IMPROVEMENTS IN COLLECTORS FOR AGRICUL- TURAL PURPOSES
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Lander, of Shaftesbury Road, Mere, in the County
of Wilts, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN COLLECTORS FOR AGRICUL-
TURAL PURPOSES."
Sealed the 27th October 1877, and dated the 4th May 1877.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Lander at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 4th May 1877.
HENRY LANDER, of Shaftesbury Road, Mere, in the County of Wilts.
MENTS IN COLLECTORS FOR AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES."
"IMPROVE-
The improvements relate to collectors for collecting hay or other produce, and
consist in so constructing such collectors that they may travel and collect straight
before and immediately in front of the wagon and horses for carrying the hay or
produce in such manner that the wagon may begin loading as soon as the collector
is started, and thus the collecting and carrying be more efficiently and quickly
performed than heretofore.
The collector is fashioned fan-shape on plan, so far as the body of it or frame is
concerned, the broadest part being the front. To the tail end are furnished two
carrying wheels, which are on pivoted supports so that the wheels may turn. The
front of the body has two wheels furnished with mitre wheels actuating a pinion
driving two or more drums or such like, furnished with teeth for collecting the
produce, said drums being placed at an angle.
The collector can be drawn by a single horse, and as it travels the drums with
their teeth revolve, collect the produce immediately in front of and alongside the
waggon; the angle or splay of the drum being arranged so that the produce is
collected at convenient distance for pitching at each side of the waggon and a clear
space for the waggon and its horses to travel forward on.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Henry Lander in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 2nd November
1877.
HENRY LANDER, of Shaftesbury Road, Mere, in the County of Wilts.
MENTS IN COLLECTORS FOR AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES."
" IMPROVE-
The improvements relate to collectors for collecting hay or other produco, and
consist in so constructing such collectors that they may travel and collect straight
before and immediately in front of the wagon and horses for carrying the hay or
produce in such manner that the wagon may begin loading as soon as the collector
is started, and thus the collecting and carrying be more efficiently and quickly
performed than heretofore.
The
The collector is fashioned fan-shape on plan, so far as the body of it or frame is
concerned, the broadest part being the front. To the tail end are furnished two
carrying wheels, which are on pivoted supports so that the wheels may turn.
front of the body has two wheels furnished with mitre wheels actuating a pinion
driving two or more drums or such like, furnished with teeth for collecting the
produce, said drums being placed at an angle.
The collector can be drawn by a single horse, and as it travels the drums with
their teeth revolve, collect the produce immediately in front of and alongside the
wagon, the angle or splay of the drum being arranged so that the produce is
collected at convenient distance for pitching at each side of the wagon and a clear
space for the wagon and its horses to travel forward on.
The accompanying Drawing will serve to illustrate a convenient mode of per-
forming the improvements.
Fig. 1 is a plan view; Fig. 2, a front elevation; Fig. 3, a side elevation, showing
the central division board, which may be of sheet iron; Fig. 4, end view of revolving
barrel fitted with teeth for collecting hay.
It will be observed that the collector consists of two revolving barrels of tines or
brushes, placed at an angle of about 45° to one another, or other convenient angle
if desired. The spindles of these barrels run in bearings at each end of the frame-
work. This said framework I prefer to make in separate pieces, connected at the
front by a sliding spindle or tube, and at the back by an arched frame free to turn
on a hinge at its top part. The frame is carried by two castor wheels at the rear
and two larger wheels at the front part outside the frame. To each of these front
wheels are either cast or bolted a bevil cog wheel, which gears into a pinion fixed
upon the end of the spindles of the revolving barrels, which throws the material
collected inwards. The wheel and pinion can be thrown out of gear by a lever or
in any other suitable manner.
The rollers carrying the collecting teeth or brushes which form the revolving
barrels are made so as to be expanded to suit different depths of collecting.
In the centre of the machine between the two collecting barrels is placed a
division of sheet iron or wood, so that when the two collecting barrels (composed of
either teeth or brushes) revolve they force the material collected to strike this
division on either side and then fall, thus forming the material collected into a
straight line as the machine advances. At the back the two castors are placed at
such a distance as to run one on either side of the material thus collected. At this
back end also an arch is formed of sheet iron or other suitable material to trim the
straight line of material collected.
To travel through passages narrower than the outside width of the machine, I
make the fram, as befor stated, in separate pieces, connected at the front by a
sliding spindle or tube, which is secured to the separate front parts of the frame by
means of clamps. The separate pieces forming the frame at the back are connected
by the aforesaid arched frame, free to turn on the hinge at its top part.
When it is required to alter the width of the machine the outside clamps on

page_text: either side are taken out, and the two halves forming the frame are brought towards
each other to the required width and there secured.
The axle pins of the front outside driving wheels are formed with a quadrant, so
that when the machine is contracted they may be set out of gear and placed in a
proper position for travelling straight upon the road.
By the above method I can extend the width of my machine.
The collector can be made in such sizes as to be drawn by one horse or several
horses, or to be reduced in size to be worked by manual labour, and be made of metal
or wood, or of both combined.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Lander, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this First day of November, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-seven.
HENRY LANDER. (L.S.)