Improvements in Machines for Cutting and Collecting Seed Clover and other Crops.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd July, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Apr., 1896-Accepted, 27th June, 1896'
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Cutting and Collecting Seed Clover
and other Crops.
I, JOHN BURTON PARRY, of Pencoyd Court, near Ross in the County of
Hereford, Farmer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention for improvements in machines for gathering seed clover and other
seed crops, has for its object to cut and gather short crops for seed or other purposes
and consists in collecting the plant from a platform behind the knives in a suitable
receptacle by means of revolving arms.
In carrying this invention into practical effect, a platform is attached to an
ordinary mowing machine just behind the knives and leads to a collecting box.
A revolving reel is mounted above the platform and driven from the machine.
The reel brings the plant to the knives and the cut crop is carried by the reel to
the collecting box which when full is emptied by the driver and left in rows, or the.
crop may be thrown off the platform by a hand rake and left in rows.
Dated this 22nd day of July 1895.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.
Improvements in Machines for Cutting and Collecting Seed Clover
and other Crops.
I JOHN BURTON PARRY, of Pencoyd Court, near Ross in the County of
Hereford, Farner 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 for improvements in machines for gathering seed clover and other
seed crops, has for its object to cut and gather short crops for seed or other purposes
and consists in collecting the plant from a platform behind the knives in a suitable
receptacle by means of revolving arms.
In carrying this invention into practical effect a platform is attached to an
ordinary mowing machine just behind the knives and leads to a collecting box.
A revolving reel is mounted above the platform and driven from the machine.
The reel brings the plant to the knives and the cut crop is carried by the reel to
the collecting box which when full is emptied by the driver and left in rows, or the
crop may be thrown off the platform by a hand rake and left in rows.
In the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings:-
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a machine constructed according to this invention.
Fig. 2 is a front elevation and Fig. 3 is a plan.
A curved platform a leading to the collecting box
is attached to the finger
bar c of an ordinary mowing machine just behind the knives d.
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page_text: The curved platform a and box b are supported by suitable carrying wheels e and
by a central wheel farranged on a shaft g supported in bearings h upon the box b.
Upon the shaft ga sprocket wheel i is arranged and motion is transmitted by
chain belting to the sprocket wheel m actuating the revolving reel n supported in
brackets o.
The knives are driven by the rod p from the mowing machine axle in the
ordinary manner. As the machine is moved the revolving reel n is actuated from
the central carrying wheelf and brings the plant to the knives d and then carries
the cut crop to the collecting box b.
The cover r of the collecting box b_and_with it the portion of the box can be
raised by depressing the lever s and the contents left in rows.
The machine may
be constructed without the collecting box 6 and the crop may be thrown off the
platform a by a hand rake. The whole may be turned up out of use by means of
the chain t actuated by a hand lever in the ordinary manner.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. In a machine for gathering seed clover and other crops, the combination
with a mowing machine of a guide platform and of a revolving reel adapted to
bring the crop to the knives and to carry the cut crop down the guide platform
substantially as described.
2. In a machine for gathering seed clover and crops the combination with an
ordinary mowing machine of a guide platform a receptacle for receiving the cut
crop and of a revolving reel for collecting the plant in the receptacle substantially
as described.
3. Improvements in machines for gathering seed clover and other crops substan-
tially as described with reference to the drawings.
Dated this 21st day of April 1896.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.