US573067A

US573067A - Corn-harvester

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Publication number: US573067A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1896-12-15
Anticipated expiration: 1913-12-15

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No. 573,067. Patented Dec. 15,1896.

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CORN-HARVESTER.

SPECIFICATIONforming part of Letters Patent No. 573,067, dated December 5, 1896.

Application filed December 3, 1895. serial No. 570,902. (No modelfl 1'0 at! whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES W. \VHITE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lincoin, in the county of Logan and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Corn-Harvesters; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention is a corn-harvester; and it consists in the novel construction and arrangement of its parts hereinafter set out in this specification and the claims hereunto attached.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my invention. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same; and Figs. 3 and 4 are detail views, Fig. 3 being a top plan View of the float and Fig. 4 being a bottom plan view of the frame that works upon said float.

My machine will easily cut five acres per day. Two men can run it steadily, stopping only to dump the shock. It cuts as fast as a team of horses will walk without overworking the men, and makes only one shock-row at the end of the field, thereby leaving the field clear and clean.

My invention is described as follows:

a a is the double tongue, which consists of the poles a. b b are the breast-pieces, and c c are the singletrees, to which the horses are attached, and d is the doubletree, pivotally secured to the coupling-tongue cby means of a clip and bolt 6. From each end of this doubletree run chains 6 the front ends of which are secured to the singletrees c c.

To the platforms ff and pointingimvardl y are secured knives g g g.

The poles a are provided at their front ends with strips h 71-, which turn outwardly and downwardly to pick up down corn. These strips gather the corn and pass it backward between the poles a a and the knives g g g, which cut the corn off, while the men, one standing on each of the platforms f, gather it and throw it upon the frame iiand between On the running-gear is the standards 3' j j j.

On the upper face of the float Z lis pivoted a turning table Z, and on the top of the turning table is secured a beam, in each end of which are pivoted roller-wheels Z 1 Fig. 3, and are secured guide-pegs Z Z to keep the frame i in proper position as it moves to the right or left on the float. On the front and rear ends of said float are pivoted two other roller-wheels m m and on each side of said float are pivoted rollers 41 n.

The frame 11, the upper face of which is shown in Fig. 2 and the lower face by Fig. 4, consists of the side bars 0, provided with the under grooves 0 and catches 0 the curved end pieces 19, and the intermediate cross-pieces 12.

In practice the frame t is placed on the float, with the roller-wheels Z working in the grooves 0, the curved pieces p resting on the rollers m.

The operation of my invention is as follows: The team, consisting of two horses, is driven along one on each side of the row. The corn passes between the poles a and is cut off by the knives g. The men take the corn and throw it up onto the frame 2' and between the standards j. \Vhen the end of the row is reached, the corn is bound, the standards j are taken out of their perforations and the frame is turned around until the side bars 0 0 rest on the rollers n. It is then pushed sidewise until arrested by the catchers 0 which come in contact with the rollers n. The other end of the frame is then raised and the corn dumped onto the ground with its out ends down, and, being a large bundle, it stands alone. 1

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

1. The combination of the running-gear 70, body it; float l, secured on the top of said body, provided with turning table Z, having rollers Z end rollers m, and side rollers n;

frame 2', adapted to work on the upper face pieces 13, substantially as shown and deof said float, substantially as shown and described and for the purposes set forth. 1o scribed and for the purposes set forth. In testimony whereof I affix my signature 2. I11 combination with the float Z, having in presence of two witnesses. 5 the turning table Z, rollers Z m and n, the JAMES \V. HITE.

frame i, consisting of the side bars 0, having \Vitnesses: in their under faces the grooves 0, and 7M. J. PEGROM, catches 0 end pieces 1), and intermediate CHARLES T. HOBLIT.