AN IMPROVEMENT IN. APPARATUS FOR ELEVATING HAY, GRAIN, OR SIMILAR MATERIALS,, AND DISCHARGING THE SAME FROK THE SAID APPARATUS
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Livingston Walker, of Benford's Store, in
the County of Somerset and State of Pennsylvania, United States of
America, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN. APPARATUS FOR
ELEVATING HAY, GRAIN, OR SIMILAR MATERIALS,, AND DISCHARGING THE SAME
FROK THE SAID APPARATUS."
Sealed the 15th May 1866, and dated the 11th December 1865..
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Livingston Walker
at the Office, of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 11th December 1865.
'I, EDWARD LIVINGSTON WALKER, of Benford's Store, in the County of
Somerset and State of Pennsylvania, United States of America, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN APPA-..
RATUS FOR ELEVATING HAY, GRAIN, OR SIMILAR MATERIALS, AND DISCHARGING THE :
SAME FROM THE SAID APPARATUS," to be as follows:—
My Invention has for its object the raising of hay or similar material by.
means of a rope or chain to which a horse or other power is attached so as
to lift the hay or other material off a cart or waggon and deposit it on the
mow in the barn or upon the hay rick or stack, or the reverse in loading up
the waggon. This Invention consists in a bar that is to be run into the hay,

page_text: at or near the lower end of which is a prong or prongs that can be turned
up at the end of the said bar, or be turned out of the sides of the bar so
as to prevent the bar drawing out of the hay, and thereby lift with the bar
all the hay immediately surrounding the bar, which will be a mass propor-
tioned to the distance the bar is thrust into the hay. The said prong or
prongs are actuated by means of a second bar within or at the side of the
first-named bar, and controlled by a lever connected to the upper end, and
to this lever a rope or cord is attached. The bar is thrust into the hay,
the prongs thrown out, and the whole apparatus with the hay is raised by
power applied to a handle or eye at the upper end of the main bar. When
the hay has been transferred to the place where it is to be delivered, the
cord to the lever aforesaid is pulled, and the movement of the lever causes
the prongs to close or turn down so that there being nothing to sustain
the hay it slides off the apparatus as the apparatus is drawn-out.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
..by the said Edward Livingston Walker in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 8th June 1866:
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME; I, EDWARD
LIVINGSTON WALKER, of Benford's Store, in the County of Somerset and
State of Pennsylvania, United States of America, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-ninth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Edward Livingston Walker, Her special license that
Ì, the said Edward Livingston Walker, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Edward Livingston Walker, my
executors, administrators, 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 "AN IMPROVEMENT IN APPARATUS
FOR ELEVATING HAY, GRAIN, OR SIMILAR MATERIALS, AND DISCHARGING THE SAME
FROM THE SAID APPARATUS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Edward Livingston Walker, by an instrument in writing, under my hand
and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said

page_text: 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 calendař
months next and immédiately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edward Livingston Walker, do hereby
5 déclare 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, reférence being had to the Drawing hereunto annexed,
and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say):-
:-
Fig. 1 is a side view of my apparatus in its most approved form in a
O position for being thrust into the hay or other material; Fig. 2 is an eleva-
-tion of the same apparatus in the position for elevating the hay or other
material; Fig. 3 is a sectional plan at the line x, x, Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is a side
view, and Fig. 5 is an elevation partially in section of a modification of
said fork; Fig. 6 is a side view of my apparatus with the same parts
arranged in a different form, the same being in the position' for entering or
'discharging the hay or other material; and Fig. 7 is an elevation of the
'same apparatus in the position adapted to raising the hay or other material.
:
My Invention has for its object the raising of hay or similar material by
means of a rope or chain to which a horse or other power is attached, so as
to lift hay or other material off a cart or wagon and deposit it on the mow
in the barn or upon the hay rick or stack, or the reverse in loading up the
wagon. This Invention consists in an apparatus for penetrating the häy
or other material provided with a prong or prongs at or near the lower end
that are turned up at the end of the apparatus or projected laterally so as
to prevent the apparatus drawing out of the hay or other material as the
'same is lifted with the mass of hay or other material surrounding it, and
combined therewith I employ a discharging apparatus for causing the
delivery of the hay or other material. For elevating said apparatus' any
desired ropes, blocks, or other well-known means are employed to transfer
the hay from one place to another, and the discharge of the hay is effected
by the said prong or prongs being dropped or covered so as to cause tlfe
hay or other material to slide off said apparatus. In Figs. 1, 2, and 3 d is
a bar with an eye 6 for the lifting rope and hook c. At the side of the bar
a is a second bar éè, held in place by the straps & and f, but allowed to
slide; k is a link jointed to the upper end of the bar é, and passing to
the forked discharging lever h, hinged at g to the bar ä, said link k
and lever h, forming a toggle joint; is a penetrator, acting in the
capacity of a point when in the position shown in Fig. 1, and as a

