IMPROVEMENTS IN HAYMAKERS AND IN COMBINED HORSERAKES AND HAYMAKERS
Year: 1885

page_text: I THOMAS HENRY RAMSDEN of Bramhope, near Leeds in the county of York
Land Agent do hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN
HAYMAKERS AND IN COMBINED HORSERAKES AND HAYMAKERS to be as follows:-
In combination with my individually suspended gathering teeth described in
the specifications 41168 and 70644 and my elevator belt platform specified in
7064, I affix a revolving shaft which is driven from the motion of the travelling
wheels, and to this shaft spreaders of the known kind may be attached, and
receive and cast the hay and like material upward over and backward from the
upper end of the aforesaid platform. In preference however to the type of
spreader in use with its dangerous finger points, I fix on the said revolving shaft
one or more hollow cylinders whose rotating peripheries receive and spread the hay
or like material from the said platform in the aforesaid manner.
The spreader
cylinders may have their circumferences raised, or corrugated; and be driven by
a housed or protected pulley fixed on the aforesaid shaft.
By taking off the delivery trough from my horse rake, and affixing the spreader
the machine becomes a haymaker; and by removing the spreader and attaching
the delivery trough it becomes a horse rake. Thus a horse rake and a haymaker
are combined in one implement.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
I THOMAS HENRY RAMSDEN of Bramhope near Leeds in the county of York
land agent, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN
· HAYMAKERS, AND IN COMBINED HORSERAKES & HAYMAKERS and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement :-
In combination with my individually suspended gathering teeth (described in
the specifications 4116** and 706484) and my elevator belt platform (specified in
70644) I affix a revolving shaft which is driven from the motion of the travelling
wheels, and to this shaft spreaders of the known kind may be attached and receive
and cast the hay or like material upward over and backward from the upper end
of the aforesaid platform. In preference however to the type of spreader in use
with its dangerous finger points I fix on the said revolving shaft one or more
hollow cylinders whose rotating peripheries receive and spread the hay or like
material from the said platform in the aforesaid manner. The spreader cylinders
may have their circumferences raised, or corrugated, and be driven by a housed or
protected pulley fixed on the aforesaid shaft.
By taking off the delivery trough from my horserake and affixing the spreader
the machine becomes a haymaker: and by removing the spreader and attaching the
delivery trough it becomes a horse rake. Thus a horse rake and a haymaker are
combined in one implement.
The accompanying drawing is an elevation of the right side of the implement :-
a, therein is the hinge rod of the gathering teeth b, which may be simultaneously raised
by their footlever b₁; c is the platform and d the elevator belt or belts running on the
pulleys e and f. To the near or left travelling wheel of the implement the driving
wheel g is fixed, and drives by means of the pinion wheel h, on the near end of the
shaft the pulley ; fixed on the other end of the said shaft. From the pulley j
motion is conveyed to the spreader.
In combination with the gathering teeth b, and their footlever b¹, and the
platform c the shaft k is affixed to the machine; and it is in the drawing shewn
driven by the pulley ? (fixed on the end of the said shaft) by motion obtained from
the near travelling wheel.
Spreaders of the usual kind may be fixed on the shaft k, and cast the hay or like
material upward over and backward from the upper end of the platform c.
Preferentially however I fix for a spreader on the shaft k, a cylinder m, with its
circumference nearly touching the upper end of the platform c, and as the circum.
ference revolves in a direction away from the said upper end, it spreads the hay or
like material in the aforesaid manner.
The circumference of the cylinder m may be raised the better to grip the
material to be spread, as for example by lags fixed on the cylinder. The raising is
done in the drawing in a corrugated form. The cylinder m, may be hollow, and
the pulley protected by a cover n. More than one cylinder may be put on the
shaft k, if the cylinders be shorter.

page_text: The gathering teeth b with their footlever b¹, and the elevator belt platform c, in
combination with the revolving spreader m are for the haymaker.
The machine becomes a horse rake by removing the cylinder m, and putting
the rising part p of the delivery trough p q on its pivots o. The rising part p is
shewn in the drawing by dotted lines, and is operated by the driver by a hand
lever. By taking off the rising part p of the delivery trough from the machine,
and substituting the spreader m, the implement is converted into a haymaker.
Thus a horserake and haymaker are combined in one implement.
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) For a haymaker a revolving spreader in combination with individually
suspended gathering teeth b, and their footlever b¹, substantially as and for the
purpose described and represented.
(2) For a haymaker a revolving spreader in combination with the elevator belt
platform c, substantially as and for the purpose described and represented.
(3) For a haymaker the gathering teeth b and their footlever b¹ substantially as
and for the purpose described and represented.
(4) For a haymaker a revolving spreader cylinder m, substantially as and for
the purpose described and represented.
(5) For a haymaker a raised, or a corrugated periphery for the spreader cylinder
substantially as and for the purpose described and represented.
(6) For a haymaker the combination of the spreader cylinder m, with the
platform c, the gathering teeth b, and their footlever 6', substantially as and for the
purpose described and represented.
(7) For a combined horserake and haymaker, the spreader cylinder m the
delivery trough p q, the elevator belt platform c, and the gathering teeth 6 with
their footlever b¹, substantially as and for the purpose described and represented.
Dated this 13th day of July 1885.
THOMAS HENRY RAMSDEN,