Improvements in or Applicable to Mowing and Reaping Machines.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Aug., 1889
Complete Specification Left. 21st Nov. 1889-Accepted, 21st Dec., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or Applicable to Mowing and Reaping Machines.
, ALFRED EADE, the younger, of Buxted, in the county of Sussex, Agricultural
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the construction and application to mowing and manual-
delivery reaping machines of an attachment consisting of a platform which is advan-
tageously made of sheet iron on a frame of iron, wood or other suitable material
hinged to the knife bar and fixed to the end-wheel casting. The platform is provided
with a rail or fence around its outer side and is adjustably supported clear of the
ground by means of chains attached to its rear portion and to the driver's and raker's
seats whereby, with a rake, a man can gather the grain onto the said platform and
then deliver each sheaf at the back of the machine clear of the horse track instead of
behind the knife bar.
From this arrangement it will be obvious that a whole field can be cut without any
of the corn being moved, whereas with mowers fitted with the ordinary reaping
attachment the sheaf has to be bound and removed before the implement comes round
again. By carrying the sheaves around each corner a clear road way can be kept for
turning the machine and horses and enables the field to be left without treading on
the cornund the work can be done as satisfactorily as by a self raking reaper with a
controllable rake.
Moreover in cases where it is required to cut the grain when it is not fit to be
bound into sheaves the grain can by my improvements be laid until it is ready to be
tied, and this will necessitate the employment of only one man, a boy and two horses.
Dated the 26th day of August 1889.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or Applicable to Mowing and Reaping Machines.
I, ALFRED EADE, the younger, of Buxted, in the county of Sussex, Agricultural
Engineer, 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 :-
This invention relates to improvements in or applicable to mowing and manual
delivery reaping machines.
When using a mowing machine provided with the ordinary reaping attachments
it is well known that the corn, as cut, is usually bound into sheaves and removed
before the implement comes round again, in order to provide a clear way for the
horses.
The chief object of my invention is to obviate this disadvantage; and to this end I
make use of a platform onto which the grain is gathered in the ordinary manner, and
from which it can be delivered at the back of the machine clear of the horse track
instead of behind the knife-bar as heretofore.
In the accompanying drawing,-
Figure 1 is a perspective view of a mowing machine having my improved reaping
attachment applied thereto.
Figure 2 is a plan of the platform detached.
Figure 3 is a view of the same looking in the direction of the arrow 1 figure 2;
and

page_text: a is a mowing machine of ordinary construction having the seat for the driver and
the seat c for the raker.
d is my improved platform, which is advantageously made of sheet iron, supported
on a frame of iron or wood and provided with a fence or rail e. This platform, at its
front side, is hinged to the finger-bar of the mower; as shown in the drawing the
hinging is effected by means of arms or pivots ff attached to the platform and
entering lugs g, g on the said finger-bar. The weight of the rear part of the platform
is carried by a caster-wheel h, the standard of which is carried in a socket i; and by
a chain attached at one end to the platform and at the other adapted to be adjustably
attached to a hook on the seat c. is the outside or platform wheel which is carried
by an axle on the dividing shoe m attached to the end of the finger-bar.
n is a shield for preventing the straw from getting into the gearing of the machine,
the said shield having attached to it a foot rest o, and a guard p for preventing the
straw from becoming entangled with the driver's leg.
It is obvious that with this construction a raker sitting upon the seat cand pro-
vided with an ordinary manual rake is able to gather the cut grain upon the platform
in the desired quantities and then sweep the same from the platform behind the
machine, where it will be out of the way of the horses in their next round. Also
at the corners the sheaves can be carried until they can be deposited clear of the
track.
In cases where it is required to cut the grain when it is not fit to be bound into
sheaves, the grain can, by my improvements, be laid until it is ready to be tied, and
this will necessitate the employment of only one man, a boy and two horses.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
1. The employment, in a manual delivery reaping machine, of a platform con-
structed and arranged, substantially as described.
2. The manufacture and use of reaping attachments (for a mowing machine) having
a platform of the kind herein before described.
3. The manufacture and use of a manual delivery reaping machine having a plat-
form arranged substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accom-
panying drawing.
Dated the 21st day of November 1889
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.