US781975A - Baling-press. - Google Patents

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No. 781,975. PATENTED FEB. '7, 1905. J. M. & E. VALENTINE.

BALING PRESS.

ALPLIOATION FILED SEPT. 1, 1903.

Patented February '7, 1905 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH M. VALENTINE AND EDIVARD VALENTINE, OE LINCOLN, ILLINOIS, ASSIONORS OF ONE-HALF TO NATHAN E. LANDAUER, OE LINCOLN,

ILLINOIS.

BALlNG-PRESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 781,975, dated February 7, 1905. Original application filed May 6,1903, Serial No. 155,919. Divided and this application filed September 1, 1903. Serial No. 171,504.

To all l/'/1/"1I/ it 'nt/t concern:

Be it known that we, J osnrn l\/I.VALENTINE and EDWARDVALENIINE, citizens of the United States, residing at Lincoln, in the county of Logan and State of Illinois, have invented a Bailing-Press, of which the following is a specilication.

This application is a division of the application filed May 6, 1903, hearing Serial No. 155,919, and relates especially to the particular means for operating the piston of the baling-press through the intervention of a chain extending from an oscillating horse-power.

The invention forming the subject-matter of the present application is particularly described and claimed herein, while the horsepower mechanism for imparting a reciprocating motion to the chain is described and claimed in the aforesaid application.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of the present application, Figure 1 is a side elevation illustrating the application of the invention and including only so much of a baling-press as to show such application. Fig. 2 is a detail view of the lever.

The bal ingpress is shown as supported upon wheels for convenience in transporting the same from place to place, and consists of the balingbox I, mounted upon longitudinal beams 2 which extend to the rear axle 3, and is braced by means of inclined beams 4 extending rearward from the upper part of said baling-box and connected at their rear ends to short vertical standards 5, which latter rise from the main horizontal beams 2.

Between the beams 2 and at are bolted or V therwise firmly secured bearing-boxes 6, in which is journaled a lever 7 by means of the gudgeons or stub-axles 8, projecting laterally from an intermediate portion of said lever.

The lever T is formed at one end with asegmental eccentric 9. disposed at one side of its fulcrum. and at the other side of its fulcrum is in the shape of a curved arm 10', being pro-.

vided with a correspondingly-curved slot 11, and terminating in a lug 12, by which latter is attached thereto one end of a chain 13. The periphery of the segmental portion of the lever is grooved,and the chain 13 extends from its connection with the lug 12 to and over the segmental eccent ic in the grooved periphery thereof and passes downward therefrom to a guide-pulley l-I and from which latter it is led to the horse-power.

The guide-pulley 14: is supported below the frame of the baling-press in a bracket 15, the disposition of the latter being changeable, so that the chain may be led to the rear of the baling-press in the event of a director longitudinal draft or arranged at right angles to such former position to lead the chain out at one side of the baling-press in the event of a lateral draft.

The piston-rod 16 of the baling-press, which is pivoted to the piston, as is usual, is connected at its rear end to the curved arm of the lever '7 by a bolt 17 passing through the slot in said arm, and when the lever is thrown to the position shown in the drawings, with the piston retracted, the bolt connection is at the outer end of the slot, giving a full rearward movement to the piston. Now upon compressing a bale and upon the initial movement of the lever the curved arm rides upon the bolt connection,starting the piston slowly forward or until a more effective leverage is obtained.

The movement of the lever in the direction to impart a forward motion to the piston is imparted byway of a direct pull upon the chain 13, and in order to return the piston and lever to its first position when the chain is slackened strong helical springs 18 are connected at one end to the piston of the balingpress and at the other end to the supportingframe to the inclined beams a, as shown in the drawings.

It will be noted that by providing the baling-press with a lever constructed as herein particularly shown and described a considerable range of movement is given to the piston and that the power is applied in a manner as to be most effective.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a baling-press, the combination with the baling-box and frame projecting rearwardly therefrom, of a rock-arm comprising a segment and upwardly-curved slotted arm projecting therefrom opposite the fulcrum, said arm terminating in a boss, a pair of beams for connecting the rock-arm to the follower and extending at opposite sides of the rockarm and connected thereto by a bolt passing through the slot in the curved arm portion thereof, a bracket depending from the rearwardly-projecting frame of the baling-press, a grooved guide-roller removably mounted in said bracket, and a chain connected at one end to the boss on the rock-arm, passing over the segmental portion of said rock-arm and under JOSEPH M. VALENTINE. EDWARD VALENTINE.

Witnesses:

VEs'rA CADWALLADER, A. D. CADWALLADER.

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