US813013A

US813013A - Hay-press.

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Publication number: US813013A
Application number: US23688104A
Authority: US
Inventors: Alexander Lorenz
Original assignee: WILLIAM J ILLG
Current assignee: WILLIAM J ILLG
Priority date: 1904-12-14
Filing date: 1904-12-14
Publication date: 1906-02-20
Anticipated expiration: 1923-02-20

Description

PATENTED FEB. 20, 1906.

A. LORENZ. HAY PRESS.

APPLIOATIOR FILED DEG.14, 1904.

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WITNESSES.-

A. LORENZ, HAY PRESS.

APPLIOATION FILED 1330.14, 1904.

PATENTED FEB. 20, 1906.

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ALEXANDER LORENZ, OF SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO WILLIAM J. ILLG, OF SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.

HAY-PRESS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 20, 1906.

Application filed December 14, 1904. Serial No. 236,881.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER LORENZ, a

. citizen of the United States of America, and

a resident of San Antonio, in the county of BeXar and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in I-Iay- Presses, of which the following is a specificatlon.

, This invention relates to baling-presses, and particularly to that form of balingpresses operating on a horizontal plane and wherein a plunger is continuously reciprocated while the material to be pressed is being fed into the press-chamber.

The object of the invention is the construc tion of a press of this class in a manner such that the continuous operation of the reciprocating plunger may be insured and greater efliciency for the press effected.

To this end the invention consists in the construction and combination of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a top view of the entire hay-press. Fig. 2 is a side view thereof, and Fig. 3 a front view, while Fig. 4 is a top view, on an enlarged scale, of the ratchet-wheel and looped pawl, showing the cooperation thereof; and Fig. 5 is a side view of the parts seen in Fig. 4.

The case of the baling-press is indicated by A,the press-head, or the head of the plunger, is indicated by B, and the pole thereof by O.

D represents the pitman, and F the crank, of the vertical crank-shaft, to which the pitman is journaled, said pitman being pivoted to the pole by means of the bolt E. The crank-shaft is ournaled at its upper ends in the powerframe, which, as shown, is sup ported upon a pair of wheels in the wellknown manner. Upon the crankshaft above the power-frame is idly mounted the socket G of the power pole or sweep, and above this socket, or in reality in a recess there in, is located the ratchet-wheel K, which is firmly fixed to the upper end of the crank shaft. For engaging the sweep with the crank-shaft to rotate it a looped pawl J is provided, which is pivoted, as at H, to the sweep-socket Or. To hold this pawl in engagement with the ratchet-wheel, a suitable spring, as L, is provided. The initial position of the plunger is that shown in Figs. 1 and 2, wherein it is represented as ready to begin a compressing stroke. To return the plunger tothis initial position instantaneously and automatically after each stroke of compression, a spring, as M, is connected to the power-frame and to the pole O of the plunger.

In the operation of the parts described the sweep is moved counter-clockwise, the pawl J being held in engagement with one of the teeth of the ratchet-wheel K and until the crank passes dead-center in the stroke of compression-*that' is, until the plunger has reached its limit in the act of compressing the material in the baling-case. Then as soon as dead-center is passed the spring M acts to return the plunger to its initial position, thereby swinging the crank about through one hundred and eighty degrees, which movement the pawl J permits by sliding over the teeth of the ratchet-wheel K. In this return movement of the plunger the progression of the sweep is not interfered with, and immediately upon the completion of said return movement the pawl J again engages a tooth of the ratchet-wheel and the plunger begins another stroke of compression.

Changes in the formation and association of the parts described maybe made without departing from the invention.

I claim- I In a horizontal baling-press, the combination, with the case and base-piece extending forwardly therefrom, of the power-frame mounted on the forward end of the base piece, a crank-shaft journaled at its lower end in the base-piece and'at its upper end in the power-frame and projecting above it, the plunger-pole mounted in guides on the base piece, a retractile spring connected thereto and to the power-frame, a pitman pivoted to the upper side of the said pole and to the crank of the crank-shaft, a collar on the crank-shaft above the crank, a stay connected to said collar and to the press-case, a sweep-socket mounted idly on the upper end of the crank-shaft and having an arm extending therefrom for the attachment of a stay Signed at San Antonio, Texas, this 30th leading to the end of the sweep, a ratchet 10- day of November, 1904. cated in a recess of the sweep-socket and fixed to the crank-shaft, a looped pawl ALEXANDER NZ 5 hinged to the sweep-socket, and a spring for Witnesses:

holding the pawl in engagement With the EMIL PHILLIPPE,

ratchet, for the purpose set forth. 1 JOHN W. ILLG.