Improvements in Machinery or Apparatus for Pressing Straw, Hay, and similar Materials.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Jan., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 30th Nov., 1889-Accepted, 30th Apr., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery or Apparatus for Pressing Straw, Hay,
and similar Materials.
1, JOSEPH BAMBER of 3 Lamb Street, off Saul Street, Preston, in the County of
Lancaster, Hay and Straw Dealer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows
This invention relates more particularly to the construction of hay and straw pressing
apparatus described in the Specification of my former Letters Patent No. 759 of
1885, and consists firstly in providing at each side of the press or machine telescopic
standards or side rods for holding the straw or other material within the required
bounds such standards or side rods being so arranged that they may be turned down
out of the way when the bundle of pressed material (hereinafter called "straw") is to
be removed from the press.
I preferably construct the said standards or side rods in the following manner.
I
fasten across the platform or bed plate horizontally two or more lengths of iron piping
and to each extremity of the lengths of piping on each side of the platform I screw on
one arm of an ordinary pipe elbow the other arm of the elbow having screwed into it
the lower end of another length of piping which is capable of being turned up or
down along with the elbow on the screw threading at the extremity of the horizontal
length below. Each upright tube contains a second tube, the inner smaller tube
fitting easily within the outer tube and having a projecting collar at its upper end
which may be taken hold of and lifted up when it is desired to increase the height of
the standard or side rod of which it forms a part. A hole or holes are drilled through
the two pipes at various distances apart and by the insertion of a metal peg through the
holes the inner tube may be held or retained in position at any desired height.
The straw is placed upon the platform and piled up between the several sets of side
standards the press plate is then brought down in the usual manner and the tying up
of the bundle having been effected the upper tubes are dropped into the lower tubes
which may then be turned down out of the way and the bundle removed.
My invention consists secondly in rotating the central vertical screw of the press by
power transmitted through a belt or belts and pulleys and in providing arrangements
whereby the belt shipper may be automatically moved so that the ascent or descent of
the press plate may be stopped at any desired point.
Upon the screw and mounted on the cross head of the machine 1 place a nut rotated
by a bevel wheel (fastened upon or forming a portion of the nut) the wheel gearing
into a second bevel wheel fastened upon the inner end of a suitably mounted horizontal
shaft whose other outer end carries fast and loose pulleys to accommodate a couple of
belts travelling over the pulleys in opposite directions. The belt shipper is moved
automatically by means of a vertical lever pivotted on a fulcrum midway of its length
and so formed as to be pushed sidewise at its upper end where it moves the belt
shipper in either one direction or the other by its contact with the edge of the ascending
or descending press plate. Thus when the press plate has descended to the desired
point the operating belt is moved on to its loose pulley the movement of the platform
being thereupon stopped and in like manner the upward movement of the platform is
arrested at the desired point.
The above described arrangement of helt and pulley apparatus is especially applicable
for being driven from and employed in conjunction with a portable thrashing machine
actuated by a steam engine.
Dated thi: 20th Jane of true 1224
W. LLOYD WISE,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery or Apparatus for Pressing Straw, Hay,
and similar Materials.
I, JOSEPH BAMBER, of 3 Lamb Street, off Saul Street, Preston, in the County of
Lancaster, Hay and Straw Dealer, 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:-
This invention relates more particularly to the construction of hay and straw
pressing apparatus described in the specification of my former Letters Patent
No. 7593 of 1885; and consists firstly in providing at each side of the press or
machine telescopic standards or side rods for holding the straw or other material
within the required bounds such standards or side rods being so arranged that they
may be turned down out of the way when the bundle of pressed material (hereinafter
called "straw") is to he removed from the press.
