US722227A - Corn-harvester. - Google Patents

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PATENTED MAR. 10, 1903.

A. S. GOVE.

CORN HARVESTER.

APPLIOATION FILED MAY 8. 1902.

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No. 722,227. I PATENTED MAR. 10, 1903. A. s. GOVE.

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APPLICATION FILED MAY 8, 1902.

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ASA S. GOVE, OF PERRYPARK, COLORADO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN R. DIXON, OF PERRYPARK, COLORADO.

CORN-HARVESTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 722,227, dated March 10, 1903.

Application filed May 8, 1902. Serial No. 106,479. (No DlOdGLl To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, AsA S. GOVE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Perrypark, in the county of Douglas and State of 0010- rado, have invented a new and useful Corn- Harvester, of which the following is a speci fication.

My invention is an improved corn-harvesting machine adapted for use in cutting corn and securing the stalks of the cut corn together in bundles; and it consists in the peculiar construction and combination of devices hereinafter fully set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a top plan View of a corn-harvesting machine constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse sectional view of the same, taken on a plane indicated by the line a a of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail sectional view showing the cutter-knife and the support which carries the same. Fig. i is a detail perspective view of one side of the cutter-knife support. Fig. 5 is a side elevation showing the machine in operative position, with dotted lines indicating the binder in its tilted position. Fig. 6 is a sectional View taken through the binder on the line 6 6 in Fig. 1 and showing the binder-bar in the position which it occupies while compressing a shock.

In the embodiment of my invention I construct a draft and binder truck 1 and a cuttor-truck 2, which are disposed side by side and have theirinner opposing sides pivotally or otherwise flexibly connected together, as by hinge connections 3. At the front end of the draft and binder truck is a pivoted axle 4, which has supporting-wheels 5 and a drafttongue 6. The draft and binder truck has a platform 7 ,and at the rear outer corner thereof is a rearwardly-extending.bar 8, here shown as provided with an outwardly extending stub-shaft or spindle 9, on which is mounted a supporting-wheel 10. A seat 11 for the driver is disposed near the front end of the platform 7, and a foot-rest 12 is here shown disposed over the axle 4.

The cutter-truck has a platform 13 and a rear axle 14, on the spindles of which are supporting-wheels 15. It will be observed by reference to Fig. l of the drawings that the supporting-wheels 15 of the binder and cutter trucks, respectively, are abreast of each other and that the inner supportingwheel15 of the cutter-truck is a common support both for the cutter-truck and the bindertruck. The cutter truck is considerably shorter than the binder or draft truck and is disposed abreast of the rear portion of the latter and has on its outer side a forwardlyextending bar 16, provided at its front end with a suitable bearing 17 for the shank or spindle 18 of a trail-fork 19, in which is mounted a trail-wheel 20, the latter supporting the front outer corners of the cutter-truck. The trail wheel may be anywise suitably mounted, and I do not limit myself in this particular. It is evident from the foregoing that the cutter-truck will be drawn by the hinder or draft truck and will be guided by the latter, the trail-wheel 20 adapting the cutter-truck to turn in any direction with the draft or hinder truck. lhe cutter-truck has a seat 21 for the operator who handles the stalks as they are cut, the said seat being disposed above the platform 13 of the cuttertruck.

The front edge of the platform 13 of the cutter-truck is oblique. An obliquely-disposed cutter-blade 22 is carried in front of and below the front edge of the cutter-truck platform. Within the scope of myinvention any suitable means may be employed to support the cutter-blade 22. For the purposes of this specification a pair of vertically-adjustable hangers 23 are shown, which are socured to opposite sides of the frame of the cutter-truck. A plate 24 has its ends secured on the said hangers and is here shown as formed with a vertical flange 25 at its rear side, which flange bears against the oblique front edge of the cutter-truck platform. The rear side of the obliquely-disposed cutter-blade is fitted in a groove 26 in the front edge of the plate 24., which plate is also obliquely disposed. Said plate may be bolted or otherwise secured on the lower substantially horizontal portions 27 of the hangers 23, and the ends of the cutter-blade 22, which bear on said lower portions of the hangers, are secured thereto by bolts 28. The cutter-blade is inclined laterally and has its front cutting edge 29, which is uppermost, beveled and sharpened, so that the same is adapted to readily cut through the stalks of corn, the machine being driven parallel with a row of corn, so that the blade 22 is caused to cut the stalks as it passes them. The vertical arms of the hangers 23 are here shown as provided with adjusting-openings 30. Suitable bolts 31, which engage appropriate openings 30, secure the said vertical arms of the hangers to brackets 32, which are here shown as bolted on the upper sides of the side bars of the cutter-truck frame. Thereby the cutter-blade may be adjusted vertically and caused to cut the cornstalks at any suitable height above the ground, so that the corn-stubble will be as short as may be desirable.

On the respective outer and inner sides of the cutter-truck frame, at the front corners thereof,arelongitudinally-adjustable stirrups 33 34 for the feet of the operator who manipulates the cut stalks. The inner stirrup 34 is higher than the outer stirrup 33, as is clearly shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings, thus enabling the operator to brace and sustain himself with ease when he inclines his body inwardly toward the draft or hinder truck when placing the cut stalks in the binder, which I will now describe.

