AN IMPROVED HINGED DOUBLE SHOE FOR REAPING AND HARVESTING
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Primerose Howard Vaughan, F.C.S., of 67,
Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention
of "AN IMPROVED HINGED DOUBLE SHOE FOR REAPING AND HARVESTING
"The Johnston Harvester
MACHINES." A communication from abroad by
Company." of Brockport, in the United States of America.
ed the 11th July 1876, and dated the 13th January 1876.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Primerose Howard
Vaughan at the Oflice of the Commissioners of Patents on the 13th January
1876.
EDWARD PRIMEROSE HOWARD VAUGHAN, F.C.S., of 67, Chancery Lane, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, "AN IMPROVED HINGED DOUBLE SHOE FOR
REAPING AND HARVESTING MACHINES." Being a communication to me from abroad
by The Johnston Harvester Company," of Brockport, in the United States of
America.
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This Invention relates to an improved hinged double shoe, which, being secured
on one side to the truck or drag bar of a reaping or harvesting machine, and
on the opposite side to the platform, enables the latter to be raised to a nearly
perpendicular position, thereby contracting the same for passage through narrow
roads or gateways.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing is a plan of this arrangement; Figure 2
is a section of the same, through the line m, o, Fig. 1, shewing the platform
raised; Figure 3 is a side elevation of the lower shoe E; Figure 4 is a section of
the upper shoe, through the line n, y, Fig. 1.
In these Figures a is the wooden beam to which the platform is attached; B is
the iron finger bar secured to the beam a; C is the finger or guard attached to the
finger bar B; D is the upper shoe; E, the lower shoe; F, the hinge on the lower
shoe; G, the hinge on the upper shoo; H, the drag bar; J, J, bolts securing the
platform and beam a to the upper shoe D; L, L, bolts securing the lower shoe E to
the drag bar H.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the Letters Patent filed by the said Edward
Primerose Howard Vaughan in the Great Seal Patent on the 11th July 1876.
EDWARD PRIMEROSE HOWARD VAUGHAN, F.C.S., of 67, Chancery Lane, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent. "AN IMPROVED HINGED DOUBLE SHOE FOR
REAPING AND HARVESTING MACHINES." A communication to me from abroad by
The Johnston Harvester Company," of Brockport, in the United States of
America.
"
This Invention relates to an improved hinged double shoc, which, being secured
on one side to the truck or drag bar of a reaping or harvesting machine, and on the
opposite side to the platform, enables the Intter to be raised to a nearly perpen-
dicular position, thereby contracting the same for passage through narrow roads or
gateways.⚫
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a plan of this arrangement; Figure 2
is a section of the same, through the line m, o, Fig. 1, showing the platform raised;
Figure 3 is a side elevation of the lower shoe E; Figure 4 is a section of the upper
shoe through the line n, y, Fig. 1.
In these Figures a is the wooden beam to which the platform is attached; B is
the iron finger bar secured to the beam a; C is the finger or guard attached to the
finger bar B; D is the upper shoe; E, the lower shoc; F, the hinge on the lower
shoc;
G, the hinge on the upper shoe; H, the drag bar; J, J, bolts sccuring the
platform and beam a to the upper shoe D; L, L, bolts securing the lower shoe E to
the drag bar H.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and the manner of
carrying it into effect, I declare that what I claim and desire to protect by Letters
Patent is,
1st. The combination of the upper shoe D with the platform and wooden beam a,
together with the iron finger bar or angle L or T iron finger bar B.
2nd. The combination with the above of the lower shoe E, as secured to the drag,
bar H.
3rd. The upper shoo D hinged to the lower shoe E, and both being bolted
together, to firmly secure the same when the machine is in operation.
4th. The combination of one of the whole of the above parts together or
separately for the purposes herein specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Primerose Howard Vaughan, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Eighth day of July in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.
DAU A AT
E. P. H. VAUGHAN (LS).