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737,521
ets 56, such engagement being designed to
retain the chute in its operative position, a
hook, as 59, being pivotally carried by the
under face of said chute for engaging an eye
5 60, secured to the wall 4, for serving as an
auxiliary retaining means. The chute 58 may
readily be removed from its operative posi-
tion by simply disconnecting hook 50 from
eye 60 and moving the outer end of the chute
to upwardly, whereby the hooks 57 will be re-
leased from engagement with brackets 56.
The edges of aperture 55 are preferably pro-
vided with a suitable casing 61, which is pref-
erably cut at the side edges, as at 62, and a
15 cutter-bar, as 63, rests upon the lower edge
of said aperture and is provided at either end
with an upwardly-extending flange, as 64,
each of which flanges is pivotally held in po-
sition by any desired securing means, as 65,
20 passed therethrough and into the wall 4,
whereby the cutter-bar 63 completes the cas-
ing and is free to be moved laterally for pur-
poses hereinafter described. In order to con-
trol the pivotal movement of the cutter-bar
25 63 and rigidly secure the same in a given ad-
justed position, I preferably provide lugs, as
66, formed integral with or attached to the
outer edge of said bar and having its outer
end curved downwardly and receiving a suit-
30 able set-screw, as 67, threaded therethrough
and into the material of wall 4. rT'he adjust-
ment of the bar is preferably accomplished
by loosening the screws 67 and placing be-
tween the downwardly-extending portions of
35 the lugs 66 and the wall 4 a block of the de-
sired thickness and then again tightening the
screws, whereby the cutter-bar 63 will be ad-
justed laterally to a given position and re-
tained in such position until released by op-
40 eration of said screws.
A suitable bar, as 68, is preferably secured
in any preferred manner to rear wall 3, par-
allel with the inner face of side wall 4, which
bar extends from a suitable point below cut-
45 ter-bar 63 to the upper edge of box 1, a space
being left between the said bar 68 and wall 4
for receiving and guiding one edge of a shield,
as 69, carried by the edge of plunger-head 30,
contiguous aperture 55. The opposite edge
50 of shield 69 is guided between wall 4 and a
vertically-arranged bar, as 70, which bar is
secured to said wall and provided with a lat-
erally-extending flange 71, which is spaced
from the said wall, so as to form a longitudinal
55 groove for guiding the last-mentioned edge
of said shield 69.
Secured to the edge of plunger-head 30,
which carries shield 69, and lying in the same
vertical plane is a knife, as 72, which knife
6o has its upper edge or back contacting with
the lower horizontal edge of said shield, the
knife being of any desired width and pro-
vided with a lower cutting edge 73, which edge
is preferably formed on a slant, as clearly seen
65 in Fig. 3, whereby in operation when the
knife is moved downwardly with the move-
ment of the plunger the same will have some-what of a draw cutting action, and material
passed between the said edge and the cutter-
bar 63 will be readily severed by the said 70
knife as the same moves downwardly into con-
tact with the inner edge of said cutter-bar.
It will be seen from the foregoing that the con-
tact of the knife with the cutter-bar greatly
facilitates the ready severence of the articles 75
passed therebetween, and in order to take up
the wear between said parts the set-screws 67
may be adjusted, as before described, for mov-
ing the inner edge of. said cutter-bar 63 the
desired distance inwardly to compensate for 8o
such wear. It will be apparent that the knife
72 is designed to move within the grooves
formed by bars 68 and 70 for the full length
thereof, whereby it will pass the desired dis-
tance below bar 63, and thereby obviate all 85
danger of failing to perform the desired cut-
ting operation.
In operation, the side wall 5 and the door 6
.being locked in their closed positions, hay is
fed into chute 58 in the form of a continuous 90
charge, it usually requiring one or more per
sons to feed the hay into the press and an-
other to operate the lever 50, the lever 50 be-
ing in its raised position at the beginning of
the operation, so that the charge of hay may 95
pass through aperture 55 and into the box 1
until it strikes against the wall 5 thereof,
when lever 50 is swung downwardly and the
hay is severed by the knife 72, the shield 69
serving to prevent entrance of hay above the ioo
plunger-head 30, the same closing said aper-
ture as the plunger-head moves downwardly.
This feeding operation is continued, the
plunger being raised after each operation for
permitting the entrance of a charge of hay 105
until the desired size of bale is formed within
the box 1, the arm 44 being then moved to its
locked position for retaining the plunger-head
30 at the lowest point of its movement while
door 6 is swung open and the bale is tied in rio
the well-known manner. After the bale has
been tied the plunger is raised, the bolt 14 be-
ing already disengaged from the floor of sled 4,
and the side wall 5 is moved outwardly to the
extent allowed by the length of segmental slot 115
12, the bar 10 being thereby moved laterally
for a short distance into the box 1, as herein-
before described, whereby the completed bale
is slightly tilted outwardly and its ready re-
moval greatly facilitated, as will be clearlyap- 120
parent by reference to Fig. 9 of the drawings.
In the operation of the present device I find
it desirable in order to produce a smooth bale
to provide a false bottom, as 74, formed with
suitable tie -slots 75 75 and side walls 76 76 125
and a rear wall 77, the said side walls being
preferably detached from the rear wall, and
the bottom 74 and its walls are preferably
formed of sheet metal or other suitable ma-
terial comparatively rigid and yet slightly 13 -
flexible. The rear wall 77 of false bottom 74 is
provided with a transversely-arranged later-
ally-projecting bead, as 78, which bead is de-
signed in operation to engage a longitudinal
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Stopple, John J. Baling Press, patent, August 25, 1903; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth512620/m1/7/: accessed July 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.