An Improved Method of Fastening on and Holding Fingers on the Finger-bars of Reaping, Mowing, and Sheaf-binding Machines.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 17th May, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 15th Feb., 1890-Accepted, 29th Mar., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Method of Fastening on and Holding Fingers on the
Finger-bars of Reaping, Mowing, and Sheaf-binding Machines.
I CHARLES GARFITT of the firm of Thos. Garfitt & Son of the Cross Scythes
Works London Road Sheffield in the County of York Agricultural Engineer do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Hitherto the fingers have generally been bolted or secured to the under surfaces of
the finger bars of reaping mowing and sheaf-binding machines, but my invention
relates to and consists in the providing and employment of a novel improved and
more useful method of fastening on and securely holding the fingers on the finger
bars of such machines whereby all lateral vibration of the fingers is practically
nullified or done away with, the fingers will be much more secure than hitherto, and
by the adoption of this mode of fastening the fingers they can be got closer to the
ground than can be accomplished with fingers as heretofore fixed.
.
According to my invention the finger bar is slotted or recessed both on its top and
bottom surfaces. Each finger is made or cast-at its base end-with "tabs," or a
forklike continuation, or protuberances, so made as to fit and slide into the slots or
recesses in the top and bottom surfaces of the finger bar. A hole is made through
each tabor continuation of the base end of the finger and also through the finger
bar, through which holes after the finger has been put in place-a suitable screwbolt
is passed and a screw nut then fixed thereon, by which means the finger is firmly
fastened on or to the finger bar and there held immovable.
Or any other equivalent or suitable means can be employed in fastening up or
securing the whole together.
The bottom one of the two "tabs," by reason of its fitting on and being secured to
the under surface of the finger bar, causes less friction on the ground there being
little or no metal to catch the ground as is the case with fingers as bolted on or held
as heretofore.
D1: 10tL
1000
BRISTOW HUNT,
Aldine Chambers, Sheffield, Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Method of Fastening on and Holding Fingers on the
Finger-bars of Reaping, Mowing, and Sheaf-binding Machines.
I CHARLES GARFITT of the firm of Thos. Garfitt & Son of the Cross Scythes
Works London Road Sheffield in the County of York 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 in writing, and on reference to the accompanying sheet of drawings, that
is to say
Hitherto the fingers have generally been bolted or secured to the under surfaces of
the finger bars of reaping mowing and sheaf-binding machines, but my invention
consists in providing and employing a novel, improved, and more useful method of
fastening on, and securely holding, the fingers on the finger bars of such machines
whereby all lateral vibration of the fingers is practically nullified or done away with,
the fingers will be much more secure than as hitherto, and by the adoption of my
mode of fastening on and holding the fingers they can be got closer to the ground
than can be accomplished with fingers as heretofore fixed.
In order that my invention may be fully understood it is illustrated on the

page_text: accompanying sheet of drawings the same being marked with Figures and letters of
reference corresponding with those in the following description, the same reference
letters indicating like parts in all the Figures.
Figure 1, is a front view of a finger and finger bar made and fitted in accordance
with my invention.
Figure 2, is a sectional view made on the line A-B in Figure 1.
Figure 3, is a front view of a finger and finger bar made and fitted as a less costly
mode of carrying out my invention in practice.
And Figure 4, is a sectional view made on the line B-(in Figure 3.
The finger bar a, is slotted or recessed both on its top and bottom surfaces as shown
at Figure 2. Each finger like the finger, shown at Figures 1, and 2, on the drawing
is made or cast at its base end with tabs c; or a forklike continuation, or pro-
tuberances, might be made on the base end if desired. The tabs c, are so made as to
fit and slide into the slots or recesses in the top and bottom surfaces of the finger bar.
A hole d, is made through each tab c, or the continuation of the base end of the
finger, and also through the finger har through which holes, after the finger has been
put in place, a screw bolt is passed and a screw nut is then fastened thereon, by
which means the finger is firmly fastened or secured on or to the finger bar and there
held immovable.
Or any other equivalent or suitable means can be employed in fastening up or
securing the whole together.
The bottom or underneath tab of the tabs c, by reason of its fitting on and being
secured to the under surface of the finger bar causes less friction on the ground
in working the machine by reasor of there being little or no metal to catch the
ground as is the case with fingers as bolted on or held as heretofore underneath
the finger bar.
According to a modified or more simple form of advantageously carrying out my
invention in practice, which is illustrated at Figures 3, and 4, of the drawings, the
finger b, is made with tabs c, of about three inches in width and so as to fit onto a
smooth finger bar a, that is, a finger bar made without any slots in it. The tabs c,
being made wide enough to fit up to the adjoining finger tabs will cause them to be
held more firmly than the ordinary fingers are held.
The advantage, secured by the application and use of this modified form of tabs,
is, that the finger bars will be made at. less cost than those shown at Figures 1,
and 2, inasmuch as no slots will be made in the finger bars, the bar being quite
smooth or plain; in all other respects this modified arrangement of the finger bar
is the same as shown at Figures 1, and 2.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and the best manner I have discovered in which the same is to be
performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. The construction application and employment of a more useful and beneficial
method of fastening on and holding the fingers on, or attached to, the finger bars
of reaping mowing and sheaf-binding machines whereby lateral vibration of the
fingers is practically nullified and the fingers held immovable substantially as
herein before described and as illustrated at Figures 1, and 2; or in the modified
form as shown at Figures 3, and 4, of the accompanying drawings, or any
equivalent modification thereof.
2. So arranging the bolting up or fastening the fingers on or to the top instead
of on or to the under surface of the finger bar that there less friction on the
ground in the working of the machine, and the fingers are worked closer to the
ground than as heretofore, substantially as bereinbefore set forth.
Dated this tith day of Wal 1800
BRISTOW HUNT, R.P.A.,
Aldine Chambers, High Street, Sheffield, Agent for the Applicant.