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rack-bars 6, and also the bolt 30 for holding pinions for operating in the teeth of said bars,
the platform in position. The crank 12 is substantially as specified. 35
turned by hand and the rack-bars drawn in- 2. The combination, with the frame of a
wardly until the rear ends of the arms or harvester, of oppositely - located rack - bars
5 bars 22 abut against the beam 2, (the joint in mounted to reciprocate therein, a crank-shaft
the arms having been broken,) and the plat- having pinions adapted to operate the rack-
form raised where the arms are hinged until bars, a jointed platform pivoted in the bars, 4"0
it assumes the position shown in Fig. 3, at and cutting mechanism mounted upon one of
which time the bolt-hole 31registers with and the bars and adapted to reciprocate there-
to receives the bolt 30 and the rack-bars are with, substantially as specified.
locked against withdrawal. To extend the 3. The combination, with the frame-work
platform, the operation just described is re- of a harvester, of oppositely-located recipro- 45
versed. eating rack-bars projecting therefrom, and
The breaking of the platform may be ac- a platform formed of two sections, tile outer
15 complished entirely by hand, or it may be end of one section being pivoted in the ends
accomplished by first breaking the joint and of the rack-bars and hinged to the opposite
throwing the adjacent ends of the section section, and the latter section being remova- 50
slightly upward, when they will be forced bly connected with said bars, substantially
into the position in which they are shown in as specified.
20 Fig. 3 by the engagement of the beam 2 with 4. The rack-bars G, in combination with
the ends of the bars 22 of the roller 21. the rod 13, carrying the roll 14, and arms 15,
In the reciprocations of the rack-bars, -and pivoted thereon and having the leaf 16 and 55
in order to prevent the ground-wheel 8 from the arms 22, havingthe leaf 24 and hinged to
dragging, I place thereunder a small truck leaf 16, and having the rod 18 removably
25 26, which is formed with wheel-embracing connected to the bars t; and carrying the roll
flanges 27 and rollers 28. 21 and sprocket 19 and the chain 20, sub-
Having described my invention, what I stantially as specified. 60
claim is- In testi money whereof I affix my signature in
1. The combination, with the frame-work presence of two witnesses.
30 of a harvester, of opposite longitudinally- TIIOMAS E. LEWIS.
movable rack - bars projecting therefrom, a Witnesses:
jointed platform pivoted in the rack-bars, and T. E. DAVIES,
a crank-shaft mounted on tie frame carrying WV. R. YouNG.
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Lewis, Thomas E. Platform for Harvesters., patent, May 27, 1890; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth172370/m1/3/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.