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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
JEFFERSON D. LANE, OF BEND, AND WILL S. JAMES, OF WACO, TEXAS.
BALING-PRESS.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 586,191, dated July 13, 1897..
Application filed March 31, 1896, Serial No, 585,614. (No model,)To cbrl wlso7s it no~y con cern:
Be it known that we, JEFFERSON D. LANE,
residing at Bend, in the county of San Saba,
and WILL S. JAMES, residing at Waco, in the
5 county of McLennan, State of Texas, citizens
of the United States, have invented a new and
useful Baling-Press, of which the following
is a specification.
Our invention relates to baling-presses, and
r has for its object to provide a simple and effi-
cient construction of operating mechanism
whereby the plunger is advanced and re-
tracted by positive means applied through a
continuously-rotating part and without the
r5 use of rebounding springs or their equiva-
lents, the backward movement of the plunger
being rapid and following immediately upon
the release of the plunger after its forward
or compressing movement, and an interval
20o sufficient for. introducing the material to be
baled being allowed between the backward
and the succeeding forward movement.
Further objects and advantages of this in-
vention will appear in the following descrip-
25 tion, and the novel features thereof willbe par-
ticularly pointed out in the appended claim.
In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective
view of a baling-press constructed in accord-
ance with our invention. Fig. 2 is a plan
30 view of the operating mechanism, showing
the parts in the positions which they occupy
during the holding of the plunger to allow
time for tying a bale. Fig. 3 is a similar view
showing the positions of the parts after the
35 retraction or rearward movement of the plun-
ger and previous to the release of the return-
lever by the cross-head.
Similar numerals of reference indicate cor-
responding parts in all the figures of the draw-
40 ings.
The frame of the operating mechanism in-
cludes a base 1 and a superjacent horizontal
bar 2, and in bearings formed in said base
and horizontal bar is mounted the driving-
45 shaft 3, to which is secured the sweep or op-
erating-arm 4. Said driving-shaft carries a
cross-head 5, having oppositely- extending
duplicate arms of which the front sides are
convexed and approximately radial, as shown
50 at 6, while the outer extremities thereof are
concentric with the driving-shaft, as shownat 7, and continue the convexity of the ap-
proximately radial portions.
Arranged in operative relation with the
arms of the cross-head are the advancing and 55
returning levers 8 and 9, the former being
pivoted at one extremity to the base and be-
ing connected pivotally at the other extrem-
ity to the contiguous end of the plunger-beam
10, an antifriction-roll 11 being housed at the 6o
free end of the advancing lever for contact
with the arms of the cross-head. The return-
ing lever is pivoted at an intermediate point
and is provided with a short arm 12, which
terminates in the path of the outer ends of 65
the arms of the cross-head, whereby the move-
ment received thereby from the cross-head
-is rapid. This arm 12 terminates in an anti-
friction-roll 13 for a purpose similar to that
above described in connection with the ad- 70
vancing lever, and the other arm 14 of the re-
tracting lever is of greater length than the
arm 12 to increase the throw when the lever
receives motion from the cross-head. Said
long arm of the returning lever is connected 75
by means of a rod 15 with an intermediate
point of the advancing lever contiguous to
the stationary pivot thereof, whereby the free
end of said advancing lever still further mul-
tiplies the movement of the pitman when mo- 80
tion is applied to the mechanism through the
returning lever.
From the above description it will be seen
that the object in view is to secure a rapid
return movement of the plunger similar to 85
that attained by the use of a rebounding
spring, and the more rapidly this return move-
ment is commenced and accomplished the
more the expansion of the material baled can
be utilized in the movement. 90
The advancing lever is pivoted at a point
remote from the axis of the cross-head in such
a position that when the plunger-beam is re-
tracted the free end of said lever is located
adjacent to and preferably in contact with 95
the cross-head approximately at its center or
at the inner end of the convex or front sur-
face of the contiguous arm, as shown clearly
in Fig. 3, whereby as soon as the free end of
said arm of the cross-head disengages the too
short arm of the return-lever it will act slowly
upon the outer extremity of the advancing
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Lane, Jefferson D. & James, Will S. Baling-Press., patent, July 13, 1897; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth174668/m1/2/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.