IMPROVEMENTS IN REAPING AND MOWING MACHINES
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Campion, of Ramsey, in the County of
Huntingdon, Ironmonger, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
REAPING AND MOWING MACHINES."
Sealed the 31st December 1872, and dated the 13th July 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION felt by the sand George Campiona
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
13th July 1872.
I, GEORGE CAMPION, of Ramsey, in the County of Huntingdon,
Ironmonger, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN REAPING AND MOWING MACHINES," to be as follows:-
**The object of the Invention is to afford facility for the attachment
and removal of one or both of the shafts to the pole.
According to one arrangement this moveable shaft is attached to a
) double bar; or a bar the parts of which are formed at an angle or inclined

page_text: the one to the other, and are attached to the pole by socket connections
so as to stand out from the pole in the form of a horizontal bracket.
These socket connections are formed by vertical pins or bolts to receive
the eyes at the ends of the inclined or angular bar, which are retained,
as required, by screw nuts or other suitable means on such bolts or pins;
these bolts or pins project vertically from lugs with screw stems and
nuts by which they are fastened to the pole.
According to a modification of this the inclined or angular bar is
formed in two pieces connected together, and to the shaft by screw bolts
or such like connection, on removal of which the two parts may be
turned in a horizontal direction against the pole on the vertical pin or
bōlt referred to. By these means on the removal of the shaft, when
its use is not required, the weight of it is taken from the horse in the
other shaft, and the shaft removed may then be applied over the back
end of the pole to act as a counterbalance.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Campion in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 13th January 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
CAMPION, of Ramsey, in the County of Huntingdon, Ironmonger, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of July, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-
sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said George Campion, Her special license that
I, the said George Campion, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said George Campion, my executors, adminis-
trators, and 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 REAPING

page_text: AND MOWING MACHINES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said George Campion, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their bands and seals, 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 George Campion, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to bo
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say :―
The object of the Invention is to afford facility for the attachment and
removal of one or both of the shafts to the pole.
According to one arrangement, the moveable shaft is attached, to a
double bar, or a bar the parts of which are formed at an angle or inclined
the one to the other, and are attached to the pole by socket connections
so as to stand out from the pole in the form of a horizontal bracket.
These socket connections are formed by vertical pins or bolts to receive
the eyes at the ends of the inclined or angular bar, which are retained;
as required, by screw nuts or other suitable means on such bolts or pins;
these bolts or pins project vertically from lugs with screw stems and
nuts by which they are fastened to the pole.
According to a modification of this, the inclined or angular bar is
formed in two pieces connected together, and to the shaft by screw bolts.
or such like connection, on removal of which the two parts may be
turned in a horizontal direction against the pole on the vertical pins or
bolts referred to; or the shaft and angular bar may be removed in one
piece by the removal of the nuts that connect it to the pole. By these
means, on the removal of the shaft, when its use is not required, the
weight of it is taken from the horse in the other shaft, and the shaft
removed may then be applied over the back end of the pole to act as a
counterbalance.
But that the Invention may be fully understood, I will by the aid of
the accompanying Drawings proceed to describe means pursued by me
in carrying the same into effect.

page_text: DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shows by a plan view the pole of a reaping or mowing
machine with a moveable shaft applied thereto according to my Inven-
tion; Figures 2 and 3 shew a plan and a side view of the same pole with
the moveable shaft detached. a, a, represents the pole in each of the
Figures, and 6 the fixed or stationary shaft; c is the loose or moveable
shaft. According to this arrangement the inclined or angular bar or
bracket is formed in two pieces c¹ and g, by the shaft c being continued
through a socket g¹ formed in one end of the bar g to the end c¹, where
it is formed with an eye c³ to be received on to the socket e¹, whilst the
end g³ of the bar 9 is also formed with an eye to be received into the
socket ď¹.
Figure 4 shews by a plan view a modification of the above arrange-
ment. Figures 5 and 6 show a plan and side view of the pole and parts
connected thereto when the moveable shaft is removed from it. Figure 7
shows the moveable shaft separately. c is the loose or moveable shaft,
and d and e are the parts forming the double bar, or the parts which are
formed at an angle or inclined the one to the other. The part d it will be
seen is attached to the pole a by the socket connection d'. The part e is in
like manner attached to the pole a by socket connection at e¹, and they
are capable of being connected and held together, and to the moveable
shaft c by screw pins and nuts, as shown at f, or when the screw pins
and nuts are removed, the shaft c may be removed and the parts d´and e
folded back on these sockets d¹ and e¹ against the side of the pole a as
indicated by Figures 5 and 6. The parts d and'e when fastened together,
and to the shaft c, as indicated by Figure 4, form a sort of horizontal
bracket to receive that shaft c. The pins of the sockets d¹ and e¹ are
formed to receive screw nuts or other suitable holding means.
Either of the moveable shafts when not in use may be hung to the
pole by being passed loosely into a socket h from an arm h¹ or carried by
other suitable means.
Having thus described my Invention, and means which I adopt in
carrying the same into effect, I would have it understood that I do not
confine myself to the precise arrangement of parts, as shewn and
described, as the same may be varied without departing from the

page_text: pecumal Character of my invention
but what I claim is, the arranging
and combining parts in connection with the shafts of reaping and
mowing machines, whereby facility is afforded for the removal of either
or both of them from the pole or the replacement thereof when required,
substantially as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Campion, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Tenth day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.
substantially as described.
P
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In witness whereof, I, the said George Campion, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Tenth day of January, in the year of our
.
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.
GEORGE CAMPION. (L.S.)