The binder 35 is an obliquely disposed frame, which normally lies on the platform of the binder or draft truck, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The said frame has the lower or bottom portion thereof connected to the outer side of the draft or hinder truck by suitable hinge connections 36 and is provided at its respective inner and outer corners with standards 37 38. The said standards may within the scope of my invention be of any suitable construction and are here shown as formed with supporting-feet 39 40, respectively, at their lower ends, which supportingfeet bear and are bolted on the bottom of the binder-frame. Suitable braces 41 are here shown to strengthen the said standards, and the feet 40 of the outer standards are shown as provided with longitudinal slots 42, which in coaction with the bolts 42, that secure said feet on the bottom of the binder and which bolts extend through said slots, enable the outer standards 38 to be adjusted toward and from the inner standards 37 to narrow or widen the space between the respective inner and outer standards, and thereby enable the bundles to be formed of various sizes, as may be necessary or desirable. One of the outer standards 38 has a vertically-disposed rack 44 on its inner side. The said rack is here shown as separate from the said standard, but may be formed integrally there with or secured thereto, if preferred, and I do not limit myself in this particular. On the bottom of the binder is a compressing-bar 45, the ends of which are bent downwardly, as shownat 45", and secured to the bottom of the binder, thus supporting or spacing the said compressingbar some distance above the bottom of the binder, as clearly seenin Figs. 2 and 6 of the drawings. This compressingbar, as I choose to term it, serves to support the stalks above the bottom of the binder at a central or intermediate po nt of said stalks, thereby assisting in forming the shock in the proper shape. The inclined braces 41 also assist in rounding and shaping the shock or bundle, the ends of the compressing-bar being extended laterally beyond thelower ends of said braces, as will be seen in Figs. 2 and 6. Said compressing-bar by pressing upwardly against the stalks forming the shock at the point where the latter is to be tied also naturally assists in the tying or binding, and altogether it cooperates with the braces 41 and the standards constituting the ends of the bundle-frame to form the shock and to make the task of tying the latter an easy one.

I provide a binder-bar 46, which is used in coaction with the binder 35 to form bundles in the latter. The said binder-bar has its inner end connected to the inner side of the bindertruck by a chain or other suitable flexible connection 47, in which is included a retracting-spring 48, which is here shown as a coiled spring. Near the outer end of the binder-bar 46 is an engaging flange 49, here shown as a metallic plate, which flange is adapted to be engaged with the rack-bar 44 to lock the outer end of the binder-bar to one of the standards 42, the binder-bar having been disposed outwardly over the binder and intermediate of the standards at the inner and outer corners of the binder, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The said binder-bar is thus disposed over the binder after a suitable quantity of cornstalks to form a bundle have been placed in the binder. It will be understood that the stalks cut while the machine is in motion are placed by the operator on the seat 21 in the binder until the latter is filled to the requisite extent, the butts of the cut stalks being forward of the binder and resting on the platform of the binder truck. The machine is then stopped, the driver dislnounts, and the bar 46 is then thrown outwardly over the binder by the operator. Its outer end is caught by the driver,who is now stationed on the ground, and by him depressed, so as to compress the corn in the binder to the requisite extent, and when this has been done the flange-plate 49 of the binder-bar is engaged with one of the notches of the rack 44 to lock the binder-bar in compressing position. The bar 45 on the bottom of the binder facilitates the compression of the cornstalks and the formation of the bundles. The binding-twine a having been previously disposed across the binder, so that it now lies under the bundle therein, the said binding-twine is then passed around the bundle and tied. Thereupon the binderbar is released and the binder overturned by turning the same on the hinges 36, hence causing the bound bundles to be discharged therefrom onto the ground. lhe binder is then disposed in its initial position and the operation proceeded with as before.

The binding-twine is here shown as carried in a twine-box 50 on the cutter-truck, as passed through an opening in the standard 37 at the rear inner corner of the binder 35, and as having its outerv looped end engaged with a suitable hook 51, with which the rear outer standard 38 is provided. I also provide a twine-cutting knife 52, which is here shown as a blade secured to the rear inner standard 37, which blade is used for cutting the twine after the same has been tied around a bundle.

Having thus described my invention, I claim-- 1. In a corn-harvester, a binder-frame to receive the cut stalks and a binder-bar having its inner end flexibly connected to a fixed point by means including a retracting-spring, said binder-bar being adapted to be disposed across the binder-frame, and means to adjustably secure the outer end of said binderbar to the binder-frame, substantially as described.

2. In a corn-harvester, a supporting-truck, a binder-frame adapted tube placed thereon, said binder-frame being hingedly connected to one side of said truck, whereby it may be overturned, a binder-bar, a flexible connection between the inner end thereof and the truck, and means to detachably secure the outer end of said binder-bar at the outer side of said binder-frame, substantially as described.

3. In a corn-harvester, a supporting-truck, a binder-frame adapted to be disposed thereon and overturned therefrom, a binder-bar, means to detachably and adjustably secure the outer end of said bar to the outer side of said binder-frame, and a flexible connection,

including a retracting-spring, between the in-' ner end of said binder-bar and said truck, substantially as described.

4. In a corn-harvester, a truck, a tiltable binder-frame thereon, a compressing-bar having downturned ends secured to the bottom of the binder-frame, a binder-bar and a flexible connection between the inner end of the binder-bar and the truck.

5. In a corn-harvester, a cutter-truck having an oblique front edge, a,p1ate connected with said truck by vertically-adj ustable hangers and having at its rear edge a flange bearing against the oblique front edge of the truckplatform, said plate being provided with a groove in its front edge, and a cutter-blade having its rear edge disposed in the groove of the plate supported by the hangers, substantially as set forth.

6. In a corn-harvester, a draft and binder truck having front wheels and a rear wheel on its outer side, binding means on said binder-truck and a cutter-truck flexibly connected to the inner side of the binder-truck, said cutter-truck having a front supporting trail-wheel at its outer side and rear supporting-wheels on opposite sides, the inner, rear supporting-wheel supporting the inner rear corners of both of said trucks, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

ASA S. GOVE.

Witnesses:

R. A. DRULEY, SUSIE MANN.

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