US813978A

US813978A - Machine for digging beets.

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Publication number: US813978A
Application number: US267742A
Authority: US
Inventors: Allington H Kramer
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1904-07-21
Filing date: 1905-06-30
Publication date: 1906-02-27
Anticipated expiration: 1923-02-27

Description

No. 813,978. PATENTED FEB. 27, 1906.- A. H. KRAMER.

MACHINE FOR DIGGING BEETS.

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MACHINE FOR DIGGING BEETS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 27, 1906.

Original application filed July 21, 1904, Serial No.-217,499. Divided and this application filed June 30, 1905. Serial No. 267,742.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALLINGTON H. KRA- MER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Monte Vista, in the county of Rio Grande and State of Colorado, have invented 'a new and Improved Machine for Digging Beets, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, the same being a division of the application for a device for digging and topping beets for which Letters Patent were granted to me July 11, 1905, N0. 794,514.

The purpose of the invention is to provide a simple, light, durable, and economical machine embodying devices for automatically lifting beets from the ground in a manner which will not materially injure them, a conveyer which receives the uprooted beets, and an elevator device which receives the beets from the conveyer and delivers them to any desired receptacle.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying'drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the machine embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the machine illustrated in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is 1 a longitudinal vertical section through the machine, illustrating its operation. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the share for uprooting the beets and a portion of the machine which sup orts said share, to gether with a portion of t e conveyer. Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view of the uprooting-share viewed from the rear, and Fig. 6 is a plan view of a portion of the conveyer.

An axle 10 is shown which carries two supporting-wheels 11, and these'wheels are secured to said axle. The axle 10, which is the rear axle of the machine, is provided with a sleeve 12, loosely mounted thereon, and this sleeve has a clutch-surface 13 at one end, adapted to be engaged by the members of a clutch 14, having feathered connection with the said axle 10, therefore having sliding movement on the said axle and being arranged to turn therewith. This clutch 14 is operated to and from the clutch-face of the sleeve 12 by means of a lever 15, having the usual connection with the clutch, and this lever is pivotally mounted on an extension 18 from the left-hand side of the side pieces 19 of the main frame of the machine. These side pieces 19 are provided with bearings 20, (best shown in Fig. 3,) located between their centers and upper ends, in which bearings the rear axle 10 is journaled. These side or cheek pieces 19 of the main frame extend downward from a point above the rear axle 10 in direction of the ground or surface over which the machine is to be drawn.

Each side or check piece 19 of the main frame is provided with an upper forwardlyextending section 20, (best shown in Figs. 1 and 3,) and at the upper portion of each cheek or side piece 19 of the main frame, near its upper edge, a curved slot 21 is produced, and a spindle 22 is passed through the said slots 21, which spindle is connected with beams A, located one at each side of the said main frame. The said beams A are adjacent to the outer faces of the side or cheek pieces 19 of the main frame, and the said beams A are curved downwardly and rearwardly and approach the lower portion of the cheek-pieces 19 of the main frame, being practically pivoted thereto. I

With reference to the support for the forward portion of the machine two forward wheels 23 are employed, which are secured upon an axle 24, and this axle is journaled in the downwardly-extending extremities of a yoke 25. The forward portions of the beams A are connected by a cross-bar 26, in which cross-bar the king-bolt or pivot-pin 27 for the yoke 25 is pivoted, so that the said forward axle may be canted to one side or the other. The said king-bolt 27 likewise carries a clutch 27 which pivotally receives the tongue or pole of the draft device.

The plow C, employed to dislodge the beets from the ground, is best shown in Figs. 2, 4, and 5. This plow is a shovel or scoop plow, and is attached to the main frame by means of a shaft 29, which'is passed through the lower portion of the plow at the rear and through the forward lower portion of the cheeks 19 of the said main frame, and usually the shaft 29 serves to pivot the lower ends of the beams A; but it will be understood that the said plow C may be otherwise attached to the said main frame.

In the detail construction of the shovel or scoop plow C it is somewhat concaved, as is best shown in Fig. 2, and the'sides of the scoop diminish toward the point, as shown in Fig. 5.

