Improvements in Mowers and Reapers.
Year: 1898

page_text: I, SIDNEY WILSON, of Bedford Foundry, Leigh, in the County of Lancaster,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object to obviate the objectionable clicking noise
produced on backing a mower or reaper caused by the employment of the usual
ratchet and pawl mechanism and which has had a tendency to frighten the
horses.
In performing my invention I substitute for the usual ratchet and pawl
arrangement a number of pins actuated by spiral or other springs engaging with
a number of holes or recesses when the wheels of the mower or reaper turn in
the forward direction and disengaging when the direction is reversed.
This engaging and disengaging is produced by forming the aforesaid holes or
recesses with inclined sides or entrances in the one direction which on coming
into contact with the pins act as cams and cause them to recede within cavities
provided to receive them.
By preference I make the aforesaid pius of a length to clear the bottoms of
the holes upon entering in the reverse direction so as to prevent the knock which
would otherwise be produced by the pins striking the bottoms of the holes.
Dated this 13th day of May 1898.
EDMUND WILSON,
Agent for Applicant.
Improvements in Mowers and Reapers.
I, SIDNEY WILSON, of Bedford Foundry, Leigh, in the County of Lancaster,
Engineer, 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:-
This invention has for its object to obviate the objectionable clicking noise
produced on backing a mower or reaper caused by the employment of the usual
ratchet and pawi mechanism and which noise has had a tendency to frighten the
horses.
In order to make my invention understood I have hereunto annexed a sheet of
drawings and will proceed to describe the same with the help of the letters of
reference marked thereon.
In performing my invention I substitute for the aforesaid ratchet and pawl
mechanism a number of pins A actuated by spiral or other springs B, engaging

page_text: with a number of holes or recesses C when the wheels of the mower or reaper
turn in the forward direction denoted by the arrow on the drawing Fig. 2
and disengaging when the direction is reversed.
This engaging and disengaging is produced by forming the aforesaid holes or
recesses with inclined sides or entrances in the one direction as illustrated
which on coming into contact with the pins "A act as cams and cause them to
recede within cavities D) provided to receive them. The upper half of sectional
view Fig. 1 shewing one of the said pins engaging and the lower half shewing
one disengaged.
By preference I make the aforesaid pins of a length to clear the bottoms of
the holes upon entering in the reverse direction so as to prevent the knock which
would otherwise be produced by the pins striking against the bottoms of the
holes and I sometimes provide a leather buffer E as illustrated.
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of this in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:
In a mowing or reaping machine the substitution of receding pins actuated by
cam surfaces for the usual ratchet and pawl engaging and disengaging mechanism
substantially as described and illustrated.
EDMUND WILSON.
Agent for Applicant.