USRE331E - Improvement in harvesting-machines - Google Patents

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- J. .HAINES.

Harvester.

Reissued N ov.. 6, 1855.

in which UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JONATHAN HAINES, OF PEKIN, ILLIblOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN HARVESTING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 6,245, dated March 27, 1849,- Reissue No. 331, dated November 6, 1855.

To all whom it may concern.- l which lever shall be attached to one and pro- Be it known that I, JONATHAN HAINES, ject toward the drivers seat or stand arranged formerly of Union Grove, in the county of on the other so that the driver, whois the sole VVhiteside and State of Illinois, but now of conductor of the machine, may from said stand Pekin, in the county of Tazewell and State or seat raise or depress the cutters at pleasure aforesaid, have invented certain new and useduring the operation of the machine, for outful Improvements in Harvesting-Machines for ting the grain or grass at any suitable height Grain or Grass; and I do hereby declare the above the ground, or for passing over any infollowing to be a full, clear, and exact descriptervening obstacles; and also in combining tion of the same, reference being had to the ac- I with a harvesting-machine a conveyer which companying drawings, making a part thereof, first carries the cut grain horizontally across l the machine, and then elevates it so as to dis- Figure 1 represents a view of the entire macharge it into the bed of a wagon driven alongchine. Fig.2is averticalseotion taken through side of the machine when the conveyer-frame the line a: as of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a plan, and is connected to the bed by a flexiblejoint, for Fig. 4 a side elevation, of one of the slotted purposes which will be described. fingers, which advance before the sickle for To enable others skilled in the art to make the purpose ot'supporting the straw while the and use my invention, I will proceed to deknife cuts it off. scribe the same with reference to the drawings. here the same letters occur in the several I In the accompanying drawings the machine figures they denote like parts. is represented as being mounted upon three The leading difficulty in all harvesting-ma' wheels, the two in front, A A, sustaining the chines the cutters of which were raised or lowprincipal part of the weight, the one behind, ered by a lever previous to my invention was B, being chiefly designed for steering, and in the very great excess of weighton the forward order that it may the better accomplish that part of the machine, which ultimately came object it is mounted in a vertical post, B, upon the necks of the horses. 'lo obviate this which is hung upon hinges and capable of begreat ditliculty resort was hadto an extra ing turned by a tiller, 1), in manner of the rudtruck or pair of trucks forward of the machine, der of a vessel. which, besides its additional cost, caused the The horses are harnessed to the whiflietrees team to be placed so far in ad vance of the maa, which are secured by a bolt to the tongue chine as to makeitimpossible to turnasquare l O and push the machine before them. The corner without backingthe team. If the team tongueG is hinged to the rear end of the square were harnessed directly to the tongue and part D of the frame-work, and the lever E, the machine properly balanced on its wheels, which projects back from the frame,is engaged at corner could be as readily turned byit as by by means of a catch to the notches in the sides an ordinary cart; but with the former heavy of the post 0, erected upon the tongue, this weight forward the driver alone could not catch being so constructed that it can with properly control the machine, and to place an case be disengaged and re-engaged. additional attendant on the machineinvolved The frame D rests upon the axles of the additional weight on the machine at an addiwheels A A, which form afulcrum upon which tional daily cost to the user. it turns, and the projecting lever E being at- The objectof my invention is to avoid these tached firmly tothis frame, wheneveritisraised serious consequences by relieving the team of or lowered it depresses or elevates the front of all undue work, and economizing to the user, the machine, and thus determines the height both in the cost of themachine and the daily at which the grain or grass is to be out, the expense of using it. catch which engages the arm to the notched The nature of my invention consistsin compost 0 holding it any point of elevation at bining, with theframeof a harvesting-machine which it may be required to place it. so hung upon a pair of supporting-wheels as A platform, 0, is placed upon the rear end to be nearly balanced thereon when on level of the tongue, upon which the driver, who is ground, a hinged tongue and operating-lever, the sole conductor of the machine, stands, convenient to the tiller 1) and the lever E, in order that he may direct the course of the machine and raise and lower the cutter to accommodate it to the variations in the surface of the ground or the height of the grain. by this means avoiding both waste of the grain and the inconven ience of cutting too much straw.

The principal frame D may be made of plank or scantling well framed together. It carries the sickle F, reel G, conveyer H, and the gearing which puts them severally in motion.

Upon the wheel A, or upon its axis, a cogwheel, (1, is secured, which takes into and drives the pinion 6,, (represented in dotted lines,) upon whose axis is a pulley,f, which, through the medium of the belt 9, turns the axis h, Fig. 2, which carries the wheel 5, Fig. 2, that drives the conveyer H.

