US780014A - Mowing-machine attachment. - Google Patents

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No. 780,014. A PATENTED JAN. 10, 1905.

- A. K. RAREY.

MOWING MACHINE ATTACHMENT.

APPLIOATION FILED JAN. 7, 190A.

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- Patented January 10, 1905.

OF KENTON, OHIO.

" IVIOWING-MACHINE ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 780,014, dated January 10, 1905.

Application filed. January 7, 1904. Serial No. 188,147-

To all whom, zit may concern.-

.Be it known that LALFRED K. RAREY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kenton, in the county of Hardin and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Mowing-Machine Attachments, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an attachment for mowing-machines, and has for its object to provide a simple and inexpensive device that may be attached to any mowing machine which will effectually prevent the cut grass from falling or being blown by the wind against the standing or uncut grass and which will cause the cut grass to fall in a position out of the way of the machine in its next round.

My invention consists in the combination, construction, and arrangement of parts, as will be more fully described in the specification and pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts, Figure 1 illustrates a perspective view of an ordinary mowing-machine with my improvement attached thereto; Fig. 2, a detached view of the bolt.

In the drawings the letter (t represents the linger-board, b the swatlrboard, and c the swath-stick of the usual form of mowing-machines. Removably secured to the rear end of the swath-board in a manner hereinafter described is a wire (Z, which extends to the rear or under side of the seat of the mowingmachine and is adjustably secured thereto by means of a slotted bolt 0. The said bolt 0, which has an elongated slotf formed therein, is threaded for the greater portion of its length and is provided with a flat rounded head portion. The bolt is passed through one of the usual openings formed in the bottom of the mowing-machine seat, or an opening can be formed where desired, and a securing-nut g holds it rigidly in position. An adjusting-nut lb and a thumb-nut are then placed on the bolt, and the wire is then passed through the slot f and between the said nuts. The thumb-nut being screwed tightly against the wire holds it securely in position.

The wire cl may be attached to the swathboard in any suitable manner; but I prefer the method shown in the d rawings, which consists of a short piece of wire doubled on itself and having the bent portion formed in the shape of a hooky, with the ends twisted together and passed through from the outside an opening made in and near the end of the swath-board, the free ends being then bent up and over the top of the said board and secured with a staple 7r, thus forming a springhook, over which an eye Z, formed in the end of the wire (Z, is adapted to pass. A staple m on the upper edge of the swath board serves to further hold the said wire against lateral displacement.

The wire (Z is readily adjusted to suit the height of the grass to be cut by means of the nuts it and d. between which the wire passes, being moved up or down on the threaded bolt 6. y

In operation in the usual form of mowingmachine,the grass after being cut is first caught by the swath-board and forced inward toward the machine approximately eight inches from the standing grass, then coming in contact with the swath-stick is held in an upright position until released by the swath-sticlt. when, as is well-known by operators of these machines, the wind. will cause it to fall against the standing or uncut grass or so close thereto as to be cut by the machine in its next passage. To obviate this difiiculty is the object of my invention, in which the grass after leaving the swath-stick is caught by the wire (Z and caused to fall toward the machine away from the standing grass, thus entirely overcoming the effect of the wind. That portion of the wire under the swath-stick catches any short grass not held up by the said stick and prevents it from drifting against the uncut grass, thus leaving a clear and clean path for the operation of the machine in its next passage.

It will be readily understood that my invention can be applied to other forms of mowingmachines than that shown in the drawings, and I do not limit myself to that construction. It

will also be understood that an equivalent for the wire cl may be used-for lnstance, a rod having two or more members adapted to slide upon each other, of any suitable metal or of wood. Rope or a chain might be used.

hat I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. In a mowing-machine, the combination with the seat and swath-board of an adjustable connection, consisting of a wire or other suitable means removably secured to the said seat and swath-board, substantially as described.

2. In a mowing-machine, the combination with the seat and swath-board, of an adjustable connection consisting of a wire having an eye at one end, a hook on the said swath-board for engaging said eye, and means for adjustably securing the other end of the wire to the seat, substantially as described.

ALFRED K. RAREY.

Witnesses:

JOHN A. EWING, JOHN C. JoHNsoN.

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