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UNITED STATES JAMES TEN EYK, OF BRIDGEWATER TOXVNSHIP, SOMERSET COUNTY, N. J.

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REAPING AND CUTTING MACHINE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent dated November i2, 1825.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES TEN EYK, of Bridgewater township, Somerset county, State of New Jersey, have in vented certain Improveineiits in Reaping and Cutting Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My machine is formed of a box of suitable dimensions, fastened on the axle-tree on which the carriage and two band-wheels run, and may extend back from the wheel, say, four feet. Previous to its being fastened it is best to balance the box on the axle-tree, lest it bear too hard either way on the arms ofthe person handling the machine. To the end of the bottom are three or ve fingers or teeth nine inches long, so as to regulate the cut ot' the grain by the cutting Scythe-wheel. This box may be made of any size, according to the fancy of the owner-say from two feet to twelve in the length of the scythes for a horse-machine; but it is recommended for the handiiiachine not to be longer than four feet-the wheel for a man not more than seven feet,

which may also answer if the ends ofthe axle project one foot. The scythes may be about one-eighth ofan inch on the back and two inches in width, tapering to an edge. The scythes are fastened by each end to a board-wheel with screws, so that they may be taken oii to be ground when necessary. A machine for horsepower is best with three wheels-one at each end and one in the middleso that the scythes need not be longer than half the width between the wheels, and fastened on the middle wheel in the slope of a screw turning one-eighth part round the wheel, so that one or other ot' the scythes will be cutting all the tiuie. Six or eight scythes (at the option of the owner) are not to be closer than ten inches or more than fourteen inches apart around the wheel-say a wheel eighty-inch circumference with eight Scythes would be ten inches apart. There is a small wheel of six inches diameter at each end of the cylindeisaxle-tree, in which a groove or channel is cut of about an inch wide and an inchleep for a band to run iii, which goes round another wheel fastened to the wheels on which the machinery moves, which have corresponding grooves cut in them to receive the bands that run round the small six-inch wheels which put all the scythes in motion.

This machine, in order to answer different purposes, in ust have three set-s of wheels, wheat and rye requiring the largest. Those for them should be four and a half feet diameter, those for oats and tlax three feet, and those for buckwheat, grass, and clover, which is required to be cut short, two feet diameter. The diiierence between the size of the wheels may be remedied by lowering or raising the hind part of the machine by the handles fastened to the bottom and turning up with one or two slats, fastening the handles together to strengthen them.

Raw cowhide is best and most durable for the bands which turn the sc vthe cylinder or wheel. It is necessary to put the bands in water once or twice a day in order to keep them from slipping. A rope may be made to answer instead of a rawhide. In the inside of the wheel there aie wires for grain ruiming through the wheels, so as to throw the grain back in the box. The inside wire should be an inch and a half from the scythe, and the remaiiider of the wires, ruiming back about six inches, should be about an eighth ot' an inch apart. The scythe wheel or cylinder has a cover to prevent the heads of grain, Sac., from tlying up. This cover is supported by a frame behind the Scythe-wheel, so as not to obstruct the sight ofthe person directing the machine.

A machine for cutting grass has the lower part ot' the frame, which supports the scytliewheel, rounding, like a sleigh-runner, and a piece of wood running across the frame to prevent tlie scythes from being injured by stones. The frame for grass has nothing on which to receive it after it has been cnt.

That I claim as my invention is- The coinbiuatioii of the different parts of this machine so as to produce one similar to that above described.

JAMES TEN EYK. Witnesses:

GEO. HADFIELD, S. A. ELLIOTT.

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