US679255A - Harvester. - Google Patents

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No. 679,255. Patented July 23, I911". J. H. DANIEL.

HARVESTER.

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HARVESTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 679,255, dated July 23, 1901.

Application filed April 18, 1899.

To ctZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JACOB H. DANIEL, of Owensboro, in the county of Daviess, State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Harvesters, of which the following is a complete specification, reference being bad to the accompanying drawrugs. I

The object of my invention is to produce an improvement in self-binding harvesters, whereby the transportation of the machine from one place to another isfacilitated.

In the ordinary type of harvesters the width of the machine is such as to prohibit its transportation over an ordinary roadway without partially disassembling it, an operation which requires considerable time and some skill to accomplish and which is therefore expensive.

By my invention it is proposed to provide in a harvester such means of elevating the platform as can be readily manipulated by one man.

Such in general terms being the scope of my invention, I shall proceed hereinafter to describe in detail and to succinctly specify in the appended claims the more exact scope of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure I is a top plan View of a complete harvester embodying my invention; Fig. II is a side elevation of the same; Fig. III is a rear elevation of the subject-matter of Figs. I and II; Fig. IV is a view similar to Fig. III, showing the platform elevated and the reel closed as for transportation; Fig. V is a front view of the machine in the position illustrated in Fig. IV; Fig. VI is a section on the line VI VI of Fig. I; Fig. VII is a detail perspective view illustrating the reel-expanding mechanism; Fig. VIII is a perspective view of the supporting-wheel frame detached; Fig. IX is a section on IX IX of Fig. III; Fig. X is a detail sectional View of the screw-bolt 44.

Referring to the figures on the drawings, 1 indicates the main supporting and driving Wheel of the machine, upon whose shaft 2 is journaled, as indicated at 3, the main frame 40f the machine. The wheell communicates motion, as through a beveled gear 5, pinion 6, shaft 7, eccentric 8, andlink 9, to a cutter 10. The wheel 1 also drives, as by engagement of a beveled gear 12 on its side opposite the Serial No. 713,482. (No model.)

wheel 5 with a beveled pinion 13, a shaft 14. Said shaft is provided upon its extremity with a sprocket-pinion 15, which, intermeshing with a sprocket-belt 16, drives a sprocketpinion 17, fixed to the end of the roller-shaft 18, that actuates an endless belt 19. The belt 19 is inclined upon the frame 4 and is adapted to elevate grain in the straw from the platform 20 to the binding mechanism. (Not illustrated.) The shaft 18, as bysuitable sprocketgear connection 21, imparts rotation to a shaft 22, journaled in suitable bearings in the frame 4 and provided upon its opposite extremity with a beveled gear 23, which, meshing with a corresponding gear 24, actuates a shaft 25, carried in suitable hearings in a reel-frame 26. The shaft 25 is provided upon its extremity opposite that which carries the gear 24 with a beveled gear 28, that, meshing with a gear 29, secured to a reel-shaft 30, revolu bly mounted in the reel-frame 26, serves to drive said shaft.

The mechanism above specified, and illustrated in the drawings, is intended to be merely representative of a grainbinder for which any preferred type of mechanism may be substituted in practice. Oonstituting, as it does, no part of my invention the mechanism described is not even selected as a preferable form of embodiment of grain-binding mechanism, but is adopted mainly as being well adapted to diagrammatically assist the explication of the principle of my invention. Let it be observed also that the binding mechanism of the machine is omitted, being entirely non-essential to the explanation of my invention. v

Coming now to that part of the machine which constitutes the embodiment of my invention, and referring particularly to Figs. III, IV, and V, 31 and 32 indicate tongues that constitute projections from the frame 4, above referred to. Said tongues underlie and support the platform 20 when said platform is in the horizontal position. The platform 20 in the ordinary type of harvester is rigidly secured to the frame of the machine; but my invention comprehends the movably mounting of it in a special manner upon the frame 4, whereby it may be lifted from the horizontal to the substantially vertical position, when required, for

transporting the machine from one place to the other. For this purpose the side bars 33 of the platform are pivoted (see Fig. VI) upon journal-boxes 34, secured to the frame 4 and supporting the shaft 22. The shaft 22 carries between the side bars 33 a roller 35, that actuates an endless belt or conveyer 36. It is for this purpose that I prefer to pivot the platform 20 concentrically with the shaft 22 in order that the platform may be elevated and depressed without affecting the tension of the belt 36. It is important in this connection that the platform 20 should not exert any binding strain upon the shaft 22, and this end is accomplished by the interposition of boxes 34 between the side bars 33 and the shaft 22.

Upon the extremity of the platform 20 I provide tongues 38 and 39, corresponding to the tongues 31 and 32, previously described. They are designed to detachably secure to the platform a supporting-wheel frame 40. (Clearly shown in Fig. VIII.) As shown in that figureya narrow box 41 is provided for the reception of the tongue 38, the box and the tongue being provided with alining apertures for the reception of a bolt 42 for securing the parts together. The end of frame 40 opposite the box 41 is provided with a bifurcated plate 43, which straddles a screw-bolt 44 on the tongue 39. Employment of the plate 43 in connection with the box 41 affords eonvenientmeans for attaching and detaching the frame 40, the manipulation of the nut 42 serving to secure or release the frame from the tongues 38 and 39, to which it is secured.

The frame 40 is designed to support the end of the platform 20 when the platform is in the horizontal position or to balance the frame 4 when the platform is in the elevated position-=as shown, for example, in Figs. IV and V. When used as shown in the figures last named, the frame 40 is attached to the tongues 31 and 32 in a manner precisely similar to that in which it is attached to the tongues 38 and 39.

