A NEW OR IMPROVED MACHINE FOR PICKING UP THE BUNDLES OF CORN OR THE HAY LAID ON THE FIELD
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henri Adrien Bonneville, of the British and Foreign
Patent Offices, 18, Rue de la Chaussée d'Antin, Paris, France, and 5, Piccadilly,
in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "A NEW OR
IMPROVED MACHINE FOR PICKING UP THE BUNDLES OF CORN OR THE HAY
LAID ON THE FIELD." A communication from Louis Adrien Couteau, of
Léonville. France. Agricultor.
Sealed the 16th December 1879, in pursuance of an Order of the Lord Chancellor,
ADA
Sealed the 16th December 1879, in pursuance of an Order of the Lord Chancellor,
and dated the 30th May 1879.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henri Adrien Bonneville at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 30th May 1879.
HENRI ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent Offices, 18, Rue
de la Chaussée d'Antin, Paris, France, and 5, Piccadilly, in the County of Middlesex,
Patent Agent.
"A NEW OR IMPROVED MACHINE FOR PICKING UP THE BUNDLES
OF CORN OR THE HAY LAID ON THE FIELD." A communication from Louis
Adrien Couteau, of Léonville, France, Agricultor.
This Invention relates to economising the manual labour and accelerating the
work in picking up the bundles of corn or the hay for delivering them to the
apparatus for tying or making up into sheaves of whatever system applied to
reaping machines, and consists in combining with the ordinary well-known horse-
rake a delivery drum with moveable teeth or prongs.
The said drum and rake are arranged concentrically, that is to say, the drum is
placed in front and in the concavity formed by the curved teeth of the rake from
which it is separated by a certain distance. The driving wheel of the vehicle
cominunicates its rotary motion to the drum by any series of gearings. The drum
revolves in the same direction as the wheels of the vehicle, and is provided with
teeth or prongs like those of a rake, moveable from the inside to the outside, and
vice-versa, and which gradually grow longer as they penetrate between the teeth of
the rake to take up and remove, within the space between the surface of the drum
and the teeth of the rake, the bundles of corn or the hay which the onward movement
of the vehicle has brought on to the teeth of the rake, and within the concavity of
No special novelty is presented by the machinery for effecting the
coming out and going in of the teeth, which may either consist of guide-rollers
travelling in a way of a shape corresponding to the desired notion, or of an axis
out of the centre of the drum, or of any other suitable device. The bundles of corn
or the hay successively removed by the teeth of the drum are conveyed to the top
thereof, or thrown on to an incline, from which they fall into a semi-cylindrical
basket in which the tying up into sheaves is performed either by the tying apparatus
of whatever kind, or by the hand.
the same.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Henri Adrien Bonneville in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 16th
December 1879.
HENRI ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent Offices, 18, Rue
de la Chaussée d'Antin, Paris, France, and 5, Piccadilly, in the County of Middlesex,
Patent Agent.
"A NEW OR IMPROVED MACHINE FOR PICKING UP THE BUNDLES
OF CORN OR THE HAY LAID ON THE FIELD." A communication from Louis
Adrien Couteau, of Léonville, France, Agricultor.
This Invention relates to economising the manual labour, and accelerating the
work in picking up the bundles of corn or the hay, for delivering them to the
apparatuses for tying or making up into sheaves of whatever system applied to
reaping machines, and consists in combining with the ordinary well-known horse-
Take a delivery drum with moveable teeth or prongs.
The said drum and rake are arranged concentrically, that is to say, the drum is
placed in front and in the concavity formed by the curved teeth of the rake, from
which it is separated by a certain distance. The driving wheel of the vehicle
communicates its rotary motion to the drum by any series of gearings. The drum
revolves in the same direction as the wheels of the vehicle, and is provided with
teeth or prongs like those of a rake, moveable from the inside to the outside, and
vice versa, and which gradually grow longer as they penetrate between the teeth
of the rake to take up and remove, within the space between the surface of the
drum and the teeth of the rake, the bundles of corn or the hay which the onward
movement of the vehicle has brought on to the teeth of the rake and within the
concavity of the same. No special novelty is presented by the machinery for
effecting the coming out and going in of the teeth, which may either consist of
guide-rollers travelling in a way of a shape corresponding to the desired motion, or
of an axis out of the centre of the drum, or of any other suitable device. The
bundles of corn or the hay successively removed by the teeth of the drum are
conveyed to the top thereof or thrown on to an incline from which they fall into a
semi-cylindrical basket in which the tying up into sheaves is performed either by
the tying apparatus of whatever kind, or by the hand.
Having thus described the said Invention, and the manner of carrying the same
into effect, what I claim and wish to secure by the said Letters Patent is a now or
improved machine for picking up the bundles of corn or the hay laid on the field,
consisting in the combination of the ordinary horse-rake with a drum provided with
moveable teeth or prongs placed concentrically to cach other, substantially as above
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Eleventh day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine.