Sheaf Binding Needle
Year: 1899

page_text: I, ALLAN PARK, of 149, Great Western Road, in the City of Glasgow, Master
Wright, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object the provision of a device for use in binding
sheaves of corn or like crops when cut and laid on the ground or stubble by
a reaping machine, whereby the labour of gathering the sheaves and laying
them over the straw or cord usually employed for binding them may be avoided.
The improved device or binding needle is composed of a long rod or tube
having one end pointed and a handle or enlarged part at its opposite end whereby
it may be gripped. The rod or tube is curved or bent so that the user by slightly
stooping may readily insert its pointed end under the sheaf lying on the ground
or stubble, and near the pointed end is fitted a spring catch under which the
end of the cord to be used in binding the sheaf is placed and held by the catch.
A ball of binding cord is carried in any suitable receptacle by the operator who
in using the binding needle slips the free end under the spring catch, then pushes
the needle under the sheaf, draws the end of the cord from the catch and ties
it with a running loop or knot around the sheaf. The cord is then drawn tight
and knotted fast, and is cut above the knot by means of a knife blade or cutter
riveted or otherwise secured or formed on the needle at about its mid length.
Dated this 15th da„ of №
11000
WALLACE FAIRWEATHER,
Of the Firm of Cruikshank & Fairweather,
Chartered Patent Agents,
Saint Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agent for the Applicant.
Corn Sheaf Binding Needle.
I, ALLAN PARK, of 149, Great Western Road, in the City of Glasgow, Master
Wright, 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:-
This invention has for its object the provision of a device for use in binding
sheaves of corn or like crops when cut and laid on the ground or stubble by
a reaping machine, whereby the labour of gathering the sheaves and laying
them over the straw or cord usually employed for binding them may be avoided.
As represented in the accompanying drawings in side elevation at Figure 1
ID 977

page_text: The rod
or
or
tube is curved
a handle
or'
and in plan at Figure 2, the improved device or binding needle is composed of
a long rod
tube A having one end pointed at a and
enlarged part a¹ at its opposite end whereby it may be gripped.
or bent SO that the user by slightly
stooping may readily insert its pointed end a under the sheaf lying on the ground
or stubble, and near the pointed end is fitted a spring catch B under which the
end of the cord to be used in binding the sheaf is placed and held by the catch
A ball of binding cord is carried in any suitable receptacle by the operator who
is using the binding needle and who slips the free end under the spring catch,
then pushes the needle under the sheaf, draws the end of the cord from the catch
and ties it with a running loop or knot around the sheaf. The cord is then
drawn tight and knotted fast, and is cut above the knot by means of a knife
blade or cutter C riveted or otherwise secured or formed on the needle. In the
example shown, the cutter C is formed integral with the spring catch B, which
is pivoted on flanged plates D, D¹, the plate D¹ forming also a stationary shear
blade C so that the cord may be cut by the blade C and at the same time
gripped by the spring catch.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
A corn sheaf binding needle constructed and adapted to be used substantially
as described.