IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR COLLECTING, ELEVATING, AND DEPOSITING AGRICULTURAL OR OTHER PRODUCE
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Peter Buchan, of Chichester, in the County of
Sussex, Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
FOR COLLECTING, ELEVATING, AND DEPOSITING AGRICULTURAL OR OTHER
PRODUCE."
Scaled the 22nd June 1875, and dated the 16th April 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Peter Buchan at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
16th April 1875.
I, PETER BUCHAN, of Chichester, in the County of Sussex, Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN APPARATUS FOR COLLECTING, ELEVATING, AND DEPOSITING AGRICULTURAL OR
OTHER PRODUCE," to be as follows :-
My Invention has reference to machines or apparatus adapted for
collecting agricultural or other produce from the ground, and elevating
and depositing the same in carts or waggons, to which the apparatus is
connected, and by the motion of which it is worked.

page_text: The object of the Invention is to simplify and thereby economise the
construction, and at the same time to facilitate the working of such
machines or apparatus. In machines or apparatus for this purpose as
hitherto constructed it has been found that the rake has become clogged
by the packing of the produce against the teeth of the rake. Now
under my Invention this defect is remedied by placing or arranging the
rake at the back of the trough and the elevating chain, so that the tines
on the same may be caused to clear the rako by taking the collected
produce out of it and carrying it up the front of the inclined trough.
The inclined trough is similar to that in ordinary elevators, and the
endless chain with tines on it is carried over hexagon wheels, as usual,
fitted at the top and bottom of the trough, but the hexagon wheels at
the bottom are fixed on the axle of the road or travelling wheels of the
implement, the chain being thereby driven without the aid of gearing.
The tines on the chain are caused successively to act on the producc
collected on and in front of the rake, and clear the teeth thereof by
taking the produce from the front of the rake and carrying it up
the front part of the inclined trough, from the upper part of which
it is deposited on to the ordinary inclined shoot, whence it passes to the
cart or waggon.
In order the better to insure the elevation of all the produce collected
by the rake a revolving feeding roller, with tines on its periphery, is or
may be fitted so as to act in front of the rake and throw the produce
thereon, such roller being supported on two moveable arms, so as to
allow of its adjustment as required to act nearer to or farther from the
ground to suit a light or heavy crop. The rake fitted at the back of the
trough is suspended so as by means of a horizontal transverse bar carried
by weighted levers to adapt the resistance of the rake to the varying
natures of crops to be collected from the ground, and to enable it to
yield to obstructions on the ground.
The machine or apparatus is connected to the cart or waggon by
means of a draught bar extending from the trough to the head of the
waggon, so as to be drawn forward at the side thereof. The effect of
this side draught of the implement is counteracted as required by means
of a steering wheel or wheels at the back of the machine or apparatus,
furnished with a pair of transom plates pivoted at their centre, and
capable of being adjusted to the requisite angle.

page_text: The hexagon wheels are formed with bevilled or dished flanges to
prevent the elevating chain from riding on to the edge of the same or
slipping off the wheels, the inclination of the bevelled or dished part of
the flange retaining the chain while in tension on the wheel.
The trough is pivoted so as to admit of being placed in a horizontal
position in order to lower the upper end of the trough to allow of the
machine or apparatus entering a low building or doorway so as to be
conveniently housed.
The shoot is suspended by a pivot at the centre, whereby it can be
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Peter Buchan in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 15th October 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PETER
BUCHAN, of Chichester, in the County of Sussex, Engineer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of April, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Peter Buchan, Her special
licence that I, the said Peter Buchan, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Peter Buchan, my exc-
cutors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and
no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term 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 APPARATUS FOR COLLECTING, ELEVATING, AND DEPOSITING AGRICULTURAL OR
OTHER PRODUCE," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Peter Buchan, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and

page_text: scals, should particularly 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 Peter Buchan, 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 Invention of "Improvements in Apparatus for Collecting, Ele-
vating, and Depositing Agricultural or other Produce" has reference to
machines or apparatus adapted for collecting agricultural or other
produce from the ground, and elevating and depositing the same in carts.
or waggons, to which the apparatus is connected, and by the motion of
which it is worked.
The object of the Invention is to simplify and thereby economise the
construction, and at the same time to facilitate the working of such
machines or apparatus. In machines or apparatus for this purpose as
hitherto constructed it has been found that the rake has become clogged
by the packing of the produco against the teeth of the rake. Now
under my Invention this defect is remedied by placing or arranging the
rake at the back of the trough and the elevating chain, so that the tines
on the chain may be caused to clear the rake by taking the collected
produce out of it and carrying it up the front of the inclined trough.
The inclined trough is similar to that in ordinary elevators, and the
endless chain with tines on it is carried over hexagon wheels, as usual,
fitted at the top and bottom of the trough, but the hexagon wheels at
the bottom are fixed on the axle of the road or travelling wheels of the
implement, the chain being thereby driven without the aid of gearing.
The tines on the chain are caused successively to act on the produce
collected on and in front of the rake, and clear the teeth thereof, by
taking the produce from the front of the rake and carrying it up the
front part of the inclined trough, from the upper part of which it is
deposited on to the ordinary inclined shoot, whence it passes to the cart
or waggon.
In order the better to insure the elevation of all the produce collected

page_text: may be fitted so as to act in front of the trough, and throw the produce
on to the tines of the elevating chain, such roller being supported on
two movable, arms, so as to allow of its adjustment, as required to act
nearer to or farther from the ground, to suit a light or heavy crop. The
rake fitted at the back of the trough is suspended, so as by means of a
horizontal transverse bar carried by weighted levers to adapt the
resistance of the rake to the varying natures of crops to be collected
from the ground, and to enable it to yield to obstructions on the
ground.
The machine or apparatus is connected to the cart or waggon by
means of a draught bar extending from the trough to the head of the
waggon, so as to be drawn forward at the side thereof. The effect of this
side draught of the implement is counteracted as required by means
of a steering wheel or wheels at the back of the machine or apparatus,
furnished with a pair of transom plates pivotted at their centre, and
capable of being adjusted to the requisite angle.
The hexagon wheels are formed with bevilled or dished flanges to
prevent the elevating chain from riding on to the edge of the same or
slipping off the wheels, the inclination of the bevilled or dished part of
the flange retaining the chain while in tension on the wheel.
The trough is pivotted so as to admit of being placed in a horizontal
position in order to lower the upper end of the trough to allow of the
machine or apparatus entering a low building or doorway so as to be
conveniently housed.
The shoot is suspended by a pivot at the centre, whereby it can be
adjusted to any required angle for conveying the elevated produce into
the cart or waggon on cither side of the implement.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I hereby declare that what I claim
as of my Invention is,―
First. The general arrangement of the parts of the apparatus in com-
bination, as herein-before described.
Secondly. The placing of the rake at the back of the trough, and
arranging of the elevating chain so as to clear the rake and carry
the produce up the front of the inclined trough, as herein-before
described.

page_text: Thirdly. The revolving feeding roller in front of the trough for the
purpose described.
Fourthly. The formation of the hexagon wheels with bevilled or
dished flanges for the purpose described.
And Lastly. The pivotting of the trough for the purpose described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Peter Buchan, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, the Thirteenth day of October, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.