the mutilated gear-wheel 27, and at its rear end a crank 91. Keyed to the outer ejector-shaft are cams 98, having grooves 99 on their faces.

100 are links pivoted to the head and carrying at their lower ends a rod 101, whose ends work in the grooves. Supported on the rod is a combined compressor and retainingfinger 94. The inner end of this finger is connected with the crank 91 on the compressorshaft by means shown in Letters Patent N 0. 377,731, consisting of a cylinder 102, pistonrod 92, and a spring 103 between the pistonhead and cylinder-head.

Secured to a crank 96 on the outer ejectorshaft is a dischargingfinger 95, the upper end of the finger being connected by a link 97 wit-l1 the head of the stock, so as to be restricted to an elliptical path.

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

1. The combination of the driving-whecl, the grain -wheel, the main frame, the shaft 5 and stud 5, the yoke 5, embracing the IIO driving-wheel and pivoted by said shaft and said stud, the axle 8, on which the drivingwheel is loosely mounted, journaled in the yoke, the gear-wheels 10, fixed to the axle on the outer sides of the yoke, the pulley 14, fixed to the axle between the inner side of the yoke and the driving-wheel, the curved rack-bars 9,witl1 which the gear-wheelsmesl1,tl1e standard 16, on which the grain end of the platform slides, having a spindle 15, on which the grainwheel is mounted, the brackets 18, beneath the platform, having sheaves 19, the chain 20, extending from the standard beneath the platform-sheaves to the pulley on the axle, the rack-segment11,secured to the yoke,and the lever 13, secured to the axle, having a latch engaging the segment-rack, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the main frame having a binding-table, the binder-supporting stock having a rearwardly-extending arm provided with a head,the knotte'r-casing24, supported from the head, having a needle-slot, the main shaft 26, extending through the arm, having an extension 31 within the head, the pendent frame 32, supported from the extension, the horizontal knotter 33, arranged transversely of the arm within the casing and journaled in the pendent frame, mechanism,substant-ially as described, by which the knotter is Operated from the main shaft, the needleshaft 57, beneath the binding-table, having a curved needle 60 secured directly thereto and working across the path of the knotter-head, connection between the main shaft and needle-shaft by which the latter is operated, the link 61, secured to the forward end of the needle, and the ways 63, on which the link travels.

3. The combination of the main frame having carrier portion 17 and binding-table on the same level, the binder-supporting stock having a rearwardly-extending arm provided with a head, the knotter-casing 24, supported from the head, having a needle-slot, the main shaft 26, extending through the arm, having an extension 31 Within ,the head, the pendent frame 32, supported from the extension, the horizontal knotter 33, arranged transversely of the arm within the casing and journaled in the pendent frame, the knotter-operating mechanism, the needle-shaft 5'7, beneath the binding table, having a curved needle 60 secured directly thereto and working across the path of the knotter-head, the cut-0E link 61, secured to the forward end of the needle, the ways on which the link travels, the car: rier 83, the packer working over the bindingtable betweenthe needle and carrier, and the compressor 94, substantially as described.

WILLIAM M. PIATT. Witnesses:

W. J. Lone, BEN S. LEONARD.