US845576A

US845576A - Hay-stacker.

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Publication number: US845576A
Application number: US31556306A
Authority: US
Inventors: Benjamin Franklin Powell
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1906-05-07
Filing date: 1906-05-07
Publication date: 1907-02-26
Anticipated expiration: 1924-02-26

Description

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 26, 1907.

Application filed May 7,1906- Serial No. 315,563.

To all whom it' may concern.'

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN POWELL, a citizen of the linited States, and a resident of lvianzanola, in the county 0f Otero and State of Colorado, have invented a new and Improved Hay-Stacker, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

'l he purpose of the invention is to provide a portable hay-stacking device in which a sled or hay-frame previously loaded upon the iield is drawn up an incline and received upon a tipple of exceedingly simple, light, and durable contruction and wherein when the load is automatically dumped from the sled or frame by means of said tipple the empty sled or frame will slide down the incline to the ground of its own accord.

Another purpose of the invention is to provide sleds or frames for gathering the hay particularly adapted to the improved stacker and which are low and flat, enabling them to be readily loaded and also rendering them light of draft, enabling the sleds to be readily drawn over stubble, and, further, to so construct the sleds that when loaded and drawn to the stacker the hoist-ropes of the latter may be instantly applied thereto and operated.v

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

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 improved stacker, illustrating a loaded sled at its base as connected with the hoist-ropes of the stacker. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the structure as shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of a portion of the stacker, showing the tipple in dumping'position and also a sled in position on the tipple. Fig. 4 is a front elevation of the stacker. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the sled or hay-'frame used in connection with the stacker, and Fig. 6 is a front elevation of the said sled or a view looking at its dumping edge.

In the construction of the base parallel transverse runners 10 are employed, connected by sills 11. Uprights 12 are secured to the rear runner, and shorter uprights 13 are attached to the forward runner, the uprights both at the front and at the rear being usually three in number, and corresponding uprights at the sides of the base are connected by said sills 11. rlhe base is strengthened by cross-braces 14, as is shown in Fig. 2. A cross-bar 15 is secured Ato the upper end portions of the rear uprights 12, and a second cross-bar 16 is secured to the upper ends of the forward uprights 13.

'Ihe frame just described is adapted to support skids, which skids are usually three in number and are arranged in parallelism and are inclined from their lower ends upward, extending both forwardly and rearwardly of the said frame. rIhe outer skids are designated as A and A, and the intermediate skid as B, as is shown in Figs. 2 and 4. While the skids may be made in one piece, they are preferably constructed in sections, as shown, each skid comprising an upper section 17, an intermediate section 18, and a lower section 19, which rests upon the ground. rI'he upper and intermediate sections are connected by couplings 20 of any approved character, but the lower sections 19 have a hinged vconnection 21 with the intermediate sections 18, and to that end the upper ends of the lower sections 19 are bifurcated to pivotally receive the corresponding portions of the intermediate sections 18, as is best shown in Fig. 2.

A cross-bar 22 is provided as a rest for the lower portions of the intermediate sections of the skids, as is shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and these cross-bars arev secured to side braces 23, which are secured at their lower ends to the lower portions of the front standards 13 and to the intermediate sections 18 of the side skids A and A adj aceiit to the lower ends of said sections. Any desired number of crossbraces 24 is employed to strengthen the bodyframe of the machine.

Braces 25 are located at the rear of the body-fraine, one at each side. These braces are attached to the side sills 11 and to the braces 24, which they may cross, and the side uprights 12 and said braces 25, which may properly be termed supporting-arms, extend from the base diagonally upward and rearward and connect with the upper end portions of the side skids A and A. The side skids A and A extend some distance beyond the rear cross-bar 15, as is best shown in Fig. 2 but the central skid B extends but slightly beyond the said cross-bar.

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A pivot-rod 26 is passed through the upper end portions of the side skids A and A and the upper ends of the supporting-arms 25, and at the desired point below the said pivot-rod 26 a transverse stop-bar 27 is secured to the supporting-arins 25.

In connection with the structure just described I employ a tipple C of peculiar construction, which tipple consists of side bars 28, a lower cross-bar 29, and corner-braces 30, the space between the opposite ends of the said side bars being entirely open. The free ends of the side bars 28 of the tipple are strengthened at each side by metal plates, (designated as 31 and 32,) and from each outer vplate 32 a hook'or a downwardly and outwardly curved arm 33 is made integral with the said rplate 32, as is best shown in Fig. 3, and when the tipple C is in its normal `or receiving position these hooks or curved Varms 33 extend in direction of the lower or receiving end of the stacker.

Between the strengthening-plates 31 and 32 a pulley 34 is mounted in each side bar 28 of the tipple. It will be observed that the

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31 and 32 serve 'to so strengthen the tipple where the pulleys 34 are located that when Lropes to be hereinafter describedare passed over the pulleys and are drawn upon the tipple will be strong enough to resist very severe strain. This tipple is located between the upper ends of the outer or side skids A and A and is pivoted on the said pivot-rod 26, the rod passing through the tipple nearer its open than its closed end.

Draft ropes or cables 35 are passed over the pulleys 34 in the tipple, and normally one end portion of these'ropes extends downward above the skids to the bottom forward vportion of the structure, as is shown in Fig. 1, and the other end portions of the said ropes or cables 35 are passed over pulleys 36,10- cated'on the lower end portions ofthe rear uprights 12, and then the lower portions of the ropes or cables 35 are vcarried forward and are passed over pulleys 37, suitably mounted onthe forward runners 10, as is best shown in Fig. 4. rlhese ropes or cables 35 are provided with hooks and eyes or loops Vat'their ends, as may be found most desirable.

In connection with the improved stacker sleds or hay-carrying frames D are employed. (Shown in detail in Figs. 5 and 6.) These sleds are fiat, so that theyl can be readily drawn over stubble and so that they can be readily loaded, and the bottom portion of each sled D consists of a series of parallel slats connected by cross-bars 39, and at one longitudinal edge of said bottom a back structure 40 is formed,'likewise ofslats, 'but connected to the bottom by uprights 40a, as

Inthe further conthe open side portion of the sled or that .portion whichl is opposite the back 40.

When a sled is drawn over the ground, to

` be loaded or to be carried when loaded to the stacker, draft-trees 42 of any suitable construction are connected with one end portion of the sled, as is shown in Fig. 5; but when the sled has been brought to the base of the skids A and A and B it is turned around so that its open side will rest upon the skids, and its back 40 at such time will be on the ground, as is shown in Fig. 1. The draft-trees 42 are then unhitched from the sled and are attached to the forward lower ends `of the draft cables or ropes 35, and the forward upper end portions of the said ldraft cables or ropes are secured to the sled by means of thefhooks 41.

It may here be remarked that a rope 38 is attached lto the cross-bar 29 of the ti ple C, and this rope is usually carried loose y over the rear cross-bar 15 and down to the base, where its other end is secured.

In operation, as the team is driven from the stacker the sled is drawn up the skids until it is received `upon the tipple C, and at about the time the open side ofthe sled engages the hooks or curved arms 33 the tipple will have been overbalanced and will have a downward and rearward inclination, (shown in Fig. 3,) which will cause its load to be dumped, and the 'hooks or arms 33y will effectually hold the sled on thetipple duringthe dumping operation. After the load has been discharged from the sled the rope 38 is drawn upon, and the tipple is drawn down until `the sled engages with the side skids A and A, whereupon as the draft-rope is slackcned the sled travels down the incline'of the skids by its own weight. The rope 38 limits the upward movement of the connected-end of the tipple, as well las serving to draw the said end'downward after dumping, and when the tipple is in its normal or receiving position (shown in Fig. 1) the lower portion of the tipple will rest against the 'cross-bar 27, located below the pivot-point of the tipple, thus insuring the said tipple having thesame inclination at all times after dumping.

:When a stacker and sleds such as have been described are employed, the hay is handled only once by the pitchfork before it is deposited on the stack, which is of great advantage in handling alfalfa and clover-hay, since it prevents breaking and crushing of the hay and also loss of leaves. t

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- 1. In hay-stackers, a series of inclined skids, a support for the same, a tipple pivotally mounted at the upper ends'of the skids,

which tipple consists'of side bars connected 4at one end and having metalfreinforcements at their opposite or free ends, pulleys within said bars at their reinforced ends and curved projections from the yside portions -of said IOO IIO

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frame, a hoist-rope passed over 845,576 S reinforced ends, hoist-ropes passed over said pulleys, and guide-pulleys for said ropes located on the support for the skids.

2. In a hay-stacker, the combination with a supporting-frame, a series of skids carried by the said frame, having an inclination from their upper ends downward, all of the skids extending beyond the forward end of the frame, the two side skids only extending beyond the rear end of the frame, the said skids being constructed in sections, the lower sections having pivotal connections, of a tipple pivotally mounted between the rear extremities of the side skids, which tipple consists of side bars and a lower cross-bar, reinforcingplates at the upper free ends of the side bars, a pulley located in each side bar between the reinforcing-plates, and a forwardly and downwardly curved hook extending from the reinforced face of each of the said side bars, a cable attached to the cross-bar of the tipple, being guided downward by the said the pulleys l in the tipple, extending from the upper portion of the skids downward, guide-pulleys carried by the said frame for the said hoistropes, and a stop carried by the frame for engagement by the lower Iend of the tipple when the latter is lin its normal position.

3. In a hay-stacker, the combination with a supporting-frame, a series of skids carried by the said frame, having an inclination from their upper ends downward, all of the skids extending beyond the forward end of the frame, the two side skids only extending l beyond the rear end of the frame, the said skids being constructed in sections, the lower sections having pivotal connections, of a tipple pivotally mounted between the rear extremities of the side skids, which tipple consists of side bars and a lower cross-bar, reinforcing-plates at the upper free ends of the side bars, a pulley located in each side barbe- I tween the reinforcing-plates, and a forwardly and downwardly curved hook extending I from the reinforced face of each of the said side bars, a cable attached to the cross-bar of the tipple, being guided downward by the said frame, a hoist-rope passed over the pulleys in the tipple, extending from the upper portion of the skids downward, guide-pulleys carried ,by the said frame for the said hoistropes, a stop carried by the frame for engagement by the lower end of the tipple when the latter is in its normal position, and a sled adapted to travel on the said skids and to be engaged by the said tipple, which sled consists of a flat body having a back structure exl tending therefrom at one of its longitudinal edges, and hooks located on the said body at its open side edge, the upper stretches of the hoist-ropes having means for attachment to the said hooks.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this speciiication in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN POWELL.

Witnesses:

W. C. BEATY, W. M. WARNER.