A METHOD OF AND ✰ APPARATUS FOR RAISING GRASS AND OTHER CROPS ON TO STACKS, WHICH ¡ APPARATUS IS ALSO APPLICABLE TO RAISING AND TRANSFERRING WEIGHTS
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Peters Moody, of Corton Denham, in the
County of Somerset, Gentleman, for the Invention of "A METHOD OF AND
✰ APPARATUS FOR RAISING GRASS AND OTHER CROPS ON TO STACKS, WHICH
¡ APPARATUS IS ALSO APPLICABLE TO RAISING AND TRANSFERRING WEIGHTS."
Sealed the 11th April 1860, and dated the 12th October 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Peters Moody at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 12th October 1859.
I, CHARLES PETERS MOODY, of Corton Denham, in the County of Somerset,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A
METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR RAISING GRASS AND OTHER CROPS ON TO STACKS,
WHICH APPARATUS IS ALSO APPLICABLE TO RAISING AND TRANSFERRING WEIGHTS,"
to be as follows:-
My method of raising grass and other crops on to stacks, consists in the
employment of a cradle capable of being removed from a wagon or other
carriage, into which the grass or other crop is placed. The crop is conveyed in
the cradle by the wagon under the apparatus to be presently described. The
apparatus takes the cradle, with its contents, raises it from the wagon, and
transfers it to the stack to be emptied. As soon as the cradle and its contents
are taken from the wagon, an empty cradle is placed therein, and without

page_text: waiting while the full cradle is being emptied, the wagon is driven away with
the empty cradle to receive a fresh load, and so on.
The apparatus consists of two side frames, which are connected by cross
bars, and which are set at the same distance apart as the width of the intended
stack. These frames may be on wheels or not as desirable, moving on stout pins
or studs; near the bottom of the side frames there are two bars, one on each
side, similar to the jib of a crane; these bars or jibs are connected by a strong
cross bar. Upon one of the cross bars which connect the side frames, I mount
two winding pulleys and a drum or large pulley, to which the horse or other
power is to be connected, and on which I wind a rope or chain. The winding
pulleys are placed one at each side of the apparatus, and each has connected
to it a rope or chain, which ropes pass over two guide pulleys on the top cross-
bar, connecting the top of the uprights of the side frames, and are carried over
them and attached to the cross-bar-of-the-jibs, which we will suppose to be
lowered and extended out over the cradle or other weight to be raised, in which
position. 'the ropes will be unwound. from, yet: still attached. to, the winding
drums. Chains depend from the cross bar of the jibs, which are hooked on to
the cradle or other weight to be raised and transferred. In all farming opera-
tions horse-power will generally be found the most convenient, therefore, when
the cradle has been hooked on to the chains, I connect a horse to the power
rope, and as soon as he draws, the power rope is rolled off, and the winding
ropes are rolled on their respective pulleys, whereby the jibs lift the cradle
out of the wagon, carry it up, and transfer and deposit it on to the stack or
place where the stack is to be formed. A lowering chain may be connected
to the cradle chains and to a drum placed at one of the side frames for the
purpose of letting down or pulling up the cradle or any other weight after
having been transferred as aforesaid.
Among the many purposes to which my apparatus may be usefully applied,
I may mention that of taking heavy weights from barges and other vessels,
and transferring them into sorts

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent. Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters:
Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of October, in the year of our.
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-third year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Charles Peters Moody, Her special licence that I, the said Charles
Peters Moody, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I..
the said Charles Peters Moody, 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
"A METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR RAISING GRASS AND OTHER CROPS ON TO
STACKS, WHICH APPARATUS IS ALSO APPLICABLE TO RAISING, AND TRANSFERRING
WEIGHTS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Charles Peters
Moody, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under.
my, or their, or one of their hands and seals; should particularly 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 I, the said Charles Peters Moody, do hereby declare
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 follow-
ing statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed,
that is to say:-
:
My method of raising grass and other crops on to stacks, consists. in the
employment of a cradle capable of being removed from a wagon or other
carriage into which the grass or other crop is placed. The crop is conveyed in
the cradle by the wagon, under the apparatus to be presently described. The
apparatus takes the cradle, with its contents, raises it from the wagon, and
transfers it to the stack to be emptied. As soon as the cradle and its contents
are taken from the wagon, an empty cradle is placed therein, and without
waiting while the full cradle is being emptied, the wagon is driven away.with
the empty cradle to receive a fresh load; and so on.
The apparatus consists of two side frames, which are connected by cross
bars. These frames may be .on, wheels. or not, as désirable, moving" on stout
pins or studs; near..the bottom of. the side frames there are four bars or jibs,
two on each side, similar to the jib of a crane; these bars or jibs are connected
by a strong cross bar. Upon one of the other cross bars which connect the side

