IM- PROVEMENTS IN HORSE RAKES
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Haughton & Stoddart Peile, comprising the
Firm of Haughton and Thompson, of Carlisle, for the Invention of "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN HORSE RAKES."
Scaled the 29th September 1877, and dated the 2nd April 1877.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Haughton &
Stoddart Peile at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 2nd April
1877.
JOSEPH HAUGHTON and STODDART PEILE, comprising the Firm of Haughton &
Thompson, of Carlisle. "IMPROVEMENTS IN HORSE RAKES."
Our Improvements in horse rakes consist,—
1st. In improved means of regulating the height of the tines from the ground.
2nd. In making the back or clearing frame reciprocate when the tines are
quadrated in such manner that as the tines are thrown up it is moved forward so as
to case the load of hay out of the tines.
3rd. In the quadrating of the axle, and
4th. In the improved means of fixing the tines in their sockets or heads.
The latter are pivoted on a rod as usual, carried in two or more brackets or castings,
each connected by a pair of parallel radius links, with other brackets or castings
fixed on the wheel axle, the whole forming a parallel motion, cach furnished with a
diagonal regulating 'screw connecting the two brackets in such manner as to draw
up or let down the tine sockets or heads when turned. The tines are quadrated by
means of hand levers connected with a crank arm on the axle, and the back frame
is operated by the same movement, the said frame being connected with the castings
on the wheel axle in such manner that on the latter being quadrated the back frame
is drawn forward for the purpose above mentioned.
The tines are fixed in their sockets or heads by means of serrated notches at
one side of the tines, taking into corresponding notches in one side of the socket,
and fixed by a wedge-shaped key driven in at the opposite side.

page_text: DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a plan; Figure 2 a vertical section (on line 2, 2, Figure 1); Figure 3 is a
vertical section (on line 3, 3, Figure 1), and Figure 4 a rear elevation of a horse hay
rake provided with our improvements; Figure 5 shows vertical and horizontal
sections, and an end view of tho tine head or socket.
A is the wheel axle; B are the tines; and C the tine heads, pivoted on a rod D,
supported on a frame E, and two brackets Y, connected cach by a pair of radius
links G, with brackets H on the axle A. The brackets Y and H, and the connecting
links G, form parallel motions for raising or lowering the points of the tines B in a
perpendicular line. So far the machine is similar to that described in our previous
Patent aforesaid, except that the wheels run loose on the axle. I is a regulating
screw diagonal to the parallelogram formed by brackets Y, H, and links G. This
screw turns in a bearing in an upward extension of the bracket H, with collars or
shoulders to retain it in position, and its other end scrows into a corresponding nut
or female screw in the bracket Y; this screw is turned by a removable lever handle
or key K applied to its square upper end or by other suitable means; L is the
clearing frame supported on the axle A. at its ends, which are slotted to allow of
sliding on the axle and attached to the shafts by bars L', having each a downward
extension by which it is connected by a pin joint with the adjacent brackets H;
M is a crank arm fixed on the axle A, and connected by a link N with a socket O,
in which one of the two hand levers, P, P¹, is fixed, according as the attendant
walks behind or rides upon the machino; P³, treadle to attach when working the
tines from the seat. The link N and socket O are also connected by another link
Qwith the fixed part of the frame attached to the shafts. The attachment of the
tines B to their heads C is shown in Figure 5; the tinc is serrated at ono
side, b, and the corresponding inside surface c of the socket is similarly serrated,
and the two are locked securely together by a wedge R at the opposite side driven
in between the tine and socket.
Having described the nature of our Invention and the manner of performing the
same, we declare that what we claim as the Invention to be protected by the herein-
before in part recited Letters Patent is,-
1st. The combination with the "parallel motion" which supports the tine heads
and compels the tines to move in a perpendicular line of a diagonal screw for
regulating the height of the tines substantially as shown and described.

page_text: 2nd. Securing the tines to their heads or sockots by means of the serrated socket
joint and wedgo, substantially as shown and described.
In witness whereof, we, the said Joseph Haughton and Stoddart Peile have
hereunto set our hands and seals, this First day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven.
JOSEPH HAUGHTON.
(LS)