An Improved Winding Engine and Apparatus for Agricultural Use.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Aug., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 9th May, 1895-Accepted, 27th July, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Winding Engine and Apparatus for Agricultural Use.
I, JOSEPH ROUSSE of Chemin de Combiac, Saintes in the Republic of France,
Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists in an improved engine intended to be used to wind a cable
to draw ploughs or other instruments over the ground they are to operate upon,
and it comprises also the combination of apparatus for guiding said cable.
The engine comprises a framework supported on wheels and carrying a steam
boiler and steam engine with the usual adjuncts of these apparatus. The engine
drives a shaft on which are two loose drums either of which may be clutched to the
shaft when the other is loose. On these drums a chain is wound which passes
around four pulleys two at each side of the field to be ploughed or otherwise treated,
being suitably secured, the two pulleys at one side and the two at the other being
spaced one from the other sufficiently that a plough or other implement may be
drawn across the field between two opposite pulleys and may be then unfastened
from the cable, and refastened to it to return along a parallel course between the
other two opposite pulleys at the desired distance from the first course according to the
width of the strip of ground treated by the said implement at each course.
the completion of the out, and return courses the pulleys are moved and refixed at
a suitable distance from their previous positions for repetition of the out and return
courses over fresh ground.
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The engine comprises also guides for the cables so that they may be wound evenly
upon the one or other drum and these guides are moved at the required slow speed
by a rod connected to a crank or excentric pin on a worm wheel driven by a worm,
by which,mechanism the guides are given, the desired, to and fro movement.
Doted this 12th dox of Aucnst 1891
R. HADDAN,
Agent to Applicant.
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An Improved Winding Engine and Apparatus for Agricultural use.
I, JOSEPH ROUSSE, of Chemin de Combiac, Saintes, in the Republic of France,
Manufacturer, 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 :-
This invention consists in an improved engine intended to be used to wind a cable
to draw ploughs or other instruments over the ground they are to operate
5 upon, and it comprises also the combination of apparatus for guiding said cable.
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This machine comprises two flanged drums mounted on a horizontal shaft either
of which may be, clutched to the shaft when the other is loose, this being accomplished
with the aid of an engaging and disengaging lever.

page_text: The shaft of these drums can be driven by any motor of sufficient power.
A worm and pinion gear actuated by the shaft of these drums and provided with
two cranks acting on two connecting rods draws longitudinally back and forth two
horizontal bars, one on the right and the other on the left of the drums.
Each said bar supports a rope guide which regulates, on the out and return
course, the rolling up on the drums of the cable destined to draw the agricultural
implement.
This machine is represented in the annexed drawings, of which Fig. 1 is a side
view, Fig. 2 a plan and Fig. 3 a diagram showing the disposition of the apparatus
on the field.
A is a steam-boiler.
B a steam-engine.
C represents the frame-work of I beams, mounted on wheels Z with the parts Y
and X of the front carriage.
D is the shaft with crank, of the steam engine.
E shows a pinion with 15 teeth which is keyed on to the shaft D.
F is a gear-wheel with 50 teeth, meshing with the pinion E.
Grepresents a horizontal shaft carrying said gear-wheel F.
M and N are two flanged drums turning loosely on the shaft. G.
V is the clutching apparatus and is guided by a fork V' and a lever U.
H shows a pinion with 30 teeth, keyed to the shaft G.
I is another wheel with 60 teeth and, keyed to a separate shaft with an endless
screw-thread J, is driven by the pinion H.
K is a wheel with 60 teeth and gears with the endless screw J.
L represents cranks secured to the shaft of the wheel K.
O are the connecting rods of the cranks L fastened on to the arms P of the
movable rods Q supporting the rope guide R S T.
The action of the machine is as follows:-
When the steam motor acts at the rate of 100 revolutions per minute, the
drums M and N on shaft G are driven by gear FE from shaft D and make
30 revolutions each minute, that is, one revolution every two seconds.
Supposing the circumference of the drums M and Ň to be 0.500 m. and their
length between the cheeks 0.160 m. they will roll up 50 turns of 3 m.m. steel wire
cable, that is, 25 m. in 100 seconds, or 0-250 m. per second.
The wheel K (50) teeth) makes exactly half a turn against 50 turns of the
drums M and N, and it completes a full turn in 100 turns of said drums.
The crank L.which is attached to the shaft of the wheel K being placed at. A on
the line A B (Fig. 3) will push the cable guide forward on its course from A to B,"
and then bring it back on its course from B to A, and so forth, every time the cable
is rolled on the drums (see Fig. 3).
Consequently, supposing for instance the number of turns of the cable on the drums
to be 50 for revolution of the wheel K, it is only required to give the drums M
and N and the radius of the crank L, the lengths corresponding with the diameter
of the cable used. For instance: 50 turns of a 10 m.m. cable will pass around a
drum of 0.500 m. in length whereby the radius of the crank on the shaft of wheel K
should measure 0.250 m.
Further, 50 turns of a 5 mm. cable will pass around a drum of 0.250 m. in
length which will reduce the radius of the crank on the shaft of wheel K to
0.125 m.
A combination of movable flanges on the drums and of reducible and extensible
cranks admits of using cable of any thickness without disturbing the regular action
of the cable guides and without modifying the working of the plough drawn by the
cable.
The cable regulated by the cable-guide is rolled up on the drums on the out and
return movement respectively, as many times as the length of the cable requires it,
and it increases also at each turn the diameter of the drums by twice the diameter
of the cable.