page_text: frames, I mount two winding pulleys and a drum or large pulley to which
the horse or other power is to be connected, and on which I wind a rope or
chain. The winding pulleys are placed one at each side of the apparatus, and
each has connected to it a rope or chain, which ropes pass over two guide
pulleys on the top cross bar connecting the top of the uprights of the side
frames, and are carried over them and attached to the cross bar of the jibs,
which we will suppose to be lowered and extended out over the cradle or other
weight to be raised, in which position the ropes will be unwound from, yet still
attached to the winding drums. Chains depend from the cross bar of the jibs,
which are hooked on to the cradle or other weight to be raised and transferred.
In all farming operations horse-power will generally be found the most con-
venient, therefore, when the cradle has been hooked on to the chains, I connect
a horse to the power rope, and as soon as he draws, the power rope is rolled
off, and the winding ropes are rolled on their respective pulleys, whereby the
jibs lift the cradle out of the wagon, carry it up, and transfer and deposit it on
to the side of the stack or place where the stack is to be formed. A lowering
chain may be connected to the cradle chains and to a drum placed at one of
the side frames for the purpose of letting down or pulling up the cradle or any
other weight after having been transferred as aforesaid.
I
Among the many purposes to which my apparatus may be usefully applied,
may
I mention that of taking heavy weights from barges and other vessels and
transferring them into carts, in such cases it may be desirable to have wo
connected jibs only, one in each side frame instead of two.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a side elevation, and Figure 2 a
plan of an apparatus for raising grass and other crops on to stacks, constructed
according to my Invention. A, A, are two. frames or bars formed by pre-
ference of wood. A', A', are similar bars on the opposite side of the apparatus,
the distance apart being the width of the intended carriage; both of the pairs
of bars are held together or strengthened by iron cross pieces B, B. C, C, are
strong perpendicular uprights fixed between each of the aforesaid bars A, A,
and A', A. To these uprights C, C, bars D, D, are bolted, as well as to the
side frames A, A, and A', A'. The ends of the bars D, D, support a shaft E,
which carries on each end a small pulley F and a pulley G larger than the
two others. Chains or ropes H, H, pass round the pulleys F, and a chain or
rope I round the pulley G, which chain descends and passes round a second
and smaller pulley G', which works in bearings fitted to the frames A, A. The
chains H, H, are connected to frames formed by the jibs K, K, the lower ends
of which move about pins or studs in the frames A, A¹. L, L', are jibs
working about pins or studs similar to the jibs K, K, and the two are con-

page_text: nected together at their upper parts by connecting bars M, M, which run
parallel to the frames A, A, and A', A¹. N, N, N', N', are chains suspended
from the connecting bars M, M, and to which the cradle which carries the
load is hung. This cradle is shown in side elevation at Figure 3. To
remove a load of hay or other crop from a wagon to a stack, I lower the
frame which is formed by the jibs K, K, and L, L', in combination with the
connecting bars M, M, into the position indicated by the dotted lines in
Figure 1. The wagon (which contains a cradle similar to that shown at
Figure 3, and on which the load has been placed) is drawn between the
frames A, A, and A', A', the cradle is then hooked on to the chains N, N, N¹, N¹,
a horse is attached to the chain I, which as he draws unwinds the chain I
from the large pulley G, and winds the chains H, H, round the smaller
pulleys F, until the frame with its cradle and load are raised to the height of
the stack. The power can be increased by altering the diameters of the pulleys.
The cross pieces or girders B, B, are intended to be rather below the surface
soil, in order to afford strength to the whole apparatus.
In Figures 4 and 5, I have shewn in side elevation and plan respectively,
a machine constructed in a somewhat modified form to that before de-
scribed. In this case I make use of a platform to convey the crop to the
stack instead of the chains, which I also place by the side of the intended
stack. N, N, are the rails which are connected to the bars M, M. I fit
chains to the side of the apparatus contrary to that on which the stack is to
be built, in order to prevent the load or the persons employed on it from
falling off. N, N¹, are bars to guide the motion of the frame. To raise a
load to the stack the rails are lowered as shown by the dotted lines, and the
wagon or cart containing the load is led in on the rails, where it is secured by
a bar of iron at the front and back; the horse is taken from the shafts, and that
horse or another is attached to the rope or chain I, which as he draws raises
the frame as in the preceding case, carrying with it, in this instance, the wagon
or cart with its load to the required height. As soon as the wagon is unloaded
the frame is lowered to the ground, and the empty wagon is drawn away to
make room for another load. O is a winch which is shown in front view
detached at Figure 6, round which the chain I passes. I make use of this, in
some instances, instead of horse-power, and sometimes by an additional wheel in
concert with it, and the winch is so arranged with catches or pauls that the
frame can be stopped at any height. In some cases I place axles to the lower
timbers, which receive wheels to facilitate the removal of the apparatus from
place to place, or the machine may be removed as a sleigh.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what

page_text: manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim, the method of
and apparatus for raising crops and weights, and for transferring them, acting
and constructed essentially in manner herein-before described and represented
in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Peters Moody, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Tenth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
Witness,
LUKE, MARKS.
CHARLES PETERS MOODY. (L.S.).