To the side of the pulley f a crank-pin, 7c, is secured, which, through the connecting-rod I, communicates a horizontal vibrating motion to the lever m, which is transmitted to the sickle F, connected by a pivot, a, to its front end.

The axis of the pinion e is capable of sliding longitudinally on its bearings "sufficiently far to disengage it from the wheel 61, when the machine is required to be moved, without putting the conveyeror sickle in motion. For the purpose of disengaging and re-engaging this pinion with facility the forked end of a rod, 0, is engaged, either to it or the shaft, by any of the usual modes, the other end of this red being jointed to the lever 19, which is pivoted to the frame D at one end and jointed to the rod g at the other, the latter resting upon the lever E and extending back far enough to be within the reach of the conductor. This rod is provided with two catches which, when engaged, will respectively hold the pinion e in or out of gear with the wheel (I.

The endless conveyer H is for the purpose of elevating the cut grain into the bed of a wagon which accompanies the machine to receive the same. That portion of the conveyer which is immediately behind the sickle is hori 'zontal; but the part' projecting beyond the side of the machine is inclined at a suitable angle for raising the grain over the side of the box of the accompanying wagon. That part I ot'theframeinwhichtheinclined part oftheconveyer is supported is hinged to the side of the frame D, as seen in Fig. 2, and its outer end is raised and lowered by the cord U, passing through a slot or notch in the top of the post J and secured to a bail, c, which arrangement renders the conveyer capable of elevating the grain to different heights, and also allows the frameI to yield when it comes in contact with obstructions that might break it ifit were rigidly connected to theframe, The conveyer consists of two parallel endless belts passing round the driving pulley or wheel 2', the hearing-pulley 'r, and the stretching-pulley 8. These belts are held at the proper distance apart by slats t, and the whole is covered by a web of cloth which is loose enough to bag down between the slats, forming a series of shallowdepressions, 2Q, which retain any grain that may be shelled out by the action ofthe sickle or reel until discharged into the wagon-box, a great deal of which grain would roll off the sides of the cloth if it were tightly stretched over the slats. These shallow bags also render the conveyance of the grain up the apron when its inclination is very steep much more certain and regular.

The reel G is made and arranged in the usual or in any suitable manner, and receives its motion from the wheel A through the belt 00.

The slotted fingers y, Figs. 3 and 4:, for dividing the grain, cut, and preventing the sickles getting damaged from sticks, stones, and other ohstructions against which the machine may happen to run, across the front end of the machine at suitable distances apart. The front ends of these tingers are inclined downward, in order thatwhen the grain is pressed against them by the sickle or knife it may be pulled slightly upward, which favors the cutting very much and greatly diminishes the force required to effectit.

This machine is mainly designed for harvesting grain by cutting ofi the heads and leaving the straw upon the ground, the heads being elevated by the conveyer and discharged into the box of a wagon. The heads of grain thus gathered are either stacked in the open air or garnered in a barn, as may be deemed expedient. If the grain, when out, is not ripe enough to be garnered, the sickle may be lowered as to cut the straw at the usual height from the ground, and the conveyer placed in a horizontal position, so as to lay the grain in a swath, where it may be allowed to remain until cured, or it can be bound in sheaves in the usual way.

To adapt the machine for cutting grass for hay it is merely requisite to lower the sickle as near the ground as possible without running onto it.

As the machine is operated in other respects besides those I have particularly mentioned in the same way that others are, I do not deem it necessary to enter into a detailed description of all the minutia of its management.

Having thus fully described the nature of my invention, what I claim therein as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In comhinination with a frame nearly balanced onits supporting-wheels and a tongue hinged to said frame, a lever connected to one and projecting toward the drivers stand or seat on the other, so that the driver, who is the sole conductor of the machine, may from said stand or-seat raise or depress the cutters at pleasure during the operation of the machine for cutting the grain or grass at any suitable height above the ground or for passsupporting it while being.

are secured to a bar which extends ing over any intervening obstacles, substantially as described.

' 2. In combination with the operative parts of a harvesting-machine, a conveyer which first carries the cut grain horizontally across the machine and then elevates it, so as to discharge the grain into the bed of a wagon driven alongside of the machine, when the conveyer-frame is connected to the bed bya flexible joint, in manner and for the purpose described.

JONATHAN HAINES.

Witnesses:

THOMAS H. UPPERMAN, A. B. STOUGHTON.

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