IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF MACHINERY FOR ELEVATING, RAISING, AND STACKING HAY, CORN, STRAW, AND OTHER SUBSTANCES.
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Holmes, George Thomas Holmes, and
Frederick Robert Holmes, all of the City of Norwich, in the County
of Norfolk for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION
OF MACHINERY FOR ELEVATING, RAISING, AND STACKING HAY, CORN, STRAW,
AND OTHER SUBSTANCES.
"
Sealed the 31st December 1872, and dated the 2nd July 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION. left by the said James Holmes, George
Thomas Holmes, and Frederick Robert Holmes at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 2nd July
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1872.
We,
JAMES HOLMES, GEORGE THOMAS HOLMES, and FREDERICK
ROBERT HOLMES, all of the City of Norwich, in the County of Norfolk,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF MACHINERY FOR ELEVATING, RAISING, AND STACKING
HAY, CORN, STRAW, AND OTHER SUBSTANCES," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to certain improvements in the construction of
machinery or apparatus for unpitching or raising hay, corn, straw, and

page_text: other produce and articles in or on to, or so as to form a stack, and also
to be used in connection with thrashing machines for elevating straw as
it is thrashed.
The machinery is worked by horse or other animal power, and when
employed in connection with thrashing machines the horse gear should
for the sake of convenience be so arranged as to be readily disconnected.
The elevator trough, the general nature of which is well known and
understood, and which it is therefore unnecessary to describe, is with the
necessary gearing fitted to a suitable framing, and instead of having
wheels and axles such as are usually employed for removal or transport,
the trough with its framing is placed on a truck or carriage having a
centre plate, pedestal, or pin, which may be either fixed to the truck or
to the elevator frame, so as to form a centre around and from which the
whole may be caused to revolve and thus to be turned and set to any
position. By these means the hay, corn, or straw may be delivered at
any point most suitable to form the stack at different parts, according to
the radius formed by the delivering end of the elevator, or the "elevator
may be turned at right angles or across the carriage or truck on which
it is placed, and can be drawn or made to traverse the whole length of a
stack in such a position as to deliver at any part without in any way
altering the position of the horse gear and connection with the elevator.
On the centre plate, pedestal, or pin is placed a toothed wheel capable
of revolving, and to which the draft bar, lever, or pole is attached for the
horse or other animal to draw by when traversing round the truck or
carriage on which the elevator is placed. The toothed wheel gears into
a pinion on a shaft which is fixed to the elevator framing and gives
motion thereto, and thence to the other shafts which carry the chain
wheels and endless chains, bars, and forks, as will be well understood.
The feeding hopper is so arranged as to be out of the way of the horse
track, and so that two waggons or carts may be unloading into the
elevator at the same time.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said James Holmes, George Thomas Holmes, and
Frederick Robert Holmes, in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
2nd January 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE. PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JAMES
HOLMES, GEORGE THOMAS HOLMES, and FREDERICK ROBERT HOLMES,
all of the City of Norwich, in the County of Norfolk, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Second day of July, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-
sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her hairs and successors, give
and grant unto us, the said James Holmes, George Thomas Holmes,
and Frederick Robert Holmes, Her special licence that we, the said
James Holmes, George Thomas Holmes, and Frederick Robert Holmes,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said
James Holmes, George Thomas Holmes, and Frederick Robert Holmes,
our 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE CONSTRUCTION OF MACHINERY FOR ELEVATING, RAISING, AND STACKING HAY,"
CORN, STRAW, AND OTHER SUBSTANCES," upon the condition (amongst others)
that we, the said James Holmes, George Thomas Holmes, and Frederick
Robert Holmes, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under our, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said 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 calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
°
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said James Holmes, George Thomas
Holmes, and Frederick Robert Holmes, do hereby declare the nature
of our said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, that is to say:―
Our said Invention relates to certain improvements in the construction
of machinery or apparatus for unpitching or raising hay, corn, straw, -

page_text: and other produce and articles in or on to or so as to form a stack, and
also to be used in connection with thrashing machines for elevating
straw as it is thrashed.
The machinery is worked by horse or other animal power, and when
employed in connection with thrashing machines the horse gear should
for the sake of convenience be so arranged as to be readily disconnected.
The elevator trough, the general nature of which is well known and
understood, and which it is therefore unnecessary to describe, is with
the necessary gearing fitted to a suitable framing, and instead of having
wheels and axles such as are usually employed for removal or transport,
the trough. with its framing is placed on a truck or carriage having a
centre plate, pedestal, or pin which may be either fixed to the truck or
to the elevator frame, so as to form a centre around and from which the
whole may be caused to revolve and thus to be turned and set to any
position. By these means the hay, corn, straw, or other articles may be
delivered at any point most suitable to form the stack at different parts,
according to the radius formed by the delivering end of the elevator, or
the elevator may be turned at right angles or across the carriage or truck
on which it is placed, and can be drawn or made to traverse the whole
length of a stack in such a position as to deliver at any part without in
any way altering the position of the horse gear in connection with the
On the centre plate, pedestal, or pin is placed a toothed
wheel, capable of revolving, and to which the draft bar, lever, or pole is
attached for the horse or other animal to draw by when traversing round
the truck or carriage on which the elevator is placed. The toothed wheel
gears into a pinion on a shaft which is fixed to the elevator framing and
gives motion thereto, and thence to the other shafts which carry the
chain wheels and endless chains, or driving band, bars, and forks, as will
be well understood.
elevator.
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The feeding hopper is so arranged as to be out of the way of the horse
track, and so that one or two waggons or carts may be unloaded into the
elevator at the same time.
If desired the elevator may be worked by detached horse gear.
Having thus described and ascertained the nature of our said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we would observe

page_text: before in part recited Letters Patent is, the construction of machinery
for elevating, raising, and stacking hay, corn, straw, and other articles,
substantially as herein-before described and set forth, or any mere modi-
fications thereof.
In witness whereof, we, the said James Holmes, George Thomas
Holmes, and Frederick Robert Holmes, have hereunto set our
hands and seals, this First day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.
JAMES HOLMES.
GEORGE THOMAS HOLMES..
(L.S.)
(L.S.)
FREDERICK ROBERT HOLMES. (L.S.)