Improvements relating to the Thatching or Securing of Corn and other Stacks.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 17th May, 1899
Complete Specification Left, 15th Feb., 1900 -Accepted. 17th Mon
1000
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to the Thatching or Securing of Corn and other
Stacks.
I, WILLIAM ANTON HUTCHESON, of Auchip, Fordyce, Banffshire, Farmer, do
hereby declare the nature of my invention to be as follows:-
:-
This invention has reference to improvements relating to the thatching or
securing of corn and other stacks in stackyards, or fields.
The improvements consist in using a net of twine or like material meshed into
diamond figures, and of a conical or tapering shape.
In using this net the procedure would be as follows:-
Fix crown round top or point of stacks, or rick, bring one side down to below
eave, and make fast, commence thatching along side of net thus secured, and as
the thatcher proceeds draw net round after him and over thatch and when the end
of part with double cord for outlet is reached again make fast and proceed as
before, till head is covered when net may be joined and made fast around caves
y say 8 fastenings (pegs would suffice). To facilitate its use in covering the
tack the net might be rolled round an angular piece of boarding which would
ake it much easier of being taken round by the thatcher.
Dated the 16th May 1899.
W. R. M. THOMSON & Co.,
96, Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
() Improvements relating to the Thatching or Securing of Corn and other
Stacks.
I, WILLIAM ANTON HUTCHESON, of Auchip, Fordyce, Banffshire, Farmer, 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, reference being made to the accompanying drawings:-
This invention has reference to improvements in and relating to housing and
storing cut crops such as stacks of grain, straw, or hay in stackyards, or fields.
And in order that my said invention and the manner of carrying same into
practice may be properly understood, I have hereunto appended an explanatory
drawing representing a perspective elevation of a corn stack as fitted with my
improvements.
Referring to said drawings:-
:-
The improvements consist in using a net of twine or like material a meshed
into diamond or like figures, said net being of a conical
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page_text: parts from the apex a¹ being left free. The net is preferably woven in four sec-
tions, and between each section double cords 6 run from top or point a¹ to eave,
and these are made fast by looped cords a² passing over pegs a³, tightening
cords B, B, being fitted at lower end and upper parts of net.
In using this net the procedure would be as follows:-
Fix crown around top or point of stack or rick A, bring one side or end of
net a down to below eave and make fast by the cord a to peg a". Commence
thatching along side of net a thus secured, and as the thatcher proceeds he should
draw net round after him and over thatch, and when the end of section of net at
double cords is reached he should make fast the ends of double cords b below
eave by the looped cords a² and so proceed thatching drawing net round after
him making double cords fast below eave till head of rick is covered when the
ends of net (double cords b), will be laced together by the cord 6. There may be
any desired number of fastening cords a², between the sections as well as at them.
After the thatching has been completed, and before the fastenings are finally
fixed up, the caves cord B should be tightened so as to make the net a lie properly.
The cord B running round the net a near the centre of the head of the stack also
requires tightening. To facilitate its use in covering the stack the net a
be rolled round an angular piece of boarding which would make it much easier
of being taken round by the thatcher.
might
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:
First. The method of housing and storing cut crops, consisting in using a net
of a tapering shape when thatching, substantially as set forth.
Second. In housing and storing cut crops, the combination with a stack of a
net, substantially as set forth.
Dated the fil Halsnow 1000
W. R. M. THOMSON & Co.,
96, Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Agents.