New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-12-04

II WILL in ten, or twenty, or one hundred yssrs q.
least De rolled away into thai receptacle OF hings lost
on earth, which has already sw.lo we'd up the sicke
and the cradle So it is that through the everin
cressipg ever pressing wants Of MANKIND all wise
Creator has secured the accomplishment ~ his chef
design in regard 10 man-ETERSAL PRoGRLss.
We are nov 20 examine the additions OF lst5,
which in she language Of the courts are called the
new features Of the Reaper Of l334. 10 order to
certain hese features, their peculiarly and their
value you must consider VIA. we had in the Reaper
Of 1894, namely: horses, with its wheels and
platform, pinOns and bands vibratiny exile work
Ing through guard.fr gers reel, md an imperfect
separator of the swaih 10 be eutfon the era which
10 be eft standing. The machine, thus construct
Cd, worked well when the wheat was fully ripe AMI
stood erect and the raker following in j.. path, with
very severe labor drew of rom the platform the grain
as il wa cut, and deposited j, on the ground. But
wheat 10 the fed is not always fully and equally ripe,
and IS seldom found strong and erect. The insect
oary eDfeebles the stskthe wind ben 1s them 10 the
right and to the left and e rains beat them down,
that they become entlngled, and 10 use the farm
ers expression. are lodged. Then, the imperfect
Reaper Of 1884 did not separate them at the roots,
and bring up 10 the sickes edge the stalks within the
swath and did not diseDtaDge and separate and put
carefully outside the stalks growing without tue
swatb, that they might be 10 condition TO cut on the
next round Of the machine Consequently the en-
tangled stalks Obstructed and stopped the machine.
Tie machine requiF to be cleared and Its track
marked By trail Of stalks, which having escaped
the Reaper were bent down. and could only be saved
afterwerd by the Of the sickle, and Of the rake
applied by hand.
the grain taxed too severely the strength OF the farm
er Two things were wanted. First, who
should go closely before the Reaper, yet keeping out
Of its way. While be ben, continually 10 ward the
ground he must place his hands under the stalks
the roots raise them gently upward, separate tbs n
when entangled, place those growing in the Keepers
path within the reach Of the reel which j. 10 deliver
them 10 the guard fingers, and az the same time he
I'd nd Las Tho
which growing outside of the track of the Reaper
found IpcliniDg over II.
II is clear that such an agent 10 divide the wheat
YVES wanted in the macine OF 1894, because that
chine without that agent, is now free, aud yet 10
farmer will il, for the reason that he can pro-
cure one having such agent, tho 1gh at very
SIDERABLE cost. Mr.. NJ COrmck, indeed, could not
make a breathing man 20 perform the labor that was
thus required, and no living nan could perform IT,
He therefore, invented mechanical man TO perform
that labor ard attached him b the machine. Where
ever the machine goes now, there that mech lnica
man goes before it, always stopping and lifting NJ and
disc DiaD Cling and dividing tho grain.
But Ibe machine wanted another thing-a better
rake to follow behind IT, and yet able 10 be always
with IT, and draw the wheat from the platform a. fast
az il was cut. VI COrmick sup Piled tas want in lsl5
by areD, il position upon the car of tue Reaper
upon which the raker might stand with suitable sup
70 for his person, and there perform the labor OF
IakiDg the wheat from the PLATFORM This was still
further addition to the Reaper Of 1884.
1t il Only with the FIRST however Of these additions
that q have now to doal-thIt is TO say, wi.h the
Dividor patented in lsf5 II you viii examine that
Divider you will find that it consists of several parts
FUst A beam on the let side 81 the machine ami
reaching out into the wheat.
.S.cond. On the inside Of that beam is an iron at
tachd thereto which enters the gram IN the swath 70
be cut under the fallen stalks, and rising as the ma
chine advsncet, bears those stalks upgard aud in
ward 80 that they become disentaDgled and freed,
and arc brought within the sweep OF the reel, which
then presses them bet Feen the guard fingers and
az aiDft the teeth of the vibrating sickle
Third. On the outside OF that same beam. and az
the end of it. is bow extending back yard bent out
ward like the human arm with ITS elbow, and rsng to
shoulder returns TO the beam opposite the reel
standard.
F0prh The reel, which reyolves il front of the
scble and over the inside Divider and receives the
stalks as they are raised, and delivers them the
guaTdfDgers.
You are not to suppose that it is claimed that every
ore Of tho four things which thus arranged and
bined compose the Dyider, was new. 1t would be
no obecaon 10 the plaintiff claim, that It was for
new combination OF several II p5 all OF which might
have been known and used before. Every machine
is q con biDatiOn Of parts. The human frame, the
most wonderful of machines is a combination Of
parts many OF which are not peculiar TO man but be-
long to large portion of the animal creation. La the
construction of machines, the parts are necessarily
alyeys old. Nature has furnished TO US only seven
mechani al powers, with which we perform all the
operations of human industry. This piece of wood
which bold in my hand contains OF less. three OF
them | bevel two Of its sides, at the enl, and you
see il becomes the wedge Instrument which sewers
rocks lay the stick, thus across another, add SO
urocure fulcrum al d nov lhave the lever. Archim
edes said that, if he could orly find fulcrum, he
would lit the world with lever. Now cut wind
ing cIevice around the stick, and have the screw
the most effective instrument for raising mlssiye
weights.
Lt us now look at the parts of the Diyider particu
LARRY. II If apparent that the ProJecfiRg M9TPeEt
hmm must be neither too short too long. IL II be
too short it will enter the grain sufficiently IN ad-
vance of the sickle to divide IT, and then the machine
will be clogged. If il be too long, thon the beam,
working like the long arm of aever, Will be thrown
ON one side and on the other, and upward and down
ward by the vibration of the machine and make an
UNEQUAL swath and break down the wheat The in
yentor adopted aength OF two and half feet for this
projecting beam, and experience has shown that he
was right Look next a. the INSIDE d1ridiHg iron. III
Is attached at the end of the projecting beam. Thus
entering the wheat at distance OF hve or SIX inches
above ,le roots il rises backward toward the sickle
at angle Of some thirty degrees - as 10 bear w
the stalks which il receives. AT that elevation II
reaches the sweep of the reel IL then sinks, a. II eN-
tends backward. as to avoid bong struck by the
reel Now look at the reel. Its arms extend over the
inside diyidDZ non, and IN their revolnhon come
within two inches Of it, and thus receive the stalks
which are raised up, and press them between the
guard fingers and against the sickle edge Whue al
the same lime the arms bear the stalks backward, so
that they fall uniformly WIN theH heaus 'o"sru 'he
rear of he platform.
Examine now the 0uts-Grd GOr. This bow, fastened
at The projecting end of the diyder, bends outward
abou; foot and so separates the grain standing on
The outside from that within the swath The bow at
the same time rises at an angle which makes II Two
and hall feet high opposite the reel post-an eleva-
ton considerably above that of the inside dividing
iron where the reel sweeps over It, Tins YOU that
the inside dividing iron and the outside bow, togetaer
with the beam form the outlines Of a triangular
trough in which the disentangled wheat is received.
and seized by the overlapping ree and carried back
ward TO the sickle. This combination constitutes the
first feature il the improved Reaper OF 1912
Is this feature in fact an Improvement II Is an
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