Improvements in or relating to Delivery Apparatus for Mowers for Transforming them into Reapers.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Aug., 1899-Accepted, 30th Sept., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Delivery Apparatus for Mowers for
Transforming them into Reapers.
PEDER NIELSEN, of Hilleroed, Denmark, Manufacturer, 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 the delivery apparatus for mowers for transforming
them into reapers. In the apparatus of this kind hitherto used the aim has been
to deliver the cut grain either in bundles immediately behind the knife-bar or
in swathes. In the latter case the grain has been delivered either in a line along
the corn still standing, or in a line on a level with the innermost end of the knife-
bar. This last method of delivery must, of course, be considered the most advan-
tageous one, as in this case free space is at once obtained for horses and machine
at the next turn. If one of the other methods of delivery be used, a free space
must be first procured by moving aside by hand the already cut grain. This
handling of the crop not only gives more work but, when the crop is very ripe,
it causes loss by grain droping from the ears.
For delivering the crop on a level with the innermost end of the knife-bar
there has hitherto been used a vertical plate, fastened to the outermost end of
the knife-bar and curved backwards in a suitable manner and, further, being
provided with a couple of similarly bent rods whose free ends are on a level with
the innermost end of the knife-bar. This arrangement, however, does not answer
the purpose as the cut grain often tumbles down before it has been brought to
the point where it is to be delivered, or tumbles now to the one and now to the
other side, wherefore this operation takes place in an irregular manner, which
again renders the binding into sheaves difficult. Further, by these machines the
crop will not be delivered uniformly but in larger and smaller bundles, as a
curved plate will have a tendency to keep back the cut grain and only deliver it
when a certain quantity has been collected. The grain will then sometimes be
carried by the machine for some length of time and will be delivered at intervals.
In the present invention these drawbacks have been done away with by the
employment of a plane vertical plate forming an acute angle with the knife-bar,
whose hind edge is on a level with the innermost end of the knife-bar, in com-
bination with partly one or more rods which from the divider run out parallel
with the aforementioned plate and at a suitable distance from the ground, the said
rods being intended to force the crop to tumble to the right side, and partly with
rods lying along the ground behind the knife-bar and for the purpose of assist-
ing to direct the cut grain to that side of the machine where it is to be delivered.
The invention, which is the result of a long series of practical experiments,
is shown on the accompanying drawings in which
Figures 1 and 2 show the apparatus attached to a mower with the knife-bar
respectively in front of and behind the driving wheels.
To the outermost end of the knife-bar A is attached a vertical, plane plate C,
forming an acute angle of 60° with the knife-bar. The plate C which is made
of wood, sheet-metal, or the like reaches so far behind the knife-bar that its hind

page_text: edge is on a level with the innermost end of the knife-bar. The plate C is
supported by a triangular horizontal plate E which may, as shown in Figs. 1
and 2, be prolonged with a narrow strip B along the hindmost edge of the knife-
bar; but this strip may also be left out..
From a divider D of known construction, placed upon the outermost end of
the knife-bar, one or more rods H are stretched parallel with the plate C and in
an upward oblique direction a suitable distance behind the knife-bar. A number
of straight rods G attached at one end either to the narrow strip B or the knife-
bar proper are stretched just above the ground and about parallel with the
plate C to a line on a level with the innermost end of the knife-bar.
The innermost end of the knife-bar is provided with one or more bent rods F
or a guide plate for the purpose of preventing the cut grain from being fouled
by the driving-wheels or other parts of the machine.
By means of the above described devices the cut grain will, by the movement
of the machine, be carried in an almost upright position until it arrives on a
level with the inner end of the knife-bar where it is turned away from the plate C
by the rods H. During this movement the rods G will carry the but-ends of the
cut grain to the side whereby the several straws will be prevented from tumbling
over too early. The crop will then be delivered in swathes evenly and regularly
on the ground behind the machine and so far away from the still standing crop
that it will not be in the way of the horses and the machine at the next turn.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
1. In a delivery apparatus for mowers provided with a vertical plate reaching
hindward from the outermost end of the knife-bar and forming an acute angle
with same the arrangement that the said plate reaches out behind to a point
almost on a level with the inner end of the knife-bar and being below attached
to the edge of a narrow, horizontal plate arranged just above the ground and
fastened to the knife-bar, in combination partly with almost straight rods, issuing
from the knife-bar and stretching along the ground, parallel with the said plate,
to points almost on a level with the innermost end of the knife-bar, and with
one or more rods starting from the divider and reaching obliquely upward and
backward a suitable distance-all for the purpose of delivering the cut grain in
swathes forming a continuous, even line on a level with the innermost end of
the knife-bar behind the driving wheels substantially as described.
2. The complete delivery apparatus for mowers substantially as described or
illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 24th day of August 1899