Improved Apparatus for Treating Seed Clover.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Mar., 1892-Accepted, 30th July, 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Apparatus for Treating Seed Clover.
I, STEFAN VON GERENDY of Sövényfalva, in the Principality of Siebenbürgen
in the Austrian Empire, Gentleman Farmer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention 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 an improved apparatus for treating seed clover, to be
called "Universal duplicator."
Two processes have hitherto been requisite for thrashing clover, namely,
separating the fruit or head from the stalk or "preparatory thrashing," and the
"final thrashing," for which purpose two separate thrashing machines are used,
thus causing a considerable loss in power and time besides the expense of a second
thrashing machine; or if only one machine is at hand the thrashing basket of the
machine must be removed after the preparatory thrashing and replaced by a so
called "clover riddle," so as to perfectly thrash out the entire clover seed.
This latter method requires much time and power, and is just as expensive 'as the
former.
The subject matter of the present invention is a "Duplicator," that is; an
apparatus which can be used with any single thrashing machine, the object of the
same being to simultaneously effect the preliminary and final thrashings of the clover
from the one source of power; whereby, without a second thrashing machine or the
inconvenient time consumed by exchange of the thrashing basket being necessary,
more than half the time & power and also expense will be spared.
In the drawings'
Fig. 1 is an isometrical front elevation:
Fig. 2 is a like rear elevation,
Fig. 3 is a vertical section, and
Fig. 4 a diagram representing the arrangement of the duplicator in regard to
the motor and thrashing machine.
The duplicator consists of a rectangular box a substantially closed on three sides,
the rear side being only partially closed and provided with a trough-like lid or
cover with frame-like top c. In the centre of the box a, as will be seen from
Fig. 2 in dotted lines and from Fig. 3 in section, is a fixed clover riddle drum d such
as is generally used in the machines above mentioned, and rigidly fixed in the two
end walls a', Fig. 2. One of the well known "peg-rail" or other beating drums f
is arranged to rotate within the drum d; it has its bearings in the end walls a¹ of
the box or case a, and carries at the one end a strap drum e. This beating drum f.
beats the clover seeds out of the clover heads and husks by rubbing the latter
between the drum f. and the mantle of the drum d so that the seeds will fall through
the lower sieve-like part of the said drum d, and can be removed through the rear
opening g of the box or case a.
The drum d is or may be slightly inclined downwards towards the side opposite
the said strap drum e and an aperture is left on this side so that a part of the
tailings can pass through and fall into the box j, while the remainder are forced
through the sieve of the drum d.
The seeds mixed with husks are now separated in a winnowing or other
appropriate machine which can be connected to the duplicator. The clover coming
from the main thrashing machine is fed through an appropriate opening such as h
suitably disposed in the lid of the apparatus and the tube or chute i of the
drum d; The clover is fed onto the lid or cover within the frame c and is thence
fed by the attendant to the opening. The cover of box j. may serve as a step-
like seat for the attendant and is so located that he can watch the motor and also

page_text: attend to the feed of the machine. The improved machine herein denominated
duplicator is (as shown in Fig. 4) driven direct from the motor by means of the
strap and strap drum e, the same motor serving to drive the large thrashing
machine; or the duplicator can be driven by a strap from the thrashing machine
and especially when the said thrashing machine is driven by a horse gin.
The power requisite for the duplicator is very small as no straw shakers and
diverse cleaning devices have to be operated as is the case when the clover riddle
is used in the thrashing machine, but only the beating drum f is to be driven.
If desired the apparatus can be connected to a sifting device, winnowing machine,
transporter, sack filling apparatus, etc., of suitable construction.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and the manner in which the same is to be performed, I declare that what 1
claim is:
1. An apparatus for treating clover (herein above called duplicator) with feed
opening such as h and frame c, step-like seat for attendant, and rectangular box or
case a containing a fixed clover riddle d the rotary beating drum f of which has its
bearings in the end walls a¹ of the box or case a and is driven by means of a strap
drum e substantially as described and shown in the drawings.
2. The method of simultaneously separating the clover heads from the stem or
stalk and beating or thrashing out the seeds from the heads by the apparatus as
claimed in the foregoing claim, employing only one source of power in order to save
time and power substantially as described and shown in the drawings.
3. The improved apparatus for treating clover (herein above called duplicator)
substantially as described and shown in the drawings.
Dated thin 94th day of March 1800