An Improvement in Feed Apparatus for Thrashing Machines
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application. 25th.:Aug., 1894:
Complete Specification Left, 24th May, 1895-Accepted, 23th June, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Feed Apparatus for Thrashing Machines
I, RICHARD ROWLEY HOLBEN of Manor House, Barton near Cambridge,
Farmer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
My invention relates to an improvement in the distributing cylinders employed
in thrashing machine drum feeding apparatus for taking the corn from the feed
board and delivering it to the thrashing drum.
The improvement consists in providing the circumference of the distributing
cylinder with metal prongs or teeth placed a few inches apart in rows lengthwise
of the cylinder at two.or.more points. These prongs.or teeth penetrate the sheaves
and loose corn and spread them more evenly than the wood ribs with which the
cylinder has been heretofore provided, thus ensuring a uniform, continuous feed,
especially when the corn is damp, the points of the prongs being curved in a back-
ward direction for the purpose of preventing the straw from coiling round the feed
cylinder. In order to further ensure the same object, a wood strip is applied to
the cylinder in rear of the prongs, or the surface of the cylinder is formed with
raised portions occupying the same position.
Dated this 25th day of August 1894.
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A. M. & WM. CLARK,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.
An Improvement in Feed Apparatus for Thrashing Machines.
I, RICHARD ROWLEY HOLBEN, of Manor House, Barton, near Cambridge,
Farmer, 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 :-
My invention relates to an improvement in the distributing cylinders employed
in thrashing machine drum-feeding apparatus for taking the corn from the feed
board and delivering it to the thrashing drum.
The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, forming part of this
Specification, wherein Figure 1 represents a section of as much of the feed
apparatus as is necessary to explain the invention, and Figure 2 is a perspective
view of a portion of the distributing cylinder.
The improvement consists in providing the circumference of the distributing
cylinder A with metal prongs or teeth B placed a few inches apart in rows
lengthwise of the cylinder A. at two or more points, there being four such rows in
the example illustrated. These prongs or teeth B penetrate the sheaves and loose
corn and spread the same more evenly than can be done by the wood ribs with
which the cylinder A has been heretofore provided, thus ensuring a uniform,
continuous feed to the thrashing drum D. The points of the prongs are curved or
inclined in the backward direction for the purpose of preventing the straw from
coiling round the cylinder, as it would be liable to do especially when the
corn is damp, and in order to further ensure the same object the cylinder is

page_text: provided immediately in rear of the rows of prongs, with raised ribs.C, as
shewn, or the surface of the cylinder may be made of, or covered over so as
to bring it to, the form shewn in dotted lines, with the same result.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention; and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :-
1. The distributing cylinder of a thrashing machine provided with rows of
rearwardly inclined prongs as specified.
2. The distributing cylinder of a thrashing machine provided with rows of
rearwardly inclined prongs in combination with longitudinal ribs or shoulders on
the periphery of the drum immediately in rear of each row of prongs, substantially
as specified.
Daten. His day 0, May 1950.
.A. M. & WM. CLARK,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.