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450,942
vention will be readily understood by those After the bale is completed the doors are
skilled in the art to which it appertains. The thrown open and the bale removed.
bale-box is filled through the doors C, after I claim as my invention- 35
which they are closed and locked. To com- 1. In a baling-press, the combination, with
5 press the bale, the free or outer end of the a baling-box essentially rectangular in cross-
lever is depressed, causing the collar con- section, of doors arranged at the top thereof,
nected therewith to be drawn at an angle to at the front, and one of the sides, said doors
the plunger-rod, binding it thereto, and there- being hinged at diagonally-opposite corners 40
by carrying the same throughout the upward of the box, and the locking-bolts carried near
to movement of the collar. Previous to the op- the free end of each door, said bolts being
eration of the lever the collar K is arranged adapted to slide across each other and en-
with the extension k7' resting upon the top gage the inner faces of one of the beams of
portion of the frame F. As the plunger-rod the frame when the adjacent ends of the 45
is raised through the means and manner de- doors are brought in contact, substantially as
15 scribed, the collar KI assumes a horizontal shown and described.
position to permit the free passage of the 2. In a baling-press, the combination, with
plunger-rod therethrough; but when pressure the four-sided baling box or chamber and the
is released from the plunger-rod for the pur- supporting-uprights, of the doors arranged at 50o
pose of bringing the lever in position for an- the top thereof, at the front, and one of the
2" other stroke the plunger, by reason of the ex- sides, said doors being hinged at diagonally-
pansion of the contents of the bale-box and opposite corners of the box, the locking-bolts
by gravity, exerts a tendency to backward carried at the free end of each door, the top
movement. Suchmovement, however, throws door, the locking-bar sliding through aper- 55
the collar K below a horizontal position, caus- tures in the uprights, and the lever foroperat-
25 ing the same to bind against the plunger-rod ing the top door, all arranged and adapted to
and arrestfurther backward movement there- operate substantially as shown and described.
of, as clearly shown in Fig. 2. After the bale In testimony whereof I affix my signature in
has been formed and tied the lever is de- presence of two witnesses.
pressed sufficiently to release the collar K, HENRY G. KLOCKMANN.
30 when the latter is thrown round, disengaging Witnesses:
the extension k' thereof, and the plunger is JNO. S. RADFORD,
thus permitted to assume its normal position. JOHN SCHUHMACHER.
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Klockmann, Henry G. Baling-Press., patent, April 21, 1891; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth172677/m1/4/: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.