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No. 737,521.
UNITEDSTATES
Patented August 25, 1903.
PATENT OFFICE.JOhN.J. STOPPLE, OF GOLIAD, TEXAS.
BALING-PRESS.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 737,521, dated August 25, 1903.
Application filed December 21 1901. Serial No, 86,817, (No model.)To all whonr i tmay.J Conce7'n-:
Be it known that I, JOHN J. STOPPLE, a citi-
zen of the United States, residing at Goliad,
in the county of Goliad and State of Texas,
5 have invented certain new and useful Im-
provements in Baling-Presses; and I do here-
by declare the following to be a full, clear,
and exact description of the invention, such
as will enable others skilled in the art to which
o it appertains to make and use the same.
My invention relates to improvements in
baling-presses, and more particularly to the
type employed in baling hay.
rlle object in view is the production of a
15 hand-operated baling-press capable of receiv-
ing a continuous feed and provided with
means for acquiring a maximum of leverage
for operating the press-plunger within a mini-I
mum space and with the employment of the
20 smallest number of parts.
With this and other objects in view it con-
sists of a box provided with a feed-opening
in the side thereof, a plunger operating in
said box, and a knife carried thereby and mov-
25 ing contiguous to said feed-opening for cut-
ting the charge of hay as it is fed into the box.
It further consists, in combination with a
suitable box, of a plunger movable therein,
hand-operated means for moving said plun-
30 ger, means for feeding hay within said-box
during the operation of said plunger, and
means carried by the plunger for cutting off
said feed.
It also consists in certain other novel con-
35 structions, combinations, and arrangements
of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described
and claimed.
In tl- accompanying drawings, Figure 1
represents a perspective view of a baling-press
40 embodying the features of the present inven-
tion. Fig. 2 represents a view in side eleva-
tion of the same. Fig. 3 represents a verti-
cal longitudinal central section through the
press, the operating-lever being shown in ele-
45 vation. Fig. 4 represents a similar view taken
on the line 4 4 of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 represents a
transverse horizontal section taken on the
plane of line 5 5 of Fig. 4. Fig. 0 represents
a fragmentary detail view of the catch mnech-
5o anism for securing the hinged side of the box.
Fig. 7 represents a detail perspective view of
the feed-stopping shield. Fig. 8 represents afragmentary detail view of the cutter-bar and
setting means therefor. Fig. 9 represents a
similar view to Fig. 5, illustrating the pivoted 5[
side and hinged door out of contact.
Referring to the drawings by numerals, i
indicates a suitable baling-box mounted, pref-
erably, on a sled 2, the said box being formed
with a rear wall 3, a fixed side wall 4, ahinged 6o
side wall 5, and a front closing door 6. Each
of the said walls and the door are provided
with suitable downwardly-disposed notches,
as 7 7, on the inner face thereof, the walls and
door being formed of suitable material and 65
bound together by horizontal beams S S. The
side wall 5 is secured in position by means of a
rod 9, passed through the projecting ends of
its beams S and also through the beam or
beams S of the rear wall, whereby the said 7c
side Wallis free to swing in a horizontal plane.
Formed integral with or secured to the side
wall 5 is a laterally-projecting longitudinal
bar, as 10, which when the said side is in its
normal closed position lies in the same verti- 75
cal plane with the rear wall 3, but when the
side is swung outwardly moves to the posi-
tion indicated in Fig. 9 within the box of
the press for purposes hereinafter mentioned.
A vertically-arranged rod, as 11, is preferably 8o
passed through the front projecting ends of
the binding-beams S of side 5 and extends
through a segmental slot, as 12, formed in
the floor of sled 2, and carries any suitable
head, as 13, beneath the said floor for retain--85
ing the side 5 against outward movement for
a greater distance than the length of said
segmental slot.
Slidably mounted on the lower binding-
beam 8 of side 5 is a hook-shaped bolt, as 14, 9C
the body of said bolt being longitudinally
slidable within laterally-projecting sleeves 15
15 and provided with a lug or other means, as
16, designed to contact with one of the sleeves
15 for preventing removal of the bolt, said 95
lug also serving as an operating-handle. The
hooked portion 17 of bolt 14 preferably ex-
tends. downwardly and then forwardly in
such manner as when the bolt is pressed to
the full extent of its rearward movement to o-
extend in an open space and permit the
hinged movement of the side 5; but when the
said balt is pressed forwardly, the side 5 being
in its closed position, the said parallel por-
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Stopple, John J. Baling Press, patent, August 25, 1903; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth512620/m1/5/: accessed July 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.