US53470A - Improvement in hay-loaders - Google Patents

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IMPROVEM ENT IN' HAY-LOADERS.

Specilication forming part of Letters Patent No. 53,470, dated March 27, 1866.

To all 'whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, OLIVER T. NANNY, of Mamakating, county of Sullivan, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hay-Loaders; and Ido hereby declare the same is fully described and represented in the following speciication and the accompanying drawings, ot' which- Figure l is a top view; Fig. 9, a side elevation, and Fig. 3 an end view.

VThe nature of my invention consists in attaching to a wagon a combined crane, windlass, and hay-fork, which, from its peculiar form, will with very little assistance pick up hay from either side of a wagon and place the same on the load, and can be easily lowered or entirely removed from the wagon when not in use.

In the drawings, A represents an ordinary far1n\\"a-gon; B, a tubular or hollow post placed on the rear otl the platform, supported by stays O O, &c. D is the crane, connected to the said post by means otl circular braces or rings E E, which enables the crane D to play around the post E and carry with it in its movements the hay-fork Gr. The hay-fork G has a spring', G', and catch H, to which a guiderope,'I, is attached, for the purpose of directing the movements of the crane, and by pulling on orjerking the said rope enables the fork to disengage itself from the hay when placed on the load. Furthermore, thereis another rope, J, from one end ot" which the hay-fork is suspended. Said rope passes over guide-pulleys K K in the crane, down through the hollow post B, around the drum or windlass L, and finally is attached at its other end to a spear, M. The windlass L has a ratchet, N, and pawl O, which, together with the bifurcated spring-catch l?, attached to the crane, will sustain the hay-fork in any desired position, as shown in the drawings.

its springpl and cord 1. This bifurcated catch has three tipes or prongs, t t t, two ot' which enter corresponding holes t t', &c., in the posts B and D, thus clamping the said posts together for the purpose ot holding the crane in a stationary position while the load in the hay-fork is being raised or lowered; and by pulling on the cord q the catch P will be drawn against its spring p from the posts B and D and the crane allowed to play around its center, carrying the catch P with it, which can be made to operate on either side of the crane, and is held up when in action by the spring p.

In operating with my improved hay-loader I place the spear M firmly in the ground at some distance in rear ot' the wagon. Next I introduce the tines of the hay-forli underneath thehay-cock to be placed on the load. I now start the wagon forward, and from the fact that one end of the rope is attached to the s pear (thence passing around the drum) and the other end fastened to the hay-fork, as the wagon proceeds the hay-fork, with its load. will be raised from the held, and, by means of the guide-rope, placed where desired on the load, and so on, repeating the saine movements until the wagon-load is completed; and by similar movements the load can be as easily removed from the wagon onto the hay-rick or barn, and the loader used for other purposes.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The tubular post B, with its rings E E, in combination with the crane D, the hay-fork G, and bit'urcated spring-catch P, for the purposes described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature.

OLIVER T. NANNY.

Witnesses DAVID HOLLEY, OLIVER NANNY.

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