Corn, Straw, and similar Materials.
Year: 1885

page_text: Corn, Straw, and similar Materials.
I WILLIAM WILKINSON of Kempston in the County of Bedford, Machine fitter
do hereby declare the nature of my invention for AN IMPROVED GRIP WHEEL
& BED FOR BINDING MACHINES to be as follows:-
In specification and drawings numbered 1471 and dated Jany 15th 1884 there is
represented a grip wheel with a groove on its outer surface-To better secure a
string with less tendency to divide the fibres thereof I cause the outer part of the
wheel as away from the contrivances for tying to be made of somewhat greater
diamater or otherwise match it & the bed to be closest about this part & to put less
pressure or tenson on the string on the inner side of the groove as compared with
the outer side of it-I carry out this arrangement more perticularley about the gaps
as across said wheel or disc-I do not confine myself to using this my improved
Grip in connection with the tubular needle & other parts of my Improved Harvest-
ing & binding machine but can apply it to other machines also.
WILLIAM WILKINSON.
An Improved Grip Wheel and Bed for Machines for Binding
Corn, Straw, and similiar Materials.
I, WILLIAM WILKINSON of Kempston in the County of Bedford Machine Fitter,
do hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVED GRIP WHEEL & BED
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to an improvement of a part of my former Letters
Patent No 1471 dated Jany 15th 1884-viz-the grip wheel & bed & consists in

page_text: constructing the grip wheel with a groove around its periphery as in the said
former Letters Patent, but with the exception that one side of the groove-viz―
that on the outside of the said wheel or side farthest away from the contrivances
for tying, is slightly deeper than the other side of the said groove. I also form the
grip bed so as to lie closer to the larger side of the groove in the grip wheel than on
the other side of the said wheel, by this improved construction I prevent the
breaking of the string on the inner side of the grip wheel when tying which has
hitherto been the case with the ordinary style of grip wheel & bed. It will be
obvious from my improved construction of grip wheel that I can use with the
groove of the same, a clearer or devise for preventing any refuse or loose ends of
string from being carried round by the said grip wheel--This form of grip wheel
being better adapted for use with a clearer by reason of the groove allowing the
point of the said clearer to get under the said refuse or loose ends of string thereby
effectually dislodging them from the grip wheel which is not the case with those
hitherto used, they being constructed as solid grip wheels that is to say having no
groove-In order to enable my invention to be fully understood I will describe the
same by reference to the accompanying drawing in which Figure 1. is a side
elevation and Figure 2 an end view of a grip wheel & bed as constructed according
to my invention, a represents the grip wheel in which is formed the groove b,
c&d represent the sides of the groove on the inner & outer sides of the grip
wheel a respectively the said side d being of a slightly greater depth than the side c,
e represents the grip bed which is shaped so as to loosly fit the periphrey of the
grip wheel a as shown in Fig. 2 the part of the said bed which fits the side & of
the groove 6 of the wheel a being closer to the said side d than the part which fits
the side c, represents in dotted lines a clearer as herein before mentioned the said
clearer working in the groove, g is the spring for keeping the grip bed close to the
grip wheel groove b.
Having now particularly described & ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I would have it understood
that I do not confine the use of my Improved Grip wheel & bed to any perticular
devise for binding but an Invention applicapable to such as may be differentley
constructed or otherwise applied to the purpose of holding a string-I claim as
follows
(1.) The Improved grip wheel & bed constructed substantially as & for the
purposes described.