Combined Band-outter and Feeder for Use with Thrashing Machines.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Oct.. 1895-Accepted, 21st Dec, 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Combined Band-outter and Feeder for Use with Thrashing
Machines.
1, HANRY WAPPALHORST, Gentleman, residing in the City of St. Charles,
County of St. Charles, State of Missouri, USA, 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:-
My invention relates to a combined band-cutter and feeder, and it consists in
the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts, hereinafter described
and claimed.
The object of my invention is to construct an improved combined band-cutter
and feeder that shall be simple in construction and efficient and complete in all its
workings and operation.
In the diawings:
Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved band-cutter and feeder, the same
being applied to a threshing machine as required for practical use.
Fig. 2 is a top plan view of my complete invention
Fig 3 is a longitudinal sectional view taken approximately on the indicated
line 3-3 of Fig. 2.
Fig. 4 is a view in perspective of the feeding forks of which I make use in
carrying out my invention
Refering by numerals to the accompanying drawings, 1 indicates the end of a
threshing machine, the same having an inclined floor 2 leading to the cylinder
chambor Mounted upon the ends of the thresher 1, and on each side thereof, are
side-boards 3, the same being held to the end of the thresher by suitable braces 4.
Side-boards 5 of the same height as are the side-boards 3 are held together by
vertical braces 6 and a cross-piece 7. This structure so formed is secured to the
ends of the side-boards 3 and in alignment therewith by means of suitable hinges 8
Suitable hooks 9 are also provide near the meeting edges of the side-boards 3
and 5 to more firmly hold said side-boards together.
A center or dividing-board 10 is fixed m the frame work of the hinged portion
of the band-cutter and feeder, that extends forward to a point adjacent the band
cutting saws of which I make use. The side-boards 3 and 5 are provided with
suitable floor-boards 11
Thausversely positioned in the recess between said inclined braces 4 and said
inclined floor 2 and in a plane below and adjacent the ends of the thresher and
band-cutter fiame and mounted in benings fixed thereto is a main diving shaft 12,
the same having mounted on one end a sprocket-wheel 13 that is duiven by a
sprocket-chain 14, said sprocket-chain 14 being driven by a sprocket-wheel
mounted upon the cylinder shaft (not shown). Mounted upon the shaft 12
between the sprocket-wheels 13 and the fame work are a pan of pulleys
designated, respectively, by the numerals 15 and 16 On the opposite end of the
shaft 12 is fixed a pulley 17. Transversely positioned beneath the outer end of
the hinged portion of the feeder is a shaft 18, upon the end of which and in
direct alignment with the pulley 16 upon the shaft 12, 1s mounted a belt-wheel 19
A belt 20, the same being twisted, connects the pulley 16 with the belt-wheel 19
Mounted upon the shaft 18 just inside the side-boards 5 are pulleys 21.
Journaled in the side-boards 3 at the beginning of the inclined floor 2 that leads
to the cylinder-shaft is a roller 22 that extends from one of the side-boards 3 to the

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of belts 23, the same being connected by transversely positioned
other. A pan
slats 24, form an endless carrier, the same passing around the pulleys 21 and
oller 22 The upper half of this endless carlier passes over the Hoot-boards 11
between the side-boards 3 and 5 Bolted to the side-boards and extending
vertically the ehom are pught pieces 25, upon the top ends of which are
honzontally positioned bais 26 that are also fixed to vertical pieces 27 that extend
upwardly from the side-bounds 3
Mounted in beamngs 28 that he bolted to the horizontal bais 26 is a transverse
shaft 29, on the outer end of which is a pulley 30, which is in duect alignment
with the pulley 17 upon the end of the shaft 12. A twisted belt 30" connects the
pulleys 17 and 30.
Mounted upon the shaft 29 are a plurality of band-cutters 31, the same consisting
of encula metallic plates, the edges of which are sharpened and provided with
teeth or seriations It is essential that there be an equal number of these cutters
on each side of the center or dividing-board 10
Fixed to the upper ends of the upught pieces 27 and to the front ends of the
houzontally positioned bars 26 ate inclined bars 33. Mounted upon the uppe
ends of these inclined bais 33 is a cross-piece 34
Mounted in bearings 35 that are bolted to the lower front ends of the inclined
bats 33 is a shaft 36, the same being provided with equi-distant radially aanged
bends or clanks 37. Upon the outer end of the shaft 36 and in alignment with
the pulley 15 on the shaft 12 - a belt-heel 38 A belt 39 connects the belt-
wheel 38 with the pulley 15
A series of bais 40 are connected to the cross-bai 34 by ordinary strap-hinges H.
