US42095A - Improvement in stump-pullers - Google Patents

Description

UNITED STATES- PATENT' OFFICE..

JAMEs E. LYoNs, oF MILTON, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN SpTUMP-PU LLERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 42,095, dated March 29, 1864.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES B. LYONS, of Milton, in the town and county of Litchfield, in the State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bock and Stump Pullers, andforItemoving and Depositing the Same; and the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification.

Figure 1 represents a side elevation of the machine. Fig. 2 snows the rear end view of the rockpuller. Fig. 3 is a plan or top view' of the whole arrangement of the machine and cart-wheels.

The object of my invention is to furnish farmers in rough and rocky sections of this country with the best and most economical facilities for clearing their land, fitting the surface for the plow and the use of the reaper and mowing-machine.

My invention consists in the use and application of the common oX-cart wheels, axle, and neap, in combination with a derrick-frame, windlass, gearing, pulley-block, and hooks, for grappling with, pulling out, moving off, and placing in position for a wall rocksy and bowlders; likewise, the application and combination of two or a double windlass, spur gear-wheel, and sliding pinion, so that by coupling the two together an immense power is obtained by applying a small force.-

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will describe it in detail, referring to the drawings, and to the letters marked thereon.

I use the neap, axle, and wheels of a common ox-cart, the body being removed. To the center of the cartaxle X, by the means of a bolt, ring, hook, or clevis and pin, I attach the frame B B, which forms the base or support of that portion of the frame to which the windlass K is secured, and which frame B B is also framed in and securely fastened to the two upright posts A A, that help to make the derrick A A C D. By having two beams, C and D, framed in near the top of the posts A A, the one above the other, the space or opening between them being sncient to admit the placing of the stationary sheaves or pulleys a ct a in or near the' center, between the upright posts A A. Each side of and between the pulleys a a a are upright pieces b b and divisions c c framed into the cross-beams C and D. Through the posts A A and dividingpieces b b and c c is a strong iron rod or bolt, E, which answers the twofold purpose of a pin or arbor for the pulleys a a a to turn on, and the clamping of the derrick-frame together by having a washer and screw-nut, e e, on each end. The derrick-frame may be braced with metal bars d d to the posts A A and beam O, and also braces ff to strengthen the frame B B with the derrickposts A A, in the bottom v of which are strong, broad, solid wheels or rollers F F, to support the weight raised and to move it off from the place.

On the top of 'the frame B B, and forward of the derrick, are framed two vertical posts, G G, connected on the top by a. plate of timber, H, on .the top of which are notched two inclined timbers, L L, they being at an angle of about forty-five degrees, and connected at their upper ends to the cross-beam D. At about the middle of the inclined timbers L L, I place one windlass, K, to which the rope k is attached that works over the pulleys a a a and the tackle-block t' i i, to which the grapples J are hooked to pull up and raise the weight.

On one end of the windlass-shaft K is attached a strong spur-gear wheel, I,.the same having a pawl or dog, g, falling into the cogs of the wheel, to secure it from turning back and holding the weight after it is elevated for moving off. The power is applied to this windlass K by the arrangement of another larger windlass, M, it having on one end of its shaft m a pinion-wheel, N, which is made to slide on a rib or feather, so that the pinion N can be thrown out of or into gear `with the cog-wheel I. To the large forward windlass, M the rope It is wound roundand fastened, and when drawn out by the cattle that operate the machine it is wound up again, ready v for another pull, by sliding the pinion N out of gear and turning the crank n on the other end of the shaft m. Thus it will readily be seen that an immense power can be obtained with a small force applied to the rope h by the arrangementA and combination of the two windlasses and the blocks and pulleys.

By attaching the machine to the running# gear of the common ox-cart it can be easily moved with its burden with one yoke of oxen, and the cost of the machine will be very muchV diminished.

To operate my improved rock and. stump puller is very simple, it only requiring two men and one pair of oxen. The process is substantially as follows: The body of the farnrcart being removed, the cattle are hitched to the neap. The wheels are then backed up to themachine, when it is limbered or connected to the cart-axle. It is then drawn to the field and placed in position over the rock to be removed. The pinion is put out of gear and the pawl Athrown back, which will allow the rope to become slack, so that the pulleyblock can be lowered and hooked onto the gi apples. The pawl is then dropped onto the cogs of the gear-wheel, which by turning the small windlass, the hooks or grapples are made fast to the object. Then by sliding the pinion into gear and unhitching the cattle from the neap and securing it on the ground by driving a spike or bolt or by sticking a crow-bar through the staple on the end of the neap then hitch the chain or rope that is fastened to and wound a-round the large windlass to the yoke and let the cattle walk ott' in a line with the neap or pole and a rock of many tons weight will be taken up bodily and swin g under the derrick. The cattle can then be backed to the ncap, the rope un hitched and wound upon the windlass, the cattle hitched to the machine, and the burden is ready to be removed and deposited in any place desired.

The same process is used for pulling and removing stumps and other heavy substances.

When a few bowlders or rocks are elevated above the surface so as to obstruct the plow or the reaper or mowing-machine, and they are not wanted for fence, the best and most economical way to dispose of them is to place my rock-puller over them, raise them out of the ground, dig out and deepen the hole suiiicient to bury them beneath the reach of the plow, let them `back again into the earth, and there remain to the end of time.

Having thus fully described my invention, and the modus operandi of the same, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters The application and use of the oX-cart, neap, wheels, and axle, in combination with a double windlass, pulley-blocks, and derrick-frame mounted on wheels, for the purposes herein specified.

JAMES B. LYONS.

Witnesses:

THOMAS DWYER, DwrG-Irr G. KILBOURN.

Images