Year: 1898

page_text: We, JAMES GADSBY RICHMOND and RICHMOND AND CHANDLER LIMITED, of
Southall Street, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Agricultural Implement
Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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Our invention relates to improvements in chaff cutting machines and the objects
of our improvements are to prevent the attendant from getting his hand caught
between the feed rollers and at the same time to improve the feeding qualities
of the machine.
In applying our improvements to a chaff cutting machine fitted with an endless
travelling feed web or equivalent appliance we dispense with the back roller placed
near the upper feed roller hitherto occasionally used and employ instead a heavy
roller or drum preferably say between fourteen and twenty four inches diameter
and we journal this roller in slide blocks fitted in open bearings or in side links,
so as to be free to rise and fall and to rotate over the endless travelling feed web.
When in its lowest position the roller, which is not driven, clears the web and as
the hay or other material to be cut is carried forward in the hopper by the web
in ordinary quantities, the roller is raised and caused to rotate by the moving
material, thus acting as a revolving presser and doing away to a great extent
with the labour of the attendant pressing the material in the hopper down on
to the web.
Whenever the attendant's hands, resting on the material in the hopper, are
moved forward towards the feed rollers, they will come in contact with the presser
roller which will prevent them approaching dangerously near to the feed rollers.
The presser roller may be pressed downwards on the material in the hopper
by a spring or springs, or by a weight, if desired, in which cases a lighter roller
will suffice; all that is necessary being that the roller shall give so much pressure
on the material in the hopper as will enable the web on to which the material
is pressed to carry it forward to the feed rollers.
Dated this 26th day of January 1898.
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicants.

page_text: Improvements in Chan Cutting Machines.
We, JAMES GADSBY RICHMOND and RICHMOND AND CHANDLER LIMITED, of
Southall Street, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Agricultural Implement
Manufacturers, 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:-
Our invention relates to improvements in chaff cutting machines and the objects
of our improvements are to prevent the attendant from getting his hand caught
between the feed rollers and at the same time to improve the feeding qualities
of the machine. This we effect by the novel arrangement and combination of feed
mechanism illustrated in the accompanying three sheets of drawings, wherein
Figure 1 is a longitudinal section on the line L M, Figure 2.
Figure 2 is a plan and Figure 3 is a side elevation of part of a chaff cutting
machine to which our improvements are applied.
Figures 4 and 5 are views of alternative arrangements.
Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several
views.
The improved arrangement and combination of feed mechanism in a chaff cutter
which embody our invention consist of the combination with the ordinary feed
web or lattice A and feed rollers B of a presser roller or drum C preferably between
fourteen and twenty four inches diameter mounted on a spindle C' journalled at
each end in slide blocks D free to move vertically in the standards E.
When in its lowest position the presser roller or drum C clears the web A, and
as the hay or other material to be cut is carried forward by the web in ordinary
quantities the presser roller or drum C is raised and caused to rotate by the moving
material, thus acting as a revolving presser and doing away to a great extent
with the labour of the attendant pressing the material in the hopper down on to
the web A.
When there is a full feed in the hopper the roller or drum C is raised by the
feed to the position indicated by the dotted line.
When the attendant's hands resting on the material in the hopper are moved
forward towards the feed rollers B they will come in contact with the presser
roller or drum C (from which they can readily be withdrawn) and which will
prevent them approaching dangerously near to the feed rollers B.
The guards prevent the feed from getting between the ends of the presser
roller or drum C and the sides of the hopper.
In Fig. 4 the arrangement is similar to Figs. 1, 2 and 3 except that the ends
of the spindle Care journalled in radial links K which are pivoted on the axle L
of the upper toothed roller or in some other convenient position.
In Fig. 5 the arrangement also is similar to Figs. 1, 2 and 3, except that a
lighter roll C is used and the required pressure on the feed is obtained by spiral
springs G one at each side of the hopper (or it may be obtained by a weight).
The spindle C of the presser roller or drum C is journaled in side links H (one at
each side of the hopper) which links rise and fall through guides I.
As the hay or other material to be cut is carried forward by the web in the hopper
in ordinary quantities the presser roller or drum C is raised and caused to rotate
by the moving material thus compressing the spiral springs G which acting on
the light roller C give the pressure required on the feed to enable the web on to
which the feed is pressed to carry it forward to the feed rollers. The attendant's

page_text: hands are protected by the roller or drum C from the feed rollers B as in the
first arrangement.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is:-
In a chaff cutter, the combination with the ordinary endless feed web and feed
rollers of such machine, of a presser roller or drum driven only by the moving
feed and journaled in slide blocks or otherwise mounted so as to be free to rise and
fall, all substantially in the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore described
with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 26th day of October 1808
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicants,
17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.