Improvements in or Applicable to Self Binding Harvesting Machinery.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Feb., 1887
Complete Left, 25th Nov., 188
Complete Accepted, 27th Dec., 1887
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or Applicable to Self Binding Harvesting
Machinery.
1, MARWOOD JOHN OLIVER of St. Tudy, in the county of Cornwall, Seed, Manure
and Corn Merchant do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in or applicable to self binding harvesting
machinery and the improvements consist in placing guards over the canvas rollers of
such machines in such a manner as to prevent straw from getting round the spindles
of the said rollers whereby a considerable amount of trouble, annoyance and loss of
time are avoided, the friction and the wear and tear resulting from the said cause ar e
prevented and the machine can therefore be worked with a less expenditure of
power than hitherto.
I form my guards of a metal plate or plates suitably fixed to the frame of the
canvas rollers as near the rollers as possible without interfering with their rotary
movement.
n D
1002
G. F. REDFERN,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or Applicable to Self Binding Harvesting
Machinery.
1, MARWOOD JOHN OLIVER, of St. Tudy, in the County of Cornwall, Seed, Manure
and Corn Merchant, 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 relates to improvements in or applicable to self binding harvesting
machinery and the improvements consist in placing guards over the canvas rollers of
such machines in such a manner as to prevent straw from getting round the spindles
of the said rollers whereby a considerable amount of trouble, annoyance and loss of
time are avoided, the friction and the wear and tear resulting from the said cause
are prevented and the machine can therefore we worked with a less expenditure of
power than hitherto.
I form my guards of a metal plate or plates suitably fixed to the frame of the
canvas rollers as near the rollers as possible without interfering with their rotary
movement.
In order to enable my invention to be fully understood i will describe the same
with reference to the accompanying drawing in which
Figure 1 shows so much of the frame of a sheaf binding harvesting machine as is
necessary to show the application of my invention thereto, and
Figure 2 is a section of the same on the line x, x Figure 1.
a, a are the rollers around which the webbing is stretched and upon which it is
adapted to run and is the portion of the frame supporting the said rollers.
c, c are the improved guards. These guards are made of wood, metal or any other
desirable material and are fixed to the frame b by any convenient means. When the
canvas apron is stretched upon the rollers the said guards are enclosed between the
two sides of the same and serve to prevent straw or the like from entering between
the ends of the rollers and the frame.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:
1. In a sheaf binding harvesting machine the combination with the rollers carrying
the travelling aprons of guards attached to the frame and adapted to prevent straw or
the like from becoming wound around the bearings of the said rollers, substantially
as described.
2. The combination with the rollers carrying the travelling aprons of a sheaf
binding harvesting machine of guards c, arranged substantially as described.
Dated the with dox of N
1007
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agents for the Applicant.