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UNITED
STATES
PATENT OFFICE.
ALVA E. ANDERSON, OF CLARKSVILLE, TEXAS.
BALING-PRESS.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 574,771, dated January 5, 1897.
Application filed September 30, 1895. Serial No. 564,184, (No model.)To all i hot, it Jrlay cozcer.:
Be it known that I, ALVA E. ANDERSON, a
citizen of the United States,residing at Clarks-
ville, in the county of Red River and State of
5 Texas,have invented anew and useful Baling-
Press, of which the followingis a specification.
My invention relates to baling-presses of
the class especially adapted for baling cotton,
the object in view being to provide improved
io operating mechanism whereby the power as
applied to the plunger is increased in propor-
tion to the resistance offered by the material
being baled and whereby the forward move-
ment of the plunger is automatically checked
15 at the limit of its path and is returned to its
initial position without effort upon the part
of the operator or attendant.
Further objects and advantages of this in-
vention will appear in the following descrip-
20 tion, and the novel features thereof will be
particularly pointed out in the appended
claims.
In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective
view of a baling-press constructed in accord-
25 ance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical
central section of the same. Fig. 3 is a par-
tial longitudinal vertical section showing the
positions occupied by the parts when the trip
is operated to change the direction of rotation
30 of the feed-screw. Fig. 4 is a vertical trans-
verse section of the baling-chamber and the
subjacent feed-chamber.
Similar numerals of reference indicate cor-
responding parts in all the figures of the draw-
35 ings.
The frame of the improved press includes
parallel longitudinal sills 1, upon which are
arranged tracks 2, and mounted in bearings
3 at the extremities of the sills is a feed-screw
40 4, which is thus disposed in a plane between
the tracks. An intermediate bearing 5 is ar-
ranged approximately at the center of the lon-
gitudinal sills, and contiguous thereto is a
bevel-pinion 6, with which meshes a bevel-
45 gear 7 on the spindle of the friction-wheel 8.
This friction-wheel is provided with concen-
tric inner and outer friction surfaces or
flanges 9, in contact with either of which is
adapted to be arranged a friction-pulley 10,
50 carried by the drive-shaft 11. This drive-
shaft is mounted at one end in a movable
bearing 11, the movement of which is radialwith relation to the friction-wheel and which
is pivoted to a side beam 12, arranged paral-
lel with the sills 1. Connected to the mov- 55
able bearing is an arm 13, and the extremity
of this arm is in turn connected with an op-
erating-lever 14 by means of an interposed
link 15, said lever being pivoted at its lower
end and operating at its upper end in a guide 60o
16, having ratchet-teeth 17 for engagement
by an elongated detent on the lever. Said
ratchet-teeth are arranged in series and the
teeth in the two series are inclined in opposite
directions, whereby the lever may be locked at 65
either end or contiguous to either end of the
guide from movement in the opposite direc-
tion or toward the opposite end of the guide.
A driving-pulley 18 is fixed to the drive-shaft
and is adapted to receive motion by any suit- 70
able means. (Not shown.)
Rising from the sills forming the base of
the frame is a tower 19, supporting a vertical
spindle 20, and mounted upon said spindle
and resting upon the upper end of the tower 75
is a rotary table 21, carrying a plurality of
feed-chambers 22, said chambers extending
vertically downward to a point contiguous
to the upper end of the tower and being pro-
vided at their lower ends with interior strips 80o
23, formingstops to limit the downward move-
ment of follower-blocks 24, said blocks being
arranged in the feed-chambers to close the
lower ends thereof while the material to be
baled is introduced at their upper ends. 85
Supported above the plane of the rotary
table is the vertical baling-chamber 25, the
base or frame 26 of said chamber being sup-
ported at one end by the spindle 20 and at
the other end by uprights 27, rising from the 90
sills, and the top of said chamber is supported
by a cross-head 28, secured to the upper ends
of said spindle and uprights. The base or
frame of the baling-chamber is wider than
the chamber, and mounted in bearings in the 95
end bars 29 thereof are trunnions on the ex-
tremities of the lower cross-bars 30 of the
sides 31 of the chamber. Said cross-bars are
arranged in contact with the outer surfaces
of the sides of the chamber, whereby when 1oo
the sides are lowered to the horizontal posi-
tion indicated in Fig. 4 they are arranged in
a position to form suitable platforms upon
which the completed bale may be supported in
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Anderson, Alva E. Baling-Press., patent, January 5, 1897; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth174490/m1/3/?q=%22United%20States%20-%20Texas%20-%20Red%20River%20County%22: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.