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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
WILLIAM ELBERT TATE, OF WEATHERFORD, TEXAS.
PRESS-FEEDER.No. 819,949.
To all whom mit izy concern.-
Be it known that I, WILLIAM ELBERT. TATE,
a citizen of the United States, residing at
Weatherford, in the county of Parker and
5 State of Texas, have invented a new and use-
ful Press-Feeder, of which the following is a
specification.
This invention relates to feeding devices
for baling-presses,-and more particularly to
io that class of feeders which are used in con-
nection with double presses-that is to say,
presses which are provided with two com-
pression-chambers disposed at the ends of an
intermediate compartment into which the
x5 material that is to be compressed is fed and
in which reciprocates a plunger having two.
heads or followers operating in the respective
compression-chambers and compressing ma-
terial in the latter alternately.
20 The present invention is applicable, to va-
rious forms of presses; but it has been elected
in the present application to illustrate it in
connection with the type of press for which'
Letters Patent No. 738,957 were granted to
25 me on the 15th day of September, 1903.
The object of the present invention is to
provide means for forcing the material which
is to be compressed alternately in the two
ends of the intermediate compartment in ad-
30 vance of the followers, so that the latter shall
be enabled to operate steadily and uninter-
ruptedly and without the manual attention
which is usually required to pack the mate-
rial in advance of the followers.
35 Other objects are to improve and to sim-
plify the construction of the mechanism
whereby this operation is effected.
With these and other ends in view, which
will readily appear as the nature of the inven-
40 tion is better understood, the same consists
in the improved construction and novel ar-
rangement and combination of parts, which
will be hereinafter fully described, and par-
ticularly pointed out in the claims.
45 In the accompanying drawings has been
illustrated a simple and preferred form of the
invention, it being, however, understood that
no limitation is necessarily made to the pre-
cise structural details therein exhibited, but
5o that the right is reserved to any changes, al-
terations, and modifications to which re-
course may be had within the scope of the in-
vention and without departing from the
spirit or sacrificing the efficiency of the same.Patented May 8, 1906.
In said drawings, Figure 1 is a side eleva- 55
tion of a portion of a press embodying the in-
vention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical
sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a trans-
verse sectional view taken on the plane indi-
cated by the line 3 3 in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a 60
perspective detail view of the feeder de-
tached. Fig. 5 is a side elevation, on a re-
duced scale, illustrating a slight modification.
Corresponding parts in the several figures
are indicated throughout by-similar charac- 65
ters of reference.
The press includes a frame, which has been
shown as comprising a base or bottom plate
1, side members 2, top members 3, and up-
rights 4, connected by cross-bolts 5 for the 70
purpose of securing the parts of the frame to-
gether. From the central compartment 6
extend the compression-chambers 7, only the
inner ends of which have been shown and
which may be of any suitable well - known 75
construction. The top member 3 has a cen-
tral opening 8, which is in communication
with the compartment 6 and which is pro-
vided with flanges 9, constituting a hopper.
The side members of said hopper are con- 8o
nected by an inverted-V-shaped deflector 10,
disposed midway above the compartment 6
and dividing the main hopper into two smaller
hoppers 11.
midway in the compartment 6, beneath 85
the deflector 10, have been shown a pair of
bulkheads 12, having bearings for the hub
13 of a driven wheel, such as a sprocket-wheel
14, which is connected, by means of a link
belt 15, with operating mechanism, (not 90
shown,) whereby said sprocket-wheel may be
rotated in either direction. The hub 13 has
a central axial perforation, (shown at 15',)
which is threaded for the passage of an oper-
ating-screw 16, the ends of which are firmly 95
connected with the followers 17. It will be
seen that byrotating the sprocket-wheel upon
the screw the latter will be moved to advance
one of the followers into one of the compres-
sion-chambers, while the other follower re- 100
cedes from the other compression-chamber,
and that by reversing the direction of rota-
tion of the sprocket - wheel the movement
of the screw and of the followers connected
therewith will be reversed. 105
A shaft 18, supported for rotation trans-
versely upon the frame above and intermedi-
ate the bulkheads 12 and beneath the deflec-Specification of Letters Patent.
Application filed June 16;1905. Serial No. 265,613.
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Tate, William Elbert. Press Feeder, patent, May 8, 1906; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth514139/m1/3/: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.