Improvements in Apparatus for Turning Grass Swaths or other Cut Crops.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 8th July, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 18th Mar., 1392-Accepted, 23rd Apr., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
*Improvements in Apparatus for Turning Grass Swaths or other
Cut Crops.
ALFRED BLOMFIELD of Orange Hall Gosfield Halstead Essex Farmer
& Steward do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
"The swath turner" is constructed of wood metal or other materials and is
for the purpose of turning the swaths of grass & other hay crops also all swath.
corn. It can be either pushed or pulled through or under the swath and it.
then turns the swath in the same manner as the breast of a plough turns the
soil. It could also be made for horse power when two or three swaths could be
turned at one time. It would also answer for what is known as "rake rowing."
hay or "hovering barley" swaths.
Dated the 8th day of July 1891.
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Turning Grass Swaths or other
Out Crops.
I ALFRED BLOMFIELD of Orange Hall, Gesfield, Halstead, Essex, Farmer
and Steward 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 aud
by the following statement:-
This invention relates to an improved implement or piece of apparatus for use
in effecting the turning of grass, or other cut crops, in order to the making of hay
therefrom or their drying, as the case may be.
In the drying of grass to make hay and in the turning of other eut crops, it is
desirable to disturb the relative arrangement of the grasses, or the like, in the
swath, to minimise the knocking out of the seed or leaf and yet to expose
all as much as possible, and as evenly as may be, to the drying influence of sun.
and air.
By the use of appliances at present commonly in use, this is either imperfectly
done, at great expense of time and labour, or skilled labour has to be employed
with consequent cost.
My improved "swath turner," or implement, is designed to be used largely by
boys or unskilled and consequently cheap labour and in itself to be light, cheaply
and easily constructed, and repaired; although, as will be readily understood by
any competent mechanic, two or more such implements may be mounted so as to be
drawn by horse or other power, so as to operate on more than one swath, or row
of material at once.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shews by a side view and Fig. 2 by a plan view one of my improved
swath turners for hand use and designed to be pushed along the row of swatli by
the handles a which are formed on or applied to the body or frame which
terminates in the point or nose c which point, in the pushing or pulling of the
implement, is thrust under the swath causing the swath to ride up the inclined.
part of the body 6' aided by the side pieces d, d', d' and finally to be turned over
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page_text: thereby somewhat like the soil in ploughing is turned over by the breast of a plough.
e is the part of the implement whose underside rides on the ground, and this part e
is strongly connected to the part by the upright fand hy jointing toward the
point c. The part; d' as shown is connected to parts and d. The operating
faces of the parts and e may be protected by shoeing with iron or other suitable
metal or material as at e¹.
The turner may have the parts that throw over the swath arranged either to
throw to the right hand of the user in pushing, or by reversing their arrangement
they may throw to the left band:
Fig. 3 indicates by a perspective view the general appearance of the implement
here shown as of wood, but it may be of metal or combined materials.
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The implement may also be used in effecting what is known technically as
"rake rowing" hay, or the turning of hay that has been gathered into “rake rows
"hovering barley" swaths or any like operations of husbandry.
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 :-
The improved construction or arrangement of parts of a "swath turner "or
apparatus for turning grass, barley or other swaths or other cut crops as set
forth.
Dated the 18thder of March 1909
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.