Improvements in Machines for Binding Corn or the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 20th June, 1899-Accepted, 16th Sept., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Binding Corn or the like.
I, CARL JUUL MAGLEKILDE PETERSEN, of 16, Reventlowsgade, Copenhagen, in
the Kingdom of Denmark, Engineering Draughtsman, 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; -
The object of the present invention is a machine capable of raking together,
raising and binding into sheaves corn or the like that has already been cut and
is lying on the ground.
The machines hitherto used for binding corn are the so-called sheaf-binding
harvesting machines. These machines, besides raising and binding the corn,
also have to cut the same. This necessitates a heavy draught and in many cases
makes it impossible for smaller farmers to use them.
The present invention avoids this disadvantage, the said machine having only
to raise and bind the corn already mown and lying on the ground.
The invention is shown on the accompanying drawings in which
Fig. 1 shows the machine in side-elevation;
Fig. 2 the same seen from above;
Fig. 3 is a schematical view illustrating the working of the rakes;
Fig. 4 is a detail.
The machine is mounted on two wheels a & b and is intended to be drawn by
horses or other draught power. The wheel a is keyed on to its axle. When the
wheel a turns, the movement is transmitted to an axle c by means of a chain
and from this axle to another axle d by means of a pair of cog-wheels.
From the axle d the movement is, in its turn, transmitted by a chain to an
axle e and from this to an axle p on the other side of the machine. The axles d
and lie in the prolongation of one another and each of them carries two arms f
and a carrier g.
The arms are arranged to turn freely on the axles d and p whereas the
carriers y are keyed on to the said axles. Each arm f on the one side of the
machine is connected with the corresponding arm on the other side by means
of an axle h provided with a row of bent rods shaped like the teeth of a
horse-rake (see Fig. 4). The axles that are arranged to turn freely in the
arms fare provided at one end with an angular piece k consisting of two arms
carrying at their extremities rollers and m.
These rollers are arranged in such a manner that they may alternately roll
upon a guide rail o made in two parts and rigidly fixed upon the frame of the
machine, whenever the axles d and p, and with them the rakes, are turning
round. The binding apparatus proper, which in some suitable manner is driven
from the driving wheels and may be of any of the well-known constructions, is
in Fig. 1 designated by q.
The machine works in the following manner.
When the machine is driven forward in the direction of the arrow r
driving wheels and the axles c. d and are turned in the direction indicated by
the

page_text: the arrow s. The rakes formed by the axles h and the teeth i are thereby moved
as follows: -
The rake having the position I, Fig. 3, drags over the ground and gathers
together the cut corn. By means of the carrier g, Fig. 1, the arms f are now
turned around the axles & and 2, while the axles h with the teeth are moved
together with the arms f.
The
During the movement the rollers will roll on the outer side of the guide
rail o which is flattened in order to prevent the points of the teeth boring into
the ground. The rake then passes through the positions II and III to the posi-
tion IV, the rollers during this movement rolling continuously on the outer
surface of the guide rail o, and the corn gathered by the rake is thereby raised
until it is delivered in the position IV, on to the inclined plane a leading to the
binding apparatus q. The rake is now carried further on by the arms f, whereby
the roller will leave the guide rail o which is cut off at a suitable place.
carriers not being in firm connection with the arms f, these arms, and with
them the corresponding rake, will, whenever the above mentioned vertical posi-
tion has been reached, on account of their own weight drop down until the
rollers m meet the inner surface of the other part of the guide-rail o, which is
shaped in such a manner that the rake will be guided away from the binding-
apparatus and not be in the way, see position V Fig. 3. As the machine moves
further along the rake will now and again assume the position I and remain
so until the carriers g again strike against the armis f, so that sufficient time is
allowed for the rake to gather together the corn lying on the ground.
stated above, there are two rakes whose arms f are moved by the same carrier g,
and it will be seen that one rake begins to fall a little before the other is raised
from the ground; one of the two rakes will therefore always drag along the
ground or in any case reach the ground immediately after the other has been
raised. By this arrangement no corn can be left on the ground.
As
The rakes, as will be understood from the above description, are thus moved
intermittently round the axles d and p. From the position I to the position IV
the motion is proportionately slow and even, while from the latter position and
back to position I it is quicker and increasing in speed, and, lastly, the rakes
will remain for some time in the position I, until one of the carriers g reaches
the arm f.
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. A machine for binding corn characterized by the arrangement of rakes
which during the forward movement of the machine, besides being moved inter-
mittently around an axle lying between them, turn around the axle upon which
the rake-teeth are placed, all for the purpose of enabling the machine, by means
of the rakes, to gather, raise, and deliver the cut corn lying on the ground to
a binding apparatus.
2. A form of construction of the arrangement indicated in Claim 1, charac-
terized by axles dp, adapted to receive their movement from the driving wheels
of the machine and provided with fixed carriers y and arms f that may turn freely
upon the axles, the said arms f carrying revolvable axles h, that are provided
with rigidly fixed rake-teeth i and with angular pieces which carry rollers/
which during the rotation of the rakes alternately roll upon a guide rail o firmly
fixed upon the machine and of the shape shown in Fig. 3.
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HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
Agents to Applicant, 18, Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C., London.