When going to the field or when leaving the same, the plow C is raised sufficiently to prevent it engaging with the ground or with ordinary protuberances therefrom, and the forward portion of the main frame is also elevated, through the medium of a lever 30, lo cated at the left-hand side of the drivers seat 31. The lever is attached to a shaft 32 at the outside of the cheek 19 of the main frame, and said lever 30 is provided with a thumblatch adapted for engagement with a suitable rack 33. The lever 30 is provided with a straight lower section 34, and links 35 are made to engage with the connecting-bar 22 for the beamA outside of the cheek-pieces1 9, as isbest shown in Fig. 2, and said links in their turn are connected with arms 32, secured at the outer ends of the shaft 32 and also outside of the said cheek-pieces. Thus when the forward wheels 23, which serve as a fulcrum for the lever 30, are forced. forward the connecting bar 22, traveling up the inclined planes formed by the curved slots 21, will cause the forward portion of the main frame to be carried downward, the said frame turning on the aXle 10 as a pivot. Under such conditions it is obvious that the share 0 will be made to enter the ground to a greater or lesser extent, according to the manipulation of the lever30.

Gear-wheels 36 are located on the axle 10, both of said gears being secured to the sleeve 12, carried by the said axle. The said wheels 36 may be of any desired size, and they are located outside of the main frame.

A conveyer D is employed in connection with the machine. This conveyer is generally known as a chain or link elevator, and the links d of the chain are constructed as is shown in Fig. 6, wherein it will be observed that the conveyer or elevator is made up of a series of wire members of suitable gage so connected one with the other as to have not only a pivotal or substantially yielding contact, but so as to provide a series of upwardly-extending members (1.

The conveyer is made to pass over sprocketwheels 37, located upon a shaft 38 at the bottom front portion of the main frame, and over larger sprocket-wheels 39, carried by a shaft 40, located at the upper portion of the main frame, as is particularly shown in Fig. 3. The shaft 40 is providedwith pinions 41, and the said pinions 41 engage with the gears 36, as is shown in Fig. 2. Thus it will be observed that when the shifting-lever 15 is operated, carrying the clutches 14 from engagement with the sleeve 12, the conveyer will not be operated; but when the clutch 14 engages with the corresponding surface of the sleeve 12 the conveyer D will be placed in action.

Suitable friction-rollers 42 are mounted on the inner faces of the sides of the cheek-pieces of the main frame to in a measure support the upper stretch of the conveyer D.

At the rear of the implement an elevator E is supported in any suitable or approved manner, being adapted to receive the beets carried from the ground by the conveyer D, and to that end the said elevator E consists of a boot-section e and a delivery-section e. In the boot or receiving section 6 of the elevator an opening 44 is made opposite the delivery end of the conveyer D, and in this boot or re ceiving section e of the elevator an endless belt 45 is made to travel over upper sprocket wheels or pulleys 46 and lower sprocket wheels or pulleys 47. This belt is provided with flights 48, which may be in the nature of cups or transversely-arranged plates. At the upper end of the boot or receiving section of the said elevator E an opening 49 is formed, which places the upper portion of the boot or receiving section. 6 of the elevator in connection with the discharging-section e, which latter is open at its lower end. A hinge is preferably provided at the top portion of the receiving-section e to permit the dischargingsection 6 to be swung to either side of the machine to deliver the beets into a wagon drawn by the side of the machine.

The movable parts of the elevator are driven, preferably, in the following manner: A sprocket-wheel 50 is secured to the rear axle 10 at its right-hand portion, and a chain belt 51 is carried over this sprocket-wheel 50 and is then passed over a smaller sprocketwheel 52, located on an axle 53, carried by the right-hand side portion of the elevator E, and on this same axle 53 a pinion 54 is secured, which meshes with a correspondingly-formed pinion 55, secured on the shaft carrying the lower pulleys 47 for the endless belt of the elevator. Thus it will be observed under this construction that when the conveyer D is stopped the action of the carrying-belt in the elevator is likewise stopped, and, in fact, both of said parts act in unison and are simultaneously set in motion.

The plow C and parts intimately associated therewith may be termed an upturning device.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent In a machine for lifting beets out of the ground, an axle, supporting-wheels secured to the axle, a sleeve loosely mounted on the said axle, having a clutch-surface at one end, a clutch operating on the axle and arranged for engagement with the clutch-surface of the said sleeve, gears secured on the sleeve and axle, a frame mounted to turn on the axle between the said gears, the said frame being provided with opposing segmental slots, beams located at the outer portions of the said frame, the rear ends of the said beams tion of the plow extends, substantially as de- 10 being curved downwardly and forwardly; a scribed.

shaft connectin said beams and carried In testimony whereof I have signed my through the sai slots in the frame, a lever name to this specification in the presence of operatively connected with the frame and two subscribing witnesses.

with the said connecting-shaft for the beams, ALLINGTON H. KRAMER.

a shovel or scoop plow carried by the lower Witnesses: portion of the said beams, and an elevator JAMES P. VEERKAMP, carried by the said frame, over which a por- JOHN H. DEEDS.