AN IMPROVED ROLLERING MACHINE FOR RAKING HAY
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Joseph Macey, of Little Town Farm, Wootton
Bassett, in the County of Wilts, Farmer, for an Invention of "AN IMPROVED
ROLLERING MACHINE FOR RAKING HAY."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Joseph Macey at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 11th July 1881.
HENRY JOSEPH MACEY, of Little Town Farm, Wootton Bassett, in the County of
Wilts, Farmer. 'AN IMPROVED ROLLERING MACHINE FOR RAKING HAY."
"
My Invention relates to a machine for rollering or waking hay so as to deliver
the hay on one side of the machine by an automatic action as it advances.
To effect this I use a suitable frame with shafts attached for a horse with a seat
for a driver. To this frame is attached obliquely a bar on which the rakes are
hinged to allow play for inequality of ground.
Parallel to the rake bar and behind it is a spindle, to one end of which is attached
a toothed wheel gearing with a tooth wheel attached to one of the wheels
carrying the machine, so as to cause it to revolve when the machine is drawn by
the horse.
To this spindle are fixed a series of cams of metal, wood, or other suitable
substance, either solid or bollow.
These cams are fixed spirally to the spindle & at intervals between the teeth of
the rake.
The operation of my Invention is as follows:-When the bay is thrown up by
the rake it is carried by the action of the cams along the machine and delivered at
one of the sides.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Henry Joseph Macey in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
11th January 1882.
HENRY JOSEPH MACEY, of Littletown Farm, Wootton Bassett, in the County
of Wilts, Farmer. "AN IMPROVED ROLLERING MACHINE FOR RAKING HAY."
My Invention relates to a machine for " rollering" or waking" hay on one
side of the machine by an automatic action as it advances.
"
I use a suitable frame to carry the rake with wheels, shafts, and driver's seat as
in ordinary rake machines.
The rake bar is fixed obliquely to the frame, each tooth being hinged
independently to the bar to allow play for the inequality of the ground.
Parallel to the rake bar and behind the teeth is a spindle fixed to the frame, to
one end of which is fitted a toothed wheel gearing with another toothed wheel
(bevelled) which is attached to one of the wheels carrying the machine so as to
cause the spindle to revolve when the machine is in motion.
"
To this spindle is fitted a series of cams or eccentrics of metal, wood, or other
suitable substance, either solid or hollow. These cams are fitted spirally to the
spindle and at intervals between each tooth of the rake.
The operation of my improved machine is as follows:-
When the hay is picked up by the teeth of the rake the cams or eccentrics press
against it and gather it up in a roll, carrying it laterally to one side of the machine,
where it is delivered in a continuous roll or wake on the ground.
No lifting is required except to clear the teeth of the rake from the ground in
turning.
.
In the Drawing accompanying this Specification, Figure I. is a plan of a machine
constructed according to my Invention. I have dispensed with a detailed description
of the ordinary parts of a rake machine.
A, A, is the rake bar fitted obliquely to the frame carrying the teeth of the
rake B, B, B, hinged to it at b, b, b; C, C, is the spindle fitted to the frame parallel
to the rake bar; D is the toothed wheel fitted to the spindle C, C, gearing with
the bevelled tooth wheel E fixed to the wheel F carrying the rake machine;
G, G¹, G², G³, &c., are the cams or eccentrics fitted to the spindle C, C.
Figure 11. is an end elevation of the spindle carrying the cams or eccentrics
taken at X, Y, Figure I.
C is the spindle, and G, G¹, G³, G³, are four of the cams or eccentrics fitted to it
and which are here shewn hollowed out, although as before stated they may be
made in solid pieces. In this Drawing I have shewn four cams to one turn, but
I do not confine myself to this number, they may be more or less.
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The motion of the spindle is in the direction shewn by the arrow in Figure II.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and in what manner the
same is carried out, I claim the application to a rake machine of an oblique rake
bar in combination with a spindle parallel to it, to which are fitted cams or
eccentrics, substantially in the manner hereinbefore described, and for the purpose
herein before stated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Joseph Macey, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixth day of January, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty two.
HENRY JOSEPH MACEY. (L.S.)