AN IMPROVED BUNDLE CARRIER FOR HARVESTERS AND IN THE METHOD OF SUPPORTING AND OPERATING THE SAME
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William McIntyre Cranston of 30 Worship Street in
the county of Middlesex for an Invention of AN IMPROVED BUNDLE CARRIER
FOR HARVESTERS AND IN THE METHOD OF SUPPORTING AND OPERATING THE
SAME communicated to him from abroad by Walter A Wood of Hoosick
Falls, state of New York in the United States of America
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William M'Intyre Cranston
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 27th July 1883.
WILLIAM MCINTYRE CRANSTON of 36 Worship Street in the county of
Middlesex AN IMPROVED BUNDLE CARRIER FOR HARVESTERS AND IN THE
METHOD OF SUPPORTING AND OPERATING THE SAME A communication to mo
from abroad by Walter A Wood of Hoosick Falls, state of New York in the United
States of America.
This invention relates to constructing and arranging a bundle carrier for the
reception of bundles or sheafs and to means for facilitating their delivery at the
will of an attendant.
For the purpose of my invention a spar or support is attached to the side of a
grain straw binder or harvester. On this spar or support the bundle carrier of
preferably laths is binged so as to be tilted on end to allow of the bundles or
sheafs sliding off. at the rear part at right angles to that at which the bundles were
received The bundle carrier is halauced or nearly so or it may be hinged at or
near its front end and is by means of rods and levers one of which is within reach
of the driver held firmly until it contains the desired number of bundles when the
bundle carrier is released for discharging them at the rear instead of at the side.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said William M'Intyre Cranston in the Patent Office on the
26th January 1884.
WILLIAM MCINTYRE CRANSTON of 36 Worship Street in the County of
Middlesex AN IMPROVED BUNDLE CARRIER FOR HARVESTERS AND IN THE
METHOD OF SUPPORTING AND OPERATING THE SAME A cominunication to me
from abroad by Walter A. Wood of Hoosick Falls, State of New York in the
United States of America
This invention relates to constructing and arranging a bundle carrier for the
reception of bundles or sheafs and to means for facilitating their delivery at the will
of an attendant.
For the purpose of this invention a spar or support is attached to the side of a
grain straw binder or harvester. On this spar or support the bundle carrier of
preferably, laths, is hinged so as to be tilted on end, to allow of the bundles or
sheafs sliding off at the rear part, or at right angles to that at which the bundles
aro received. The bundle carrier is balanced or nearly so or it may be hinged at
or near its front end, and is by means of rods and levers, one of which is within
reach of the driver held firmly until it contains the desired number of bundles,
when the bundle carrier is released for discharging them at the rear instead of at
the side.
The annexed drawings Figures 1, 2, and 3 show sufficient of a harvester machine
to illustrate the position and the mode-of operating the bundle carrier and
discharger forming the subject of this invention.
A is the frame of the harvester, and B the main wheel of same.
C is a span,
firmly secured to the frame A. by the bolt D and grip plate E all of which are
removable and adjustable, in or on, the frame A to suit the length of grain straws
which the knife of the machine may be cutting. The spar C is rounded at its
outer projecting end F to form an axle arm or journal, for supporting the cradle or
bundle (sheaf) carrier, composed of the main curved bar H and the slats G, and
head piece G¹, carried and supported by the spar C at F, at or about its central
part; said cradle or bundle carrier being preferably of skeleton form for lightness
in weight, and extending outwards from the side of the machine, as to be
independent of said machine, except to receive carry and discharge each bundle or
sheaf in succession or any number of bundles or sheaves according to the will of
the attendant. Each bundle or sheaf or each collected bundle of them are
permitted to slide off "end on" at the rear of the cradle or carrier and in line with
the travel thereof, as indicated by the dotted lines G. G. in Figure 2, and not over
or from the side of said cradle or carrier or what might be termed a "broadside
discharge in a manner previously known.
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The
The bottom transverse bar or spar H of the cradle or bundle carrier has a link I
affixed and its eye or loop is connected by the rods J. K. to the foot lever L, the
free end of which is within reach of the driver while sitting on his seat M.
forward end G¹ of the cradle is preferably slightly overbalanced to resume its
normal position after each discharge.
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The "end on delivery cradle or bundle carrier hereinbefore described and
shown, is specially adapted to the Harvesters patented by me or by my firm, but
by certain modifications or slight changes either to the harvester machines of other
makers, or to the manner of supporting or attaching my aforesaid cradle or bundle
carrier, it can be adapted to those machines.
With my arrangement, the cradle is of such a character that it can be affixed at
any desired part of a machine, by the simple application of a single bolt, and the
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page_text: connection of the link and lever, and be readily removable from the machine by
loosening the nuts of, say, two bolts.
Having now described the nature of the said invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed I declare that I claim
First The arrangement of the cradle or bundle carrier, and the method of
attachment and the operation thereof, in, to, or on, a harvester as herein beforo
described and substantially as shown in the annexed drawings
Secondly I claim.-A Balancing or pivotted cradle or bundle carrier, to the side
of a harvester, through or by a tilting action of which, the bundle or bundles or
sheaves can slide to the rear and from the same in the wake of the cradle, while
travelling, as and for the purpose set forth.
In witness whereof I the said William M'Intyre Cranston have hereunto set
my hand and seal this twenty fourth day of January in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and eighty four
W*, M. CRANSTON (L.B.)