Improved Mode of Compressing and Making Ensilage, and Device therefor.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 27th June, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 26th Mar., 1890-Accepted, 3rd May, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Mode of Compressing and Making Ensilage, and Device
therefor.
I, THOMAS PEARSON, Midland Works, Wolverhampton, Agricultural Engineer, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
It consists of the use of a roller or cylinder, any way formed, or weighted or
operated to press the grass or ensilage, in combination with the use of wire rope,
framed drum, ratchet and pawl, and lever, attached to beams at top and bottom of
ensilage, for preserving or locking the pressure inflicted by roller.
This is a combination of two old plans or methods invented and published by me,
and is intended to secure the better compression of the grass or ensilage.
Dated this 26th day of June 1889.
THOMAS PEARSON.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Mode of Compressing and Making Ensilage, and Device
therefor.
I THOMAS DUFF PEARSON (formerly known as Thomas Pearson) Midland Works,
Wolverhampton, 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:-
It is a combination of two old plans or methods invented and published by me, and
is intended to secure the better manufacture and preservation of ensilage; the first
of these plans consists of the use of a roller, or cylinder, or other rotating appliance,
any way formed, weighted ballasted and operated, Figs. 1 and 2 of accompanying
drawings, to press the grass &c. in detail, that is, in layers, progressively, from
bottom to top, and moved to and fro over the naked surface of the grass &c. or over
planks laid on said grass &c., the planks being removed to each fresh layer as made
ready to be rolled Fig. 1-the other plan consists of wire rope or other suitable
binding and compressing substitute, together with winding-drum, or pulley, ratchet,
pawl and lever, attached to beams at top and bottom of silage stack or silo Fig. 3-or
mechanical modifications or variations in the application of these details, of which
Fig. 4 is shown as an example-to act as an auxiliary contrivance, to retain, lock
down, or add to the pressure first inflicted by roller.
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:
1. The combination of two old plans or devices, or modifications or variations
thereof, invented and published by me, viz.: the use of a roller, cylinder or other
rotating appliance, anyway formed weighted, ballasted and operated to compress and
make silage, in combination with wire-rope, or other suitable binding and com-
pressing substitute &c., to act as an auxiliary contrivance to retain, or lock down
the pressure after the roller has completed the compression of the silage in stack
or silo, substantially, as described,

page_text: 2. The combination of a roller &c., as described, with any supplemental &
auxiliary pressure apparatus, any way mechanically applied and operated-excluding
actual, and wholly dead-weight-to make silage, as described.
Dated this 25th day of March 1890.
THO. DUFF PEARSON
(Formerly known as Tho. Pearson).