US51505A - Improvement in corn-harvesters - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES l PATENT Ottica.

JOHN S. WILLIAMS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN CORN-HARVESTERS Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 5B,50'5, dated December 12, 1865.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN S. WILLIAMS, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improveruent inV Cornstalk-Harvesters; and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had tothe accompanying` drawings and letters and figures marked thereon, which form apart of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 Vrepresents a top or plan view ofrny improved machine; Fig. 2, a side elevation of the same.

The nature of my invention consists ina novel arrangement whereby the cornstalks, after being cut by the advancing machine vand retained in a suitable receptacle until enough have accumulated to form a shock, may be readily and easily dropped from the machine upon the ground, and the machin-e be readj usted for another shock. p

To enable those skilled in the art to manufacture and use my invention, I will proceed to describe the same with particularity.

The same letters of reference refer to the corresponding parts in the different gures.

A represents the large drive-wheel, and B a plate which constitutes the frame of the machine. On the outside of the wheelA there is a circular rack, and the shaft C is turned by means of the pinion D, which is geared in said rack and is thrown in and out of gear by means of the lever E.

F is a cog-wheel rmly attached to the end of the shaft C, and drives the shaft I by means of H. To this shaft I there Aare two balance-` wheels or cranks, J and K, rigidly attached, to which the pitman-rods L and M are so connected that they drive their respective sicklebars'() and N always in opposite directionsthat is, when one bar is going one way the other bar is 'going the other way, and so on alternately.

P is the shaft of the drive-wheel A, and revolves with the wheel. There are two pulleys, Q Q,on said shaft, and bands runnin g on these pulleys drive the reels R R, there being pulleys T on the shafts of the reels. These reelshafts have bearings on the frameU, and there are wheels attached to the tops of them with. bent arms S, asplainly shown in Fig. 1. The

bands'that drive the reels are so crossed as tol cause them to revolve, as indicated bythe arrows in Fig. l, andthe reel-shafts being placed at the sides of the frame U, the arms S, as the reels revolve,bring the cornstalks towardthe center ofthe sicklcs and into the box U. The.

box or framcUis so constructed that when the cornstalks are thrown into it bythe reels It R they rest principally on the hinged end frame X. The frame vX is .so connected with a footboard, V, by means of the rod W, that when the operator, sitting on the ordinary seat at the front of the machine, sees that there are stalks enough cut for a shock deposits them on-the with wrought-iron shafts. `This method of manufacture can be applied vonly where the shaft does not extend through the wheel.

The-tongue t is bolted to -the plate B, and then it is regulated so as to give a center draft` by having different bolt-holes through said plate and moving-the tongue sidewise thereon. The left side ofthe machine is supported on the wheel Z by means of the upright Y.

It will be observed that the main part of 1n y cornstalk-harvester*that is, the drive-wheel and its gearing and the frame B-is constructed the same as my reaper and mower, which have already patented;

Having thus fully described the construction and operation of my cornstalk-harvester, what I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

Thecombination and arrangcmen t of the box U, the hinged tail-piece X, the arm W, and foot lever V, substantially as and for the purposes specified and described.

JOHN S. WILLIAMS.

Witnesses L. L. GOBURN, W. E. Manns.

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