Improvements in, or Additions to, Mowing Machines.
Year: 1898

page_text: Improvements in, or Additions to, Mowing Machines.
WE, JOHN PRESSWOOD Goss and EDWIN EVERITT Goss, both of Clenchwarton,
near Lynn, in the County of Norfolk, Farmers, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
According to this invention we fix on the finger bar of the mower and as near
to the inner jointed end as possible an upright bar the longitudinal centre line of
which coincides as nearly as may be with the point of intersection of the centre
line of the knives and the centre line of the joint on which the finger bar is hung.
To the said bar, and adjustable vertically thereon, we attach a horizontal spindle
carrying rotatable series of tines on a boss or frame carried by the spindle and
rotatable by a belt or other gearing from the main wheel. By securing the said
bar to the finger bar of the machine as the finger bar rises and falls in following
the contour of the ground the horizontal spindle carrying the arrangement of
rotatable tines is kept at the same relative distance above the knives of the
moving machine at all times.
When cutting peas or the like lifters may be added for lifting stalks which
may have been beaten down by heavy rains or winds and there may be a knife
edged blade for cutting or separating the tangled stalks as the mower comes into
position for cutting.
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JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47, Lincolns Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.
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WE, JOIN PRESSWOOD Goss and EDWIN EVERITT Goss, both of Clenchwarton,
near Lynn, in the County of Norfolk, Farmers, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
According to this invention we fix on the finger bar of the mower, and as near
to the inner jointed end as possible an upright bar, the longitudinal centre line of
which coincides as nearly as may be with the point of intersection of the centre
line of the knives and the centre line of the joint on which the finger bar is hung.
To the said bar and adjustable vertically thereon, we attach a horizontal spindle
carrying rotatable series of tines on a boss or frame carried by the spindle, and
rotatable by a belt or other gearing from the main wheel. By securing the said
bar to the finger bar of the machine as the finger bar rises and falls in following

page_text: the contour of the ground the horizontal spindle carrying the arrangement of
rotatable tines is kept at the same relative distance above the knives of the
mowing machine at all times.
When cutting peas or the like, lifters may be added for lifting stalks which
may have been beaten down by heavy rains or winds and there may be a knife
edged blade for cutting or separating the tangled stalks as the mower comes into
position for cutting.
Fig. 1 is a transverse section. Fig. 2 a back elevation and Fig. 3 a plan of so
much of a mowing machine as is necessary to illustrate our invention. A is the
finger bar mounted in bearings so as to be capable of being raised and lowered in
the ordinary manner. As near as convenient to the pivoted end of the finger bar
so as to extend upwards therefrom we fix a bar B preferably of square section, the
longitudinal centre line of which bar coincides with the point intersected by a
line drawn through the axis on which the finger bar turns and a line drawn
through the centre of the cutters as shewn by the dotted lines a in Figs. 1 and 2.
On the bar B is adjustably fitted by a boss b and set screw e an axle C upon which
is mounted a frame I carrying tines & the said frame with the tines being rotated
on the axle, when the mower is at work, by means of a driving strap or belt
passing round a belt pulley E on the axle of the supporting wheel F and a corTe-
sponding pulley F attached to one end of the frame 1). By arranging the bar B
in the position described the axle C with the frame D carrying the tines d will
always be parallel to the cutter bar in whatever position it may assume by
inequalities on the ground. Instead of the driving strap and pulley shewn, the
rotation of the frame and times may be effected by toothed wheels from the axle
of the supporting wheel F. These rotating tines serve to press or hold the crop,
while being mowed, against the finger bar and can be adjusted in height according
to the height of the crop to be mowed. When the implement is employed for
cutting peas or the like we provide it with lifters or long fingers, as shewn at G,
which can be fixed onto the finger bar A. these long fingers serving to raise the
stalks of the peas or the like if beaten down by heavy rain or otherwise; and to
cut or separate entangled stalks we provide the implement with a cutting blade H
fixed to the outer end of the finger bar, the said cutter separating the portion of
the crop in the track of the reciprocating cutters, from that beyond the end of the
finger bar A.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
1. In a mowing machine the combination of an upwardly extending bar fixed
to the finger bar, a spindle adjustably fitted on the said upwardly extending bar,
a frame carrying tines mounted so as to rotate on the spindle, and means for
rotating the frame and tines, the arrangement being such that the frame will
always be parallel to the finger bar whatever position the finger bar may assume
by irregularities of the ground over which it travels, substantially as hereinbefore
described.
2. The combination with the subject matter of the preceding claim of long
fingers such as G fixed to the finger bar A substantially as and for the purpose
herein before described.
3. The combination with the subject matter of the preceding claims of a cutting
blade such H fixed on the outer end of the finger bar, substantially as and for
the purpose hereinbefore described.
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47, Lincolns Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.