Improvements in Machines for Collecting Hay and other Crops, and Loading the same into Carts, Wagons, and the like.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Nov., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 8th Sept. 1893-Accepted, 14th Oct., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Collecting Hay and other Crops, and
Loading the same into Carts, Wagons, and the like.
We, GEORGE SMITH, of 33 Craddock Street, Cardiff, Fitter, and FRANCIS
ARTHUR HIBBERT, of 10 Castle Street, Cardiff, Agricultural Implement Agent,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:―
This invention relates to that class of hay and other cut crop-collecting and crop-
loading machines in which an elevator is coupled to a wagon or cart, the crop
being picked up and delivered to the elevator which discharges it on to the wagon.
According to this invention, the cut crop is collected in the field by a series of
tines arranged, after the manner of a rake, between the wheels of the elevator.
The tines are curved and extended down to a requisite degree to collect the crop
which need not be raked into rows, but may be picked up when broad-cast. As
the machine is drawn along, the hay, corn or like substance is accumulated by the
tines and, under the pressure due to continued traction, the substance so collected
travels round on the inner faces of the tines and is by them directed to the
elevator..
The elevator is adjustable vertically over the wagon or cart, that is to say, it
may be raised or lowered.
Dated this 21st day of November 1892
NICHOLAS WATTS,
Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Collecting Hay and other Crops, and
Loading the same into Carts, Wagons, and the like.
We, GEORGE SMITH, of 33, Craddock Street, Cardiff, Fitter, and FRANCIS
ARTHUR HIBBERT, of 10 Castle Street, Cardiff, Agricultural Implement Agent,
both in the County of Glamorgan, 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 relates to that class of machines for collecting cut crops and
loading them into a cart or waggon, in which an elevator is hauled behind the said
cart or waggon and into which latter it delivers the crop as it picks it up. Such
machines have usually been made with a revolving barrel fitted with tines projecting
from its periphery. The cut crop has been collected by the tines, carried half way
round the axis of the barrel and then taken from them by the elevator.
It has,
however, always been found necessary to gather the crop into wind rows before the
spiked barrel could do its work. The practical advantage of the present invention
is that a machine made according to it will collect a cut crop lying on the ground
as the harvester left it, or the same crop after it has been gathered into windrows.
The way in which the crop lies on the ground makes no difference to the successful
way in which such a machine does its work.
In order that the invention, and the means by which it is to be carried into
practical effect, may be thoroughly understood, we will now describe them in detail,
referring in so doing to the accompanying drawing which is to be taken as part
of this Specification and read therewith. The drawing in question is a side
elevation.
The frame of the machine consists of a horizontal portion a and a vertical

page_text: portion b. The latter is made fast to the former near to the front end of it. They
may be of any suitable material and construction. The frame is carried upon two
pairs of travelling wheels c,c'. The latter are pirotted vertically to the leading
corners, respectively, of the frame, for the purpose of providing for it tracking
fairly after the cart or waggon to which it is made fast. The coupling device may
be of any suitable kind. We have illustrated the, use of rods d pivotted to the
frame.
The device for collecting the cut crop from the ground is a series of tines e
which are aligned across the horizontal portion a.of the frame to the rear of the
axis of the rear carrying wheels_c. The curve which we give to a tine will be
understood from a reference to the drawing. Above the horizontal plane of the
said axis, the curve is to the front, for a purpose to be explained further on.
Below the said plane, it is to the front, of course, and reaches the ground in front
of the vertical plane which passes through the axis of the said wheels. It is
impossible to collect the crop properly unless the tines are brought down as closely
to the ground as may be practicable. The tines are held to the frame and made
adjustable for height of their points above the ground, and also for variation in
crop, by the following devices. is a bracket held to each side of the horizontal
portion of the frame by bolts e' of which latter a pair are shewn. As many pairs
of bolt holes f are made in the brackets as may be considered necessary, thereby
providing for the brackets / being fixed at as many different heights. is a rod
carried by eyes in the bottom ends of the brackets. A series of sockets g¹ is
carried by the rod g, one for each tine which is made fast to its socket by means of
a set screw 2 working through the socket side against a pin o³ which projects
rearward from the tine through the socket. h is a screwed rod pivotted to the
back of a tine and projecting rearwards therefrom through a fixed eye h', behind
which it carries a wing nut 2. There may be as many sets of rods h, eyes ¹ and
wing nuts 2 as may be considered necessary.
The elevator consists of chains which engage and are engaged by pairs of chain
wheels j, k, which are carried by the respective ends of the elevator frame l. The
latter is made fast in the necessary plane to the portions a, b of the frame already
described. m, m are transverse slats fixed at equal distances to the chains i, i.
m', m' are the elevator prongs carried by the slats. m² is one of a series of wires
fixed along the elevator to prevent the stuff falling off it. n is an internally geared
wheel fast on the axis of the carrying wheels c. It gears with a pinion o fast on
the axis of the chain wheels j.
The head of the elevator may be adjustable in respect of its height. Any suitable
mechanism may be added for throwing the elevator out of gear.
As the collected crop is pushed up the tines e, it is caught by the prongs m'. The
forward curve of the tines, above the horizontal plane of the axis of the carrying
wheels c, tends to keep the crop within reach of the elevator prongs.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
The hereinbefore described combination within one frame of a series of tines and
elevator adapted to be hauled behind a cart or waggon, as set forth.
Dated this 7th day of September 1893.
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
22, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicants.