A Contrivance for the Automatic Propulsion of Anchor Waggons for Steam-Ploughs and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 10th June, 1899
Complete Specification Left, 8th Mar., 1900-Accepted, 19th May, 1900
A Contrivance for the Automatic Propulsion of Anchor Waggons
for Steam-Ploughs and the like.
I, BERNHARD PIRIG, Landlord, of Burg-Enzen, in the Province of Rhineland and
Kingdom of Prussia, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The so-called anchor-waggons for steam-ploughs and similar agricultural machines,
must be advanced a furrow-width further when the plough or the working imple-
ments have to hawl over a new furrow across the fill, which was up till now chiefly
done by hand, whereby however contrivances have already been invented which make
it possible mechanically to propel the working implements a furrow further on by
the insertion of a lever with connected-up coupling, as well as automatically to
accomplish the shifting ahead of a furrow by moving the small cable, driving the
plough or the ploughing tools, by the aid of a lever, cam or the like.
The present invention also appertains to automatically make an anchor waggon
advance a furrow by the motion of the driving cable of the plough or of the imple-
ments of husbandry, and as a matter of fact in such wise that the automatic advance
of the anchor-car does not take place only when the plough or agricultural tools have
nearly reached the other side of the field close to the machine (steam-engine or the
like), but during the entire motion of the plough from the anchor-waggon to the
machine.
By this arrangement, the entire mechanism is on the one hand essentially simpli-
fied and need only consist of a few parts, and on the other hand the requisite work to
propel the anchor car is therefore distributed over the entire period during which the
plough returns and thus works the driving machinery and constantly strains the rope
uniformly, which by the previous constructions for this purpose was not and could
not be the case. A further result of the new arrangement consists therein that it
is no longer necessary to make arrangements which admit of setting the machinery
in action at the right minute according to the desired width of the field.
The sole adjusting contrivance in the present new invention has reference to the
wanted breadth of furrow which the anchor-waggon has to be advanced.
The procedure of working my new arrangement therefore takes place as follows:
First of all the plough or the working implements start from the machine towards
the rigidly standing car, and thereby from the first furrow. On arriving here, the
plough is drawn back in a straight line towards the rigidly standing machine by the
reverse movement of the cable and thereby forms the second furrow. But during
this entire backward movement; the waggon gradually moves automatically along the
length of the field a furrow's breadth to its place of anchorage, so that when the
implements of work have again reached the inachine and the second furrow is com-
pleted, the car already stands rigid at the necessary point to start the third furrow.
The machine is now advanced a furrow's breadth further, and the plough or other
agricultural tools again move in a straight line right across the field towards the
rigidly standing anchor-waggon and so forth.
By this means all the furrows run equidistantly and parallelv to each other,

page_text: The advance of the car, whilst the plough is moving towards the machine bears no
influence on the direction of the furrow to be drawn, as the machine stands fast as a
rigid goal towards which the working implements are drawn and thus give the
direction to the tow, i.e. the working implements, the lateral divergence however of
the car is in its gradual advance at first exceedingly small and only gradually in-
creases, but side by side with this the free cable length between the working imple-
ments and the disc on the waggon guiding the cable, is increased in length to a much
greater degree, so that a proportionately small lengthening and bending of the cable
against the direction of tension is the result, which relaxes against the lateral dis-
placement of the car and allows the working implements to advance in the old
straight line of tension towards the machine in spite of the gradual advance of the
cable guiding disc.
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In the accompanying drawing,
Fig. 1 represents the waggon in side elevation,
Fig. 2 the same in longitudinal section, and
Fig. 3 in plan, whilst.
Fig. 4 gives a detail in side elevation and plan.
The cable wheel S under the waggon, revolvably set on the bolt a in the collar
brush is turned by the cable s leading to the two winding drums of the steam
plough. Above the waggon, i.e. above the cross piece carrying the bearing b, sits a
lever d rigidly fixed onto the bolt a, and it serves, in one direction of the rotation
of S, as carrier of an arm e loosely revolvable above on the bolt a and of the rods
connected with e. A lever h, directed diagonally downwards tangentially to the
bolt a, is rotatably fastened at the further end of e about a link bolt f between two
flat loops
and as a fact so that it may turn upwards, i.e. be raised through a
pressure, knock, or blow from underneath or the back exerted against its lower end,
whilst a similar movement of this lever h, when a pressure, knock, or blow meets its
under extremity from the front, is prevented by the upper lever striking against the
arm e.
If S now moves in the direction of the arrow head (Fig. 2) ie. in the manner in
which the cable 8 draws the plough or working implements towards the machine,
then d presses from the front against the lower end of the lever h, and thus turns
the arm e around the bolt a in the direction of the arrow head, because the lever h
cannot give in this direction. By this means the rod m, jointedly connected at the
point to the arm e and joined at its other end with a lever turning on a peg kat
the back of the waggon, is at the same time set swinging like a connecting-rod
backwards and forwards. Whilst namely that end of the rod m which is connected
to the bolt i, together with the arm e, rotates about the peg a, the other end of m
affixed to the lever causes a backward and forward oscillation of the lever a
horizontal wheel R with one or more concentric tooth circles 1, 2, 3 is affixed which
carries underneath it the drum W to wind up the anchor rope 81.
SO.
At every crossing and recrossing, the rod 1, the cog-wheel R and therewith the
drum W are now turned a distance corresponding to the angle of deviation of
at the point where the ratchet n is seated in a direction indicated by the arrow
that the drum W draws up and winds the anchor cable s1 by means of a toothlike
ratchet which, directed diagonally downwards, is turnably set about a horizontal
pin p in a holder o affixed to the lever 1, so that by a movement of m and l
in the line of the arrow (Fig. 3) the ratchet catches against the teeth of one of
the tooth circles over which it happens to lie, but can on a reverse motion of m
and glide over the tooth circles. The cable is however at its other end either so
fastened to a tree, to a post knocked into a ground, or to an anchor as not to be able
to budge, and as a consequence by winding up on the drum W, the entire car is
drawn towards the spot where the cable sl is fastened.
Of course the rod m is jointedly fastened onto the lever and as a fact by aid of
the link-bolt q.
This latter can, just like the holder o for the ratchet n, be so
adjusted on the lever as to be longitudinally displaceable in slot guidings. According
to the drawing (Fig. 4) this is achieved by a horizontal longitudinal slot in the

page_text: lever, wherein on the one hand, the flat holder t for the link bolt and on the
other hand the flat holder t1 of the piece o, shiftably rest and can be rigidly fixed at
any possible spot by drawing down the nuts u.
.
According to the shifting of both the above mentioned parts, does the ratchet n
catch either in the first, second, or third circle of teeth of the wheel R i.e. alters
the length of the lever arm onto which the rod m grasps, so that one is here in the
position to be able on the one hand to automatically regulate the advance of the
waggon according to the length of the field for the time being and on the other hand
to set it for any possible breadth of furrow.
In order to completely wind up the cable sl, when the car is to be liberated from
its anchorage and driven to another place, one employs a cog-wheel w, worked by a
winch-handlev, which interlocks with the teeth circle 1. The axis of the handle v
and of the cog-wheel w as well as the upper end of the bolt is in the ginlike
bearing at the one end of the anchor waggon.
At this end of the car, the axle together with the running wheels are downwards
revolvably seated on a so-called turning-frame under the waggon in the extension of
a bolt k. In order now to prevent, to compensate, or to correct an error acruing
from an unintentional and undesired slight turning of the turning-board as it may
on the one hand occur through a tug on the cable sl as a result of its one-sided
attack on the stud k and on a tugging at the rope s on the other hand through the
one-sidely acting friction of the ground against the rims of the running wheels, one
employs a spindle z pillowed laterally on the car frame acting on the running wheel
axis of the turning-frame at one of its ends at the point y, by which means one can
move the turning-board in a reverse direction to that in which it essays to turn by
the advancing of the anchor waggon.
Dated this 2th dow of Tuns 1000
A Contrivance for the Automatic Propulsion of Anchor-Waggons
for Steam-Floughs and the like.
I, BERNHARD PIRIG, Landlord, of Burg Enzen, in the Province of Rhineland and
Kingdom of Prussia, 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 so-called anchor-waggons for steam-ploughs and similar agricultural machines,
must be advanced a furrow-width further when the plough or the working imple-
ments have to make a new furrow across the field, which was up till now chiefly done
by hand, whereby however contrivances have already been invented which make it
possible mechanically to propel the working implements a furrow further on by the
insertion of a lever with connected-up coupling, as well as automatically to accom-
plish the shifting a head of a furrow by moving the small cable driving the plough
or the ploughing-tools, by the aid of a lever, cam or the like.
The present invention also appertains to automatically make an anchor-waggon
advance a furrow by the motion of the driving cable of the plough or of the imple-
ments of husbandry, and as a matter of fact in such wise that the automatic advance
of the anchor-ear does not take place only when the plough or agricultural tools have
nearly reached the other side of the field close to the machine (skam-engine or the
like), but during the entire_motion of the plough from the anchor-waggon to the
machine,

page_text: By this arrangement, the entire mechanism is on the one hand essentially
simplified and need only consist of a few parts, and on the other hand the requisite
work to propel the anchor car is therefore distributed over the entire period during
which the plough. returns and thus works the driving machinery and constantly
strains the rope uniformly, which by the previous constructions for this purpose was
not and could not be the case. A further result of the new arrangement consists
therein that it is no longer necessary to make arrangements which admit of setting
the machinery in action at the right minute according to the desired width of the
field.
The sole adjusting contrivance in the present new invention has reference to the
wanted breadth of furrow which the anchor waggon has to be advanced.
The procedure of working my new arrangement therefore takes place as
follows:
First of all the plough or the working implements start from the machine towards
the rigidly standing car and thereby form the first furrow. On arriving here, the
plough is drawn back in a straight line towards the rigidly standing machine by the
reverse movement of the cable and thereby forms the second furrow. But during
this entire backward movement, the waggon gradually moves automatically along the
length of the field a furrow's breadth to its place of anchorage, so that when the
implements of work have again reached the machine and the second furrow is com-
pleted, the car already stands rigid at the necessary point to start the third furrow.
The machine is now advanced a furrow's breadth further, and the plough or other
agricultural tools again move in a straight line right across the field towards the
rigidly standing anchor waggon, and so forth. By this means all the furrows run
equidistantly and parallelly to each other. The advance of the car, whilst the plough
is moving towards the machine, bears no influence on the direction of the furrow to
be drawn, as the machine stands fast as a rigid goal towards which the working imple-
ments are drawn and thus give the direction to the tow, i.e. the working implements,
the lateral divergence however of the car is in its gradual advance at first exceedingly
small and only gradually increases, but side by side with this, the free cable length
between the working implements and the disc on the waggon guiding the cable, is
increased in length to a much greater degree, so that a proportionately small
lengthening and bending of the cable against the direction of tension is the result,
which relaxes against the lateral displacement of the car and allows the working
implements to advance in the old straight line of tension towards the machine in spite
of the gradual advance of the cable guiding disc.
In the drawing left with the Provisional Specification Fig. 1 represents the waggon
in side elevation, Fig. 2 the same in longitudinal section, and Fig. 3 in plan, whilst
Fig. 4 gives a detail in side elevation and plan.
The cable wheel S under the waggon, revolvably set on the bolt a in the collar-
bush b is turned by the cable s leading to the two winding drums of the steam
plough. Above the waggon, i.e. above the cross-piece carrying the bearing b, sits a
lever d rigidly fixed onto the bolt a, and it serves, in one direction of the rotation
of S, as carrier of an arm e losely revolvable above d on the bolt a and of the rods
connected with e. A lever directed diagonally downwards tangentially to the
bolt a, is rotatably fastened at the further end of e about a link bolt f between two
flat loops and as a fact so that it may turn upwards, i.e. be raised through a
pressure, knock, or blow from underneath or the back exerted against its lower end,
whilst a similar movement of this lever h, when a pressure, knock, or blow meets its
under extremity from the front, is prevented by the upper lever striking against the
arm e. If S now moves in the direction of the arrow bead (Fig. 3) i.e. in the manner
in which the cable draws the plough or working implements towards the machine,
then d presses from the front against the lower end of the lever h, and thus turns the
arm e around the bolt a in the direction of the arrow head, because the lever cannot
give in this direction. By this means the rod m, jointedly connected at the point i
to the arm e and joined at its other end with a lever turning on a peg c at the back
of the waggon, is at the same time set swinging like a connecting-rod backwards and

page_text: forwards. Whilst namely that end of the rod m which is connected to the bolt i,
together with the arm e, rotates about the peg a, the other end of m affixed. to the
lever causes a backward and forward oscillation of the lever at a given angle about
its fulcrum k. On the surface of the latter, below a horizontal wheel R with one or
more concentric tooth circles, 1, 2, 3, is affixed, which carries underneath it the
drum W to wind up the anchor rope sl. At every crossing and recrossing, the rod l,
the cogwheel R and therewith the drum W are now turned a distance corresponding
to the angle of deviation of 1 at the point where the ratchet n is seated in a direction
indicated by the arrow, so that the drum W draws up and winds the anchor cable sl
by means of a toothlike ratchet n which, directed diagonally downwards,. is turnably
set about a horizontal pin in a holder o affixed to the lever l, so that by a movement
of m and in the line of the arrow (Fig. 3) the ratchet catches against the teeth of
one of the tooth circles over which it happens to lie, but can on a reverse motion
of m and glide over the tooth circles. The cable is however at its other end either.
so fastened to a tree, to a post knocked into the ground, or to an anchor as not to be
able to budge, and as a consequence by winding up on the drum W, the entire car is
drawn towards the spot where the cable sl is fastened.
p
Of course the rod m is jointedly fastened onto the lever and as a fact, by aid of
the link-bolt 9. This latter can, just like the holder o for the ratchet n, be so
adjusted on the lever as to be longitudinally displaceable in slot guidings.
According to the drawing (Fig. 4) this is achieved by a horizontal longitudinal slot
in the lever l, wherein on the one hand, the flat holder t for the link-bolt q and on
the other hand the flat handle t of the piece o shiftably rest and can be rigidly fixed
at any possible spot by drawing down the nuts u.
According to the shifting of both the above mentioned parts, does the ratchet n
catch either in the first, second, or third circle of teeth of the wheel R, i.e. alters the
length of the lever arm onto which the rod m grasps, so that one is here in the
position to be able on the one hand to automatically regulate the advance of
the waggon according to the length of the field for the time being, and on the other
hand to set it for any possible breadth of furrow.
In order to completely wind up the cable 81, when the car is to be liberated from
its anchorage and driven to another place one employs a cogwheel w worked by a
winch-handle v, which interlocks with the teeth circle 1. The axis of the handle v
and of the cogwheel was well as the upper end of the bolt is in the ginlike
bearing x at the one end of the anchor waggon.
At this end of the car the axle together with the running wheels are downwards
revolvably seated on a so-called turning-frame under the waggon in the extension of
the bolt k.
In order now to prevent, to compensate, or to correct an error acruing from an
unintentional and undesired slight turning of the turning-board as it may on the one
hand occur through a tug on the cable sl as a result of its one-sided attack on the
stud and on a tugging at the ropes on the other hand through the one-sidedly
acting friction of the ground against the rims of the running wheels one employs a
spindle pillowed laterally on the car frame acting on the running wheel axis of the
turning-frame at one of its ends at the point y, by which means one can move the
turning-board in a reverse direction to that in which it essays to turn by the advanc.
ng of the anchor waggon.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1). An anchor waggon for steam ploughs, therein characterised that the motion of
the cable-drum S in a rotatory direction, given by the movement of the working
implements from the anchor-car to the motor, is transmitted to the toothed wheel D,
on which the drum W is seated, by the pressure of a lever d which is on the stud a
of the cable drum against the in the reverse direction yielding lever h on an arm e
losely rotatable about a pin a, and by the aid of a rod-work consisting of the connect-

page_text: ing-rod m affixed to e and the lever which is turnable about the stud of the
winding drum W for the anchor cible sl, so that the drum W is rotated, i.e. the
anchor cable 81 is wound on, so that the anchor waggon is quite gradually and
uniformly brought nearer to the place of anchorage during the entire period in which
the working implements advance from the car to the motor.
2). On the anchor ear according to Claim 1, the contrivance for concisely adjusting
and controlling the advance of the same according to the desired space between the
furrow and in accor.lance with the for the time being breadth of field, consisting on
the one hand in the shiftability of the ratchet n along the lever and the arrange-
ment of several concentric tooth-circles 1, 2, 3 on the cogwheel D, and on the other
hand in the displaceability of the fastening contrivance for the connecting-rod m
along the lever i.
3). On the anchor waggon characterised in Claims 1 and 2, the contrivance for
preventing or correcting any involuntary movements of the turning-board of the
front running wheels, consisting in the spindle acting at one end of the running
axle.
Dated this 7th day of Manil 1000