In shifting the frame 40 from one position to the other the frame 4 may be temporarily balanced by a block or anysuitable makeshiftfor the purpose.

The frame 40 is provided with a wheel 45, which is preferably adjustable, being for that purpose carried on a lever 46, pivoted, as indicated at 47, to the frame 40, and adjustable, as by means of a suitable-latch 48, engaging the notches 49 of a quadrant ona plate 50, that is secured to and constitutes a part of the frame 40.

The. rear wall 51 of the platform 20 is preferably pivotally secured to the platform, so that it may be folded down against the platform when the latter is elevated. For this reason a latch 52, (see Fig. III,) entering an aperture 53 in a side wall 54, carried on the frame 4 and engaginga strip 55 on said wall 54, may serve to hold the wall 51 in place when the platform 20 is in the horizontal position.

56 indicates a spring-latch supported upon the frame 4, as by the wall 54, that is adapted to engage a lug 57, projecting from the bottom of the platform 20.

The engagement of the lever 56 and lug 57 serves to hold the platform 20 in the elevated position and may be assisted in that function by a bar 58, pivoted, as indicated at 59, to a portion of the frame 4 and provided with a head 60, (see Figs. IV and V,) that fits between adjacent fingers 61 and 62 of the finger-bar. When not in use, the bar. 58 hangs vertically out of the way of the operating mechanism.

In connection with the mechanism for elevating and depressing the platform 20 it is necessary to provide some means of disposing of the reel, which in machines of this class projects partially above the cutter and finger bars and operates to sweep the standing grain toward those members and to further urge the cut grain upon the conveyer 36. It is practicable in this connection to employ a laterally-swinging or detachable reel such as is known in the art; but I prefer, either without or in addition to such mechanism, to'employ a folding reel of special construction. The reel, as has been suggested, is carried upon the shaft 30. In order to provide for the folding of the reel upon said shaft, I

provide thereon, preferably, a pair of disks 65 and 66. One disk might be employed; but for lending rigidity to the reel when expanded I prefer to employ two, one cooperating with the other. The reel consists of a plurality of frames pivotally secured to the shaft 30, as by arms 68, a pair of arms being provided for each frame. The arms 68 of the several frames are so disposed upon the shaft 30 as to permit of the frames being expanded, as shown, for example, in Fig. II, or folded together, as shown in Fig. IV. In the last position the arms 68 lie side by side in substantially vertical alinement. The disks 65 and 66 are preferably provided as a part of the expanding mechanism or mechanism for holding the reel-frames in position for operation. For that purpose the disks are provided (see Fig. VII) with a series of stops 70, 71, 72, and 73. The stops 71, 72, and 73preferably consist of shoulders formed in the body of the disk, while the stop may consist'of a pin projecting from the face of the highest of the planes by which the several shoulders are defined. The outmost arms 68 are preferably.

secured fixedly to their respective disks, as by pins or bolts 74, in close juxtaposition to the shoulder 73, against which they are supported when the reel is in operation. Each of the other arms 68 are respectively held in engagement with their respective stops, as by spring-dogs 75.

In operation the strain upon the arm 68 is in opposition to the stops or shoulders upon the disks. The dogs therefore need not be capable of sustaining any considerable strain, but are only intended to hold the weight of the reel-frames to their respective positions. When the reel is expanded, as shown, for example, in Fig. II, the adjustable arm 68 being held in position by the dogs 75, as shown in Fig. VII, the reel resembles in appearance and in mode of operation any ordinary harvester-reel.

When the reel is to be folded for the purpose of transporting the machine, all that is necessary is to depress the several dogs 75 and permit the several arms 68 to assume the position illustrated, for example, in Fig. IV, in which position they are out of the way of the platform 20 and permit the raising or lowering thereof in the manner already described.

What I claim is- 1. In a harvester, the combination with its frame, and platform pivotally united thereto, of a forwardly-folding, vertical rear Wall on the platform, tachably uniting said rear wall and the frame, substantially as set forth.

2. In a harvester, the combination with its frame provided with tongues, of a pivoted platform provided with tongues corresponding to the tongues upon the frame, one of each pair of tongues being provided with a bolt, and a supporting-Wheel frame provided on one end, with a box adapted to receive one of the tongues of either pair above referred to, and at the other end with a bifurcated plate adapted to engage the bolt upon the other tongue of either pair, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination with a harvester-frame and its platform pivotally united thereto, of a folding reel located to one side of the platform and having frame-arms independently movable around its axis, whereby when the reel is folded, the frame-arms hang in parand latch mechanism for de-' allel, vertical planes out of the path of movement of the platform, substantially as set forth.

4:. A folding harvester-reel comprising a shaft, reel-frame arms mounted thereon at one end respectively, and arranged in pairs extending upon one side only of the shaft, said pairs of reel-frame arms being movable independently around the longitudinal axis of said shaft in such manner as, when the reel is folded, to hang altogether below the shaft in parallel planes.

5. A folding harvester-reel comprising a shaft, reel-frame arms mounted thereon at one end respectively, and arranged in pairs extending from one side only of said shaft, said pairs of reel-frame arms being movable independently around the longitudinal axis of said shaft, and means for holding the pairs of reel-frame arms in distributed positions about the shaft.

6. A folding harvester-reel consisting of a shaft and disk secured thereto, of stops and dogs upon the disk, and reel-frame arms pivoted upon the shaft and cooperating with said stops and dogs, substantially as set forth.

7. In a folding reel, the combination of a shaft a pair of disks provided, respectively, with cooperating stops and dogs, and reelframes mounted upon the shaft and havin arms disposed so as to cooperate with the stops and dogs, respectively, of the disks, substantially as set forth.

In testimony of all which I have hereunto subscribed my name.

JACOB H. DANIEL.

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