page_text: It may be observed that by increasing or diminishing the speed above or
below 100 turns per minute respectively, the speed of the rolling up is varied in
equal proportion, and consequently the speed of the plough or other implement
drawn by the cable.
The drums M and N being made cylindrical without fixed cheeks at their
extremities and of a length capable of rolling up 50 turns of cable of a diameter
sufficient to stand the power of the motor, movable cheeks are fixed on to the drums
by means of binding screws.
The cable guides R consist of a socket attached to the bars Q, said socket
gliding along these bars with slight friction to the hole where a pin fixes them
to the place that they are to occupy; two vertical tubes S and S¹, movable about
two axles screwed into the socket, regulate in a vertical sense the draught of the
cable, which is besides supported by a horizontal tube also movable about its axis.
A pin T allows of fixing the piece T which supports the horizontal tube which
is united underneath the two axles of the vertical tubes.
This piece T is easily and promptly moved whenever it is necessary to pass the
cable into the cable-guide or to take it out.
A combination of adjusting and binding screw admits of enlarging and narrowing
the space reserved for the cable to pass between the vertical tubes, according to
the thickness of the cable employed.
The drums M and N turn loose about the shaft G and they operate alternately,
the one of them remains loose while the other is secured.
The clutch-coupling box V operated by a fork V1 fixed ou to a lever U permits
of engaging the drum M or the drum N, as desired, or of letting both drums turn
loosely, by placing the lever U at the intermediate point.
A movable pin secures the lever U in the position it assumes.
The guide pulleys for the cable are so combined as to constantly keep the cable
in their grooves if it should slacken, without an entangling with the block or shell
of the pulleys.
To this effect the cheeks of the pulleys are sunk in two rings rivetted to the
interior of the block whereby the cable when tightened is constantly confined to
the interior of the cheeks of the pulley by the ring which supports the same.
This machine (marked in Fig. 3 by the letters of the drums M N) is preferably
placed at one of the angles (Fig. 3) on the field to be treated.
Each of the drums M and N of the apparatus is provided with a cable of the
same diameter and of equal length. The length of the cables is optional whereby
the surplus cable not required for the work to be performed remains rolled up on
the drums.
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The ends of the cable are provided with a connecting ring or shackle.
Two similar chains of the same length (which is optional), anchors for fastening.
the chain-pulleys and the pulleys complete the necessary apparatus.
The socket Ŕ of the chain guides slides, as we have sceu, with slight friction on
the bars Q and movable pins fix them to their respective places.
Consequently the same guide could serve alternately to roll up the cable now on
the drum M, then on the drum N, that is to say every time that the one of these
drums is fixed by the engaging lever U. We have also mentioned that the
crank L regulated according to the length between the cheeks of the drums M N,
pushes the cable guide forward from A to B and backward from B to A and
consequently every time the cable passes from one cheek in order to be rolled up
towards the other cheek and vice versa.
But as we have also seen, the cables (the length of which is arbitrary) are
previously rolled on the drums M N, while the surplus cable not required for the
work remains rolled up on the drum.
Now this rolling up ends seldom near the cheeks of the drums M N but nearly
always at some point along the length of these drums, it is absolutely necessary to
every time place the cable guide just in front of the last turn of the rolling cable.
To this effect the cranks L should be enabled to turn on the shaft of the

page_text: wheel K, up to the moment when the bar O has placed the cable guide in the
required position.
For this reason the cogged clutch coupling box W is made of two pieces, part 1
of which is solidly keyed on to the shaft of the wheel K whereas the part 2 fornis
part with the crank L which turns with slight friction on the shaft of the wheel K.
By loosening the screw nut W₁ the crank L is disengaged and is turned until
the cable guide is placed in front of the last turn of the cable on the drum; then
the cogs of the crank L are thrown in gear and the screw nut W₁ tightened whereby
all parts are in proper position for the apparatus to continue the regular rolling up
of cable on the drums.
In order to work the apparatus the chains A B and C D are firmly placed near
the borders of the field to be treated; these two chains are displaced in the sense
of their length every time when the work requires it; to each chain are attached
two guide pulleys, the pulley G in front of the pulley E, and the pulley F in front
of the pulley H.
The space between the guide pulleys E, F and G H is determined by the size of
the strip which a plough or any other agricultural instrument is to work; the
drums are disengaged, the end of the cable of the drum M is taken and rolled off,
passed around the guide pulleys E G H, and this end of the cable of the drum N
is passed over the pulley F, these two cables being joined by a device R with. two
hooks, one of which engages with the thimble of the cable M and the other with
the thimble of the cable N. The two cables being so united, the plough is
attached by means of the ring R, and the drum M engaged to roll up the extended
cable.
At the point O and at a preconcerted signal the machine is stopped, the plough
is detached, then (M being always engaged) the machine draws the coupling R of
the cables to the point O', the plough is refastened and by the same drum M
drawn to R¹.
During the work the drum M has rolled up the cable extended on the field
from R to R and in the same time the drum N which was loose has rolled off an
equal quantity of cable.
If then M is disengaged and N engaged, the cable of N will draw the plough
from the point from O¹ to R¹ and from O to R, the drum M, now loose, will also
roll off its cable from R' to R passing over the same pulleys which are placed for
working over the next strip of the field.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what 1
claim is.
1. An improved winding engine comprising a carriage supporting a steam boiler
and engine which acts on two loose drums M, N adapted to be severally clutched
to shaft G, and arrangement of cable guides distributing in an equal manner the
cable on the drums, said arrangement having two cable guides fixed onto a movable
bar actuated by a crank wheel, which latter is governed by an endless screw
substantially as described.
2. The combination of the said improved winding engine with the cables and
pulleys E, F, G, H, as described.
Dated this 9th day of May 1895.
R. HADDAN,
Of the Firm of Herbert Haddan & Co.,
18 Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C.