USRE8130E - Improvement in hay and cotton presses - Google Patents

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P. K. DEDBRICK.: Hayand Cotton Press.

No. 8,130. Reissued Marh19,187s.

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UNITED. STATESPATENT OFFICE.

PETER K. DEDERICK` or ALBANY, NEW YORK. I

IMPROVEMENT IN H AY AND COTTON PRESSES.

e specnicatimfmmingparttf Letters Pam No. 132,566, ma october 29, 1872; Risue No. 7,981, (Division A,)

' dated December 11, 1877 -Reissue No. 8,130,7dated March 19, 1878 application filed February 26, 187B.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, PETER K. DEDERICK, of Albany, in theconnty of Albany and State of N ew York, have invented certain .new and useful Improvements in Baling -Presses, of which the following is a specification:

My improvements consist in the form and construction of the machine as pery specificay tion following, and in the novel manner-of forming, dividing, and discharging the bales. Figure 1 is a perspective view of the machine. Fig. 2 is a top view, showing my irnprovements and their connection, and the manner -of pressing and discharging the bale 5 and Fig. 3 illustrates the yielding traverser'.

In the figures, A is the hopper and feed-orice for receivingl the loose material, and is constructed with an adjustable-bottom. B is the pressbox, into which the loose hay is received and pressed. C is the bale-chamber, into which the hay is deposited after pressing. The press-box and bale-chamber occupy a procumbent, lying down, or prostrate position. D is a roller, to assistin guiding the hay into the press-box. E is thetraverser, which is so constructed and combined as to close the feed orifice and form an adjustable bottom to the hopper during the pressing operation. The power may be applied to the traverser in a variety ot' ways.

The press-box B, Fig. 2 is a-little smaller than the balechamber Vso as to form a shoulder at H, to'prevent the pressed material ro expanding or' following the traverser I construct the traverser withcontracting or yielding'front, as Vshown in Fig. 3,`so as to wedge together when the hay overlaps it, thus preventing its binding. It resumes its dimensions again by its own flexibility, as shown 5 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 C, is tied or bound, through the slots I I I, in the box, as shown in Fig. 1, and is removed or forced outof 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, C being the forming bale and M the finished bale, the bands used in bind-v ing the bale forming the division or rseparation. By this method the nished bale is ejected in proportion as the forming bale is built up, each additional charge of material forming a section, which is forced beyond the stroke of the traverser, andmoving the finished bale along in proportion to the size of the section, and the operation is thus continued until the bale is ejected from the press.

IThe distance between the head of the press and the traverser, when nearest the head, or, inother words, the distance between the retainers that prevent the hay from expanding and the head, may be greater than the transverse and vertical dimensions of the bale-charnber, thus forming 'the lengthof the bale toward the traverser -or point of filling; and, as

the expansion is always in the same directionstoward the traverser or power-it will be pro portionately less than it would be if the bale were built up from the sides instead of the ends.

In operation, the hay or materialto be pressed is pitched into the hopper A, whence it falls into the press-box B, and is forced into the bale-chamber() through means ofthe reciprocating traverser E. Meantime the hopper A is again lled, the traverser or an equivalent slide attached, closing the feed-orifice and forming the hopperbottom, is removed by the power, and the loose hay falls from the hopper into the press-box, and is also forced into the bale-chamber. This is continued until the bale-chamber is pressed full, when the bale may be tied oii 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 the balechal'nber U, is completed, or nearlyv so, in the press-box B, the compressed sections being forced into the bale-chamber, and the finished bale ejected as fast as the compressed sections are forced behind it within the chamber, and the compressed sections compacted fand as 'a bale iinished against the door, which is closed after the previously-formed bale is ejected, thus v.building up the bale in pressed sections,

piled one against another; and the operation is thus continued, the rst bale only being roughly ut up.

The su ject-matter of the following claims, with the exception of the second and ninth, is substantially shown in my Patent No. 132,639, dated October 29, 1872, and in an application fora reissue of the same, but is not there claimed.

Having thus described my invention, I claim. as follows:

1. The press-box and bale-chamber B C, in combination with the receiving-box or hopper A,l1aving 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.{Thc slots I, in combination with the balechamber C, provided with shoulders,.substan tially for the purpose set forth. l

-4. The above-described method of successively ejecting finished bales from a press by means of -additional charges of material forced Within the chamber.

5. The procumbent or horizontal press-box and bale-chamber BO, constructed with a feedoriiice 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 4that is bound into bales, so

constructed, combined, and operated that the hay is fed in or pressed at one end ofthe chamber and forced out at the other end by a common traverser and simultaneous operation, as set forth.

7. A press for baling hay, cotton, and other fibrous material thatv is bound into bales, so constructed, combined, and operated -that the finished bale is forced out of one end of the chamber as the loose material is fed in or pressed at the other end 'by a common trav erser and simultaneous operation, as set forth.

8. The traverser E, constructed with a contracting or yielding front, to wedge together when the hay overlaps it, substantially for the purpose setforth. 4

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

10. The retaining-shoulder H, in combination with the bale-chamber() and traverserE, for the purpose set forth.

. 11. In aprocumbent pressin which the hay and other loose material is pressed in sections into bales, the slots 1,' in combination with the press-case B C and traverser E, for the purpose set forth.

n. K.' DEDERIQK.

Witnesses WM. BLAcKsTooir, MELVILLE CHURCH.

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