USRE9381E - Mowing-machine - Google Patents

Description

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M. R. SHALTERS 8v S. RAY,

Assignor, by mesne assignments; to W. H. BEEBE.

Mowing Machine.

Reissued Sept. 21,1880.

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PATENT OFFICE.

MOSES R. SHALTERS AND SAMUEL BAY, OF ALLIANCE, OHIO, ASSIGNORS, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO WM. H. BEEBE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

MOWING-IIVIACHINSE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Reissued Letters Patent No. 9,381, dated September 21, 1880. Original No. 118,284, dated August 22, 1871 antedatod August 11, 1871. Application for reissue filed August 23, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, MosEs R. SHALTERS and SAMUEL RAY, of Alliance, in the county of Stark and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mowing-Machines, which are fully set forth in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a Ina-- 1o chine embodying our improvements; Fig. 2, a

plan view of same; Fig. 3, a 'front elevation of same, and Fig; 4 a rear elevation of the same.

Our invention relates to that class of machines in which a drag-bar is used for carrying the finger-beam forward over the ground and the shoe is connected to the drag-bar so as to be vibrated independently of the latter and the coupling-arm to raise and depress the fingers to change their pitch.

The invention consists in the combination of a drag-bar, a shoe carrying the finger-beam and attached to the drag-bar by a hinge-connection which permits a rocking movement, and a lever supported on the drag-bar, whereby the shoe and fin ger-beam are rocked or tilted.

It also consists in the combination of a dragbar, a shoe carrying the finger-beam and at- 0 tached to the drag-bar so as to permit a rocking movement, a lever supported on the dragbar for vibrating the shoe, and a locking device whereby the shoe may be held up in any position to which it may be adjusted.

It also consists in other special combina tions of devices, which will be hereinafter named and described, and the particular combinations pointed out definitely in the claims.

We will now proceed to describe the several parts of a machine in which we have in one at its rear end to the said frame at the point a, and it is furthermore secured to the frame by a stay or loop, F, through which it loosely passes. Above and below the pole, and immediately within the stay, are springs G H, the use of which will be mentioned presently.

The drag-bar I is attached at its forward end to the front part of the machine by means of an arm, J, through which it passes loosely. The nut K is turned on the extreme forward end of the drag-bar, and between it and the side of the sleeve of the arm through which the bar slides a rubber collar, L, isinterposed.

At the rear end of the drag-bar is a toothed segment, M, connected rigidly to the bar, and disks N O are secured on each side of the segment, respectively, by means of a bush or sleeve projecting from one of said disks into and through an eye in the center of the segment, to which bush the other is bolted or otherwise secured. By this means the two disks are made to fit closely, but not tightly, to the sides of the segment, and may be rotated or oscillated by means of a lever, P, attached to one of the disks.

The pawl Q, provided with adownwardlyacting spring, engages with the notches on the segment-plate, and thus locks the lever and disks in any position to which they adjusted. 7

The shoe R is hinged to the outer disk, O, by means of lugs S projecting from the face of the disk 0, to which corresponding lugs T on the shoe are pivoted by means of suitable bolts. The finger-barU is attached to the shoe in the usual way. Obviously, therefore, the oscillation of the disks by means of the handlever will tilt the shoe and rock the fingerbeam, thereby changing the angle of the fingers and cutters with reference to the ground over which they are being drawn. At the same time the outer end of the finger-beam may be raised and lowered in aplane perpendicular to the path of the machine for the purpose of avoiding large obstructions.

The rear end of the drag-bar is connected to the lower end of the lever A by means of a chain, B, so that by moving said lever in the proper direction the rear end of the drag may be bar, together with the shoe and finger-beam, can be raised from the ground. The leverA engages with the teeth of the rack O, and thereby the drag-bar and parts connected thereto may be secured and held up in any desired position. a

The ordinary transverse coupling arm or brace D (such as is usually employed in dragbar machines) is pivoted at its upper end "to the main frame, and at its lower end is connected rigidly to the drag-bar. This brace prevents all lateral movement of the dragbar, but at the same time allows'to it a free "ertical movement.

From the description above, obviously the tilting of the shoe and finger-beam is entirely independent of the drag-bar and coupling: arm-that is, neither of the latter devices .is moved or in anyway disturbed by the rocking of the finger-beam to change the angleof presentation or the raising and lowering of the outer end of the finger-beam.

