Improvements in Reaping Machines.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Oct., 1892-Accepted, 26th Nov., 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Reaping Machines.
I, GREGORIO GUERRERO LAPLAZA, of Albacete, in the Kingdom of Spain, 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, reference being had to the accompanying two sheets of drawings and to
the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say :-
This invention relates to improvements in the construction of reaping machines
to be drawn by horses or by other suitable means.
Figure 1 of the drawings is a plan, Figure 2 a side elevation, and Figures 3, 4
and 5 detail views of a reaping machine constructed in accordance with my
invention.
A E I represent the platform of the machine. O are the cutters consisting of
four saws arranged step wise as shewn. Behind these saws, and parallel thereto,
are placed the rollers U round which and the correspondingly stepped cylinder or
driving_roller Care passed endless bands 1, 2, 3, 4 (see Figure 3). The driving
wheel D communicates rotatory motion to the pinions F F F and G, the last of
which transmits the motion to the rods. The rod j carries the collectors a b c d
the ends of which follow the paths indicated by the dotted circles a a, b, c c¹
and d d' and enter the standing corn at the points N, pressing it into the spaces S,
and, advancing towards the parts P, deposit the said corn on the bands 1, 2, 3, 4 as
it is cut by the saws O. The said bands are moved in a direction contrary to that
of the reaping machine, and they conduct the cut corn to the depôt E T.
The delivering frame or rake V has a rotatory motion imparted to it towards X
by means of the pulleys VI V and driving cord or belt V³. The said rotating
frame or rake delivers the corn collected in bundles at X.
The cutting of the corn is effected in the following manner :-The four saws O
are connected to the frame Z by means of the rods Y; the eccentrics R impart a
to-and-fro movement to the said frame Z which operates the saws O and effects the
cutting. The method of operating the eccentrics R is shown in Figure 5.
Figure 3 shows the four endless bands 1, 2, 3, 4 in plan and elevation, to a
smaller scale than Figure 1, and Figure 4 is a section taken at the line A B of
Figure 1 but to a larger scale. As will be seen by Figure 3, the first collector d
passes over the first endless band 1 on which the corn collected by d falls to be
conducted to the depôt E T. The second collector c passes under the first endless
band 1 and over the second endless band 2. The third collector 6 passes under
bands 1 and and over band 3 and the fourth collector a passes under bands 1, 2
and 3 and over band 4, the collectors a, b and c acting on the corn in the same
manner as the collector d.
It will be understood that the number of steps or separate parts into which the
cutters are divided may be varied according to circumstances, as also the dimensions
of the same, and that they may be curvilinear or mixtilinear.
Instead of endless bands, as shown in Figure 3, smooth boards may be employed
for the collectors to impel the corn over to the point where the frame or rake V
forms it into a bundle. In that case the rollers and the stepped cylinder C can
be dispensed with.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
First In a reaping machine constructing the cutters in separate parts arranged

page_text: Second-In a reaping machine arranging stepwise the endless bands or the smooth
boards on or over which the cut corn is conveyed from the cutters to the delivering
frame or rake, substantially as hereinbefore described, and illustrated in Figure 3
of the drawings.
Dated this 20th day of Orich 1000
G. G. LAPLAZA,
Per W. H. Beck,
115, Cannon Street, London, Agent.