Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Aug., 1886
Complete Left, 26th May, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 8th July, 1887.
We JAMES HORNSBY, Agricultural Engineer, JOHN INNOCENT, Agricultural
Engineer, CHARLES JAMES, Mechanic all of Grantham in the County of Lincoln-
shire do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Straw Trussers as generally constructed have two sets of Needles & knotting
arrangements & thus tie the Trusses by two separate strings. The use of two Strings
is in some cases considered too expensive, specially where the Straw is short, to tie
which, Trussers have been made with one needle & one knotting arrangement only.
Our improvement consists in mounting a guide at one end of the Trusser so that when
short straw is to be tied the guide will pass the straw towards one ond of the Trusser
& one string only be used, allowing the other knotting arrangement to run idle the
needle not being threaded with String, so that the Trusser may be used to tie with two
Strings when the Straw is long, & by using the guide when the straw is short or when
it may be dosired with one string only. By preference we use one of the side boards
for this guide making it adjustable by any suitable means.
The object of another part of our invention is to make the truss more compact
& prevent the straw passing away unbound. To do this we mount on the Compressor
Spindle suitable guards in about a line with the Compressors. These Guards stand
above the table on which the Truss is bound & thus prevent the Straw passing down
too far. At the time the Sheaf is discharged these guards are carried with the
Compressors below the table on which the truss is bound.
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page_text: We JAMES HORNSBY, JOHN INNOCENT and CHARLES JAMES, all of Grantham in
the County of Lincoln, 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 is illustrated by the accompanying drawings only so much of the
machine being shown as is necessary to explain our invention. Fig. 1 shows a side
elevation partly in section of a straw trusser mounted on a Thrashing Machine.
Fig. 2 shows a plan view of the same.
Å is the Thrashing Machine B B are the shakers which deliver the straw on to the
trusser platform C. D D are the packers which pass the straw forward against. the
compressors E E-F F are the needles which carry the string round the truss when
it is bound.
Straw trussers as generally constructed have two sets of needles and knotting
arrangements and thus tie each truss or bundle with two strings. The use of two
strings to tie short straw is considered unnecessary and also too expensive. The
object of one part of our invention is to make a trusser arranged with two sets of
needles and knotting arrangements tie equally well long straw with two strings, or
short straw with one string.
We do this by making one or both of the guides G and G¹ at the ends of the truss
so that the lower end may be moved towards the opposite side and thus shorten the
length of the truss, that it may be tied by one string. The guides G and G₁ may be
jointed and fixed in position as shown in the drawings, or they may be thin sheets of
iron or steel without joints thrust to the position required and fixed there by any
suitable means, or the parts G and G³ may remain parallel to each other and a
separate guido may be fixed in the desired position.
When tying with one string, one needle only will be threaded with string; the
other needle & knotting apparatus will run idle.
Another part of our invention refers to making the truss more compact and of
better shape and preventing the loose straw passing away unbound.
It has been usual only to have the two compressor jaws EE to hold up the straw
whilst it is bound. Our improvement consists in mounting by preference two other
supports Hand H' on the compressor spindle J to hold up the straw whilst it is
bound, thus making the truss or bundle of better shape and much more compact.
The compressors E. E. are supported in position by the arm K and the link L being
operated by the lever M which is made fast to the spindle J. The supports H and H
are also made fast to the spindle J.
By suitable mechanism the spindle J is caused to vibrate and thus to lower at the
same time the supports H and H' and also the compressors E E whilst the truss is
being discharged from the machine then to rise again to support and compress the
next truss,

page_text: 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-
First In a straw-trusser attached to a Thrashing Machine mounting a guide or
guides to shorten the truss or bundle as shown and described with reference to
Figures 1 and 2 of the drawings.
Second-In a straw trusser attached to a Thrashing Machine the guards and
supports as mounted on the spindle J as shown and described with reference to Figs. 1
and 2 of the drawings.