US727401A - Baling-press. - Google Patents

Description

No. 727,401. PATENTED'MAY 5, 1903. G. E. MAXWELL.

BALING PRESS.

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GEORGE EZRA MAXVELL, OF MULBERRY, KANSAS.

BALING-PRESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 727,401, dated May 5, 1903.

Application filed January 6,1903. Serial No. 138,057. (No model.)

' provements in baling-presses, and more particularly to the feeding and packing mechanism whereby the loose hay is brought into position in the path of the plunger prior to being compressed thereby.

The object of the invention is to provide a packer of novel construction adapted to force the hay into proper position in front of the compressing-plun ger and which is operated by said plunger.

Another object is to employ means whereby the hay is directed automaticallyinto posi` tion in the path of the packing device.

With the above and other objects in view the invention consists in providing a reciprocating plunger to which is hinged a feedboard, to the outer end of which is pivoted the lower end of an angular beam. This beam is fulcrumed at a point between its ends, and the forward or upper end'thereof is connected to a packer of novel construction which is normally retained in a substantially upright position by means of a brace-rod pivoted thereto and to the frame of the baling-press, said rod being arranged substantially parallel to the upper portion of the operating-beam of the packer.

The invention also consists in the further novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter more fully described,and claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, showing the preferred form of my invention, and in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved baling-press. Fig. 2 is a central 1ongitudinal section therethrough. Fig. 3 is a section on line a; n1, Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a section through the packer. Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the lower portion of said packer with its clamping-block removed, and Fig. 6 is a detail view of the feed-board.

Referring to the figures by numerals of reference, 1 is the frame of the compressingchamber of a baling-press, and extending rearwardly from opposite sides thereof are lside walls 2, which are mounted upon the base 3 of the press. An inclined board 4 extends upward from the rear end ofthe compressingchamber and serves to prevent hay or other material fed to the press from falling upon the top of the compressing-chamber. From the outer or rear ends of the side walls 2 extend arms 5, upon which are mounted standards 6, having suitable braces 7, connecting the same to the upper portions of the side walls. Between these standards isfulcrumed an angular beam 8, the lower end of which is hinged to the rear end of a stript), extending from and hinged to the upper edge of the rear surface of a plunger 10. This plunger is slidably mounted upon the base 3 between the side walls 2 and is provided with a rod 11, whereby it may be operated in any suitable manner. To the'upp'er o r forward end of the beam 8 is pivoted a packing-arm 12, the upper end of which is connected by means of a rod 13, with the upper end of one of the standards 6. As this rod is substantially parallel with the upper portion of the beam 8, it will be seen that the arm 12 is normally held in a substantially upright position. To the lower end of arm 12 is secured a clamp formed of two small strips 14, having grooves 15 in the adjoining faces thereof, which are adapted to receive and retain in position spikes 16. Bolts or other suitable means may be employed for securing the two members of the clamp 11i together. A feed-board 17 is secured to strip 9, before referred to, by means of straps 1S or in any other desired manner, audit is obvious that when strip 9 is swung upward upon its front hinge the board will be carried therewith. In operation plunger 10 is pressed forward toward the eompressing-chamber, and the hay or other material to be compressed is Vplaced in rearof the inclined board 4 and upon the feed-board 95 17. Plunger 10 is' then drawn outward, and strip 9 will Vpress backward and upward upon the beam 8 and cause the packing-arm 12 to move downward and force the hay into position in front of the plunger. As the arm 12 moves downward the strip 9, which is operating beam S, will swing upward upon its vfront hinge and carry the feed-board 7 therewith, and the hay which has been placed in ICO position upon said board will slide downwardly thereon into the path of the packer.

The operation of the device, as above described, may be repeated until a sufficient quantity of hay or other material has been compressed within compartment 1, when it may be removed in bales in any desired man ner. Should one or more of the prongs 16 be broken, they can readily be replaced by removing one of the members of the clamp 14 and substituting new spikes therefor.

In the foregoing description I have shown the preferred form of my invention; but I do Anot limit myself thereto, as I am aware that modifications may be made therein Without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages thereof, and I therefore reserve the right to make such changes as fairly fall within the scope of my invention.

Having thus described Ithe invention, what is claimed as new is l. A baling-press, the combination with a plunger; of standards,a beam journaled therebetween, a packing-arm connected to and adapted to be operated by said beam, a strip connecting said beam to the plunger, and a feed-hoard upon the strip.

2. In a baling-press, the combination with a plunger; of standards, a beam fulerumed therebetween, a packing-arm connected to one end of the beam, a brace-rod pivoted at opposite ends-to said arm and one of the standards, a strip hinged at opposite ends to the upper edge of the plunger and to the end of the beam respectively, and a feed-board secured to said strip and adapted to be inclined when the plunger is retracted.

3. In a baling-press, the combination with the frame of a compression-chamber and an inclined board upon the end of said frame; of a plunger, standards, a beam fulcrumed between said standards, a packing-arm pivoted to one end of the beam, abrace-rod pivoted at opposite ends to said arm and to one of the standards, a strip hinged at opposite ends to the upper edge of the plunger and to the remaining end of the beam, and a feedboard secured to said strip and adapted to be inclined when the plunger is retracted, whereby material thereon is directed into the path of the packing-arm.

4. In a baliug-p'ress, the combination with a plunger; of standards, a beam fulcrumed therebetween, a packing-arm hinged to and adapted to be operated by said beam, and a feed-board connected to the plunger and beam and adapted to be inclined downward toward the plunger during the downstroke of the packing-arm.

In testimony whereof I aix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE EZ RA MAXWELL.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM FRANKLIN MAXWELL, CLARRA A. MAXWELL.

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