An Implement for use in Binding Textile Plants, Fodder, and the like into Trusses.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Oct., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 21st July, 1891-Accepted, 22nd Aug., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Implement for use in Binding Textile Plants, Fodder, and the
like into Trusses.
I EDWARD ZENTZ D'ALNOY of Beauvais Department of Oise in the Republic
of France Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
:-
The object of this invention is to provide a strong simple and easily transportable
implement for use in facilitating and accelerating the long and fatiguing work of
the binders in the fields and barns.
The principle of this invention consists in the compression of the plants either
between pairs of cramps or curved levers or between a lever or a curved cramp and
a curved surface. In all cases the plants are kept compressed in a mechanical
manner which permits the easy application of some band by the hand.
This implement may consist principally of a box with curved sides and open
ends of the necessary capacity to form a truss. This case fastened upon a frame
mounted on two wheels and two supporting legs. The frame terminates in two
handles and carries at its inner part the fastening of a curved lever the position
and curve of which are calculated to collect without crushing, the substance to be
bound in a circular space of a certain diameter. This lever in the position of
pressing is kept stationary by means of a spring and toothed bar.
The binding is done by hand and any band may be used; if a cord or wire is used
the binding may be done more easily as the implement has special arrangements for
this kind of binding. One end of the band provided with a knot is fastened to a
spring hook fastened to the lever, the other free end of the band enters a groove in
the box. After filling the box and pressing down the lever the band carried along
by the latter envelopes the plants naturally and the binding is easily done by means
of a knot or hook or any other kind of binding.
This apparatus may easily be adapted to a threshing machine to bind the straw
delivered therefrom. In this case the lever is removed and replaced by a shaft
carrying a jaw like the curve of the lever and a straight lever at its end. This
ever is then outside the box and no longer stands in the way of the automatic
entry of the straw and may even serve by a simple arrangement to regulate this
entry.
The harvest to be bound may be difficult to be pressed between a curved lever
and a stationary curved surface and therefore it may be advantageous to operate a
louble lateral pressure by means of two or more curved jaws.
For this purpose the lever aforesaid is removed and on the lower part of the frame
re fixed two parallel shafts one gearing into the other and operating in opposite
lirections, each carrying one or more curved jaws and operated by a lever placed
t the end of one of the two.
Dated this 23rd day of October 1890
HERBERT & Co.,
Agents to Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Implement for use in Binding Textile Plants, Fodder, and the
like into Trusses.
I EDWARD ZENTZ D'ALNOY of Beauvais Department of Oise in the Republic
of France Manufacturer 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 :-
The object of this invention is to provide a strong simple and easily transportable
implement for use in facilitating and accelerating the long and fatiguing work of the
binders in the fields and barns.
The principle of this invention consists in the compression of the plants and such
like either between pairs of cramps or curved levers or between a lever and a
curved cramp and a curved surface. In all cases the plants are kept compressed
in a mechanical manner which allows of the easy application of some band
by hand.
The accompanying drawing represents an implement of this system compressing
the plants between a curved cramp with eccentric pivot and a curved surface.
This implement may consist principally of a box with curved sides and open
ends of the necessary capacity to form a truss. This case is fastened upon a
frame M mounted on a wheel or wheels R and two spreaded legs T. The frame
terminates in two handles P and carries lugs H for the fastening of a curved lever L,
the position and curve of which, are calculated to collect without crushing the sub-
stance to be bound in a circular space of a certain diameter.
This lever in the position of pressing is kept stationary by means of the toothed
bar C.
The binding is done by hand and any band may be used. If a cord or wire is
used the binding may be done more easily as the implement has special arrange-
ments for this kind of binding. One end of the band provided with a knot is
fastened to the holder d, the cord lying in the bend of the box. After filling the
box and pressing down the lever, the band carried along by the latter envelopes
the plants naturally and the binding is easily done by means of a knot or hook or
any other kind of fastening.
To facilitate the knotting, springs or blocks s are fixed on the inner surface of
the lever L to depress the produce so that the cord may more easily be knotted at
or over such depression. A number of cords cut to length may be hung over the
bars a a'. Spring hooks or clips are also provided for carrying a supply
of cord.
The sheaf to be bound may be difficult to be pressed between a curved lever and
a stationary curved surface, and therefore it may be advantageous to operate a
double lateral pressure by means of two or more curved jaws.
For this purpose the lever L aforesaid is removed and on the lower part of the
frame are fixed two parallel shafts, one gearing into the other and operating in
opposite direction, each carrying one or more curved jaws and operated by a lever
placed at the end of one of the two.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
:-
The herein-described implement for use in binding sheaves or trusses of textile
plants.
ated this 41st day of July 1891.
HERBERT & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C., Agents to Applicant.