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VEGETABLE LOAD EB.

APPLICATION FILED 010., ma.

2 me t- 2g issued im 22, 1919.

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VEGETABLE-LOADED.

Specification of Reissued Letters Patent. Reissue-3d Apr. 22, 1919.

Original 10.1)",040, dated July 16, 1918, Serial No. 218,856, filed February 23, 1918. Application for 1 1 reiuue flled December 11, 1918. Serial No. 266,306.

. To all whom itmay concern:

' Dream, a citizen of the United States, resida at- Wadena, in the county of Wadena 1, -Be it known that I, Ban'rnommnw O. Cou- State of Minnesota, have invented a new and. useful Vegetable-Loader, of which the foilowmg is a specification.

invention relates to vegetable loading machines and in the present ap lication I isishownasappli'ed to potato loa ing machines in which the object is to provide an I .15.; device to be attached to a potato n a machine for separating the potato from dirt and from the vines and de- 15 li itinto a wagon drawn at either side evice.

'g. 5 is a rear elevation of the machine. Fig. 6 is anenlarged portion of the potato elevator.

Fig. 7 is a longitudinal section of the 1 frmtpbrtionmfthemachine.

Fig. 8 is a to view showing mainly the draft bail by w ich the loader is attached l tothepotato digger.

to the drawings by reference numerals, 1, 1, designate a pair of ound wheels, supporting an axle 2, on w ich is mounted by means of bearings 3 an inclined skeleton elevator frame 4, whose front end 46 is provided with a draft bail 5 adapted to be attached to the rear end of any ordinary tato digginfilmachine of the kinddrawn y horses or ot er power and delivermg potatoes from its rear end some distance above :45 the ground.

Said inclined frame is sugported in its inclined position by braces 6 om a horizontal frame extension 7 the rear end of which is provided with casters 8, which support it in 86 such a manner that the entire machine may be turned from side to side on the wheels and the casters- A The inclined frame is composed of side a section on the line 44 in boards 4 and transverse bars 4, 4, 4 (see Figs. 7, 5, 3 and 1, respectively). Upon said bars are secured-a series of longitudinal iron bars 9 forming a skeletoned bottom. Said bars may be about one and one-fourth inches apart so as not to allow any potatoes of a size worth saving to pass between them. The lower ends 10 of the bars are curved upward (see 10 in Fig. 7) so no potatoes can esca e downward.

ounted on suitable wheels 11 and .12 in the lower and upper end of the inclined frame is an endless skeleton elevator apron l3 havin cleats 14 carrying inward fingers 15. In I ig. 6 is shown how the spaces between the cleats 14 are traversed by chains 16 to helpucarry the vines as will presently be more lly described. The chains 13 of the elevator are partly guided between longitudinal strips 17 of the frame 4.

The wheels or sprockets 12 are fixed on a shaft 18-, at one end of which is fixed a sprocket 19, driven by a link belt 20, the latter being driven by a sprocket 21, fixed to a gear pinion 22, which with the sprocket rotates on a stud 23 and is driven by a gear wheel 24 fixed on one of the ground wheels 1.

25 is a chute held transversely below the elevator frame, near be 0nd the upper end of the skeleton floor 9. The chute is changeable so as to incline toward and beyond either side of the elevator, alternately in the two positions 25 and 25 in Fig. 4. It is to that end 1provided with hangers 26, 27, detachably eld in keepers 28 fixed on the bars 4 and 4". In reverslng the chute the longer hanger 26 is placed at the other ends of the keepers 28 and the hanger 27 is removed from one and inserted in the other of the two keepers 29 and 29*. 30 are special fixed bars to guide the vines across the chute.

In the operation of the machine the bail 5 is attached to the rear of a potato digger and as the digger advances it delivers potato vines and dirt at A upon the front portion of the elevator 13, 14 and while this elevator carries the vines over to B and lets them drop on the ground the potato and the dirt drop through the upper run of the elevator and drop upon the skeleton bottom 9, where the fingers 15 move along and constantly stir the dirt down through the bottom while moving the potato along into the chute 25,

and the latter deliver it into a wagon (not shown) driven along side of the loader.

I claim as my invention: 1. Ina potato loading machine, a suitably inclined elevator frame mounted on ground Wheels, a series of longitudinally arranged parallel bars extending from the lower end to theupper end ofthe frame, fixed upward fingers at the lower ends of the parallel bars, an endless skeleton carrier apron arranged in the elevator frame with one rim above and the other below the series of parallel bars and operative connection between the apron and the ground wheels,fingers secured to said carrier apron and arranged to pass between the fixed fingers and move upward along the upper side of the parallel bars and a laterally inclined chute arranged to convey thepotatoes fromthe: upper end of the 2. In a potato loadingmachine having a rearwgardly inclined wheel supported elevator frame, a skeleton bottom'mounted within the frame and means for elevating potatoes upwardly along said bottom to a delivery chute near the top of theframe, fixedfingers arranged near the lowerend of the skeleton bottom. adapted toprevent the down- Ward escape'of potatoes. 7

3.- A potato loading machine comprising a rearwardly inclined wheel supported elevator frame, a transversely arranged potato chute mounted under the rear end of the frame, a series of longitudinal parallelbars extending from near the frontjend of the frame tothe potato chute and meansfor elevating potatoes upwardly along the parallel bars to said potato chute, special bars bridging the chute to prevent obj ects other than potatoes from dropping thereinto.

4. Inavegetable loading machine, an income! (it thitpatentmaybe obtained for charge, substantially described;

clined elevator frame, a skeleton bottom therefor, a carrier within the frame arran ed totravel upwardly above the, skeleton ottom and with a space betweemmeans beneath the carrier for preventing vegetables dropping, belowthe lower end of the skeleton bottom and means depending from said carrier adapted to engage the vegetables and to carry them upwardly to a point of dis- 5-.. In a vegetable loading machine, an inclined supporting frame, a skeleton bottom therein, a traveling carrier with a space bev tween it and the skeleton bottom adaptedto carry vines upon its upper surface and to" allow the vegetables to drop through the skeleton bottom, said bottom preventing the downwardly escape of the vegetables and means on the carrier for elevating the vegetables to the point of discharge, substantially I as: described. a I a 6. Ina vegetable loadingmachine, the

combination with an elevator frame, carrier. means for separating and: elevating the vines and vegetables upwardly, delivery means at the upper end of the frame and means be.-

neath the carrier for preventing the down-- 1 Ward escape of the vegetables: below the frame. 7 r I 5 7. Ina vegetable loading machine, an inclined frame,'a skeleton bottomtherefor, an

I endless carrier traveling in its upward movement-above the skeleton bottom. with a space between, the carrier being adapted to receivethe vin'es on its upper surface and to:

allow the vegetables to drop through to. the skeleton bottom and means on the carrier for elevating the vegetablesalong the skele-- ton bottom.

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