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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
PETER D. ROQUEMORE, OF DE BERRY, TEXAS.
GEAR-POWER FOR PRESSES.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 387,451, dated August 7, 1888.
Application filed February 6, 1888. Serial No. 263,182. (No model.)To all whons ii niay concern:
Be it known that I, PETER D. ROQUEMORE,
a citizen of the United States, residing at De
Berry, in the county of Panola and State of
5 Texas, have invented new and useful Improve-
ments in Gear-Power for Presses, of which the
following is a specification.
This invention pertains to improvements in
gear power or mechanism for operating bal-
io ing-presses; and it consists of the sundry com-
binations of parts, including their construc-
tion, substantially as hereinafter set forth, and
pointed out in the claims.
In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is
15 a plan view of my invention. Fig. 2 is a sec-
tional view of the same, showing it as applied
for use.
In the organization of my invention I em-
ploy a frame, A, which is suitably mounted
20 and bolted upon sills or timbers a a.
Upbn the end pieces of the frame A are jour-
naled two shafts, B B', intermediately of which
is arranged a third short shaft, C. The shaft
B' is extended, as at b, and provided with two
25 pulleys upon said extension-one a loose and
the other a fixed driving-pulley. The shafts
B B' are directly geared together by two gear
wheels or pinions, c c', of different diameters,
and secured or fixed, one to each shaft, at one
30 end. All three shafts, B B' C, are geared to-
gether by pinions d d' d2 at or near their oppo-
site ends, of which pinions the middle one, d',
upon the shaft C is fixed and is the larger, the
others being of the same diameter.
35 The two pinions d d' of the shafts B B' are
sleeved loosely upon the shafts, their sleeves
or hubs e e being formed with clutch-shoulders
e' e', with which are adapted to engage clutch-
shouldered sleeves D D', fitted to slide longi-
40 tudinally by the usual spline connection or
coupling upon said shafts.
EE are two shipping-levers, each of which
is pivoted at one end to the upper end of a sup-
port or standard, f,securedto one of the sills or
45 timbers a a. These levers are adapted to en-
gage with the sleeves D D', and to put the lat-
ter separately into and out of engagement with
the clutch-shoulders e e' of the pinion sleeves
or hubs e e in throwing either of the pinions
50 d d' into or out of operation. The middle shaft,
C, is provided at its inner end with a slightly-
beveled pinion, g, which gears with a largerbeveled toothed wheel, h, secured to a sleeve
or "tap," F, through which works the screw
F' for operating the baling-press follower. 55
The pinion d' on the middle short shaft; C,
being fixed, and the pinions d and d' being
loose,by shipping the clutch-sleeve D' into en-
gagement with the clutch-sleeve e of the pin-
ion d' the middle pinion, d', and its shaft C 6o
will be driven so as to cause the pinion g to
revolve to the left, and accordingly affect the
gear-wheel h and the sleeve or tap F, actuat-
ing the screw F' of the baling-press follower,
the shaft B' being driven or revolved to the 65
right. By unshipping the clutch-sleeve D'
from the sleeve e of the pinion d', and throw-
ing the clutch-sleeve D into engagement with
the clutch-sleeve e of the pinion d of the shaft
B, the movement of the pinion d' and its shaft 70
C will be reversed, driving or revolving the
pinion g to the right, accordingly affecting the
gear-wheel h and the pin-actuating sleeve or
tap F, the shaft B' being driven, as before, to
the right. 75
The machine can be thrown wholly out of
gear-i. e., all the gearing be put out of mo-
tion-by shipping the driving-belt to and upon
the loose pulley of the driving-shaft B', which
also has the effect to do away with all noise 80o
arising from the action of the wheel teeth or
cogs upon each other.
The invention is adapted to run either to
the right or left, packing the bale either up
or down, while it can be run at any rate of 85
speed by increasing the size of the driving-
pulley.
Having thus fully described my invention,
what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters
Patent, is-- 00
1. The driving - gear comprising shafts
geared together at one end, and having loose
pinions at or near the other ends, and an in-
termediate fixed pinion upon a third power-
transmitting shaft, substantially as set forth. 95
2. In a driving-gear, the combination of the
shafts geared together at one end, and having
at the other ends loose or sleeved pinions
geared to a fixed pinion on an intermediate or
third shaft carrying a second pinion, and Ioo
clutch-sleeves sliding upon the first-named
shafts and adapted to engage with the sleeves
of the first-named pinions, substantially as set
forth.
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Roquemore, Peter D. Gear Power for Presses., patent, August 7, 1888; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth171816/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.