Improvements in Machinery for Binding and Elevating Straw and other Crops.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Aug., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 6th May, 188: Accepted, 15th June, 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery for Binding and Elevating Straw and
other Crops.
We, JAMES HORNSBY, JOHN INNOCENT, and HENRY COURTEEN, all of Spittlegate
Iron Works, Grantham, in the County of Lincoln, Engineers, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object improvements in machinery for binding and
elevating straw and other crops.
Sheaf binders are commonly so arranged as to receive the straw from a thrashing
machine and bind it into bundles and sometimes the sheaf binder is provided with
wheels on which it travels independently from place to place; it is then only
connected with the thrashing machine when at work.
Such an arrangement is shewn in a specification No. 462 in the year 1883 but
the method of mounting therein referred to is not convenient, the weight of the
sheaf binder being so high above the axle of the wheels that the machine is not
easily manageable.
According to our invention we prolong the lower bar of the trusser frame and
make it serve as an axle and on this bar we mount the wheels. A much better
balanced machine is thereby obtained. Sometimes we make this axle cranked so as
to be able by turning the axle to raise or lower the Trusser to suit the height of the
Thrashing Machine.
Sometimes instead of providing the sheaf binder with wheels so that it may travel
separately we attach it to the straw elevator in such a position that as the straw is
delivered from the thrashing machine it may pass into the sheaf binder and that
when bound the sheaves may be delivered to the elevator to take them to the top of
a stack or to other elevated position where it may be desired to deliver them. The
sheaf binder is moveable upon the elevator frame so that when it is required to work
the elevator without the binder this may be swung back or otherwise put out of
the way.
A convenient arrangement is to provide standards on the elevator frame and to
hang the sheaf binder thereon-Gear is provided to hold the sheaf binder in such a
position that the straw from the shaker of a thrashing machine falls into the sheaf
binder and then the bundles drop from the sheaf binder into position to be taken
by the lifting tines of the elevator. When not required for use the sheaf binder is
moved about the standards by means of the gear either so that the straw from the
shakers may pass over it along a guide board placed to direct it or so that the straw
may pass beneath the sheaf binder.
Sometimes we connect the sheaf binder to the straw elevator by parallel links.
The sheaf binder and the elevator can be driven from the shaker .crank of the
thrashing machine by the same endless chain or separate endless chains may be
provided. Or the elevator and sheaf binder may be coupled by a driving chain on
one side and on the other side a chain from the thrashing machine may drive the
elevator.
In some cases we mount the sheaf binder on the elevator frame so that when in
use it may be turned to such a position as not to drop the bundles within reach of the
elevator tines but in place thereof to drop them on to the ground and then the
elevator may or may not be employed to raise the bundles on to a stack.
Dated this 7th day of August 1888.
JAMES HORNSBY.
JOHN INNOCENT.
HENRY COURTEEN.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery for Binding and Elevating Straw and
other Crops.
We, JAMES HORNSBY, JOHN INNOCENT, and HENRY COURTEEN, all of Spittle-
gate Iron Works, Grantham, in the County of Lincoln, Engineers, 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 improvements in machinery for binding and ♬
elevating straw and other crops.
Sheaf binders are commonly so arranged as to receive the straw from a thrashing
machine and bind it into bundles and sometimes the sheaf binder is provided with
wheels on which it travels independently from place to place; it is then only
connected with the thrashing machine when at work.
Such an arrangement is shown in a Specification No. 462 in the year 1883 but
the method of mounting therein referred to is not convenient, the weight of the
sheaf binder being so high above the axle of the wheels that the machine is not
easily manageable.
According to our invention we prolong the lower bar of the trusser frame and
make it serve as an axle and on this bar we mount the wheels. A much better
balanced machine is thereby obtained.
Figure 1 shews a side elevation, and
Figure 2 a plan of this arrangement.
A is the thrashing machine and A' its shakers B is the sheaf binder provided
with a shoot B¹ which receives the straw from the thrashing machine. This binder
is of the ordinary construction and requires no description. C is the lower bar of
the trusser fra ne, it is prolonged at C₁ to form the axle to carry the road wheels.
D are the shafts attached to the frame and forming a shoot to deliver the truss.
Sometimes we make this axle cranked so as to be able by turning the axle to raise
or lower the trussers to suit the height of the thrashing machine.
Sometimes instead of providing the sheaf binder with wheels so that it may travel
separately we attach it to the straw elevator in such a position that as the straw is
delivered from the thrashing machine it may pass into the sheaf binder and that
when bound the sheaves may be delivered to the elevator to take them to the top of
a stack or to other elevated position where it may be desired to deliver them. The
sheaf binder is moveable upon the elevator frame so that when it is required to work
the elevator without the binder this may be swung back or otherwise put out of
the way.
A convenient arrangement is to provide standards on the elevator frame and to
hang the sheaf binder thereon. Gear is provided to hold the sheaf binder in such a
position that the straw from the shaker of a thrashing machine falls into the sheaf
binder and then the bundles drop from the sheaf binder into position to be taken by
the lifting tines of the elevator. When not required for use the sheaf binder is moved
about the standards by means of the gear either so that the straw from the shakers
may pass over it along a guide board placed to direct it or so that the straw may pass
beneath the sheaf binder.
Figure 3 shews a side elevation partly in section of this arrangement, and
Figure 4 shews a back elevation of the frame.
A is the thrashing machine as before, and B the sheaf binder which is pivotted to
the top of standards (fixed to the frame D which carries the elevator E. F is a
rack pivotted to the trusser, it gears with a pinion G which can be turned by the
handle H-The rack F can be retained in any position by means of a pawl J.
Figure 5 shows a side elevation partly in section of the same arrangement, in
which the trusser B is turned down out of the way, so that the shoot A² on the
thrashing machine delivers the straw directly to the elevator.
Sometimes we connect the sheaf binder to the straw elevator by parallel links.
The sheaf binder and the elevator can be driven from the shaker crank of the

page_text: thrashing machine by the same endless chain or separate endless chains may be
provided. Or the elevator and sheaf binder may be coupled by a driving chain on
one side and on the other side a chain from the thrashing machine may "drive the
elevator.
Figure 6 shows this arrangement, the sheaf binder B being connected to the
frame D of the elevator by means of two parallel links K K, a rack F and pinion G
being provided as in the last arrangement for raising and lowering the sheaf binder
into position.
In some cases we mount the shenf binder on the elevator frame so that when in
use it may be turned to such a position as not to drop the bundles within reach of the
elevator tines but in place thereof to drop them on to the ground and then the
elevator may or may not be employed to raise the bundles on to a stack.
Figure 7 shows one way in which this arrangement may be carried out. The
sheaf binder B being mounted on a pivot L so that it may be turned at any angle to
the elevator. A conveyor chain M is provided so as to assist in delivering the sheaves
to the elevator when the sheaf binder is placed at an angle to it.
Figure 8 shows a side elevation partly in section, and
Figure a plan of another arrangement.
In these figures the standards & carrying the sheaf binders are mounted upon
wheels N which run upon a circular path or track O fixed to the frame D of the
elevator-P is an inclined receptacle for passing the truss to the elevator.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:
1. A sheaf binder in which the lower bar of the trusser frame is prolonged so as
to form the axle of the road wheels substantially as described.
2. In sheaf binders such as are referred to in the first claim mounting the shafts so
that they form an inclined plane to deliver the truss substantially as described.
3. The combination of a sheaf binder and an elevator mounted upon a common
frame in such positions that the binder delivers the sheaves to the elevator substantially
as described.
4. In apparatus such as is referred to in the third claim pivotting the sheaf binder
to standards fixed to the elevator frame and providing a rack or other mechanism by
which the sheaf binder can be raised or lowered into and out of position substantially
as described.
5. In apparatus such as is referred to in the third claim mounting the sheaf binder
upon parallel links pivotted to the frame of the elevator and providing a rack or
other mechanism by which the sheaf binder can be moved into and out of position
substantially as described.
6. In apparatus such as is referred to in the third claim pivotting or otherwise
connecting the sheaf binder to the frame of the elevator so that it can be turned into
and out of position substantially as described.
7. Machinery for binding and elevating straw and other crops substantially as
described and shown in the drawings.
CARPMAEL & Co.,
Agents.