IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY " OR APPARATUS FOR RAISING FALLEN CROPS
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Garrett Tongue, of the Firm of Tongue and Birkbeck,
Patent Agents and Engineers, of 34, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in
the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY
"
OR APPARATUS FOR RAISING FALLEN CROPS." A communication from abroad
by Louis François Silvestre Truffart, of Paris, France.
caled the 29th December 1876, and dated the 20th July 187
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Garrett Tongue at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 20th July 1876.
"
JOHN GARRETT TONGUE, of the Firm of Tongue and Birkbeck, Patent Agents
and Engineers, of 34, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County of
Middlesex. IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR RAISING FALLEN
CROPS." A communication from abroad by Louis François Silvestre Truffart, of
Paris, France.
This Invention relates to improvements in machinery for raising fallen crops by
means of an agricultural implement, to raise or straighten lucern, clover, or any
other kind of forage plants which have been laid or fallen down either by wind or
rain in order to facilitate the operation of the mowing machine.
This machine or implement consists of a kind of rake constructed of a special
form and arrangement, as herein-after fully described and shown in the Drawings
annexed.
Figure 1 shows a vertical side elevation of the machine; Figure 2 shows a plan
of the same; Figure 3 shows a vertical section of the same on the line 1, 2,
Figure 2.
In all these Figures the same letters refer to the same parts.
a, axle; b, b, wheels mounted on the axle a; c, shaft for the horse; d, cross piece
to bind the shafts together; c, e, elongation fixed on the cross piece d and axle a on
the outer side of the shafts; f, cylindrical shaft binding the two elongations e, e;
g, are teeth fixed to the rake varying in number, the space between each being
about 4 inches, and formed of flat iron having an oscillating motion on the shaft f;
the lower part is pointed and slightly turned in order not to work into the soil; a
tringle or arm h is fixed to each of these teeth, one end being loose; these tringles

page_text: or arms are placed above the teeth, and constitute the mechanism for raising fallen
crops; is a curved lever linked to j on a support & fixed to the axle a, and which
by means of a link 2 of the lever m, linked to the support n, fixed to the cross bar o
and to the transversal rod p, lifting all the teeth together, enables the rake to be
raised in order to be conveyed to the field or to return to the farm.
In order to keep the lever i down, and thereby the rake in a raised position, a
spring catch holds the said lever.
In the annexed Drawings the implement is shown in a working position.
As is shown the teeth g divide the lucern, clover, or other crops which lie down,
and the loose tringles or arms h raise the said crops.
It will be evident that this implement may be made of any desired size, and have
any number of teeth, and that the rake may be raised by means of a winch, drum,
or otherwise, instead of the lever i.
Figures 4 and 5 show in elevation and plan another implement of this nature
arranged with a winch or drum.
As will be clearly seen by this arrangement the implement is less bulky and
easier to work, being only composed of shafts c forming the frame, of wheels b, of
teeth or rake g, with tringles or arms / moving on the shaft f; s is the cylinder,
roller, drum, or axletree revolving in the brackets fixed on the frame c, provided
with guiding arms t, which may be replaced by a crank or fly wheel; v are chains,
one end of each being fixed to the cylinder s, and the other end to the rod x, which
take and lift all the teeth when the chain winds on to the cylinder 8; u, çog or
ratchet wheel of the cylinder 8.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said John Garrett Tongue in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 20th
January 1877.
JOHN GARRETT TONGUE, of the Firm of Tongue and Birkbeck, Patent Agents
and Engineers, of 34, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County of
Middlesex. "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR RAISING FALLEN
CROPS." A communication from abroad by Louis François Silvestre Truffart, of
Paris, France.
This Invention relates to improvements in machinery for raising fallen crops by
means of an agricultural implement, to raise or straighten lucern, clover, or any
other kind of forage plants which have been laid or fallen down either by wind or
rain, in order to facilitate the operation of the mowing machine.
This machine or implement consists of a kind of rake constructed of a special
form and arrangement, as herein-after fully described and shown in the Drawings
annexed.
Figure 1, Sheet 1, shows a vertical side elevation of the machine; Figure 2 shows
a plan of the same; Figure 3 shows a vertical section of the same on the line 1, 2,
Figure 2.
In all these Figures the same letters refer to the same parts.
a, axle; b, b, wheels mounted on the axle a; c, shaft for the horse; d, cross piece
to connect the shafts together; e, e, elongations or arms fixed on the cross piece d
and axle a on the outer side of the shafts; f, cylindrical shaft connecting the two
elongations e, e; g, are teeth fixed to the rake varying in number, the space between
each being about four inches, and formed of flat iron having an oscillating motion
on the shaft f; the lower part is pointed and slightly turned, in order not to work
into the soil; a "tringle" or arm h is fixed to each of these teeth, one end being
loose;
these "tringles" or arms are placed above the teeth, and constitute the
mechanism for raising fallen crops; is a curved lever linked to j on a support k
fixed to the axle a, and which by means of a link of the lever m linked to the

page_text: support n, fixed to the cross bar o and to the transversal rod p, lifting all the teeth
together, enables the rake to be raised in order to be conveyed to the field or to
return to the farm.
In order to keep the lever i down and thereby the rake in a raised position a
spring catch holds the said lever.
In the annexed Drawings the implement is shewn in a working position.
As is shown the teeth divide the lucern, clover, or other crops which lie down,
and the loose "tringles" or arms h raise the said crops.
It will be evident that this implement may be made of any desired size, and have
any number of teeth, and that the rake may be raised by means of a winch, drum,
or otherwise, instead of the lever i.
Figures 4 and 5, Sheet 2, show in elevation and plan another implement of this
nature constructed in accordance with this Invention, being arranged with a winch
or drum.
As will be clearly seen by this arrangement the implement is less bulky and
easier to work, being only composed of shafts c forming the frame, of wheels b, of
teeth or rake g, with "tringles" or arms h moving on the shaft f; s is the cylinder,
roller, drum, or axletree revolving in the brackets fixed on the frame e provided
with guiding arms which may be replaced by a crank or fly wheel; vare chains,
one end of each being fixed to the cylinder s, and the other end to the rod x, which
take and lift all the teeth when the chain winds on to the cylinder 8; u, cog or
ratchet wheel of the cylinder 8.
Figures 6 and 7 show in elevation and plan a third arrangement in machinery
for raising fallen crops in accordance with this Invention, in which the teeth g fixed
to the rake, instead of having an oscillating motion on a bar or cross piece fixed at
the back, revolve on the shaft a of the machine; s is the cylinder, roller, drum, or
axletree for raising the rake.
Having thus described the nature of this Invention, and the manner of performing
or carrying the same into practice, what I claim under the above in part recited
Letters Patent is, the improved arrangement and construction of a series of teeth
forming a rake, arranged in combination with a frame, shafts, wheels, and lifting or
raising apparatus, either by means of an axle, lever, or otherwise, the whole forming
a machine or implement for raising fallen crops, substantially as herein-before fully
described and represented in the Drawings annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Garrett Tongue, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven.
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JOHN GARRETT TONGUE. (L.S.)