US415476A - Baling-press - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

P. STEUERWALD & A. GORDING.

BALING PRESS.

No. 415,476. Patented Nov. 19, 1889.

WlT/VESSES: N M F? INVENTOR- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PHILIP STEUEIfiVALD AND ALBERT CORDING, OF SANNEMIN, ILLINOIS.

BALlNG-PRESS,

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 415,476, dated November 19, 18 89. Application filed May 3, 1889. Serial No. 309,450. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, PHILIP STEUERWALD and ALBERT oRDINc, of Sannemin, in the county of Livingston and State of Illinois, have invented a new and Improved Baling- Press, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Our invention relates to presses adapted for baling hay, straw, cot-ton, rags, or other substances, and has for its object to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efiicient press of this character, which may be easily and economically operated by farm-hands or any ordinary workmen.

The invention consists in certain novel features of construction and coi'nbinations of parts of the baling-press, all as hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a central vertical longitudinal section of our improved baling-press, partly broken away at its lower or base portion. Fig. 2 is a plan view thereof. Fig. 2) is a front end view with parts in section on the line ac in Fig. 1, and Fig. -t a rear end view of the press.

The frame A of the press-body will in prac tice be supported by truck-wheels mounted on axles a (1', held to it, the wheels not being shown in the drawings. The base of the frame A is divided to give room for the beam or stem l) of the plunger B to slide therein, said plunger working in the baling box or chamber C, provided on the rear end of the frame and having two open sides, allowing easy.tying of the bales. The top wall c of the baling-box is loose at its forward part or end, over which on a cross-beam a of the press-frame are fulcrumed at (I (I at their outer endsa pair of levers D D, to the inner parts of which are pivoted the upper ends of two pressenbars E E, which are guided for vertical motion in the beam (4, and are adapted to press down the free end of the top wall a of the baling-box. A headed screw F, inserted from below in the cross-beam a and held in place by a pin f, passed through the beam, and a metal yoke a thereon extends upward, and on its upper threaded end is fitted a nut G, which is adapted to bear on the inner extremities of the two levers D D. It is obvious that by screwing down thenut the levers will be swung down to carry the bars E E with them and lower the outer end of the wall 0 to contract the area of the discharge end of the baling-box to any required extent to cause the resistance to discharge of the pressed bales, and thus to assure any re quired density of the bale being formed in the baling-box by the successive effective strokes of the plunger B therein, this ma chine being of that class known as continuous balers. A lock-nut g on the screw F above the nut G may be set down onto the latter to hold the levers, presser-bars, and baling-box wall (f at any required ad justment.

The usual feed-opening c is provided at the front end of the baling-boX.

The plunger .13 is actuated by an ellipticalshaped power-head H, which is pivoted centrally to a cross-bar secured to the frame A, and to which head the inner end of a sweep of any preferred form will be connected, so that animals hitched to the sweep may turn it to rotate the head. This power-head is provided with an elliptical or double-curved slot h 71, which receives an anti-friction roller I, journaled on a vertical spindle or shaft held to the outer end of the stem 1) of the plunger. It is obvious thatas the powerhead H is turned the plunger will be reciprocated by action of the side walls of the powerhead slot 7L h on the anti-friction roller 1, the contact of the outer walls of said slot causing the plunger to move rearward on its effective stroke to press the material while the contact of the inner walls of the slot retract or draw back the plunger to allow another batch of hay, straw, or other material to be fed into the baling-box next the plunger. It will be noticed that the leverage of the power-head increases as the resistance of the material being pressed by the plunger increases; hence the power is applied most effectively when most needed in accomplishing the work. The operation of the power-head is the same which ever way it may be turned-completely around or half around and reversethe power-head in each half-turn giving one complete effective and return-stroke to the plunger, or two complete strokes of the plunger for each complete revolution of the sweep. Ve also employ a packer or feed-board J, which is pivotally connected by parallel bars K K, with a pair of uprights 7t" 70, fixed to the press-frame A. These parallel bars cause a nearly vertical movement of the packer J, and to the lower of the two bars is connected rigidly one end of a plate-spring L, the other free end of which is pivoted to the upper end of abar or link M, which is pivoted or coupled at its lower end to the plunger-stem. \Vith this construction it -is obvious that as the plunger moves forward on its effective stroke the link M will draw on the spring L and lift the packer or feed-board .T to the position shown in full lines in Fig. 1, and as the plunger is retracted the packer will be lowered into the baling-box at its feed-opening c and in front of the drawn-back plunger to carry all loose material down into the baling-box, so that it may be pressed up to help form the baleon the next effective stroke of the plunger. The spring L assures an easy and somewhat yielding action of the packer J, thereby preventing shocks in the operation of the de vice. Springs N N, bolted at one end to opposite sides of the upper parallel bar K, act or press outward by their free ends .upon the top lugs j j of the packer to steady it laterally as it is moved up and down by the plunger.

It will be noticed that the motion of the plunger is positive both ways, and that no springs are employed in connection with it; hence there is little danger of derangement of the press, and as the action of the packer is also positive and entirely automatic the press may be safely and economically operated by farm-hands or ordinary.workmen.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is 1. In a baling-press,the combination, with the frame, the baling-chamber, and a longitudinal guideway or slot in the frame, the reciprocating beam in said way or slot, and provided at its inner end within the baling chamber with a plunger, and the pin or stud projecting from the beam, of the power-head provided with an elliptical groove into which said pin projects, whereby direct longitudinal reciprocation Will be given the plunger beam, substantially as set forth.

2. In a baling-press, the combination, with the press-frame, a baling-box, and a plunger in the box, of a packer supported to move Vertically in the baling-boX next the drawnback plunger, a bar or link pivoted at its lower end to the plunger, and a spring connected at one end to the packer-support, and at the other end to the bar or link, substantially as herein set forth.

In a baling-press, the combination, with the press-frame, a baling-box, and a plunger in the box, of parallel bars K K, pivoted to standards on the press-frame, a packer J,

connected to said bars, a spring L, connected to one bar K, and a bar -or link M, connect ing the spring with the plunger, substantially as herein set forth.

4. In a baling-press, the combination, with a loose wall of the baling-box, of a pair of levers fulcrumed to the press-frame, presserbars held to the levers and adapted to shift the loose wall, a screw held to the pressframe, and a nut on the screw adapted to operate the levers and presser-bars and contract the discharge end of the baling-box, substantially as herein set forth.

5. In a baling-press, the combination, with a loose upper Wall 0 of the baling-box, of a pair of levers D D, fulcrumed at (Z (Z to the press-frame, presser-bars E E, connected to the levers and. adapted to shift the wall 0, a screw F, held in the press-frame, and a nut G on said screw, and adapted to depress the levers and presser-bars and the wall 0, to

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contract the discharge end of the baling-box,

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