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I preferably construct the said standards or side rods in the following manner.
fasten across the platform or bed plate horizontally two or more lengths of iron piping
and to each extremity of the lengths of piping on each side of the platform I screw
on one arm of an ordinary pipe elbow the other arm of the elbow having screwed into
it the lower end of another length of piping which is capable of being turned up or
down along with the elbow on the screw-threading at the extremity of the horizontal
length below. Or the horizontal part may be mounted in suitable bearings so as to
move round and form the axis of the side standards. Each upright or vertical tube
contains a second inner tube or rod the latter fitting easily within the outer tube and
having a projecting collar at its upper end which may be taken holl of and lifted up
when it is desired to increase the height of the standard of which the inner tube or
rod forms a part. A hole or holes are drilled through the two pipes at various
distances apart and by the insertion of a metal pin through the holes the inner tube
or rod may be held or retained in position at any desired height. Or the upper end
of the outer tube may have a somewhat enlarged annular chamber enclosing an india
rubber ring through which the inner rod passes and is in frictional contact therewith
the pressure of the elastic ring holding the rod at any desired height at the same
time that it allows the rod to be readily slided up and down so as to stand in a higher
or lower position. The straw is placed upon the platform and piled up between the
several sets of side standards the press plate is then brought down in the usual manner
and the tying up of the bundle having been effected the inner tubes or rods are
dropped or forced down into the lower outer tubes which may then be turned down
in a horizontal position and the bundle removed.
My invention consists secondly in actuating the central vertical screw of the press
by power transmitted through a belt or belts and pulleys and in providing arrange-
ments whereby the belt shipper may be automatically moved so that the ascent or
descent of the press plate may be stopped at any desired point.
Upon the screw and mounted on the cross head of the machine I place a nut rotated
by a bevel wheel (fastened upon or forming a portion of the nut) the wheel gearing
into a second bevel wheel fastened upon the inner end of a suitably mounted horizontal
shaft whose other outer end carries fast and loose pulleys to accommodate a couple of
belts travelling over the pulleys in opposite directions. The belt shipper may be
moved automatically by means of a vertically arranged lever pivotted on a fulcrum
midway of its length and so formed as to be pushed sidewise at its upper end where
it moves the belt shipper in either one direction or the other by its contact with the
edge of the ascending or descending press plate. Thus when the press plate has
descended to the desired point the operating belt is moved on to its loose pulley the
movement of the platform being thereupon stopped and in like manner the upward
movement of the platform is arrested at the desired point. Or only one driving belt
need be employed in which case two fast pulleys and one intermediate loose pulley
would be required. But I prefer to cause the upward movement of the press plate

page_text: opposite side of the apparatus to that just referred to has fastened upon it a toothed
wheel n which gears into a smaller toothed wheel n¹ rotating with and on the same
fixed axis as the bevel pinion 2. The middle pulley is the loose pulley and the
outer pulley is fast upon the shaft k. If the driving belt be moved on to the outer
pulley the toothed wheels n n' and h² will be actuated and the screw nut g
rotated at the required quicker speed and if moved on to the pulley the toothed
wheels and will be actuated and the screw nut g rotated at the required slower
speed as hereinabove indicated.
In fig. 4 p is the belt shipper jointed to the upper extremity of a lever q pivotted
on a fixed centre r. The lever carries inclined projecting parts q'q' against which
the edge of the press plate e conies in contact as it is moved up or down. If moving
upwardly against the incline q' the belt shipper p will be moved to the left and if
moving downwardly against the incline q' the belt shipper p will be moved to the
right, thus moving the belt from off the fast pulleys and 12 (Fig. 3) respectively
on to the central or loose pulley and so arresting the rotation of the operating
nut g.
The nut divided into two halves g' g² is shewn at Fig. 1 the upper portion of the
two half nuts being carried in V groove slides in the plate s. t is a shaft or spindle
having at one end a handle u its other end having right and left hand screw-threading
which rotate in correspondingly screw-threaded bosses in the two halves of the nut as
shewn in Figs. 1 and 2. In Fig. 2 the handle and certain other parts are omitted
for the sake of clearness. The rotation of the handle u in either one direction or
the other causes the opening out or the closing in of the two half nuts g¹ g² as will
be well understood.
At Figs. 1 and 2 v represents a spring barrel actuated by an internal coiled spring
or springs of the class employed in clocks and watches so as to wind or take up the
cord or band to when the press plate e is raised.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In a hay or straw pressing machine the use or employment of telescopic side
standards capable of being turned up to a vertical position and down into a horizontal
position substantially as hereinabove described for the purpose set forth.
2. The use or employment of fast and loose pulley and toothed wheel mechanism
to be operated by a driving belt or belts in conjunction with the nut and screw
of a hay or straw pressing machine constructed and operating substantially as
hereinabove described.
Dated this 30th day of Navombor 1900
W. LLOYD WISE,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.