IMPROVEMENTS IN REAPING AND BINDING MACHINES
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVISIONAL
DEECIFICATION.
I MICHAEL JENKINSON of 4. Augers Terrace, Grantham in the County of
Lincoln, Agricultural Implement Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN REAPING AND BINDING MACHINES to be
as follows:-
For this purpose I employ a rectangular platform which I fix to the finger bar
and which I support by the ordinary supporting and driving wheels and by two
wheels placed one in advance of the other and under that part of the platform
carrying the sheaf binding mechanism. The driving wheel is in advance of the
platform and as usual gives motion to the various parts of the machine by suitable
mechanism as is well understood.
.
The bed of the platform I form with an endless travelling web provided with
transverse bars or slats on its upper side which act to keep the web extended and
assist to carry the cut crop forward to the binding mechanism. The endless web
is connected at its edges to cords or ropes which pass under suitable guide pulleys
and the endless web travels over three rollers, one being on that side of the
machine next the standing crop, a second being under or nearly under the aforesaid
guide pulleys and the third being on the binder side of the machine and at such
an elevation as to enable the endless web to carry the cut crop sufficiently high to
deliver it to the sheaf platform.
At the upper part of the sheaf platform is a short endless web carried by guide
rollers which are mounted on a frame capable of adjustment to various angles by
which means I am enabled to adapt the machine to the binding of crops of either
long or short staple.
The inclined part of the first mentioned endless web is preferably protected with
a light covering so as to enable the machine to work in windy weather without
danger of the cut crop being blown about. The rear part of the platform is
provided with a suitable guard board as usual. The first named endless web
travels in a horizontal plane the length of the cutter bar and then rises as before
described to deliver the cut crop to the sheaf platform. The cutting and binding
mechanism may be of any ordinary or approved construction.
By placing the rear guard board on one or the other edge of the platform the
latter may be adapted to either a right or left handed machine as may be required.
•
M. JENKINSON.
By Harris & Mills,
23, Southampton Buildings,
Agents.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
I MICHAEL JENKINSON of 4 Auger's Terrace, Grantham in the County of
Lincoln, Agricultural Implement Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of
my said Invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN REAPING AND BINDING MACHINES and in
what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
For this purpose I employ a rectangular platform which I fix to the finger bar
and which I support by the ordinary supporting and driving wheels.
The driving wheel is in advance of the platform and as usual gives motion to the
various parts of the machine by suitable mechanism as is well understood.
The bed of the platform I form with an endless travelling web provided with
transverse bars or slats on its upper side which act to keep the web extended and
assist to carry the cut crop forward to the binding mechanism. The endless web
is connected at its edges to cords, ropes or chains which pass under suitable guide
pulleys and the endless web travels over three rollers, one being on that side of
the machine next the standing crop, a second being under or nearly under the
aforesaid guide pulleys and the third being on the binder side of the machine and
at such an elevation as to enable the endless web to carry the cut crop sufficiently
high to deliver it to the sheaf platform.
At the upper part of the sheaf platform is a short endless web carried by guide
rollers which are mounted on a frame capable of adjustment to various angles by
which means I am enabled to adapt the machine to the binding of crops of either
long or short staple.
The rear part of the platform is provided with a suitable guard board as usual.
The first named endless web travels in a horizontal plane the length of the cutter
bar, and then rises as before described to deliver the cut crop to the sheaf platform.
By placing the rear guard board on one or the other edge of the platform the
latter may be adapted to either a right or left handed machine as may be required.
And in order that my said Invention may be more clearly understood and readily
carried into effect, I will proceed aided by the accompanying drawings more fully
to describe the same.
1. DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a rear view partly in section.
Figure 2 is a plan, Figure 3 is a side view partly in section and Figure 4 is a
front view of parts of a reaping and binding machine with my invention applied
thereto. In all the figures like parts are marked with similar letters of reference.
a is the platform of the machine which I fix to the finger bar band which
I support by the ordinary supporting wheels c, d and supporting and driving
wheel e.
If desired other supporting wheels may be employed as described in my
provisional specification but I find such to be unnecessary.
The driving wheel e is in advance of the platform a and as usual gives motion
to the various parts of the machine by suitable mechanism as is well understood.
I would here remark that as my invention does not apply to the cutting binding
and raking mechanism of the reaping and binding machine I have shown only
such parts of the machine as are necessary to explain the nature of my invention.

page_text: The bed of the platform I form with an endless travelling web a¹ provided with
transverse bars or slats a² on its outer side which act to keep the web a' extended
and assist to carry the cut crop forward to the binding mechanism.
The endless web a¹ is connected at its edges to cords or ropes or as shown in the
drawings to chains a³ which pass under suitable guide pulleys or wheels f, and the
endless web a¹, travels over three rollers g, h, i one (g) being on that side of the
machine which is next the standing crop, a second (h) being under or nearly under
the aforesaid guide pulleys or wheels f and the third (i) being on the hinder side
of the machine and at such an elevation as to enable the endless web a¹ to carry
the cut crop sufficiently high to deliver it to the sheaf platform ; where the
binding mechanism acts in the usual or in any known and suitable manner to bind
the sheaf.
Motion is communicated to the endless web a¹ from the driving wheel e in the
following manner.
The internal teeth of the driving wheel e, give motion to a toothed wheel ¹ on
one end of an axis k on the other end of which is a bevelled pinion which gives
motion to a bevelled wheel which in its turn gives motion to a bevelled pinion m'
fixed on the shaft or axis m on which is also fixed a chain wheel m³ from which
an endless chain n passes to a chain wheel fixed on the axis of the roller i to
which it gives motion. On the axis of such roller i are also fixed chain wheels i³
around which the chains a³ are passed which by being connected to the endless
web a¹ give motion thereto.
At the upper part of the sheaf platform j is fixed a short endless web o, carried
by guide rollers o' which are mounted on a frame o³ capable of adjustment to
various angles by which means I am enabled to adapt the machine to the binding
of crops of either long or short staple by placing such endless web o in the position
necessary to bring the centre of the sheaf over the binding mechanism.
The inclined part of the endless travelling web a¹ is provided with, guard
boards a. The rear part of the platform is provided with a suitable guard board a³
as usual.
The endless web al travels in a horizontal plane the length of the cutter bar and
then rises as before described to deliver the cut crop to the sheaf platform j.
The cutting and binding mechanism may be of any ordinary or approved
construction.
By placing the rear guard board as on one or the other edge of the platform a
the latter may be adapted to either a right or left handed machine as may be
required.
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 platform of a reaping and binding machine provided with an endless web a¹
mounted and operated in manner substantially as herein shown and described and
for the purpose stated.
2. An endless web o mounted on the sheaf platform ; with capability of
adjustment so as to render the machine adjustable to the binding of crops of either
long or short staple substantially as herein-shown and described.
MICHAEL JENKINSON.
By Harris & Mills,
23, Southampton Buildings,
Agents.