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No Model.)

2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

M. L. NICHOLS.

GRAIN SAVING ATTACHMENT FOR GRAIN B-INDERS.

Patented Oct. 29, 1889.

(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2. M. L. NICHOLS.

GRAIN SAVING ATTACHMENT FOR GRAIN BINDBRS.

No. 414,163. Patented Oct. 29, 1889.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARION L. NICHOLS, OF YE YORK, N. Y.

.GRAiN-SAVING ATTACHMENT FOR GRAIN-BINDERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 414,163, dated October 29, 1889.

Application filed February 7, 1889. Serial No. 299,057. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MARION L. NICHOLS, of New York, county of New York, State of New York, have invented new and usefullniprovements in Grain-Saving Attachments for Grain- Binders, of which the following is a full and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making partof this specification.

My invention relates to an improved device for saving the loose grain thrashed out or shattered during the process of gathering and binding the same.

My invention consists in a novel means of collecting the loose grain and in conveying the same to a suitable receptacle from which it may be removed as occasion shall require.

It further consists in making one of the supporting frame-bars hollow and providing the same with an opening into which the loose grain is guided, and in mounting in said hollow frame-bar a conveyer to convey the said loose grain to the receptacle.

It further consists in certain details in the arrangements of parts, all as hereinafter explained.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan or top view of so much of a harvesterframe as is necessary to illustrate my improvements and one manner of constructing and operating the same. Fig 2 is a transverse section through the pipe frame-bar, showing one form of conveyer. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of the same.

The frame of the harvester is made in the usual rectangular form, and preferably of iron gas-pipe or tubing, and in the present instance the device is shown as applied to a low-down platfornrbinder, the binding devices being mounted on the cross frame-bars A A of the machine, 011 which bars are mounted the trackways a a for the frame carrying the binding devices. Adjacent to the inner canvas-roller A is arranged an inclined board 13, having suitable ribs Z) formed thereon, over which board the grain passes to the binding-table.

The binding-table is constructed in any usual or preferred way, and is adapted to move and rest upon the tracks a a, the upper end of the inclined board extending above and beyond the receiving-edge thereof.

The bar A of the frame is, as before stated, made of hollow' tubing or gas-pipe, and for a portion of its length, or for a distance corresponding to the width of the canvas or the board B, is cut out orleft open, as shown at A, to form a passage-way for the loose grain into the same.

A guide board or apron (1 extends up from the frame-piece A into close proximity to the bottom of the board 13 to catch and guide the loose grain to the opening in the pipe or framebar A. Mounted in this frame-bar A is a screw conveyer having bearings at each end thereof, and which is driven bysuitable mechanism, preferably from a sprockeewheel D, mounted on the outer end of the shaft of the inner canvas-apron rollerand connected with a similar sprocket-wheel D on the conveyorshaft through the sprocket-chain D a A box or receptacle E is mounted in the frame at any convenient point, and with which the conveyer communicates through an opening A, provided with a guiding-spout, preferably at the rear end of the machine. This box or receptacle may be made of sheet-iron to provide for lightness and strength and not take up much space, and as the box becomes filled the grain may be removed therefrom and placed in bags.

The operation of the device constructed as above described is as follows: The loose grain thrashed out in the action of gathering is carried along by the gavel, and with that thrashed out by the action of the packers passes onto the binder-table, which is made slightly inclining, from which it is caused to gravitate back and under the board B and to fall against the apron C, by which it is guided into the pipe or frame-bar A, and through which it is carried to the box or receptacle by the conveyer.

As will be readily seen, various modifications in the manner of conveying the loose grain from the table to the box or receptacle may be made, the one herein described, how ever, having in practice been found the most desirable, as the conveyer does not take up any additional room on the frame and the hollow frame-bar is utilized.

The desirability and advantage of the device will be apparent and readily appreciated,

as it is well known that a large amount of grain is thrashed out consequent to the action of the various parts of the machine thereon in gathering and binding, and as this loss amounts to many bushels a year the saving consequent to the use of the invention above described will be apparent.

Having now described my invention, I claim 1. The combination, with the binding-table of a grain-binder, of an open-sided hollow bar located under the edge of the table into which the grain is guided, a conveyer located therein,

and a box or receptacle to which the loose grain is carried by the conveyer through the hollow bar or tube, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with the binding-table of a grain-binder, of an open-sided hollow frame-bar located under the edge of the table 'loose grain is conveyed .by the conveyer, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimonywhereof I have hereunto set a my hand this 31st day of December, A. D. 1888.

MARION L. NICHOLS. Witnesses:

ALEX. MAHON, F. L. OURAND.

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