US251845A - Attachment foe haevestees - Google Patents

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SWATHING ATTACHMENT FOR HARVBSTERS.

(No Model.)

Patented Jan. 3,'1882.,

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Patented Jan. 3, 18-82.

. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE, i

CHARLES c. DUNKEL AND ALBERT rscHoP, F HARRISBURG, ASSIGNOBS or ONE THIRD TO CHARLES N. owns, or MEGHANIOSBURG, P A.

SWATHING ATTACHMENT FOR HARVES'TERS,

SPECIFICATION forming' part of Letters Patent No. 251,845, dated January 3, 1882;

Application filed August 20, 1881. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern:

Be itfknown that \ve,,OHARLEs G. DUNKEL and ALBERT TSGHOP, of Harrisburg, county of Dauphin, State of Pennsylvania, have inv vented newand useful Improvementsin Swathing Attachments to Harvesters, of which the following is a full and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- IO Figure 1 is a perspective view of a harvesting-machine, or of so much thereof as is necessary to show our improvement applied; and l i g. 2 is a rear elevation of the same.

Our invention relates to a device adapted to be applied to a harvester for discharging the grain therefrom in a continuous swathbehind the machine, in lieu of the usual appliances forbinding the grain by hand or automatically,

and is designed for use as a'substitute for such hand or automatic binding attachments where j the nature or condition of the crop renders it desirable to leave the grain or other cropsuch as oats or flax-unbound and upon the ground for curing or other purpose; and to this end theinvention consists in the employment of a spiral delivery-chute adapted to receive the grain from the grain -discharging mechanism, and to deliver the same in a con tinuous swath upon the ground, out of the path ofthe team upon the succeeding round, and? with the stalks lying at right angles to the path of the machine, and the line of the swath similar to the swath in which it is deposited when out by hand with a cradle, as will be explained.

- In the accompanying drawings, Arepresen ts the main frame of the machine, made in any usual or suitable form, and to which the plat form and elevator-frames are applied, provided with platform and elevator rakes or aprons, all of said parts being also of any usual or preferred construction and arrangement.

B B represent the elevator-frame, supporting the rollers of the aprons or other mechanism for elevating the grain over the driving-wheel O, for discharging it upon the opposite side of the wheel to that upon which it is cut. D is a" longitudinal bar or frame-piece extending between thefront and rear upright portions of the frame B, just under the upper roller, E, of

the lower elevator-apron, where two are used,

or in such relation to the discharging end of the elevator that the grain'will pass above and over and be discharged outside of said bar, which, in the construction shown, forms the support fora spiral chute-or swathing device, F.' This swathin g device is represented in the drawings as made of sheet metal, and in asingle piece, extending from the board or bar D, to which its upper end or edge lyingin aplane, 6c parallel with the outer vertical face of said bar, or nearly so, is secured, downward, and on its forward edge outward and rearward in a curved line, giving it a quarter-turn, or thereabout, in spiral form, in such manner as to bring its lower 6 discharging end into a horizontal or nearlyhorizontal position, and at right angles, or nearly so, to its upper end and to the path of the machine.

The above description is approximate only, 7c as it will be evident that the butts of the grain, being in advance and having farther to travel in being turned upon the head as a center, will necessarily have to travel faster, and consequently will be thrown farther from thelower 7 5 end of the chute than theheads, and the lower end oftthe chute. will therefore be shortened toward its outer side or edge, making the spiral somewhat less than a quarter of a circle.

The rearinner edge of the chute has a backward inclination, and by preference a slight concavity is given to the upper face of the chute in such manner that the straw will rest mainly on its ends upon the chute, as by this means the light and bearded heads will serve to slightly retard the progress of the straw at thatend, while the smoother and heavier butts will slide quickly and easily down the outer edge of the chute, facilitating the turning of the straw from a position parallel with the path l of the machine to one at right angles thereto,

or thereabout, in which it is deposited, with the straw lying crosswise of the line of the swath. By this arrangement, when, for any reason, it is desired to leave the crop upon the 5 ground, it can be done by simply removing the hand or automatic binder appliances and substituting therefor the chute or swathing device described, and by means of which the grain will be deposited in suitable form for cur-- 1o ing, if needed, as well as in convenient shape for taking it up when desired.

We have described the chute as made of sheet metal and in a single piece or width; but it will be apparent that other materials may be employed in its construction, and that it'is not necessary that it should be in one piece or width so long as the device, as a whole, hasa spiral or equivalent form given to its upper surface for turning the straw, and said surface is adapted to permit the straw or grain to slide freely over it in its descent to the ground.

Having now described our invention, we claim as new- 1. In a harvesting-machine, a spiral chute or swathing device located on the stubble side of the main frame and outside of the drivewheel.

2. Thecombinatiomin aharvesting-machine, of mechanism for elevating the grain over the main drivewheel and a swat'hing device for receiving the grain from said elevating mechanism and depositing it upon theground ina continuousswath, with the stalks at right angles, or thereabout, to the line of said swath.

3. The combination, in aharvesting-machine, of a carrying-platform, a swathing device for depositing the grain in a continuous swath upon the ground, a driving-wheel interposed between said platform and swathing device, andmechanism for elevating the grain over the driving-wheel and delivering it to said swathing device.

4. In a harvesting-machine, the combination of mechanism for elevating the grain and a swathing device adapted to receive the grain from said elevating mechanism, and to deposit the same upon the ground, with the straw at right angles, or nearly so, to the position inwhich it was received from the elevating mechanism.

CHARLES C. DUNKEL.

ALBERT TSOHOP.

Witnesses: v

J. FRANKLIN REIGART,

GEO. W. SNYDER.

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