The pitman V is connected at one end to the wrist of the crank-wheel W, near which a swivel-joint, h, is made in the pitman, to pro.- vide for the rocking motion of the fin gerbeam. The outer end of thepitman is connected to the cutter-bar bya pivotal joint the axial line of which coincides, or nearly so, with the axial line of the pivot 9, whereby the shoe is connected to the disk 0. The pitman will therefore work more nearly in a right line with the horizontal movement of the cutter-bar, more especially when the finger-beam is raised .or depressed from a horizontal position. In either of these positions the pit-man will work with less strain upon the cutter-bar.

The springs G H upon the pole are for the purpose of relieving the neck of the team from severe strain in the event that the machine, while running, passes over rough and uneven ground, and the rubber collar L pre= vents injury. to the finger-barif it runs against an obstruction or is subjected in any way to unusual strain.

In machinesof this kind, it the tilting-lever is mounted on the main frame,'its relation to the shoe is changed when the finger-beam is carried forward over rough and uneven ground, so that there will sometimes be undue strain upon the lever and its connection to the shoe, and at other times the said connection will be too slack, and the tilting of the shoe and fin? ger beam rendered uncertain. These difliculties .areentirely. overcome by mounting or supporting the tilting-lever on the drag-bar so. that it moves with the bar, and consequently retains the same relation to the shoe.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Let ters Patent, is-

1. The combination, in a harvesting i machine, of the following elements; a drag-bar, a shoeattached to the drag-bar by. a hinge-, connectiomwhich permits. the shoe-to hevibrated or tilted in the direction of its length, a finger-beam attached to the shoe,and a lever mounted or supported on the drag-bar, whereby the front end of the shoe maybe raised at will by the driver on the machine.

2. The combination, in a harvesting machine, of the following elements: a drag-bar, a shoe attached to the drag-bar by a hingeconnection, which permits the shoe to be vibrated or tilted in the direction of its length, a lever mounted or supported on the dragbar for lifting the forward end of the shoe, and a locking device for locking the lever to hold the shoe in position when lifted.

3. The combination, in a harvestingmachine, of the following elements a drag-bar,

. atrausverse coupling arm or brace hinged or pivoted at its inner end to the main or supporting frame,.av shoe attached to. the. dragbar by a hinge-connection. independently of the coupling-arm, which permits the shoe to be vibrated or .tilted in the direction of its length, a finger-beam attached tothe shoe,- and a. lever mounted, or supported on thedragbar, whereby the shoe may be tilted and' the finger.- beam rocked without disturbing the coupling-arm and drag-bar.

, 4, The combination, in a harvestingmachine, of the following elements: a drag-bar, a shoe carrying the finger-beam and attached to thedrag-bar by a hinge-connection, which permits the shoe to be tilted-iira direction transverse to the finger -beam, and a'lever mount-edv or supported on the: drag-bar and connected to theshoe by a device which enables the shoe to be vibrated positively in both directions. i p

. 5. The combination, in a harvesting-machine, of the following elements: a drag-bar, a shoe carrying the finger-beam and attached to the. drag-barbyga hinge-connection, which permits. the shoe transverse to the finger-beam, alever mounted or supported on thejLdrag-barIandJconnected tothe shoe so as to vibrate =thezlatterpositively in both directions, andv a locking device, whereby; the shoe may be secured firmly in any position to which it maybe adjusted.

6. The. combination, inaharvesting-machine, of the followingfelements a drag-bar, a transverse coupling arm or braee connected at one. endito the drag bar and hinged at the other to the mainframe, a shoe carrying the finger beam and attached to the drag-bar by a hinge-connectionindependent of. the coupling-arm, which. permits theshoe to be tilted transversely of the finger-beam, a lever mounted-.01- supported .on the "drag bar and connected to the shoe, and a: locking device, whereby the. shoe 7 and finger beam may be tiltedjndependently' of thejcoupling-arm and secured permanently. in any position. to which it maybe adjusted. I

1 7 The ratchet-wheelMand disks ON, in com bination with thedlag-bar I, these parts l'CO to betilted in a direction IIO ing constructed substantially as described, arranged in the manner and for the purpose and for the purpose set forth. described.

8. The combination of the spring-catch le- MOSES R. SHALTERS. ver P, ratchet-wheel M, disks 0 and N, drag- SAMUEL RAY. 5 bar I, and shoe R with the pitmain V, having .Witnesses:

the swivel-joint h, the cutter-bar X, and fin- A., L. JONES,

get-bar U, these parts being constructed and J. W. MCFARLAND.

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