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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
ARCIIBALD YELL McILROY AND JOSEPH LEE McILROY, OF TOLAR, TEXAS.
RAKE.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 569,654, dated October 20, 1896.
Application filed June 9, 18094 Serial No. 514,093, (No model.)
To call rwionb it m7scay concern: forming the enlargements orheads 15, thereby
Be it known that we, ARCHIBALD YELL MC- allowing the openings 17 to be formed, while
ILROY and JOSEPHI LEE ICILROY, citizens of the teeth are prevented from moving rear- 55
the United States, residing at Tolar, in the wardly by means of the rod 16, which passes
5 county of Hood and State of Texas, have in- through openings 17 in the heads or enlarge-
vented a new and useful Rake, of which the ments 15 and operates to hold them incapable
following is a specification. of independent movement.
The invention is particularly related to a The teeth 15" extend rearwardly and curve 60o
machine for raking loose stumps, brush, and down to the level of the ground, so as to form
Io similar trash from fields; and it consists of devices capable of grasping and retaining the
certain novel features of construction and stumps and other matter with which our ma-
combination and arrangement of parts that chine operates. Rigidly secured to the rear
will be more fully described hereinafter and of the beam 13 and arising vertically there- 65
finally embodied in the claim. from is the arm 18, which is provided with
T5 In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 the openings 19, adapted for the reception of
represents a perspective view of a rake con- the eye 20 of the rod 21. The rod 21 proceeds
structed after the manner of our invention; forwardly from the arm 18 and is connected
Fig. 2, a horizontal section of the machine; at its rear end to the lever 22, which is in 70
Fig. 3, a vertical longitudinal section. turn fulcrumed to the tongue 7 and provided
20 The reference-numeral 1 indicates the axle with an edge or point 23, adapted to engage
of the machine, which is formed of an iron with the ratchet-teeth24,formedonthebar25.
bar provided with the wooden strengthening- The bar 25 is U-shaped and secured to the
beam 2. Formed in the ends of the iron bar tongue at its ends, so that the lever 22 may 75
are the journals 3, upon which the carrying- be secured in any position on the bar. Thus
25 wheels 4 are mounted, so that the machine by swinging the lever forward the arm 18
will be capable of easy transportation. The will be moved correspondingly and the beam
two sections of the axle are secured to each 13, with its attached teeth, raised, so that the
other bymeans of the yokes 5, which embrace teeth will disengage the ground. Rigidly So
the iron bar and are provided with nuts 6, by secured to the upper side of the axle are the
30 which they are secured in place. These yokes arms 26, which are bifurcated and provided
are preferably three in number, and the mid- to form a fulcrum for the forward end of the
dle yoke is extended up through the rear end levers 27. The levers 27 are two in number,
of the tongue 7 and bolted to the upper side one for each arm 26, and extend rearwardly 85
thereof to the end that the tongue be rigidly from the axle to a point beyond the rear ends
35 secured to the axle. Connected to the front of the teeth 15'".
of the axle and to the sides of the tongue 7 Pivotally connected to the levers 27 are the
are the hounds or braces 8, which operate to links 28, which extend downwardly from the
give rigidity and secureness to the tongue levers and are pivotally connected to those 90
9 indicates a whiffletree which is affixed to of the teeth 15' which occur directly be-
40 the tongue and to which the team is to be neath. The purpose of these levers is toper-
hitched. mit the teeth 15" to be raised from behind
Rigidly recured to the rear side of the axle the machine, and by a person following it.
1 and equidistant from each other are the Thus it will be seen that the teeth may be 95
sections of the knuckle-joints 10, which have raised by two different devices, the levers 22
45 one section, 11, fixed to the axle, while the re- and 27, according to the convenience of the
maining sections, 12, are similarly secured to operator. By reason of the particular ar-
the transverse beam 13, whereby the beanm rangement of the levers 27 and 22 and the
13 is attached to the axle, so as to be capable connections between said levers and the rake 0oo
of swinging thereon. Formed in the beam when the lever 27 is lifted for elevating the
50 13 and extending longitudinally therein are rake the lever 22 is moved forward, and on
the openings 14, through which the rake-teeth account of the engagement between the lever
15" pass and in which they are secured by 22 and the rack on the tongue tihe rake will
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McIlroy, Archibald Yell & McIlroy, Joseph Lee. Rake., patent, October 20, 1896; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth174412/m1/2/: accessed July 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.