IMPROVEMENTS IN HAY COLLECTORS
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
I HENRY LANDER of Shaftesbury Road Mere in the County of Wiltshire
Yeoman do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN
HAY COLLECTORS to be as follows:-
This improvement prevents the wind from blowing the hay or any other
produce back into the machine it also prevents the hay or other produce from
getting round the spindle, this improvement will also enable tho collector to work
in heavy crops, and allow the collector to form a large whale or row to pitch from,
this improvement can be fitted to a right or left machine, or a right and left in one
machine, fitted to an angle of about 45 to one another, or other convenient anglo if
desired. This improvement is an attachment to a machine (hay collector) invented
and patented by me May 4th 1877 N° 1737-and is to prevent hay or other
produce from blowing back into the machine or getting round the spindle and
centers it consists of a number of wires or iron rods, strained partly round the drum
at equal distances, forming a cago, insido of which the drum of the collector
revolves, the teeth that is attached to drum of collector passing round and between
the said wires or rods.
Dated this 6th day of March 1881

page_text: I HENRY LANDER of Shaftesbury Road Mere in the County of Wiltshire
Yeoman do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN
HAY COLLECTORS and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :—
The improvement relates to collectors for collecting hay or other produce. This
improvement prevents the wind from blowing the hay or any other produce back
into the machine it also prevents the hay or any other produce from getting into
the centers or getting round the spindle This improvement will also enable the
collector to work in heavy crops and allow the collector to form a large whale or
row of hay or other produce to pitch from. This improvement can be made for a
right or left machine or a right and left in one machine fitted to an angle of about
45 to one another, or other convenient angle if desired.
The accompanying. Drawing will serve to illustrate a convenient mode of
performing the improvements.
Fig. 1 represents an angle view of the improvements (to Henry Landers
collectors for hay &c. patented 4th of May 1877 N° 1737) to where the hay is
carried by the collecting barrels of the machines the top bar of improvements
is fixed to stem of seat, and to the curved bar of machine, or any other con-
venient way of fixing, this bar is made of wood or iron hollow or solid and to
this bar is fixed a number of shaped bars at equal distances or nearly so, or
there are arranged a number of wires or rods to form a cage round the rake
drum, so that the teeth of the drum as they revolve may pass between the said
wires or rods so that the collecting barrels or drums working inside these shaped
bars, the teeth on the barrels or drums working between these shaped bars thus
preventing hay or other produce from getting or being blown into the centers or
round the spindle, each of these shaped bars one end is fixed to the before
mentioned top bar, the other end is fixed to the opposite side in a similar way.
Fig. 2 represents end view being meant as a Drawing for each end, each end
shaped bar there is fixed four, more or less pieces of rod or bar iron fixed to
machine to prevent hay or other produce getting or being blowed into either end.
There can be attached to the driving wheel of these collectors a toothed wheel,
larger than the toothed wheel driving the spindle of the drum, so that by pressing
the lever to force out the cog of the working spindle, it enters the cog or teeth of this
said large toothed wheel which causes the spindle to turn the reverse way causing
the teeth attached to the barrels or drums to throw or scatter about the grass
or hay, the beforementioned bars preventing the wind from blowing the bay or
other produce into the centers or round the spindle the said bars acting for the
same purpose each side of the machine, these bars can be made of metal or wood or
both combined.
The novelty of this Invention consists, as the drum of the collector revolves the
teeth attached to the drum these teeth working between the aforesaid bars the
teeth raising the crop of hay or other produce from the ground against the bars
causes the hay to slide from off the teeth or when a large body of hay or other
produce presses against these said bars these bars prevents the hay or other
produce from getting into or on the centers or any part of the drum in this
collector is arranged a number of wires or rods to form a cage round the rake
drum so that the teeth of the drum as they revolve may pass between the said
wires or rods in the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore described and set

page_text: forth the simple attachment of the large cog or toothed wheel causes the machine
to do the work of an ordinary haymaker and the aforesaid bars prevents the
machine from being clogged by the wind.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
In a hay collector arranging a number of wires or rods to form a cage round the
rake drum so that the teeth of the drum as they revolve may pass between the said
wires or rods in the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore described and set
forth.