IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR ELEVATING STRAW AND OTHER PRODUCE
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Tasker, the younger, of the Waterloc
Iron Works, near Andover, in the County of Hants, for the Inven-
tion of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR ELEVATING
STRAW AND OTHER PRODUCE."
Sealed the 29th December 1868, and dated the 8th July 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Tasker at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
8th July 1868.
I, WILLIAM TASKER, the younger, of the Waterloo Iron Works, near
Andover, in the County of Hants, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR ELEVATING
STRAW AND OTHER PRODUCE," to be as follows:—
This Invention relates to improvements in the construction, arrange-
ment, and combination of machinery or apparatus for elevating straw
and other produce, whereby great strength, durability, and compactness
are obtained, and whereby the apparatus for elevating the straw and
other produce, and the machinery for working the same, are combined in

page_text: one machine or implement. The framing of the carriage to which the
elevator is attached, and also the framing of the elevator itself, may be
constructed of angle or other shaped metal bars, which may be rivetted
or otherwise connected together.
The Invention consists chiefly in attaching or forming in or underneath
the elevator or frame of the elevator gearwork or gearing to be worked
by horses or other animals passing round or under such elevator giving
motion to the same, and the two combined forming one machine. The
necessary power may be imparted thereto from any other motive-power
engine. The said gearing may consist of any of the well-known or
other suitable arrangements of bevel or spur gearing, or of both bevel
and spur gearing combined, according to the nature of the prime mover
adopted, its object being simply to transmit motion to the main shaft
of the elevator, but the essential feature of the Invention consists in
combining any such driving or actuating gearing with the elevator
itself, so that the whole shall form one self-contained machine.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Tasker in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 6th January 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
TASKER, the younger, of the Waterloo Iron Works, near Andover, in the
County of Hants, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of July, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said William Tasker, Her special license that I,
the said William Tasker, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said William Tasker, my executors, administrators,
or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to
time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and
Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS

page_text: FOR ELEVATING STRAW AND OTHER PRODUCE," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said William Tasker, my executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Tasker, do hereby declare
the nature of my 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
Drawings, and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to
say:-
My said Invention relates to improvements in the construction,
arrangement, and combination of machinery or apparatus for elevating
straw and other produce, whereby great strength, durability, and com-
pactness are obtained, and whereby the apparatus for elevating the
straw and other produce, and the machinery for working the same, are
so combined in one machine or implement as that the said implement
may either take the straw direct from a thrashing machine, being worked
therefrom in the usual manner, or it may be worked by horse gear
combined with the front or back carriage of the straw elevator, without
the necessity of raising or lowering the whole machine for either mode
of working. The framing to which the elevator is attached, and also
the framing of the elevator itself, may be constructed of angle or other
shaped metal bars, which may be rivetted or otherwise connected
together; this framing is mounted on a front and back carriage.
And the Invention consists chiefly in attaching to or forming on the
front or back carriage of the elevator gearwork or gearing to be worked
by horses or other animals passing round or under such clevator giving
motion to the same, the entrance to the trough or spout being always
sufficiently low to receive the straw from a thrashing machine if desired.
The necessary power may be imparted to the combined machine by a
steam engine or other prime mover if preferred. The said gearing may
consist of any of the well-known or other suitable arrangements of bevel or
spur gearing, or of both bevel and spur gearing combined, according to
the nature of the prime mover adopted, its object being simply to

page_text: transmit motion to the main shaft of the elevator, but the essential
feature of the Invention consists in combining any such driving or
actuating gearing with the front or back carriage of the elevator. By
this means the inconvenience (when used as a ricker in hay time and
harvest) of employing a separate gearwork is avoided, whilst at the t
same time the necessity of vertical adjustment of the whole machine is
dispensed with.
And in order that my said Invention may be fully understood I
shall now proceed more particularly to describe the same, and for that
purpose shall refer to the several Figures on the annexed Sheet of
Drawings, the same letters of reference indicating corresponding parts
in all the Figures.
Figure 1 of my Drawings is a side elevation of my improved combined
A is the front
machine, and Figure 2 is a front elevation of the same.
carriage (which may be made of wood or iron), in or on the top of
which the gearwork B of any convenient construction is arranged or
fixed, as shewn clearly in Figure 1.
Figure 3 is an enlarged section of a horse wheel with crosshead for the
lever attached thereto, and Figure 4 is a corresponding sectional plan of
the same, which will answer well in practice. C is the lever, to which
the horse is attached; D is the hinder carriage of the elevator, in which
the gearwork may be placed if desired in lieu of in the front carriage, as
shewn; E is the frame of the elevator so arranged as to allow the horse
to pass under it; F is the elevating trough working on the centre G, up
which the straw or other agricultural produce is passed by the endless
rake H revolving round the drums I, I. The trough F can be raised or
lowered in the ordinary manner by means of racks and pinions.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my
said Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be used
or carried into effect, I would observe in conclusion, that what I consider
to be novel and original, and therefore claim as the Invention secured
to me by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the com-
bining a horse gear with the front or back carriage of the framing of a
straw elevator when such framing is of sufficient height to allow of the
passage of a horse beneath it, whereby the implement may be driven by,
and take the straw direct from a thrashing machine in the usual manner,
or be actuated by animal power when used as a ricker in hay or harvest
time, without the necessity for adjustment in the height of the main

page_text: framing, or for using separate gearwork, as herein-before described and
illustrated by my Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Tasker, the younger,
have to this my Specification set my hand and seal, this Fourth
day of January One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.
WILLIAM TASKER, JUN. (L.S.)