page_text: prong or barb when in the position shown in Fig. 2.
This pene-
-trator - is jointed at 1 to the 'bare, and connected by a link m to the
bar a.
When in the position shown in Fig. 1.the apparatus is to be thrust
into the hay or other material, and then the lever h is to be drawn up
against the bar-a, which moves the bar-e so as to turn up the penetrator,
as in Fig. 2, where it is retained. (by the toggle h and k), and acts as a
barb or prong to sustain the hay other material while it and the apparatus
are being moved from one place-to another. A rope i to the end of the
lever furnishes a convenient means for discharging the hay even from a
distance by pulling upon the lever.h so that it allows the prong 7-to turn
down and deliver the hay. The prong / might be protected by a pointed
case, a slot in the slide of said case being provided for allowing the prong
to be turned up out of said case. The apparatus shown in Figs. 4 & 5
is a modification of that before described, the bar e being introduced
within the pipe a; and two barbs: being used instead of one; these barbs-l
are sustained by the rivet or bolt-1, through the pointed case or penetrator
n, and each barb has a circular-inner-end around said bolt 1, with a notch
in it taking the end of the bar e.. When the apparatus is thrust into 'the
hay.or.other material the prongs or barbs fold towards the pipe a, and
when it is lifted they spread out (by penetrating the hay.) to the position
shown in Fig. 4, and are there sustained by the end of the bare in the
notches of said barbs, but when that bar e is raised by a pull on the rope i
and lover h the barbs are no longer sustained, and close downwards into
.the.position shewn by dotted lines in Fig. 4, and deliver the hay. In this
apparatus the barbs have to be turned upwards and-re-set before being again
rused. In Figs. 6 & 7 the bars a and e-are shown as united by a rivet at
.3, so.as.to open and close like a pair of scissors, and the-barbs.,, project
laterally at their ends; the penetrator n is jointed together at 4, and to
the heels of the barbs 1, 1, at 5 and 6. The lever.h and link k are placed
so as to form a horizontal toggle joint (instead of a vertical one as in Figs.
.1 and 2). It will now be seen that this apparatus, when closed as in Fig. 5,
can be thrust easily into the hay, the joints 5 and 6 covering the points of
the opposite barbs 7. When the toggle h, k, is straightened the barbs I, I,
are spread, and penetrate the hay laterally, and will lift the superincumbent
hay when the rope cis drawn upon. When the discharging rope i' is
pulled the toggle h, k, bends upwards, and the barbs / being again covered
as in Fig. 5 the hay or other material.is discharged.
What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is an apparatus for

page_text: penetrating hay or other material, provided with a barb or barbs that can
be turned up or projected laterally to sustain the hay or other material in
combination with a discharging apparatus for causing the delivery of the
hay or other material substantially as set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Livingston Walker, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Fifth day of May, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
EDWP. L. WALKER. (L.S.)
Witnesses,
CHAS. H. SMITH,
121, Nassau St., New York.
T. G. C. MOUNTAIN,
121, Nassau St., New York.