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UNITED STATESPATENT OFFICE.
BAILEY E. CHANEY, OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS.
SACK ATTACHMENT FOR COTTON-PICKING MACHINES.Specification of Letters Patent.
Patented Nov. 11, 1919.
Application filed February 7, 1918. Serial No. 215,817.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, BAILEY E. CHANEY,
a citizen of the United States, residing at
Corpus Christi, in the county of Nueces and
5 State of Texas, have invented certain new
and useful Improvements in Sack Attach-
ments for Cotton-Picking Machines; and I
do hereby declare the following to be a full,
clear, and exact description of the inven-
10 tion, such as will enable others skilled in the
art to which it appertains to make and use
the same.
The present invention relates to improve-
ments in cotton picking machines of that
15 type in which a suction is employed to draw
in through picking tubes to a receiver, the
cotton from the plants; and the present in-
vention has more particularly for an ob-
ject to provide an improved receptacle for
20 the cotton, which consists in a flexible water-
proofed sack having means to hold it in po-
sition on the machine and stays for prevent-
ing the walls of the sack from collapsing,
due to the influence of the suction.
25 In the accompanying drawings forming
a part of this application, and in which
similar reference symbols indicate corre-
sponding parts in the several views:
Figure 1 is a cross sectional view through
30 a wagon showing in elevation, an improved
cotton picking machine thereon, construct-
ed in accordance with my present invention,
and with parts shown in section.
Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken on the line
35 2-2 in Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the im-
proved sack supporting device.
Fig. 4 is a fragmentary vertical sectional
view on an enlarged scale of the receiver
40 showing one manner of attaching the sack;
and
Fig. 5 is a fragmentary perspective view
of the attaching means for the sack.
Referring more particularly to the draw-
45 ings, 1 designates a vehicle or wagon box
mounted for movement on the wheels 2, and
having a space 3 therein for receiving cot-
ton.
A motor 4 and a suction-producing fan
50 driven thereby, are installed on cross sills
6 and 7, which form a portable platform
removably placed on either the wagon box
1 or the bed of any vehicle.
U-bolts 8 and 9 engage the ends of the
55 sills 6 and 7, which project beyond the sides
of the wagon box 1 and pass down near suchsides to the bottom of the wagon box, where
their threaded ends are received through
openings in sills 10 and 11 to which they
are firmly attached by the nuts 12 and 13 60
threaded thereon. By removing the nuts
12 and 13 from the threaded ends of the
U-bolts 8 and 9, the platform carrying the
cotton picking machine, which is installed
as a unit, may be quickly removed and the 65
vehicle employed in other uses.
At 14 is shown a discharge leading from
the suction-producing device 5 to the cotton
space 3 in the wagon box 1, and 15 repre-
sents a pipe setting up communication be- 70
tween the eye of the fan 5 and the upper
part of a receiver 16; which receiver 16 is
supported in any suitable manner from the
sills 6 and 7, one means being shown in the
drawings, but as this forms no particular 75
part of my present invention, and as it is
believed clear as shown, a minute descrip-
tion of same is not though necessary. There
is a valve 17 included in the pipe 15 for
the purpose of regulating the amount of 80
the suction.
A pipe 18 projects down through the cen-
ter of the top of the receiver 16 and ter-
minates in a flaring mouth 19 a considerable
distance below the end of the pipe 15. This 85
pipe 18 also extends above the top 16, where
it is formed with several branches which
admit of attaching thereto one or more
picking tubes 20, 21 and 22.
The lower end of the receiver 16 is left 90
open and provided with a flange 23 pro-
jecting outwardly therefrom. A cotton re-
ceiving sack 24, preferably of flexible and
water-proof material, has its open end or
mouth fitted over the lower open end of the 95
receiver 16 and flange 23 in the manner in-
dicated in Figs. 1 and 2.
A metallic band 25 surrounds the lower
end of the receiver 16 and may rest for
support and to prevent its accidental de- 100
tachment from such receiver on the flange
23. For convenience in attaching and de-
taching, the band 25 is preferably split,
which admits of its being opened out to a
condition wherein it may be readily applied 105
to or removed from the receiver 16. The
ends of the band 25 are turned outwardly
to provide ears 26 and 27, which are per-
forated as indicated at 28 in Fig. 3, where-
by to receive a bolt 29 through which the 110
band may be contracted and held in the
contracted condition about the. receiver 16.1,321,715.
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Chaney, Bailey E. Sack Attachment for Cotton Picking Machines, patent, November 11, 1919; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1256647/m1/3/: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.