USRE7976E - Improvement in harvesters - Google Patents

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R. EMERSON.

lAssignor to himself and H. H. MASON.- Harvester.

No. 7,976. Reissued Dec. 4,1877`.

N-PETERS. PMOTO-LITHOGRAFHER. WASHXNGTON, D CV l same on the stubble side of the machine.

or platform hinged to the main or carrying knations of special devices, as will be hereinaf# -form A and to the incline` B, upon which the UNITED STATES PATENT OEFIGE,`

RICHARD EMERSON, OESYOAMORE, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR To HI'MSELF AND yIIORATIO n. MASON.

IMPROVEMENT IN HARVESTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 179,257, datedJ une 2.7., 1876,' Reissue No. 7,976, dated December 4,1877; application filed Octobel 6,1876.

Sycamore, inthe county of VDe Kalb and-the State 'of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Harvesters, which isfully described in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Y 4 Figure l is a front elevation of a part of my improvedharvester. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is an end elevation of the My invention relates to that class ofharvesters having a grainelevating. device and a binders standand tables, so that the cut grain may be delivered to and bound by attendants riding on the machine.

Theinvention consists in abinders stand frame of the machine, and attached `to abrace which is connected toyboth. the main frame and the tongue, lthe latter being also hinged so as to vibrate independentlyof the main frame; and it also consists in certain combiteI' fullydescribed and set forth. In` the drawings, A represents the grainplatformof a harvester; and B an inclined elevator-frame, up whichV the cut grain is carried by any suitable elevating rake mechanism, both platform and frame being connected to and supported by a suitable carrying-frame, C.' The drive-wheel D is supported in suitable bearings mounted on the frame C, and the binders table and platform are attached toA this same frame by a pivotal connection, as will be presently described.

Transverse ribs E are attached to the plateut grain rests, and between which the raketeeth pass, so that all the cut grain may be taken and carried up by the elevating device.

To the front edge of the incline By is attached a board, F, to prevent the cut grain from scattering about while being carried up said platform.

G is the tongue, the rear end of which is hinged to the frame C forward of the main axle, so that the platform A can be tilted to bring the cutter-bar closer to or farther from H is a lever,lwhich is pivoted to the tongue;

G, and the rear arm of which passes through a hole in an upright, I, rigidly attached to the frame 0, so that by operating the lever'H the platform A may be tilted as required.

J `*is a curved brace, the forward. end of which is pivoted to the .tongue Gr. The rear part of the brace-bar J extends along and is pivoted to the side bar of the frame C nearly in line with the main axle, and to it is rigidly bolted the lower bar of an .upright frame, K. v Theupper bar lof the frame K has a pin or bolt'at-tached toit, which passesthrough a circular slot in the middle part of a braceare rigidly attached to the frame C. The bar .L thus holds` the frame K in an upright position, Aand at the same time does not interfere with the movement of the frame C as the platform A is tilted.

ToY the ends of the upper bar of the upright frame K are pivoted or hinged the ends of two bars or cleats, M, to which the binders vtable N is-secured.. To the endsof the lower bar ofthe upright frame K are pivoted or hinged the ends of two b ars or cleats, O, to which the binders platform P- is secured. The binders platform O P is directly beneath the middle part of tableM N, the rear middle part of said table M N being cut away, as shown in Fig. 2, to give Space for thel binders to stand when at work. Q are two connecting-bars, the lower ends of which are -pivoted to the bars or cleats O of the binders platform O P, and their upper ends are pivoted to the cleats M of the binders table MN, so that the said table and platform may be made to move together when being turned -up and down.

The table M N and the platform O P are supported, when lowered into ahorizontal po-l sition, by the bars, braces, or legs R, the upper ends of which are pivoted to the cleats M by the same bolts that pivot the bars Q to said cleats.

rounded o, ito enter holes in the lower bar of the upright frame K.V

The lower ends of the braces R- are that the position of the binders stand or plat-l form is determinedbythat of the-tongue, and

that, as the tongue is hinged to the main or carrying frame, the latter may bev tilted, and with it the cutting apparatus attached thereto, without disturbing the tongue.

The binders stand being attached to the main frame by a pivotal connection, and being also connected by a pivoted bar to the tongue, it follows that any change in the relation between the hinged tongue and the main frame, caused by the tilting of thelatter, will effect such a change in the position of the binders stand that it will always be maintained in a substantially horizontal position, notwithstanding the circumstance that the pivots by means of which the tongue and binders stand are connected to the main frame are not inline with each other.

This rresult is very desirable for the ease and convenience of the binders, which'are also enhanced in my machine by attaching the binders tables to the s ame support as the binders stand, so that they all move together and preserve the same relative position.

Havingthus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent` Y u 1. A suspended binders frame attached to the main or carryingframebyapivotal connection, in combination Vwith a tongue independently hinged to the main frame, and mechanism connecting the tongue with the binders stand, wherebyachange in the angle between the tongue and the main frame will cause a differential change in the angle between the binders frame and the main frame, substanl tially as described.

nection to the latter, substantiallyas described.

3. A tilting or rocking main frame, in combination with a binders stand attached thereto by a pivotal connection, a tongue hingedto the main frame out lof line with the pivot of the binders stand, and a brace-bar attached 5to both the tongue and bindersustan'd, substantially as described.

4. A tongue, G, hinged to the main frame in advance ofthe main axle, in combination with a binders stand pivoted to the main frame about in line with the main axle and connected to the tongue, substantially as described.

5. A supporting bar or rail pivoted to the main frame about in line with the main axle, in combination with a binders stand, P, hinged thereto, substantially as described.

I 6. The hinged tongue G, in combination with the binders stand pivoted to the main frame, connecting-brace J, and binders table N arranged and operating substantially as described.

7. The combination of the upright frameK, the connecting-brace J, and tongueG, substantially asv described. y Y

8. The combination 'of the upright frame K, the braces J L, the frame C, and the tongue Gr, substantially as described.

9. The combination of the hinged binders table M Nwith the upright frame K, the braces J L, the frame C, and the tongue' Gr, substantially as shown and described. v

l0. The combination of the hinged binders platform O P with the upright frame K, the braces J L, the frame C, and the tongue G, substantially as shown and described.

y RICHARD EMERSON.

Witnesses:

SHUBAEL T. ARMSTRONG, EUNICE E; ARMSTRONG.'

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