Bundle Carriers for Sheaf Binder Harvesting Machines.
Year: 1885

page_text: Bundle Carriers for Sheaf Binder Harvesting Machines.
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I WILLIAM MCINTYRE CRANSTON of 36 Worship Street, Middlesex, Agricultural
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said invention for AN IMPROVED
CONSTRUCTION, ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD OF OPERATING BUNDLE CARRIERS
FOR SHEAF BINDER HARVESTING MACHINES" a communication to me from
abroad by Walter Abbott Wood of Hoosick Falls, New York, United States of
America to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to so construct, arrange and operate an appliance
or appliances termed a Bundle Carrier of a Sheaf Binder Harvesting Machine that
any convenient number of bundles or sheaves can be held upon and by the carrier
and be discharged therefrom close to the ground without injury to the cut grain
either as single sheaves or after a sufficient number has been collected thereon and
be discharged or deposited in heaps contiguous to each other and thus save a large
amount of labour in carrying the sheaves together to form a "shock."
The apparatus or appliance consists of a series of rods arranged horizontally just
below the binding mechanism so that as the sheaves leave the same they are
transferred on to these rods which form a cradle for their reception. The outer
ends of the rods are bent upwards and also their inner ends but at a sharper angle,
these portions being looped or connected loosely as a sort of hinge joint in sockets
attached to a bar or screen fixed to the frame of the machine. Above these sockets
the rods are bent downwards and their ends are passed into or through an
oscillatory bar, or the said ends may be curled and looped to the oscillatory bar by
staples or eyes.
If the ends are passed into or through they fit the same loosely so that as the
bar is moved they turn freely in it The bar is suspended from eye bolts which

page_text: bolts serve also to fasten the screen to the frame. The oscillatory bar is connected
by jointed levers to a foot plate within reach of the attendant and he can by
releasing said plate determine the number of bundles that shall be discharged from
the cradle.
The rods of the cradle are at fixed distances apart and their sharper angled
portions which are looped to the screen permit them when the oscillatory bar is
moved in one direction, to gather together while moving in that direction at the
same time their outer ends approach sideways with a sweeping action towards the
ground which they nearly touch and permit the bundles to slide off.

page_text: Bundle Carriers for Sheaf Binder Harvesting Machines.
I WILLIAM MCINTYRE CRANSTON of 36 Worship Street, Middlesex, Agricultural
Engineer, (a communication from abroad by Walter Abbott Wood of Hoosick
Falls, New York, United States of America,) 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 object of this invention, is to so construct, arrange and operate an appliance
or appliances termed a Bundle Carrier of a Sheaf Binder Harvesting Machine that
any convenient number of bundles or sheaves can be held upon and by the carrier
and be discharged therefrom close to the ground without injury to the cut grain
either as single sheaves or after a sufficient number has been collected thereon and
be discharged or deposited in heaps contiguous to each other and thus save a large
amount of labour in carrying the sheaves together to form a "shock."
The apparatus or appliance consists of a series of rods arranged horizontally just
below the binding mechanism so that as the sheaves leave the same they are
transferred onto these rods which form a cradle for their reception. The outer ends
of the rods are bent upwards and also their inner ends but at a sharper angle these
portions being looped or connected loosely as a sort of hinge joint in sockets
attached to a bar or screen fixed to the frame of the machine. Above these sockets
the rods are bent downwards and their ends are passed into or through an
oscillatory bar or the said ends may be curled and looped to the oscillatory bar by
staples or eyes.
If the ends are passed into or through they fit the same loosely so that as the
bar is moved they turn freely in it. The bar is suspended from eye bolts which
bolts serve also to fasten the screen to the frame. The oscillatory bar is connected
by jointed levers to a foot plate within reach of the attendant and he can by
releasing said plate determine the number of bundles that shall be discharged from
the cradle.
The rods of the cradle are at fixed distances apart and their sharper angled
portions which are looped to the screen, permit them when the oscillatory bar is
moved in one direction, to gather together while moving in that direction, at the
same time their outer ends approach sideways with a sweeping action towards the
ground which they nearly touch and permit the bundles to slide off.
The invention will be understood by reference to the annexed drawings in which
at Figure 1 I show a rod A, a series of which form a cradle as represented at
Figure 2 said cradle being connected to a combined reaper and binder machine
which machine may be of other construction than that shown. The rod A has its
outer end B turned upwards and also the inner end C where it is connected as a
kind of hinge joint by eyes D to a screen or board E, this board being hung from
brackets F attached to the back or side frame G of the machine according to its
construction. In Figure 2 I show the board E attached to the side of the machine
because it suits that particular arrangement of machine.

page_text: Above where the rod A is hinged to the board E the rod is bent downwards
at H and the extreme end of this passes through a bar I which is supported by
nuts on the ends of the rods somewhat loosely so that when the bar I is moved
end wise in one direction the rods turn on their hinge joints, the parts A have a
turnover descending and also a side motion and their ends B following; but as
said ends descend they approach the ground and assume the position indicated by
Figure 3 and permit any bundles or sheaves that may have been upon the rods
when they formed the cradle as at Figure 1 to slide off and deposit themselves on
the ground.
The movement of the bar I in one direction is controlled by the driver of the
machine who by pressing on the foot plate J operates the levers K, L, and the bar I
which causes the rods A to turn over and swing sideways to deliver the sheaves or
bundles on to the ground the rods returning to their first position by the weight of
the levers K L.
If the cradle or bundle carrier be arranged or affixed to the machine of the
construction shown at Figure 2 a loose jointed guard rod M can be fitted to hold
the accumulated bundles temporarily on the cradle.
The sheaves or bundles may be discharged by the movements of the cradle in
succession or a sufficient number of sheaves may be accumulated upon the cradle and
then deposited in heaps contiguous to each other to form a shock.
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. Constructing a cradle or sheaf carrier of rods whose inner ends are so bent
that when a bar which is loosely attached to them is moved endwise said rods shall
have a combined turn over-side-swinging motion with their outer ends approaching
the ground as to deliver the bundles or sheaves therefrom as described with
reference to Figures 1, 2, and 3 of the annexed drawings.
2. The particular form or arrangement of rod shown at Figure 1 of the annexed
drawings and the arrangement of a series of said rods to form a cradle or bundle
carrier, of a Harvesting Machine, arranged substantially as described with reference
to Figures 2 and 3 of the said drawings.