Improvements in Apparatus for Measuring Oats, Corn, Potatoes, and the like, and for Discharging the same into Sacks.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Mar., 1897-Accepted, 11th Sept., 1897
DI BUITICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Measuring Oats, Corn, Potatoes, and
the like, and for Discharging the same into Sacks.
We, ANTHONY DANIEL BESSON, of Forest House, County of Potter, State of
Pennsylvania, Gentleman, and JOSEPH GOSSELIN, Gentleman, and KOSA GOSSELIN,
Gentlewoman, both of Kushequa, County of McKean, State of Pennsylvania, United
States of America, 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 :-
Our invention has relation to improvements in devices for measuring oats, corn,
potatoes and the like, and putting the same in bags, and the object of the invention
is to provide a simple device of this kind for farm use, to facilitate the operation of
putting articles of this kind in bulk, into bags or packages for the market. To this
end the novelty consists in the construction, combination and arrangement of the
several parts of the same as will be hereinafter more fully described and particularly
pointed out in the claim.
In the accompanying drawings the same figures of reference indicate the same
parts of the invention.
Figure 1 is a perspective view of our improved measuring device ;
Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same and
Fig. 3 is a similar view, showing the device in position for discharging its
contents.
1 represents a suitable frame, and 2 is an oscillating box, provided with
trunnions 3-3, upon which it is mounted in the frame, 4 is a converging trough
or chute forming a continuation of the bottom of the box .2, and its outer end is
formed with a discharge orifice 6.
7 is a guard secured to the front of the frame and extending around the front end
of the trough or chute, and its front end is provided with integral spurs 8--8, by
means of which the bag 9 is held with its mouth open under the orifice 6 in said
chute.
10 represents a sliding door in the front of the box, its upper end having a staple 12
to which is pivoted one end of a rod 13, the other end being pivoted to a staple 14 in
a cross brace 15, connecting the upper ends of the standards 16-16, forming a
continuation of the sides of the frame.
17 is a hand lever fulcrumed in the lower end of a rod 18, the upper end of which
is connected to a staple 19 secured to the rear end of the box, and the shorter end of
the lever is journaled in a staple 20, secured to the rear cross brace 21 of the frame.
22 is a notched plate extending upwardly contiguous to the handle 23 of said
lever, which is adapted to engage and be held by one or the other of the notches in
the plate 22, as occasion requires.
The operation of the device is as follows:-
The bag is first secured under the orifice in the front end of the chute as shown,
and the box 2 filled up level with its top, which, say for example, holds one bushel,
though of course any suitable measure can be employed. As soon as the box is full,
the operator releases the lever 17 from the bottom notch in the plate 22, and tilts the

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box on its trunnions, and engages the lever in the upper notch in said plate. The
operation of tilting or oscillating the box causes its front end to drop down while the
door 10 is held stationary by the rod 13, leaving an opening between the bottom of
the door and the chute, allowing the material to fall by gravity down the inclined
chute, and it is discharged through the orifice 6 into the bag or receptacle placed
there to receive it. The package then removed, an empty one placed in position,
the lever 17 lowered to engage the lower notch in the plate 22, which restores the box
to its normal vertical position with the door closed, when the operation is repeated.
The device is very simple and practical, and one hand can measure off and fill the
sacks or bags with ease and rapidity.
Although we have specifically described the construction and relative arrangement
of the several elements of our invention, we do not desire to be confined to the
same, as such changes or modifications may be made as clearly fall within the scope
of our invention, without departing from the spirit thereof.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is :-
A device of the class described, comprising the frame 1, provided with the
guard 7, having integral securing spurs 8-8, the notched plate 22, the
standards 16-16, and the cross brace 15, in combination with the measuring box 2
mounted on trunnions 3-3 in said frame, and provided with the converging trough
or chute 4, having the discharge orifice 6 in its forward end, the lever 17 fulcrumed
in the lower end of a rod 13, pivoted to a staple secured to said box, and the sliding
door 10 mounted in the front end of said box, and connected by a rod 13 to the cross
brace 15, substantially as shown and described.
Dated this 23rd day of March 1897
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.