IMPROVEMENTS IN PRESSES FOR PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Daniel Cole Lowber, of the Firm of Laughland
and Company, of Church Street, Warrington, in the County of
Lancaster, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PRESSES FOR
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Daniel Cole Lowber at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 15th August 1871.
I, DANIEL COLE LOWBER, of the Firm of Laughland and Company,
of Church Street, Warrington, in the County of Lancaster, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PRESSES
FOR COMPRESSING TRUSSES OR BALES OF HAY, STRAW, AND OTHER MERCHANDIZE,"
to be as follows:-
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My said Invention relates to a press for reducing the bulk of hay,
straw, or other merchandizo in trusses or bales, so that the same will
occupy the least possible space and may therefore be conveniently and
economically stored or carried. For this purpose I construct the said

page_text: press with a box or chamber of suitable size to receive the trusses or
bales before they are compressed. This box is provided with a follower
or piston, which is constructed and supported to slide freely in the box
without leaving unnecessary space around it between its edges and the
sides of the said box. To operate the said follower I provide the press
with a screw so arranged that by turning it in the proper direction it
will force the follower against the hay or other material in the press.
The said screw may be turned by a lever or winch, or may be provided
with other known suitable means for turning it. By means of this
screw trusses of hay are reduced in bulk about sixty-six per cent. 1
When the truss or bale is sufficiently compressed, it is held till bands
of wire or other material are passed and secured around it. The
screw is then reversed to draw back the follower and the compressed
truss or bale is removed and another truss or bale placed in the press.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Daniel Cole Lowber in the Great Scal Patent
Office on the 15th February 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I; DANIEL
COLE LOWBER, of the Firm of Laughland and Company, of Church Street,
Warrington, in the County of Lancaster, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-
fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Daniel Oole Lowber, Her special
licence that I, the said Daniel Cole Lowber, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Daniel Cole Lowber,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
“IMPROVEMENTS IN PRESSES FOR COMPRESSING TRUSSES OF HAY, STRAW, AND
OTHER MERCHANDISE," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Daniel Cole Lowber, my executors or administrators, by an instru-

page_text: ment in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and
in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be
filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Daniel Cole Lowber, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement, reference being had to the accom-
panying Drawing forming a part of this Specification : —
My said Invention relates to a press for reducing the bulk of hay,
straw, or other merchandise in trusses or bales so that the same will
occupy the least possible space, and may therefore be conveniently and
economically stored or carried. For this purpose I construct the said
press with a box or frame of suitable size to receive the trusses or bales
before they are compressed. This box is provided with a follower or
piston which is constructed and supported to slide freely in the box
without leaving unnecessary space around it between its edges and the
sides of the said box. To operate the said follower I provide the press
with a screw so arranged that by turning it in the proper direction it
will force the follower against the hay or other material in the press.
The said screw may be turned by a lever or winch, or may be
provided with other known suitable means for turning it.
The Drawing is a vertical longitudinal section of a double press con-
structed according to my Invention.
A, B, are the boxes or frames for receiving the hay or other material
to be pressed, the same being open at the sides. A', B', are the followers
or pistons which are fitted to move endwise in the said boxes. O is the
screw for operating the followers; the said screw is passed through a
nut D to which is connected the bevil wheel E; the latter is geared into
the pinion F on a vertical shaft G provided with a pole or bar H, to
which I attach a horse or other animal. It will be seen by referring to
the Drawing that the boxes or frames A, B, are secured to a strong
framework I of wood or other suitable material, and that the ends or
bottoms A², B³, are strongly braced by the rods M to the uprights I' at
the centre of the machine. They are also held at the lower edges by
strong clamps J of iron or other meta¹.

page_text: I prefer that each box or frame should be made to contain three
unpressed bales or trusses of hay, as shown in the box A, the follower A¹
being then at the end of its backward movement; in the box B the
same quantity of hay is shewn compressed by the follower B¹ which has
been forced in upon it by the screw O. By means of this screw bales
or trusses of hay are reduced in bulk about sixty per cent. When tho
truss or bale is sufficiently compressed in one box, it is held till bands of
wire or other material are passed and secured around it. The screw is
then reversed to draw back the follower and compress the hay in the
other box, the compressed trusses or bales being removed and replaced :
by fresh bales in each box as often as the screw is reversed.
Having thus fully described my said Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I wish it understood that I claim, a press for
compressing hay, straw, and other merchandise, constructed and
operating as herein set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Daniel Cole Lowber, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.
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TTATזר בד רד AA
DANIEL COLE LOWDER. (L.8.)