USRE6242E - Improvement in baljng-presses - Google Patents

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Lunnaz. B'aIing-'Pressesy No. 6,242. Reissued Jangw, 1875.

UNITED .STATES PATENT CIJEFICE.lv

LEV; DODGE, or WATEnEoED, NEW YORK'.

IMPROVEMENT IN BALlNG-PRESSES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 121,048, dated October 17,1871; reissue No. 6,242, dated K January 19, 1875 ;A application filed January 4, 1875.

To all whom it mayl concern A Beit known that I, LEVI DODGE, of Waterford, in the county of Saratoga and State of I cylinder or case, until the bale has been grad- 4comprised contains three principal parts, in

the combinationof which my invention mainly consists. These parts are as follows:A First, a cylinder or case in which the bale is formed; second, compressing devices which compress in thecylinder or case successive portions of the hay or other material; third, a platform vor'support upon whiclrthe bale, while being formed, will rest, said support and the com pressing' devices being so 'arranged that the one may have a motion faway from the other to permit the'ntroduction into the cylinder or case and between them of fresh portions of the material to be baled, this motion being so grad-- uated or regulated as not to take place until the material already between the -support and the compressing devices has been subjected to the required degree of pressure.

'To enable those skilled in the artv to understand these and other features ,of my invention, I will now proceed to describe the Inanner in which the saine is. or may be carried into effect by reference to the accompanying drawing, in whichl Figure 1 is a perspective view of a baling- `press made in accordance with my invent-ion.

Fig. 2 is a vertical central section of the same. Fig. 3 isa top view ofthe same.4 lThe three principal portions, ofthe apparatus are represented by A B C, A lbeing the cylinder or case in which the balel is formed B, the

4compressie g device, and C the platform or sup# port upon which the bale rests while in process of formation. I- sh all describe these parts' in the ordernam'ed. Thecase A is open'at the top and bottom and of a cylindrical form, in order to enable the special compressing devices herein shown to operate perfectly. Its form may be varied froin that of a cylinder;

but the latter shape is the onethat I preferto use,` and that will be found entirely practicable, and the best, on all accounts, for the-pui pose for which the case is designed.

"This case may rest on any suitable foundation, and may ,be stayed and maintainedA in place by any suitable means. The means I have` represented in the drawing consists of two eyesv or tubular projections, a, which lit upon a column, D, forming one -of .three uprights upon whichl the feeding devicesrare supported, as hereinafter described.` CII-he eyes a can slide up'and down-ou the column, so as to adjust the case up and down with relation `to the feeding devices, and 4are held at any desired point on the column by means of setscrews b; .Itis necessary that the case should be so arranged' as to allow access to the bale after it has been formed,I both for the purpose of' binding it and to allow it to be removed from the press, andto this end-1 makeV one half' of the cylinder to consist of two doors, A1 A,each hinged to the lother halfof the cylinder, as shown at a', provided -at their contiguous or adjoiningedges with cam-fist enngs c, or other suitable me'ans for latching or holding them tightly together. i

W'hen the bale has been formed the cam fastenings can be lifted or unlatched, and the doors are then free to be thrown open to permit access to the interior ofthe cylinder. I do not, however, liinitmyself 'tothis 'specific arrangement, as the case may be arranged vin other ways to permit the binding and removal of the bale.

'lhe compressing devices consist, in this instance, ofa series of conical rollers, B, arranged. in a circular skeletonframe, E, from the center of which they radiate, and in which they are supported ,in suitable bearings soas4 to befree to revolve upon their axes. The diameter of the roller-frame is about the same as that of the cylinder, and the rollers are so arranged that vtheir lower portions will come within the cylinder ,andA liein a plane about parallel with the platform or support heroin hold the ring in place,

. their ends,

' supportingframe has been -or other material to the cylinder.

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after described. The roller-su pporting frame E is arranged to have a rotary movement on the axis of .the cylinder, of which motion the rollers, of course, partake. It is for this purpose provided with an annular flan ge, d, which tits in the under side of a ring, F, and is there held by means of metallic plates f, screwed to the under side of ring F and overlapping the flange d, as seen in lFig. 2. In order to lessen the friction which would otherwise arise between the top of 'the ring and the ange d l the recess in the ring is made large enough to receive friction-rollers g,

