An Improved Elevating Device for use in Building Stacks.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 15th July, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 15th Mar., 1893-Accepted, 20th May, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Elevating Device for use in Building Stacks.
I ERNEST FRANCIS POGSON, Peacock Hotel, Belvoir, Grantham, Farmer, and
Licensed Victualler, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as.
follows:-
A pair of three pronged forks have their flat handles crossed and connected by
an axle pin, the upper end of each handle forms an eye to which one end of a short
chain is attached, at the centre of the chain is a loop or ring. The prongs of each-
fork are curved to the point, and connected by a cross bar a few inches below their
upper ends, the cross bars are used by an attendant to open out the forks and press
their prongs into the hay or other loose crop to be stacked.
The loop or ring of the chain has one end of a rope tied to it, the rope is then
passed over a grooved pulley secured near the top of a pole, then under a second
pulley secured to the pole near the ground, the end of the rope is attached to the
hame carried by a horse or other animal.
The pole is secured by three guy ropes in a vertical position at one side of the
stack to be made.
After the prongs of the fork have been pressed into the loose hay or other crop,
upon the animal moving from the stack the forks will close and may be raised to
any required height and opened leaving the portion of crop where required, the
process being repeated until the whole stack is built.
Dated this 14th day of July 1892.
H. W. GOUGH, C.E.,
Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Elevating Device for use in Building Stacks.
I ERNEST FRANCIS POGSON, Peacock Hotel, Belvoir, Grantham, Farmer and
Licensed Victualler, 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:-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shows a side view, and Figure 2 a plan of a pair of forks I employ.
A three pronged fork 1 has the lower end of its handle formed with a slot 2 to.
receive the flat handle of a three pronged fork 3, the two forks being connected by
an axle pin 4. The upper end of each handle forms an eye to which one end of a
short chain 5 is attached, the centre of the chain is connected by a swivel to a
ring 6. The prongs of each fork are curved to the point, and are provided a few
inches below their upper ends with a cross bar 7 secured to them by loops 8 having
their stems passed through the cross bar and secured by a washer and nut 9.
On one side of the site on which the stack is to be built a pole of requisite length
is secured in a vertical position by three guy ropes, the upper ends of the ropes are
secured close to the top of the pole, two of the ropes being stretched one to the
right and the other to the left of the pole, with their ends some distance from the
site of the stack, the third rope stretching over the site of the stack, the lower
ends of the three ropes being tied to stakes driven into the ground or to other
fixtures. Near the top of the pole beneath the guy ropes a grooved pulley four
or five inches in diameter is secured by a short shackle chain, or rope, a similar

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pulley being secured in like manner to the pole about three feet from the
ground.
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While the stack is being built one end of a rope is tied to the ring 6 of the pair
of forks, the other end of the rope is passed over the pulley near the top of the
pole then brought down by the side of the pole and passed beneath the lower pulley
and attached to the hame carried by a horse or other animal. A load of hay or
other crop is then drawn close to the pole beneath the right or left guy rope.
attendant on the top of the load opens out the forks to the position shown at
Figure 1'by means of the cross bars 7 and forcibly presses the prongs of the forks
into the loose hay or otlier crop, then upon the horse or other animal moving away
from the load, the forks will close and grasp a portion of the load and raise it to
any height required, the forks being released by an attendant leaves a portion
of the crop where required, the process being repeated until the whole stack is
built.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The construction and employment in elevating devices for use in building stacks,
of a pair of three pronged forks operating as hereinbefore described and illustrated
in the drawings annexed.
Dated this Fourteenth day of March 1893.
H. W. GOUGH, C.E.,
Agent.