Held to
The forward ends of these bars 40 are bifurcated, as indicated' by 42
fieely move in aid bifurcated ends 42, by means of bolts 43, are the upper ends of
bars 44, the lower euds of which are connected to the cranks o bends 37 in the
shaft 36
Bolted to the rear sides of the lower ends of the bars 44 are forks 45, the same
being bent or curved forwardly.
The operation is as follows
The movement imparted to the sprocket-wheel 13 and shaft 12 by the sprocket-
chain 14 from the ey lmder-shaft is in the direction of the arrow A, Fig. 1. The
pulley 16 being gully mounted upon the shaft 12, said pulley will also be moved
in the duection of said arrow. The belt-wheel 19 being igidly mounted upon the
shaft 18 and connected to the pulley 16 by a crossed or twisted belt 20, the
movement of sand wheel and shaft will be in the direction of the arrow B, Fig 1.
This, as may be plainly seen, moves the endless carlier in the desired dnection.
The pulley 30 rigidly mounted upon the shaft 29 being connected to the pulley 17
upon the shaft 12 by a crossed belt, the movement of said shaft and pulley and
consequently the band cutters will be in the direction of the arrow C, Fig 1, or
duectly the reverse of the movement of the endless carrier. The belt-wheel 38
upon the shaft 36 being connected by a straight belt 39 to the pulley 15, the
movement of the belt-wheel 38 and shaft 36 will necessarily be in the direction of
the arrow D, Fig. 1 The forks 45, beng mounted upon the lower ends of the
bars 44 that are carried by the cranks of the shaft 36, will necessarily be moved
in the duection of the autow E, Fig. 3 The sheaves o bundles of grain that are
being theshed are deposited on each side of the center ou dividing-board 10 and
directly upon the endless carrier formed by the belts 23 and cross-slats 24 By
said endless carrier they are called forward and duectly beneath the rotating
bund-cutters 32, the saine having the senated or saw-toothed edges. By these
circular cutters, the bands are cut and the sheaves or bundles carried forward by
the endless carlier. As said sheaves or bundles, the bands of which are now cut,
leave the endless carrier, they are caught by the rapidly moving forks 45 and by
them passed into the cylinder chamber. By the peculiai lunging and positioning
of the forks and then connecting-aims, it will be seen how motion especially
adapted for throwing the grain forward and into the cylinder chamber is given.

page_text: By providing a plurality of band-cutters on each side of the center or dividing-
board 10, the liability of the non-cutting of the bands of the sheaves or bundles is
reduced to a minimum. By hinging the feeder at approximately a central point, a
portion of said feeder may be lowered and folded inward to a point below and
closely adjacent the main-shatt 12, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1, which
greatly facilitates the movement of the thresher during transportation.
The advantage of locating the main driving-shaft in the recess beneath the fixed
section of the band-cutter Lies in the fact that all the mechanism of the band-cutter
may be driven from a single main-shaft, and yet said main-shaft is so located in said
recess that the hinged section of the band-cutter may be compactly folded beneath
said shaft.
Furthermore, said main-shaft located in a position where it and its connections
are out of the way, permits free access to the parts above the device.
Thus will be seen how I have constructed a combined band-cutter and feeder
that possesses superior advantages in point of compactness, simplicity, duiability
and general efficiency.
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 15.
The combination, with a threshing machine, of the inclined floor 2, inclined
braces 4, and a fixed section of the baud-cutter frame forming a recess in a plane
below said section, and the main driving-shaft 12 mounted transversely in said
recess closely adjacent the meeting ends of the thresher and band-cutter frames, to
be driven direct from the cylinder-shaft, and itself arranged to drive the cairier,
band-cutters and feeding devices of the cutter and feeder, whereby compactness is
secured, substantially as herein specified.
Dated this 22nd day of October 1895.
ALLISON BROS.,
Agents for the Applicant.