US705528A - Raddle for straw-carriers. - Google Patents

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No. 705,528.v Patented-July 22, i902.

M. HEINEKE.

RADDLE FOR SITRAW CARRIERS.

(Application filed Apr. 14, 1902.)

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-f UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARTIN HEINEKE, OF SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO SATTLEY MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, A CORPORA- TION OF ILLINOIS.

RADDLE FOR STRAW-CARRIERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters-Patent No. 705,528, dated July 22, 1902.

Application tiled April IIL-1902.

2"'0 all whom it may concern,.-

Beit known that I, MARTIN HEINEKE, ofthe city of Springfield, county of Sangamon, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Raddles for Straw-Carriers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to raddles 'in which the cross-slats are secured to the side belts by 1o means of met-al clips or strips; and the object is to prevent the metal from cutting the belts crosswise.

In the'type of raddle to which myinvention more particularly relates the belts run with I5 both sides at times engaging pulleys, and the clips or strips that connect the cross-slats with the belts are made thin and comparatively narrow to permit the belts to travel around the pulleys. The turn of the belts 2o around the pulleys brings the edges of the metal strips into Vcontact with the belts,A and. when the strips are between the belts and the pulleys the pressure of the belts against the pulleys is exerted in part on the intervening z 5 strips of metal. These influences cause the metal strips to cut and wear the belts crosswise thereof and materially shorten the lives of the belts. To neutralize the wearing eeot of the clips on the belts, I have devised the 3o plan of making flexible strips somewhat wider than the parts of the clips that come in contact with the belts and securing such strips between the clips and the belts with the edges of the strips projecting beyond the edges of 3 5 the belt-engaging parts of the clips. The

material of the belt-protecting strips is preferably leather, as .that combines ilexibility, strength, and comparative softness to a desirable degree; but it is not improbable that 4o other material may produce the desired effect more or less completely, and I do not restrict myself in that particular. The purpose of the protecting-strips is to yield to conform to the curvature of the belts while traveling around pulleys and to take the severe cutting and wearing pressure of the edges of the clips and transfer it to the belts in a diffused and softened condition. To accomplish this purpose, the strips need to be strong, somewhat dexiving; parts of the clips.

'to the belt 6 crosswise thereof.

sain No. 102,915. (No man ble, softer than the metal of which the clips are composed, and wider than the belt-engag- Any material having these characteristics may be used in place of leather. A 1

The term clip is used herein to designate a piece of`metal shaped to engage a cross-Slat and be secured to a belt crosswise thereof,

and the forms that such devices may take are numerous and varied. Some have two parallel extensions separated to embrace the belt, others have a singleextension attachable to one side or the other of the belt, and still others have a single extension which is inserted between parts of the belt, so that the metal is held out of contact with the pulleys. With the single extension clips separate metal strips may be used on the opposite side of the belt to take the stress of the rivets used to securethe clips to the belt, andA it is possible that the'forms are still further varied. In all cases, however, there is at least one narrow extension of the clip crossing the belt and secured thereto, and wherever that condition exists there is need for my improvement.

In the drawings forming part of this speciiication, Figure 1 is aperspective representation of a bifurcated or two-extension clip embracing a belt supplied with my belt-protecting strips. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the structure shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an elevation showing a single-extension clip secured to one side of a belt. Fig. 4 shows a singleextension clip inserted edgewise through a belt.

An end of a raddle-slat is shown at l. The Slat-embracing part of the clip is shown at 2, and at 3 and 4c are shown the thinned and narrowed clip extensions which are riveted l A belt-protectingstrip 5 of the strong, flexible, and not exceedingly hard material hereinbefore mentioned is secured between each clip extension and the belt with the edges of the strip conforming to the edges of the clip extension. When the clip has a pair of belt-embracing extensions, as shown in Figs. l and 2, the protecting-strip may be made long enough to fold around the belt, as shown in Fig. l, and this form of strip may also be used with clips having single extensions attached to one side of the belt. In Fig. 3 a metal plate 7 is shown in solid lines against the under side of the belt to take the stress of the securingrivets; but a flexible strip 5 may be used as a substitute for the plate, as shown in broken lines. In the form shown in Fig. 4 there is a part of the belt exposed to the wearing and cuttingr action of the metal of the clip on each side of the clip extension, and protectingstrips 5 are placed in position to neutralize the tendency of the clip to injuriously affect the belt.

I claiml. In araddleclip the combination of a raddle-slat, a belt, a metal clip secured to the Slat, an extension of the clip secured to the belt crosswise thereof, a separate metal plate secured to the belt crosswise thereof and on the opposite side from the clip, and a strip of fiexible material secured between the belt and the clip extension and secured between the belt and the separate metal plate, substantially as described.

2. In a raddle, the combination of a raddle- Slat, a belt, a metal clip secured to the raddle-slat, an extension of the clip secured to the belt crosswise thereof, and a strip of flexible material, secured between the belt and the clip extension, substantially as described.

3. In a raddle, the combination of a raddle- Slat, a belt, a met-al clip secured to the raddleslat,an extension of the clip secured to the belt crosswise thereof, and a strip of iieXible material, wider than the clip extension, secured between the belt and the clip extension, substantially as described.

4. In a raddle, the combination of a raddleslat, a belt, a metal clip secured to the raddle-slat, an extension of the clip secured to the belt crosswise thereof, and a strip of ilexible and yielding material, wider than the clip extension, secured between the belt and the clip extension with its edges projecting beyond the edges of the clip extension, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I sign my name in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

MARTIN HEINEKE.

Witnesses:

JAMES H. MATHENY, ROBERT MATHENY.

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