USRE6329E - Improvement in harvesters - Google Patents

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B. W. &. W. W. MARSH.

Harvester ReissuedMarch 9, 1875.

W't'nesses:

UNtTEn STATES PATENT OFF- on.

CHARLES W. MARSH AND WILLIAM W. MARSH, OF SYGAMORE, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN HARVESTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 21 ,207, dated August 17, 1858; reissue No.'1,719, dated July 5, 1864; reissue No. 2,014, dated June 27, 1865; extended seven years; reissue No. 6,329,1lated March 9,

1875 application filed February 3, 1875.

DIVISION A.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, CHARLES W. MARSH and WILLIAM W/MARSH, formerly of Shabbona, in the county of De Kalb, and-now of Sycamore, in the county of De Kalb, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Harvesters; and we do declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical section taken on line :0 a: of Fig. 3; Fig. 2, a transverse vertical section on line 1 y of Fig. 3, and Fig. 3 a plan or top view.

Similar letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several figures.

This invention relates to an improved method of elevating the out grain from the level of the platform of a harvester, and delivering it into an elevated grain-receptacle.

In the drawings, A represents the main frame of a harvester; B, the driving-wheel, and O the platform frame, within which frames are placed the drive-wheel B and a grain-wheel, D, at their proper places, as shown. lhe platform-frame (J is attached to the main frame, and within it is placed an endless band of rakes, which shall carry the out grain in the direction indicated by the arrow 1, Fig. 3. At the front of this platform a reciprocating sickle, a, is placed, which is arranged in the usual or in any proper way, and is operated from the driving-wheel B by any suitable device. To the platform-frame O, at 2, Fig. 1, an inclined frame, E, is attached, which is supported at the upper end by uprights b b. An endless band of rakes is placed within this frame E, which has the same inclination as the frame, and which moves in the direction indicated by the arrow 2.

Thebars o are filled with the needed number of teeth d, and form rakes, which are fastened to a band at each end, and constitute the band of rakes F, which is placed beneath the slotted plate G, and over the rollers e a, so that the teeth d protrudethrough the slots or grooves g. The rollers e e have their bear ings in the frame E. H is a loose or floating cover, placed over the slotted plate G and above the teeth (1. It is kept in position by pins h h h h, which have sufficient play in the holes through which they pass, to allow the cover to rise or fall freely at all points, and permit it to conform to the quantity or position of the grain passing under it. This cover has the edget' of its lower end snfficiently turned up to allow the cut grain to pass readily under, and the upper end 1" is turned down, so as to deflect the grain toward the receptacle I, and deliver it therein more compactly. M M are binders tables, and J the binders platform, which are no'tmore particularly described, as they form the main feature of our reissued patent No. 2,015.

The operation is as follows: The machine is drawn along and the cut grain falls upon the carrier behind the sickle, and is carried toward the elevator or band of rakes F, to which it is delivered in a continuous stream. The band of rakes F carries the grain up under the cover H, and delivers it into the receptacle I. One or more attendants stand on the platform J and take sheaves or gav els from the receptacle I as they collect there, and bind them on the tables M M. The cover H, being attached in a loose or yielding manner, adapts itself to the volume of grain being carried up under it, yielding 01' giving as circumstances may-require, and holding it 1 in proper position. The grain passes freely under the cover, and the turned-down portion 0' directs it toward the receptacle I. Thus, it will be seen that by this method the grain will be elevated to the height required by the position of the receptacle I, and will be steadily and compactly delivered thereon without any break or interruption in its flow.

What we claim in this division of reissue as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

protruding through the slots, in the manner described, and used in connection with a bindgrain will be changed toward the receptacle, ers grain-receptacle, substantially as and for substantially as set forth.

the purposes set forth. CHARLES W. MARSH. 2. The curved or bent deflector 02', forming WILLIAM W. MARSH. a part of the cover, in combination with the Witnesses:

grain-elevating mechanism and grain-recep- ARTHUR M. STARK,

tacle, whereby the upward direction of the CHARLES W.MOSHER.

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