their proper places by being mounted on pins projecting from a loose ring. h, as shown iu Fig. 2.. The ring F is held down against the upward pressure of the rollers and their framev by means of a flange, 1, on its periphery,-which is'provided with tubular sockets fitting over the screw-threaded upper ends of columns D, upon which are screw-nuts K, which serve to and at the saine time can be removed to permit the ring, together with the devices which it carries, to -be lifted away from the cylinder and removed from the apparatus. to any suitable foundation, rest upon and are fastenedto a base-plate, G. The annular roller-supporting frameis rotated by means of a handle, H, or gearing, or other suitable means, and can be' driven by horse or other power. Under the arrangement described the rollers are supported at each of and their outer ends bear against the ring F, and they therefore exercise an e'quable pressure upon the material within the cylinder without danger of straining-'or throwing out of place their supporting-frame. In operating the machine, after therol1er putin revolution, the hay, straw, orother 'substance to be baled is fed to the rollers through a hopper-or otherwise, and by their action is first carried 'into the. cylinder through the spaces intervening 'between them, and then compressed down upon Vthe platform or support C. The rollers may be otherwise arranged for this purpose, however, and, inl lieu of rollers, othercompressing devices may be'einployed', all that is necessary being that the moven'ippt of devices` should have the elect to compress successive portions of the material .in the cylinder until the bale is gradually bulti'ip and formed.-

, The platform or supportupon which .the bale rests during' its process of formation is shown at C. It is necessary that'this plat form or support and the compressing devices should be so arranged that one of them may have a motion away from the other,to permit.4

the gradual building up ofthe bale. bythe introduction of successive .portions of the hay In the apparatus shown in the drawing the platform is made movable for this purpose. Itis mounted upon the end of a, shaft or rod, I, the lover end o1'- whichpasses through a friction-collar sup on or attached to thc base-plate G, conwhich are kept ln,

The `columns D may be secured In this case they.

.sistin'g of two semi-cylindrical sections, l l', and held together by.

surrounding the shaft, screw-bolts m, by tightening or loosening which anydesired pressure upon the shaft maybe maintained, so that, until the pressure of the rolls upon 'the material within the case and uponthe platform O exceeds that ot' the collar upon'. the shaft the latter will uphold thev platform. Thus the material maybe coinpressed to any desired degree, and in proportion as this is ,reached the. platform will descend, in this way effecting the gradual but; continuous building up of the bale by the'coni-v pression of successive portions orlayers of the material. In lieu of the friction-collar,

weights, springs, or'other well-'known devices forcounterbalancing the pressure of the rolls may be employed. 'ltwill also be apparent that the platform might be made stationary, in which-case it would form the bottom of the cylinder, and that the feeding devices might have a motion toward and away from the saine, .the motion away from the platform being regulated by Weights or friction, as in the other case, so as to take place only when the pressure' upon the material in the cylinder should exceed a certain limit.. For instance, a shaft might extend up from the top of the center of the frame E, engaging 'by means of a feather with' a stationary gear, so that it, together with the frame carried by it, might be freeto slide up and down while receiving a rotary movement from the gear.

The platform is prevented from accidentally rotating' while `the press vis in operation by means of one or more feathers, n, fitting in grooves'or slots in the cylinder. 4 It is also pro ,vided with projections o on its l vent the bale from beingtwisted around bodi ly, and with one or more grooves or scores, h', extending across it,to permit the passage of the wire or other device used to bindthe bale. Any suitable support for the bale may be used, all that is needed being that said bale while forming should have for its support 'a base thatjwill oer the needed resistance -to secure proper. compression. The operation ofthe apparatus has already been suiciently explained in the foregolng description of the several parts of the apparatus. t

Having now described my invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be carried into'ei'ect, what I claim, and desire to secure by LettersPatent, is as follows:

1. A machine for haling hay, straw, cotton,l and other material, in which the following el e ments are combined, substantially as herein shown and set fo'rthf First, acasein which the bale is formed as described; second, compressing devices which compress successive portions of the hay or other material in the cylinder orl case until the bale is formed as de scribed third, a platform .or support, substam' tially as described, upon which the bale du'ring the processot its formation, rests, s aid platform and the compressing devices being.

face, to pre- Y,

arranged substantially as stated, so that the one may have a motion away from the other in proportion as the bale is built up.l

2. The combination, with the cylinder or other case in whichy the bale is formed, and the devices by means of which successive -portions of the materialto beA baled are com l pressed in said cylinder or case, of a sliding base or support for the bale, arranged substantially as shown and described, to o`er a yieldiu g resistance to the compressing devices,

4 and to move away from the said devices as successive parts ot' the bale are formed and compressed.

3. The combination otl.the'fee`d andeom pressing rollers, and their skeleton supporting-frame, with the ring in which said frame is held and moves, and the devices interposed between the ring and frame for reducing`t`ric tion, substantially as shown and set forth. y

4. In a billing-press, constructed and loperating substantially as described, the baleforming cylinder or case, in combination with devices for its adjustment:v up and downI with relation to the feeding and' compressing devices,` as shown and set forth.`

5. The combination and arrangement of the cylinder, the platform, and the feeding andA vcompressing' devices,` with' the surrounding franie by which they are carried, substantial- 1y as herein shown and set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name this 14th day of December, A. D.

LEVI DODGE. W'itnesses EWELL A.;D1cx, HENRY R. ELLIOTT.

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