IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUC- TION OF ELEVATORS FOR STACKING HAY, CORN, AND OTHER AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Albion Andrews, of Crewkerne, in the County
of Somerset, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUC-
TION OF ELEVATORS FOR STACKING HAY, CORN, AND OTHER AGRICULTURAL
PRODUCE."
Sealed the 3rd October 1873, and dated the 7th April 1873.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Albion Andrews at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
7th April 1873.
I, ALBION ANDREWS, of Crewkerne, in the County of Somerset, do
3 hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE CONSTRUCTION OF ELEVATORS FOR STACKING HAY, CORN, AND OTHER AGRICUL-
TURAL PRODUCE," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in certain improvements in the construction of
elevators for stacking hay, corn, and other agricultural produce, and by
means of which the delivery end of the trough of the elevator can be
placed at any desired point without the necessity of shifting the whole
of the machine from one spot to another.
The trough of the clevator is of the ordinary kind, the lower end

page_text: thereof being attached to the front carriage of the machine, which
latter is constructed in the same way as the front carriages of waggons,
the axle of the wheels being capable of being placed at various angles
by means of a centre pin, as well understood. The hind carriage of the
machine is provided with two wheels and supports a frame with vertical
sides thereto, within which the upper or delivery end of the trough is
capable of being raised or depressed as may be desired.
In order to direct the elevator trough to any desired spot the hind
wheels of the machine are so arranged as to be capable of being set at
right angles with the machine, and thus to secure a lateral motion either
revolving round the centre of the front carriage or parallel with the
machine. A transverse shaft is attached to the axle of the hind carriage,
on which shaft a drum capable of being rotated by means of a winch is
mounted. A rope is passed around the drum, the respective ends of
such rope being attached to two pins or stumps driven into the ground
at some distance from the machine. By turning the drum in either
direction the machine is drawn towards one or other of the pins or
stumps, the axles of the front and hind wheels preserving a parallel
position, and the elevator trough consequently receives a corresponding
lateral motion, enabling it to be placed at any desired portion of the
stack.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Albion Andrews in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 7th October 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALBION
ANDREWS, of Crewkerne, in the County of Somerset, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of April, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the
thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Albion Andrews, Her special
licence that I, the said Albion Andrews, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Albion Andrews, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term

page_text: therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE CONSTRUCTION OF ELEVATORS FOR STACKING HAY, CORN, AND OTHER AGRICUL-
TURAL PRODUCE," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Albion Andrews, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and
in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to
be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Albion Andrews, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, that is to say :—
My said Invention consists in certain improvements in the construction
of elevators for stacking hay, corn, and other agricultural produce, and
by means of which the delivery end of the trough of the elevator can
be placed at any desired point without the necessity of shifting the whole
of the machine from one spot to another.
The trough of the elevator is of the ordinary kind, the lower end
thereof being attached to the front carriage of the machine, which latter
is constructed in same way as the front carriages of waggons, the
axle of the wheels being so arranged as to be capable of being placed
at various angles by means of a centro pin, as well understood. The
hind carriage of the machine is provided with two wheels, and supports
a frame with vertical sides thereto, within which vertical sides the upper
or delivery end of the trough is capable of being raised or depressed as
may be desired.
In order to direct the elevator trough to any desired spot the hind
wheels of the machine are so arranged as to be capable of being set at
right angles with the machine, and thus to secure a lateral motion either
revolving around the centre of the front carriage or parallel with the
machine. A transverse shaft is attached to the axle of the hind carriage,
on which shaft a drum capable of being rotated by means of a winch is
mounted. A rope is passed around the drum, the respective ends of
such rope being attached to two pins or stumps driven into the ground

page_text: at some distance from the machine. By turning the drum in either
direction the machine is drawn towards one or other of the pins or
stumps, the axles of the front and hind wheels preserving a parallel
position, and the elevator trough consequently receives a corresponding
lateral motion, enabling it to be placed at any desired portion of the
stack.
Motion may be conveyed from the horse wheel direct to the chain or
rake wheel of the machine without gear, but this I do not claim as being
of my Invention.
Having thus fully declared and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I would observe
in conclusion that what I consider novel and original, and therefore claim
as constituting the Invention secured to me by the said herein-before in
part recited Letters Patent is, the combination and arrangement of
parts and mechanism substantially as and for the purposes herein-before
described and set forth or any mere modifications thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Albion Andrews, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Seventh day of October, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.