IMPROVEMENTS IN COLLECTING AND LOADING HAY INTO WAGGONS, AND APPARATUS THEREFOR
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Lander, of Shaftesbury Road, Mere, in
the County of Wilts, Farmer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN COLLECTING AND LOADING HAY INTO WAGGONS, AND APPARATUS THEREFOR.”
"
Sealed the 11th March 1873, and dated the 27th September 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Lander at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
27th September 1872.
I, HENRY LANDER, of Shaftesbury Road, Mere, in the County of
Wilts, Farmer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN COLLECTING AND LOADING HAY INTO WAGGONS, AND APPARATUS
THEREFOR," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to a method of and apparatus for collecting hay
from a field and pitching it into waggons. For this purpose I attach to
the tail of a waggon an inclined framing, trough, or tube, supported on a
pair of wheels, on which it runs when it is pulled forwards by the move-
ment of the waggon to which it is attached. On the axle of the wheels
is fixed a drum, which revolves with them. Round this drum pass two
endless chains, which extend upwards along the inclined framing,

page_text: trough, or tube, and over suitable guide pullies or rollers at the upper
part and under side thereof. At intervals along these chains are fixed
cross bars, with prongs projecting therefrom, forming rakes, which
extend across from the one chain to the other, and at the lower end of
the framing, trough, or tube are mounted a series of prongs, projecting
downwards and extending across the width of the apparatus. These
prongs are not rigidly fixed, but are hung on pivots, so that they are free
to give to the inequalities of the ground, and they thus form a yielding
rake which is drawn along the ground as the waggon advances. The
hay on the ground is collected by the rake thus moving forward, and the
endless chains being put in motion by the rotation of the wheels of the
apparatus, the rakes attached thereto are brought round successively so
as to raise the collected hay and to carry it up the inclined framing,
trough, or tube, from the upper end of which it is discharged into the
waggon. The framing, trough, or tube is made of such height and
placed at such inclination that the upper part of it, from which the hay
is pitched, overhangs the body of the waggon in which the hay is
reocived.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Henry Lander in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 25th March 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
LANDER, of Shaftesbury Road, Mere, in the County of Wilts, Farmer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of September, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the
thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Henry Lander, Her special license
that I, the said Henry Lander, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Henry Lander, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to
time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed,

page_text: should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands,
and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN COLLECTING AND
LOADING HAY INTO WAGGONS, AND APparatus THEREFOR," upon the condition
53 (amongst others) that I, the said Henry Lander, my executors or admi-
nistrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their
hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of
the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Lander, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, reference being had to the accompanying
Sheet of Drawings and to the figures and letters marked thereon, that
is to say:
This Invention relates to a method of and apparatus for collecting hay
from a field and pitching it into waggons. For this purpose I attach to
the tail of a waggon an inclined framing, trough, or tube, supported on
a pair of wheels, on which it runs when it is pulled forwards by the
movement of the waggon to which it is attached. On the axle of the
wheels is fixed a drum which revolves with them. Round this drum
pass two endless chains, which extend upwards along the inclined
framing, trough, or tube, and over suitable guide pullies or rollers at the
upper part and under side thereof. At intervals along these chains are
fixed cross bars, with prongs projecting therefrom, forming rakes, which
extend across from the one chain to the other, and at the lower end of
the framing, trough, or tube are mounted a series of prongs, projecting
downwards and extending across the width of the apparatus. These
prongs are not rigidly fixed, but are hung on pivots, so that they are free
to give to the inequalities of the ground, and they thus form a yielding
rake which is drawn along the ground as the waggon advances. The
hay on the ground is collected by the rake thus moving forward, and the
endless chains being put in motion by the rotation of the wheels of the
apparatus, the rakes attached thereto are brought round successively
so as to raise the collected hay and to carry it up the inclined framing,
trough, or tube, from the upper end of which it is discharged into the

page_text: waggon. The framing, trough, or tube is made of such height and
placed at such inclination that the upper part of it, from which the
hay is pitched; overhangs the body of the waggon in which the hay is
received.
It may be readily understood that the apparatus, as above described, 5
might be employed for the collection of other produce beside hay.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 represents a section of apparatus constructed according to my
Invention for gathering hay from the surface of the ground and deli-
vering it into a waggon; and Fig. 2 represents a section of the lower 1
part of the apparatus somewhat modified in construction, as I will
hereafter describe.
The apparatus shewn in Fig. 1 is mounted on travelling wheels A, and
is attached to the tail of a waggon W, with which it is drawn along a
field. It can be also pushed or drawn along detached, having a front 1
supporting wheel B mounted in a turning frame, by which it can be
steered. The wheels A are fixed to their axle, on which also are fixed
drums C, round which pass the continuous chains, bands, or ropes D of
an elevator, these chains, bands, or ropes being carried round pullies E
at the top of the framing G, and over guide pullies or rollers F on the 2
under side of the framing. The chains, bands, or ropes D have fixed
to them at intervals transverse bars, with tines or spikes H projecting
from them. Behind the wheels A a number of bent prongs K are hung
loosely from a horizontal spindle, so as to form a yielding rake. As the
apparatus is pulled along the field by the waggon to which it is attached 2
the rake K collects the hay, which the tines H carry up the elevator,
and which is discharged from the top of the elevator into the waggon W.
On each side of the apparatus there is a share or inclined board S for
gathering in the hay laterally within the range of the wheels A, such
inclined board having a wheel s in front of it to facilitate its travel over 3
the surface of the ground.
The framing G of the elevator is preferably made with a joint at g; so
that when it is not in use the upper portion can be folded down for con-
venience of transport, as indicated by the dotted lines. This framing
may be made in the form of an open or covered trough, and may be 3
hooded at top, as shewn at g', to shelter the discharged hay from
wind.

page_text: The modification shewn in Fig. 2 is as follows :—A drum L having
external cogs is made to gear with internal cogs fixed on one of the
travelling wheels A, which in this case may revolve loosely on their
axle a.
The drum L is not fixed on a shaft, but is mounted either on
internal rollers 1, 1, or on trunnions large enough to permit it to revolve
clear of the axle a, or it might be mounted on cranks on this axle.
Tines M mounted loosely on the axle pass through holes in the periphery
of the drum L. Owing to the eccentric mounting of this drum the
tines M at the lower part of their revolution project beyond its periphery
nearly touching the ground. At the upper part of their revolution they
are drawn in, so that their points scarcely project beyond the surface of
the drum. The ropes, chains, or bands of the elevator pass round the
drum L at each end of it; and the tines of the elevator are carried round
the drum L, taking the hay collected by the tines M from them as they
recede, and conveying it up the incline of the elevator.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I claim,—
First. The method, substantially as herein described, of collecting hay
or other produce and loading it into a waggon by means of a raking and
elevating apparatus attached to the tail of the waggon.
Second. The use, for the purpose above stated, of apparatus con=
structed and acting substantially as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Lander, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.
HENRY LANDER
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