IMPROVEMENTS IN OR CONNECTED WITH MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR TRUSSING STRAW AS IT IS DELIVERED FROM THRESHING MACHINES
Year: 1884

page_text: I JAMES MARSHALL of the Firm of Marshall Sons and Company Limited
Britannia Iron Works Gainsborough in the County of Lincoln do hereby declare
the nature of said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN OR CONNECTED WITH
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR TRUSSING STRAW AS IT IS DELIVERED FROM
THRESHING MACHINES" to bo as follows:-
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My Invention relates to machinery or apparatus for trussing straw as it is
delivered from threshing machines such for example as is described in the Specifi-
cation of Letters Patent No 462 A.D. 1883 granted to Messieurs Howard and
Bousfield and my said Invention has for its objects to render the said machinery or
apparatus easier of management and transport and more reliable and economical
of power in work. Instead of employing two endless canvass aprons for con-
ducting the straw from the threshing machine to the binding or trussing devices
as is proposed in the Specification of the before named Patent. I employ a guiding
hopper in the lower part of which I arrange one or more revolving rollers with
either smooth, grooved, or ribbed peripheries.
The straw as it is delivered from the threshing machine slides down the side of
the hopper and is carried forward by the revolving roller, or rollers, to the packers
and binding devices. Motion may be imparted to the roller or rollers by employing
a toothed wheel on one end of the roller spindle (or one of them) and passing over
it the pitch chain used for driving the binding mechanism or by other suitable
means but I prefer to employ a belt pulley on one end of the packer shaft with
another belt pulley on the end of the roller shaft (or one of them) and to drive
the latter by means of a belt, motion being given to the second or other roller or
rollers (when more than one is used) by spur gear wheels or otherwise.
A door extending the whole width of the trussing machine is provided to protect
the straw from the influence of the wind and for convenience of manipulation the
said door may be hinged to the upper part of the hopper.
I further employ three or more travelling wheels (and also turning gear for
steering) to support the trussing machine at a proper level and height for work
and to obviate the necessity for any special means of connecting it to the thresher
when in operation as also to make it available for the application of a Horse or
Bullock pole or the drag bar of a traction engine as well as shafts and thereby
render it more easily moveable from place to place with or without the threshing
machine.
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J. HENRY JOHNSON,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.,
Agent for the said James Marshall.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
I, JAMES MARSHALL of the firm of Marshall Sons and Company Limited
Britannia Iron Works Gainsborough in the County of Lincoln do hereby declare
the nature of my invention for " IMPROVEMENTS IN OR CONNECTED
"
WITH
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR TRUSSING STRAW AS IT IS DELIVERED FROM
THRESHING MACHINES and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My Invention relates to Machinery or apparatus for trussing straw as it is
delivered from threshing machines such for example as is described in the
Specification of Letters Patent No 462 in the year of our Lord 1883 granted to
Messrs Howard and Bousfield and my said Invention has for its objects to render
the said machinery or Apparatus easier of management and transport and more
reliable and economical of power in work. Instead of employing two endless
canvas aprons for conducting the straw from the threshing machine to the binding
or trussing devices as is proposed in the Specification of the before named Patent
I employ a guiding hopper or guiding surface, in or at the lower part of which
I arrange one or more revolving rollers with either smooth grooved or ribbed
peripheries.
The accompanying drawing represents an apparatus constructed according to my
Invention wherein two rollers with ribbed peripheries are employed, Figure 1 is a
part side elevation, Figure 2 is a corresponding plan and Figure 3 is an end
elevation, A represents the guiding hopper and B B the two revolving rollers.
The straw as it is delivered from the threshing machine, slides down the side of
the hopper A and is carried forward by the revolving rollers BB to the packers and
binding devices which may be of the ordinary construction and are therefore not
shewn in the drawing. Motion may be imparted to the rollers by any suitable
means, such for example, as by employing a toothed or sprocket wheel b on one
end of one of the roller spindles and passing over it the pitch chain used for
driving the binding mechanism, the opposite end of the said roller being provided
with a toothed wheel c which engages with a toothed wheel d, on the other roller,
or I may employ for this purpose a belt passing over a belt pulley on one end of the
packer shaft, and over another belt pulley on the end of one of the roller spindles
and drive the latter by means of the belt, motion being given to the second roller
by spur gear wheels, but I do not limit myself to any particular means for driving
the rollers.
.
A door C, extending the whole width of the trussing machine is preferably
provided to protect the straw from the influence of the wind, and for convenience
of manipulation the said door may be hinged to the upper part of the hopper. It
is shewn in the drawings as being turned back from the position which it would
occupy when the apparatus is in action.
I prefer to employ three or more travelling wheels (and also turning gear for
steering) to support the trussing machine at a proper level and height for work

page_text: and to obviate the necessity for any special means of connecting it to the thresher
when in operation as also to make it available for the application of a horse or
bullock pole or the drag bar of a traction engine as well as shafts and thereby
render it more easily movable from place to place with or without the threshing
machine. In the drawing I have shewn the apparatus as being mounted upon a
guiding wheel D, additional to the ordinary carrying wheels E.
In place of using two parallel rollers B, as shewn, I may use but one, in
which case it will be arranged sufficiently near to the side of the hopper to take
the Straw forward, but I prefer to use two rollers as shewn.
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, In apparatus for conducting straw from threshing machines to binding
devices, the combination of a hopper or guiding surface with a roller or rollers,
substantially as and for the purpose herein before explained with reference to the
accompanying drawings.
Second, The arrangement and combination of parts constituting the portable
appliance for attachment to threshing machines substantially as and for the purpose
herein before explained with reference to the accompanying drawings.
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