USRE7981E - Improvement in hay and gotton presses - Google Patents

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K. DEDER IOK Hay and Cotton Press.

No. 7,981. Reissued Dec. 11 1877.

UNITED STATES PETER K. DEnnn oK, OF ALBANY, new YORK.

- lMPROVEMENT m HAY;

A-ND eoT-rou PRESSES.

Specification forming part of Patent No. 132,566, dated October 29, 1872 Reissue No. 7,981, dated ..D'ecember 11, 1877; application filed July 27, 1877.

provements and their' connection, and the.

manner of pressing and discharging the bale;

-and: Fig-.3 illustrates the yielding traverser.

In the figures, A is the hopper and feed-orifice for receiving the loose material, and is constructed with an adjustable bottom. B is the press-box, into which the loose hay is received and pressed. 0 is the bale-chamber, into which the hay is deposited after pressing. D is a roller to assist in guiding the hay into the press-box. constructed and combined as to. close thefeedorifice and form an adjustable bottom to the hopper during the pressing operation. The power may be applied to the traverser in a variety of ways.

The press-box B, Fig. 2, is a little smallerthan the bale-chamber C, so as to form a shoulderat H, to prevent the compressed material from expanding or following the travcrser back. 1 construct the traverser with con tract-mg or yielding front, as shown in Fig; 3, so as to wedge together when the hay over laps .it, thus preventing its binding. It resumes its dimensions again by its own flexibility, as shown, or springs or rubber may be substituted, as what is required is simply a yielding side or corner to the traverser on the side of the feed-orifice.

The bale, when formed in the bale-chamber G, is tied or bound, through the slots I I I, in the box, as shown in Fig. 1, and is removed or forced out of the end of the press at K by the pressure exerted by the traverser against the fresh material in building up the next bale, as shown, 0 being the forming bale and M the finished .bale, the bands used in bind- E is the traverser, which is so Drvrsron A.

ing the bale forming the division or separation. By this method the' finished bale is ejected in proportion as the forming bale is builtup,eaoh additional charge of material forming a section which is forced beyond bale toward the traverser or point of filling, and, as the expansion is always in the same direction, toward the traverser or power, it will be proportionately less than it would be if .the bale were built up from the sides instead of the ends.

' In operation the hay or material to be pressed is pitched into the hopper A, whence it falls into the press-box B, and is forced into the bale-chamber G by the traverser E. Meantime the hopper A is again filled,the traverser, or an equivalent slide, attached,-closing the feed-orifice and forming the hopper-bottom, is removed by the power, and the loose hay, of its own gravity, falls from the hopper into the press box. This is continued until the bale-chamber is pressed full, when the bale may be tied off and the end door opened. This bale, however, will be rough, in consequence of having nothing compact to commence the bale against.

The operation now changes, and the pressing, instead of being performed in t-hebale-chamber O,is completed, or nearly so, in the press-boxB,

the compressed sections'being forced into the. balechamber, and the finished bale ejected as fast as the compressed sections are forced behind it within the chamber, andthe bale finished against'the door, which is closed after the bale is ejected, thus building up the bale in pressed sections, piled one against another; and the operation is thus continued, the first bale only being roughly put up.

The subject-matter of the following claims,

"baleeharnber, thusiorining the length of the with the exception of the second and eighth,

is substantially shown in my patent, No.

132,639, dated October 29, 187 2, and in an application for a reissue of the same, but is not there claimed. v v

Having thus described my invention, I claim as follows-:"

1. The press-box and bale-chamber B G, in combination with-the receiving-box or hopper A, having an adjustable bottom, substantially 'for the'purpose set forth.

. 2. The combination of the roller D with the press-box B and traverser E, for the purpose set forth.

3. The slots I, in combination with the balechamber 0, provided with shoulders, substan tially for the purpose set forth.

4. flhie above-described .method of successivel'y ejecting finished bales from the press by means of additional charges of material pressed against it.

' 5 The horizontal press-box B (3, constructed with a feed-orifice at the top, as at A, and provided with horizontal side-tying 'slots I, substantially for the purpose set forth.

6.- A press for baling hay, cotton, and other fibrous material that is bound into bales, so constructed, combined, and operated that the hay isfed in or pressed at one end of the chamber and forced out at the other end by a common traverser and simultaneous operation,

. as set forth.

7. The traverser E, constructed with a contractiug or yielding front to wedge together when the hay overlaps it, substantially for the purpose set forth.

8. The bands used in binding the bales as a partition or separation between the completed and forming bale, as set forth.-

9. The retaining-shoulder H, in combina:

'tion with the bale-chamber O- and traverser E','for the purpose set forth.

7 10. In ahorizontal press, in which the hay and other loose material is pressed in sections into bales, the slots I, in combination with thepress-ease B O and travers'er E, for the pur; pose set forth.

. APETEB K. DED IoKQ Witnesses:

W. A. S INKLE, 0. R. DEDERICK.

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