Improved Bundle-carrier for Harvester-binders.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 15th July, 1889-Accepted, 15th Mar., 1890
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Bundle-carrier for Harvester-binders.
A Communication from HART A. MASSEY, President of the Massey Manufacturing Co.
Limited, Corner of King & Massey Streets, in the City of Toronto, in the
County of York, in the Province of Ontario, Canada.
1, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT, of 323 High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex,
M.I.M.E. do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
The object of the invention is to design a simple and effective bundle-carrier which
may be easily operated by the driver of the machine, and which will not be effected
by the movement of the machine when tilted to adapt the cutter-bar to suit the class
of grain being cut; and it consists essentially of a table pivoted upon a frame hinged
to the frame of the machine below the binding table, the outside of the frame being
supported by a ground wheel. A bar connected to the inner front corner of the
table and extending to a point in proximity to the tongue is attached by means of a
pivoted toggle-jointed bar caused to rock by a rod extending to a point near the
driver's seat.
The rocking on its pivot of the crank-bar causes the bundle carrier to
tilt on its pivot and discharge onto the ground the bundles it may at the time be
carrying substantially as hereinafter more particularly explained.
Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved bundle-carrier showing the
manner of connecting it to the harvester-binder. Figs. and 3 are perspective
views showing a detached portion of the apparatus represented in figure 1.
A represents the bundle-carrier constructed substantially as shown. B is an angle
bar hinged at a to the frame C of the harvester. The outer end of the angle-bar B
is bent backwardly as indicated, and has attached to it the axle D on which the
wheel E is journalled. F is a bar hinged at b to the harvester frame and extending
angularly towards the angle bar B is bolted or otherwise fastened to the said bar so
as to form a brace. The bar B is further braced by the truss-brace G which is
secured to both the bars B and F as indicated in order to resist the backward strain
should a stump or other obstruction be struck.
His a trunnion fixed to and projecting from the bar F and fitting into a socket
and formed in a bracket bolted to the inside of the carrier A. This bracket is not
shown in the drawing, but it is similar to the bracket I, on the outer side of the
carrier A. This latter bracket has a socket formed in it to receive the end of the
trunnion J which is bolted or otherwise secured to the angle bar B. The trunnions H
and J are opposite to and on a line with each other, and form the pivot points upon
which the bundle-carrier A is supported. The portion of the bundle carrier extending
in front of the trunnions H and J is heavier than the portion extending behind them,
so that the normal position of the carrier A is horizontal as it rests upon and is
supported by the angle bar B as shown. K is a bar fixed to the inner front corner
of the bundle-carrier A and extending towards the tongue L.
The harvester-binder to which this invention is applied belongs to that class in
which the tongue is hinged to the frame of the machine so that the cutter-bar may be
angled without moving the tongue. For the proper understanding of this invention
it is necessary to describe this portion of the machine although no claim is laid to
the mechanism shown. The tongue L is hinged to the frame of the machine and is
connected to the double crank-arm M by the rigid bar N pivoted on the end of such
crank arın as shown. This rigid bar N forms the fulcrum on which the crank arm M
pivots when it is adjusted for the purpose of angling the cutter-bar. The end of the
bar N is bent so as to form the pin which passes through the end of the crank arm M

page_text: and is also designed to receive the toggle-jointed bell crank lever O the bottom end
of which is pivoted to the end of the bar K.
As shown most clearly in fig. 3 one arm of the lover or crank-bar O is formed in
two parts o o which are pivoted together at o'. The lower of these parts viz. :-the
part of connected to the bar K is formed with a saddle piece o³ which fits over the
edge of the other part o when the said two parts are in line with each other as in
figs. 1 and 2. When the toggle is broken that is to say when the parts o and o' are
out of line with each other as in fig. 3 the bundle-carrier A rocks on its pivot.
P is a rod connected to the crank O and extending to a point in proximity to the
driver's seat. By pulling upon this rod the toggle-joint in the crank bar O is broken
and the bar K is immediately moved upwardly, carrying with it the front of the
carrier A which being pivoted on the trunnions H. and tilts so as to discharge the
bundles which have accumulated upon it. The instant that the bundles are thrown
off the table, the said table resumes its normal position, its front end as before stated
being made heavy for that purpose. As the bar K is connected as described to the
rigid bar N the tilting of the machine has no effect upon the bundle carrier which
remains horizontal except when tilted as before described.
It will of course be understood that as the portion of the tongue L near its
connection with the bar N does not move while the table is being tilted the bar K
might be carried by a bell-crank pivoted at that point.. I mention this fact as my
correspondent does not wish to confine himself to the exact position shown for
connecting the tilting bar K of the carrier to the crank by which it is operated, as
the connection might be made at other points without affecting the operation of the
device provided the connection was such that the tilting or angling of the machine
did not cause the carrier to tilt.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by my
foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. In a harvester a bundle carrier pivoted on a frame the inner side of which is
hinged to the frame of the harvester below the binding table and the outer side is
supported by a ground wheel in combination with mechanism by which the bundle-
carrier is held in a horizontal position and is tilted when required substantially as and
for the purpose specified.
2. The bundle carrier A pivoted on the trunnions Hand J which are fixed to the
frame formed by the angle bar B and bar F the said frame being supported at its
outside by the wheel E and hinged at its inner side to the harvester frame C in
combination with the bar K jointed bar O crank arm M and rod P substantially as
and for the purpose specified.
3. The bar B hinged at a to the frame C and having a crank formed at its other
end from which the axle D of the wheel E extends in combination with the bars F
hinged at b to the frame C the brace G trunnions H and J and carrier A substantially
as and for the purpose specified.
Dated this 15th day of July 1889.
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicant.