IMPROVED APPARATUS TO BE USED IN CONNECTION WITH PORTABLE OR FIXED CHAFF-CUTTERS FOR PRESSING CHAFF INTO BAGS
Year: 1877

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edward Primerose Howard Vaughan,
F. C. S., at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 20th June-1877.
A communication from abroad by William Andrews, of Christchurch, Canter-
bury, in the Colony of New Zealand, Engineer, and Henry Moffat, of Ļincoln,
Canterbury aforesaid, Miller and Fariner.
EDWARD PRIMEROSE HOWARD VAUGHAN, F. C. S., of 67, Chancery Lane, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent. "IMPROVED APPARATUS TO BE USED IN
CONNECTION WITH PORTABLE OR FIXED CHAFF-CUTTERS FOR PRESSING CHAFF INTO
BAGS." A communication from abroad by William Andrews, of Christchurch,
Canterbury, in the Colony of New Zealand, Engineer, and Henry Moffat, of Lincoln,
Canterbury aforesaid, Miller and Farmer.
This Invention consists in the construction and arrangement of apparatus to be
attached to and used in connection with portable or fixed chaff-cutters for the pur-
pose of pressing the chaff into bags.
An elevator trough (the nature of which is well known and understood) is con-
nected to the chaff-cutter, and has in the interior thereof a belt or strap placed
edgeways, on which is placed a series of pieces of wood to carry up the chaff from
the chaff-cutter. The belt runs on two pulleys placed within the elevator trough;
a vertical tube formed of sheet iron is fixed to the elevator, and into which tube
the chaff falls as it is brought to the top of the elevator. On the outside of the
vertical tube is placed a ring capable of sliding thereon, and on which ring the bag
to be filled is fixed by means of hooks, or in any other suitable manner. At the
lower part of the interior of the vertical tube is placed a screw of one or more
blades or threads, the same being mounted on a vertical shaft, and capable of being
caused to rotate by means of a belt from the chaff-cutter to a pulley at the upper
part of the tube, and which pulley is connected with a pair of bevel wheels within
the latter.
The elevator belt is worked by means of a pulley and bevel wheels at the upper
part of the elevator trough. On each side of the upper portion of the vertical tube
is a grooved wheel, over which respectively runs a chain, such chains being
respectively fixed to the sliding ring at one end, and at the other to a roller, which
revolves in brackets fixed on each side of the elevator trough. On the axle of the
last-mentioned roller are mounted two discs of wood or metal, between which is a

page_text: ratchet ring, the latter being capable of being set to any degree of tightness by
means of nuts, which press the two discs together. The bag, which is hooked or
attached to the sliding ring, is, wound up by means of a handle provided for
that purpose, and is held, when wound up; by a pawl, which acts upon the
ratchet ring.
The operation of the apparatus is as follows:-The bag, which is hooked or other-
wise attached to the sliding ring, is wound up the tube by means of the handle and
roller before mentioned and held in position by the pawl. Upon the screw being
set in motion, the chaff is pressed into the bag, which latter descends, causing the
roller to revolve slowly as it fills. From the ratchet ring being held by the pawl
the bag is filled. to. any degree of tightness by means of the two. discs gripping
the ratchet ring, more or less,, by the before-mentioned nuts being tightened or
loosened.
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It is manifest that the above-described arrangement may also be employed for
pressing bran or other light fodder into bags.