US422932A - Combined corn-husker and fodder-cutter - Google Patents

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(N0 Model.) 4 shets sheet 1. T. A. GALT 8v G. S. TRACY. COMBINED CORN HUSKER AND FODDBR GUTTER.

No. 422,932. Patented Mar. 11, 1890.

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T. A. GALT & G. s. TRACY. COMBINED CORN HUSKERAND'FODDER CUTTER.

No. 422,932. Patented Mar. 11, 1890.

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No. 422,932. Patented Mainll 1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS A. GALT AND GEORGE S. TRACY, OF STERLING, ILLINOIS.

COMBINED CORN-HUSKER AND FODDER-CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 422,932, dated March 11, 1890.

Application filed March 16, 1887. Serial No. 281,201. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that we, THOMAS A. GALT and GEORGE S. TRACY, citizens of the United States, residing at Sterling, in the county of \Vhiteside and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oombined Corn-Huskers and Fodder-Cutters; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference .inarked thereon, which forma part of this specification.

\ tion of a machine embodying our invention,

exhibiting in a general Way the location and interrelation of the several parts involved. Fig. 2 is a plan view of part of the machine, showing the relation of thehusking apparatus. and that of the cutting or chopping mechanism. Fig.3 is a vertical crosssection of the husking-rolls on line 00 0c of Fig. 2. a partial vertical section, on line X X of Fig. 2, just in front of the s'nappi11g-rollers.' Fig. 5 is an end elevation in dotted lines of the snapping-roller and cutter. Fig. 6 is'a detail View of the feed and snapping rollers. Fig. 7 is a detail in outline of the relative position of the main operative parts. Fig. 8 is a crosssection of the feed and snapping rollers. Fig. 9 is a detail in elevation showing the construction of the spiral cutter.

A is the frame of the machine, supported for convenience upon. four carrying-wheels.

B is a feed-table from which the fodder is fed between two transverse feed and snapping rollers O and D, placed parallel with each other, and one above the other transversely of the machine, one of which rollers is yielding. These rollers, which we have somewhat improved, are shown distinctly in Fig. 6, the view there being of the inner or exit side of said rollers. The lower roller 0 Fig. 4 is.

is provided on its periphery with the longitudinal grooves a. The upper roller D is provided on its periphery with three species of ribs, to wit: spiral ribs b, and annular transverse ribs 0, and the longitudinal ribs cl.

The function of the rollers O and D is to feed the fodder from the feed-table B to the cutting or chopping mechanism, and in the transmission to crush the feed and stalks and break or snap from the stalk the ear and permit the latter to drop back upon the huskingrollers, which are below the snapping-rollers and at right angles thereto. The purpose of the spiral ribs 17 is to draw the fodder through with a continuous spiral action. In this operation the fodder, if so permitted, would be carried toward one end of the rollers, and therefore be delivered to the cutting mechanism largely at one end of the latter. To prevent this lateral massing of the fodder annular transverse ribs 0 are interposed at proper intervals in the path of the spiral ribs b and serve to check the lateral drawing of the fodder beyond the location of the ribs 0, and

thereby the rollers deliver the fodder in an even and uniform manner to the cutting mechanism. The function of the longitudinal ribs (1 is to further assist in causing the progress of the fodder between said rollers.

The rollers O and D are rotated by means of a gear-wheel E on the end of the axle of the roller 0, to which power is applied in any suitable manner. Between the gear E and the frame Aon the shaft of the roller C is a fixed pinion F, which intermeshes with the like pinion F on the axle of the roller D. The adjacent surfaces of rollers O and D rotate in the direction from the feed-hopper B. An opening in the bottom of the feed-table B, just in front of the rollers O and D, permits the ears, when broken from the stalk by said rollers, to drop down upon the huskingrollers G and H, locatedbeneath said feedtable. These latter rollersG and H can be of any of the usual conformations for the purpose intended. Our preference is to have the roller G provided with spiral ribs G and longitudinal ribs G At certain intersections of said ribs are inserted short teeth G extending slightly beyond the apexes of said ribs. The roller II is of a plain surface, except small recesses H" in its periphery,

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to permit the passage of the teeth G on the roller G. The husking-rollers G and II are driven by means of the counter-shaft I, having an external gear-wheel J, which engages the pinion F, the husking-roller G being provided with the bevel-gear G which engages I and is actuated by a corresponding bevel- The outer ends of the husking-rollers being lower than the inner ends, the corn when husked is dropped off the lower end of said rollers upon the corn-elevator K, which, being seated in any suitable way at the lower end of said husking-rollers and driven in any suitable mode, deposits the hus'ked corn into a wagon or any suitable receptacle, as may be desired. The husks are drawndown by and between the husking-rollers aforesaid, and fall upon the endless husk-apron L, 10- cated beneath said rollers and longitudinally thereof, and are by the apron L carried forward and deposited with the cut fodder on the elevator M, and carried by the latter into whatever receptacle may be selected for storing the chopped feed.

As the fodder is being carried through be tween the feed and snapping rollersC and D, the forward ends thereof are supported on a horizontal chopping-table N, placed a little below the point of contact of the rollers O and D, and as the fodder is pushed over the table N by the mutual revolution of the rollers, C and D the portions of the fodder projected beyond the edge of the table N is instantly cut off by the spiral knives c, arranged in the peripheryof the cutting or chopping wheel 0, which is caused to rotate with great rapidity by suitable gearing. The knives e are attached to and carried upon the radialarms or spokes f of the cutting-wheel O. The latter rotates in such direction .that the side ter are seated spirally, in order to obtain the advantage of a shearing cut.

As the fodder is cut or chopped by the ac tion of the wheel 0, it drops by its own gravity upon the elevator M, and is by the latter, together with the husks', deposited on said elevator by the apron L, carried upward and discharged into a wagon-box, shed, or any storage apartment, from which it can be fed as desired. By thus crushing and chopping the fodder, the latter is not only rendered suitable for convenient handling by shovels or baskets, but is crushed and cut fine, and thus the whole is in a condition to be more easily consumed by the stock. In such comminuted and crushed condition a great advantage is obtained in having the material in a condition to be stored in sheds or build ings, and thus protected from being bleached or having its nutriment diminished from exposure to the weather. v

3 What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the'United States, is V a 1. In a corn-husker and fodder chopper, and in combination with the corrugated roller 0, the roller D, provided with the spiral annular andlongitndinal ribs, substantially as setforth.

3 2. I11 a corn-husker z'mdfodder-chopper, the'combination' of the corrugated roller 0, the roller D, provided with the spiral annular and longitudinal ribs, as set forth, with" the feed-table B, the chopping-table N, placed on the side of the roller opposite to the table B and a little below the point of contact of said rollers and the cutting-wheel O, substantially as described. a V

3. In a machine, as described, the combin'ae tion of the feed-table B, the corrugated roller '0, the roller D, provided with the'spiral anspiral annular and longitudinal ribs, substantially as set forth, andfor the purpose dc scribed.

Intestimony whereof we affiii our si ma tures in presence of two witnesses.

THOMAS GAL'I. GEO. s. TRACY.

' Witnesses:

GEORGE H. DRAKE, WALTER D. REYNOLDS.

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