An Apparatus for Collecting and Removing Leaves or the like from the Ground.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Nov.. 1893
Complete Specification Left, 28th July, 1894-Accepted, 27th Oct., 1894
An Apparatus for Collecting and Removing Leaves or the like from
the Ground.
DENNIS COYLE, Raydon Rectory, Hadleigh, Suffolk, Clerk in Holy Orders
Rector of Raydon, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
Endless bands or rollers are carried at an adjustable distance from the ground.
On the bands or rollers are fastened strips of cloth leather, or other flexible
material: these strips are attached on the rollers and bands straight across in the
centre and obliquely towards the outside. As the machine is pushed or drawn
along and the rollers or bands receive a sufficiently quick rate of speed, all light
materials, as leaves, loose grass, small branches weeds, snow &c., are swept up and
collected in a suitable receptacle.
· Dated this 2nd day of November 1893
An Apparatus for Collecting and Removing Leaves or the like from
the Ground.
I, DENNIS COYLE, Clerk in Holy Orders, Raydon Rectory, near Hadleigh,
Suffolk, 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 :--
The Fig. 1 shows a general plan of the apparatus in one form, and a sectional
elevation on the line OP.
Two wheels E, E turning on the axle H rest upon the ground the apparatus
being pushed by two handles, not shown in the figure, in the direction OP. To
the axle H is attached the hinder end of the receptacle M. The front of the
receptacle M is supported by a swivel wheel K which can be raised or lowered at
pleasure. Turning with the left hand wheel E is a cog wheel shown by its pitch
circle F. On the axle H is centered the frame N, capable of adjustment and being
fixed in position by the rods L, L.
The frame N carries the two cylinders A & B, and the axle on which are fastened
the wheels C & D. The wheel D is a pinion shown by its pitch circle and gears
into the cog wheel F. The wheel C turns on the same axle as D and carries the
band J which turns the cylinder B.
The cylinders A & B are connected by a series of bands one of which I, I is
shown. Attached to the bands I, I are pieces G, G of stiff cloth, leather, or other
flexible material.
As the apparatus is pushed along the motion is communicated to the bands I, I
and the pieces G, G sweep the leaves or like substances from the ground into the
receptacle M. To insure that the materials swept up be thrown towards the centre
line of the receptacle, the bands I, I towards the sides of the receptacle have the
pieces G, G attached in an oblique direction so that the outsides of the pieces G, G
will touch the ground first.
The Figure 2 shows the modification of the apparatus so as to sweep at once a
greater width than the space included between the wheels E, E. The lower

page_text: cylinder B is made to consist of two parts, one within the frame Q, Q and the
other outside both fast on the same axis which turns with the cylinder.
The motion is taken from the ground wheel E on the left, by gearing not shown
in the figure and communicated to the upper cylinder A at its left extremity.
A series of bands I, I with attached pieces G, G, is mounted on the two
cylinders A & B. On the portion of B outside the frame, the pieces G, G, are
slanted in such a manner that the outsides of the pieces G, G, remote from the
frame touch the ground first. The materials swept up are thus projected obliquely
inwards towards the receptacle. To the frame Q, Q outside the receptacle is
fastened a slanting board one edge of which is shown on the plan at R and the
inner edge is shown in elevation at R. The materials gathered by the bands
outside the frame are projected against the slanting board and thence into the
receptacle M.
The motion of the apparatus is from.left to right, that is from B to A in plan,
and the receptacle is supported in front by a swivel wheel, as in Fig. 1.
In the Fig. 3 the ground wheels E, E, support a frame S, S, to which are
attached the handles and the receptacle not shown in the figure. A swivel wheel not
shown supports the front of the frame. A frame U U capable of turning on the
centre pins H, H and being fixed in position by rods as in Figure 1. carries
the roller A, the axle on which are fixed the wheels C & D, the roller X, and the
cylinder B. The motion is communicated to the cylinder B as in the Fig. 1. and
to this cylinder are fixed the pieces G, G.
Motion is taken from the cylinder B and communicated to the roller X by
means of the band W. A revolving screen V, V runs on the two rollers A & X.
The materials swept up by the cylinder B are projected partly into the receptacle
and partly against the screen V, V, from which they are thrown by its revolution
into the receptacle. The receptacle in all cases consists of a frame carrying a
movable lining of cloth which is taken out when full.
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. The use of bands with attached pieces running on cylinders in sweeping
leaves and the like from the ground.
Dated this 26th day of July 1894.
DENNIS COYLE.