Wheat Ear Raising Apparatus for Attachment to Reaping Machines.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Sept., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 24th May, 1900-Accepted, 28th July, 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Wheat Ear Raising Apparatus for Attachment to Reaping Machines.
I, FREDERICK WILLIAM GOLBY, of 36, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middle-
sex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention (as communi-
cated to me by Ernst Ullmann, Buchholz, near Drossen, Province of Branden-
burg, Germany, Inspector of Landed Property), to be as follows:-
The reaping of corn with a reaping machine when the stalks of the corn
have been bent or lying over, has been associated hitherto with considerable loss.
When the machine was driven through the corn field, the bent stalks were
inclined towards the machine, at an angle to the direction of travel, so that the
corn laid over the free end of the finger beam, consequently the cars and the tops
of the stalks came between the fingers of the finger beam and, were cut up by the
knife.
This difficulty is entirely obviated by the present invention, as the fingers and
knives between which the ears could be inclined are covered by an apparatus
for holding the ears in a raised position.
The apparatus consists substantially of two staves or bars, which lie over the
finger of the finger beam, whilst they ascend backwards from the front in the form
of curves or arches and therefore, upon the machine being moved forwards,
gently raise the stalks, lift them over the finger of the finger beam.
These bars which lie over the fingers at different heights and adjoining one
another, in order to prevent a wider lateral supporting surface for the ears, run
forward into one piece, for the purpose of enabling them to penetrate casily.
between the stalks."
The ear-raisers are fixed by means of a bar hinged to a plate carried under the
finger beam. An extension of this bar lies at the back against the hinge plate,
so that the ear-raiser can swing upwards freely, in order to avoid small stones
or other obstacles, but is assured against being lowered beyond a certain extent.
The hinge plates are moveable vertically to the longitudinal axis of the ear-
raisers, being guided in grooves of guide-bars which are fixed to the finger beam
by means of screws. It is thus possible to put the ear-raisers apart, or to bring
them together, according to the nature of the corn to be reaped. By means of a
suitable fixing contrivance, a pin or the like, which is put through the grooves
of the guide, bars and the hinge plates, the latter are retained in position.
By the insertion of discs between one or other of the guide bars and the finger
beam, the ear-raiser can be variously inclined to the surface of the earth, or by
the insertion of discs between both guide bars and the finger beam, or by the
removal of discs, may be placed at different distances from such surface.
The number of the ear-raisers, which latter are arranged on the end of the
finger beam lying nearest to the machine, varies according to the nature of the
corn to be reaped, and, the construction and size of the machine.
Dated thi 7th don of Contambon 1800.

page_text: Wheat Ear Raising Apparatus for Attachment to Reaping Machines.
I, FREDERICK WILLIAM GOLBY, of 36, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middle-
sex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by Ernst Ullmann,
Buchholz, near Drossen, Province of Brandenburg, Germany, Inspector of
Landed Property, to be particularly described in and by the following state-
ment:
The contrivances arranged on reaping machines, for raising the ears of corn
which have dropped down, as hitherto employed, have the disadvantage that the
different raisers, or lifters, are firmly seated on the " finger-beam." In conse-
quence of this, it is impossible, without trouble, to adjust the lifters to a thickness
corresponding to the condition of the corn; the different lifters have to be
un-screwed and fastened again.
This disadvantage is obviated by the present invention, the different lifters
lieing mounted in the "finger-beam" so as to be adjustable sideways.
The new ear-lifting apparatus forming the subject of this "invention is
illustrated in the accompanying drawings, Fig. 1 being an elevation and Fig. 2
a plan.
The new ear-lifter consists in the ordinary manner of two staves or bars a and b
adjacent to one another at different heights, and lying over the finger c of the
finger-beam, and running from the front to the back in curved lines uniting
at the front into a single piece, in order to facilitate introduction between the
stalks.
The ear-lifters are fixed by means of a bar e and, preferably through the
medium of a hinge f, to the plates g. An extension h of this bar e lies back
against the plate g, so that the ear-lifter can oscillate freely upwards in the known
manner, in order to avoid small stones or other impediments, being secured,
however, against sinking below a certain extent.
The plates can be adjusted perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis of the
ear-lifters, being guided in grooves n of guide-rails and 7, which are fixed
by means of screws m to the finger beam d. Thereby, according to the nature
of the corn to be reaped, the car-lifters can be suitably pushed apart and pressed
together. By means of a suitable fixing contrivance, such as a pin o, or the
like, which is pushed through holes p in the guide rails and 7 and the plates 7,
the latter are kept in position.
By the insertion of discs between one or other of the guide-rails and 7 and
the finger-beam & the ear-lifters can be inclined at a varying angle to the surface
of the ground, or by the insertion of discs between both bars and the fiuger beam
or by removing discs, can be placed at varying distances from such surface.
The number of the ear-lifters, which latter are arranged on the end of the
finger beam lying nearest to the machine, varies according to the nature of the
corn to be reaped, and the construction and size of the machine.
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:
Ear-raising apparatus for reaping machines, in which the different arms or
members of the ear-raiser are fixed to plates (o). which can be displaced and

page_text: adjusted in guide-rails (k 7) in the axis of the finger beam (d), so as to adapt the
number and the distance of the arms of the ear-raisers to the crop, substantially
as described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
11: 0441
of 1000
F. W. GOLBY,
Patent Agent, 36, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.