Improvements in and relating to Machines used for Topping, Tailing, and Lifting Turnips.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Dec., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 5th Sept., 1894-Accepted, 6th Oct., 1894
BUDINAL SIMULETATION.
Improvements in and relating to Machines used for Topping, Tailing,
and Lifting Turnips.
I, JOHN MACK, of 2 West Newington Place, in the City and County of
Edinburgh, Agricultural Implement Maker, do hereby declare the nature of my
invention to be as follows :—
This invention has reference to and comprises the adaptation and combination
with machines used for topping, tailing and lifting turnips, of mechanism or
appliances for catching, and elevating the lifted turnips or roots and delivering
same into carts or receptacles travelling parallel to the machine or turnip drills, and
whereby the expense of collecting and filling the turnips into carts by hand labour
will be saved.
In carrying my improvements into practice under one arrangement I would
mount an open parallel barred grating at the lower part of the machine near the
ground level, and shift the lifted turnips or turnip roots by an angled wing or
mould board attached to the back end of machine, and deliver these on the top of
the open barred grating. An endless angled or vertical travelling chain would be
mounted over chain wheels, one at the lower part and the other at the top of turnip
machine, and be driven through spur or other gear from one of the rotating shafts
of the machine. This endless chain would be fitted with a distributing series of
radial projecting curved forks, arms or perforated buckets which would travel with
the endless chain through the spaces formed between the parallel bars of the open
grating, to receive the turnips, and automatically carry them up by the elevating
chain, and deliver them, after passing over the top chain wheel, on to an angled or
inclined shoot which would convey them into carts or receptacles travelling in the
adjacent drills parallel to the sides of machines; and these delivery shoots may be
either attached to the carts or be fixed to the turnip machine.
For single drill machines one elevator would be sufficient, but for double drill
machines two elevators and duplex sets of appliances would be used one on each
side of the machine.
Dated the 2nd December 1893.
W. R. M. THOMSON & Co.,
96, Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Agents.
Improvements in and relating to Machines used for Topping, Tailing,
and Lifting Turnips.
I, JOHN MACK, of 2 West Newington Place, in the City and County of
Edinburgh, Agricultural Implement Maker, do hereby declare the nature of my
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement in writing, that is
to say:-
This invention has reférence to and comprises the adaptation and combination
with machines used for topping, tailing, and lifting tuinips, of mechanism or
appliances for catching, and elevating the lifted turnips or roots and delivering
same into carts or receptacles travelling parallel to the machine or turnip drills,
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page_text: and whereby the expense of collecting and filling the turnips into carts by hand
labour will be saved.
And in order that my said invention and the manner of performing or carrying
the same into effect or practice may be properly understood I have hereunto
appended an explanatory sheet of drawings in which the same reference letters are
used to indicate corresponding parts in all the figures where shown. Figure 1 is a
side elevation, and Figure 2 a corresponding plan view of a double drill machine,
as constructed and arranged in accordance with my improvements; and Figure 3 is
a corresponding end elevation showing the turnip elevators; while Figures 4 and 5
are detached detail views of one of the elevator frames.
Referring to these drawings:-In carrying my improvements into practice under
the arrangement shown I would mount an open parallel barred grating A' at the
lower part of the machine near the ground level, preferably by bolting it at the
lower part of the upright turnip guide frame A and guide the lifted turnips or
turnip roots Z, by an angled wing or mould board e formed on the root cutting
organ E in advance of the elevator, the rooted turnips Z being further guided into
the grating A' by a guide plate D secured at the lower front part of the grating A
as seen in Figure 5. Endless angled or vertical travelling chains B would be
mounted over chain wheels, one set B' mounted on a transverse spindle B at the
lower part and the other set B' on a similar spindle B" at the top A' of
frame A', of turnip machine. The wheels B₁ would be driven by having a
chain wheel mounted on the shaft B to which motion is communicated by a
chain through the wheel 2 from the shaft 63. This shaft is carried by
brackets from machine. framing, and has a bevel pinion & mounted on it
which is in gear with the bevel wheel c mounted by an adjustable clutch on the
shaft c', on which the main travelling wheels c³ of machine are fixed. By this
arrangement of gearing the endless chains B are driven in time unison with the
travelling wheels c². The endless chains B are fitted with a distributing series
of radial projecting curved forks, arms or perforated buckets, but preferably
consisting of forks B³ secured to bars B attached between the chains B, and
which will travel with said endless chains B over the spaces formed between the
parallel bars of the open grating A to receive the turnips Z, and automatically
carry them up by the elevating chains, as indicated by the arrows, and deliver
them on to an angled or inclined shoot A' at the top of the frame A, which would
convey them into carts or receptacles travelling in the adjacent drills parallel to
the sides of machine, the line of drills being indicated by the letters X X; and
these delivery shoots may be either fixed to the frame of turnip machine, as
shown, or be portably attached to the carts. The ends of the bars B would in the
upward travel be guided between a pair of longitudinal vertical bars a secured at
top and bottom to the elevator frame A.
For single drill machines one elevator would be sufficient, but for double drill
machines two elevators and duplex sets of appliances would be used one on each
side of the machine, as shown in these drawings, and the elevator frames A would
preferably be stayed together at the top A³ by a transverse rod A³ connected
between the spindles B₁ of upper chain wheels. The elevator vertical frame A
can be raised or lowered by a hand lever d fulcrummed on a pin don machine
framing and catching on to a stud d² on elevator frame, so that the latter may be
adjusted to suit the nature of the ground in which the turnips are grown.
The framework of machine and the turnip tailing and topping knives or
appliances such as E, E', E', would be constructed and arranged in any ordinary
or usual manner, the tops of the turnips being guided by the wings E' inwards
towards the centre of machine.
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 is
First. In machines used for topping, tailing and lifting turnips, the adaptation

page_text: and combination of mechanism or appliances for catching and elevating the rooted
turnips and delivering same into carts or receptacles travelling parallel to the
machine, substantially as herein described in reference to and by way of application
shown in the accompanying drawings.
Second. In machines used for topping, tailing and lifting turnips, the combination
of endless chain or chains carrying forks, arms, or like receptacles to receive,
elevate and deliver the rooted turnips from the drills on to parallel travelling
carts, substantially as herein described in reference to and shown in the
accompanying drawings.
Third. In machines used for topping, tailing, and lifting turnips, the combination
comprising an earth separating grating, and an endless chain of elevator forks or
turnip carrying organs, substantially as herein described in reference to and shown
in the accompanying drawings.
Dated the 4th September 1894.
W. R. M. THOMSON & Co.,
96, Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Agents.