IMPROVE- MENTS IN HARVESTING MACHINES
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Bernhard Samuelson and William George Manwaring
of Banbury in the County of Oxford Engineers for an invention of" IMPROVE-
MENTS IN HARVESTING MACHINES." Partly a communication from abroad
by C. W. Marsh of Sycamore Illinois United States of America
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Bernhard Samuelson and.
William George Manwaring at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on
the 27th March 1882.
"
BERNHARD SAMUELSON and WILLIAM GEORGE MANWARING of Banbury in the
County of Oxford Engineers "IMPROVEMENTS IN HARVESTING MACHINES
Partly a communication from abroad by C. H. Marsh of Sycamore Illinois United
States of America
The said Invention consists in the application of a binding device having
reciprocating packers to Harvesters in which the grain is delivered to the said
binding device by means of Elevators such packers being placed above the table
on which the grain is bound.
And further in the application of a binding device having reciprocating packers
to Harvesters in which the main driving wheel or wheels are placed forward of
the binding device in such a manner that the grain after it has been bound is
discharged in the rear of such main driving wheel or wheels.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Bernhard Samuelson and William George Manwaring in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 25th September 1882.
"
BERNHARD SAMUELSON and WILLIAM GEORGE MANWARING of Banbury in the
County of Oxford Engineers IMPROVEMENTS IN HARVESTING MACHINES" partly
a communication from abroad by C. W. Marsh of Sycamore, Illinois United States
of America
Our Invention relates to the application of a reciprocating packing arrangement
by preference similar to that described in the Specification of Letters Patent
granted to William George Manwaring as of the seventh day of December in the
year of Our Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighty No 5088 and it consists
in the adaptation thereof to certain forms of sheaf binding harvesters other than
the form there described which was a machine in which the sheaf is dropped on
the ground after being tied between the platform and the travelling or main
driving wheel.
The Invention relates firstly to applying the packing arrangements to machines
which are provided with clevators which carry the grain to be bound to the
binding table and secondly to machines in which the sheaf is discharged in the
rear of the travelling or main driving wheel.
In order that our said Invention may be fully understood we shall now proceed
more particularly to describe the same and for that purpose shall refer to the
several figures on the annexed sheet of drawings the same letters of reference
indicating corresponding parts in all the figures.
We do not consider it necessary that we should show or describe all the parts of
a sheaf binding reaper for the same will be readily understood from the following
description of the said drawings which show only such parts of the machine as are
necessary to the description of our Invention.
Figures 1 and 2 illustrate the first part of our Invention.
A A are the elevators for conveying the cut crop (from the travelling apron or
platform on which it falls when cut) on to the inclined grain table B.
CC are reciprocating packing fingers driven by cranks on the continually
revolving shaft D. E is the compressing finger against which the grain is forced
or compacted by the packing fingers C. C. F is the binding arm or needle carried
by the shaft G. His the shaft on which are fixed the cams for working the
knotting apparatus K is the endless apron or buttor for adjusting the grain to the
binding device L is a shield or guard for the packing fingers and needle. The
action of this apparatus is as follows. The grain falling upon the grain table B.
is gathered or compacted by the reciprocating packers against the compresser E.
When suflicient grain is collected to overcome the resistance of the arm E the
binding apparatus is set in motion the needle F descends carrying with it the cord
for binding the bundle at the same time the needle descends the reciprocating
packers are raised out of the grain so as to become inoperative. The bundle or
sheaf being bound by the action of the knotter it is discharged by means of
discharging arms (not shewn in the drawing) the needle ascends to its original
position at the same time the packing fingers CC are again brought into action.
The means employed for setting the binding mechanism into action through the
action of the compressing arm E for causing the needle F to descend for suspending
the action of the packing fingers C for compressing tying and discharging the sheaf
or bundle raising the needle to its normal position and bringing the packing
fingers again into action are or may be similar to those described in the above

page_text: named Specification of the Patent No 5088 in the year of Our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty and need not be here described.
The advantage of the arrangement which we have described in which a recipro-
cating packing device is placed and actuated above the grain table is that the
space below the said table is left more free for the operation of other portions of
the binding device thus rendering access to the whole of the mechanism including
the packing device more convenient.
Figures 3 and 4 illustrate the second part of our Invention.
A is the endless chain platform arranged to the rear of the driving wheel X.
B is the slightly inclined binding table CC the reciprocating packing fingers
1) the crank shaft actuating the fingers C, E the compressing arm F the binding
needle carried on the shaft G, H is the shaft giving motion to the cams for
working the knotting apparatus K is the endless apron or
shields or guards for the packing fingers and needle. M is
discharging the bound sheaf, Z is the finger bar placed in
wheel X (shewn in dotted lines)
"
buttor L L arc
one of the arms for
rear of the driving.
The Crop as it falls upon being cut is conveyed by the endless chains A*
towards the binding table B and is carried forward and compacted against the
compressing finger E by means of the reciprocating packing fingers C C. The
resistance to the finger E being overcome by the pressure of the grain against it
the needle F descends the bundle is tied and discharged by the arm M in the rear
of the driving wheel X.
The means for giving the various motions for compressing tying and discharging
the sheaf are or may be similar to those employed in the first part of our
Invention
It will be readily understood that by the combination last described whilst the
free action of reciprocating packers actuating above the binding table as under the
aforesaid patent 5088 in the year of Our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
eighty is retained the grain is compacted by them in the rear of the main driving
wheel so that the sheaves can be discharged clear of the said wheel without
incurring either the inconvenience of having to use devices for clearing the driving
wheel or else of having to place the driving wheel in such a position that the sheaf
is dropped inside of it and thereby extending the base of the Machine between the
driving and the grain wheel to an exaggerated extent
In order to avoid being obliged to project the discharging arms through the
binding table as in the arrangement shown in Figures 3 and 4 those armis may be
placed wholly above the table and propelled in any convenient way from the train
of driving gear.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of the said
Invention and the manner in which the same is or may be used or carried into
effect we would observe in conclusion that we do not claim separately any of the
parts of the apparatus hereinbefore described but what we consider to be novel
and original and therefore claim as the Invention secured to us by the hereinbefore
in part recited Letters Patent is :-
First In sheaf binding harvesters having elevators placing reciprocating
packing devices above a binding table as firstly hereinbefore described and
illustrated in Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying drawings.
Second. In sheaf binding harvesters having elevators the general arrangements
of packers compressing fingers and needle placed with reference to the elevator
main driving wheel or wheels and binding table as firstly herein before described
and illustrated in Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying drawings.
Third In sheaf binding harvesters which are intended to discharge the sheaf in
the rear of the main driving wheel or wheels placing reciprocating packing devices
as hereinbefore secondly described and illustrated in Figures 3 and 4 of the
accompanying drawings.
Fourth In sheaf binding harvesters intended to discharge the sheaf in the
rear of the main driving wheel or wheels the general arrangement of packers

page_text: compressing fingers and needle placed with reference to the driving wheel or
wheels as secondly herein before described and illustrated in Figures 3 and 4 of
the accompanying drawings.
In witness whereof we the said Bernhard Samuelson and William George
Manwaring have to this our Specification set our hands and seals this
twenty second day of September One thousand eight hundred and eighty
two
B SAMUELSON
(L.S.)
W G MANWARING (L.S.)