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_STATESPATENT OFFICE.
BOBERT J. HAYNES, OF RAZOR, TEXAS.
GATHERING AND EXTERMINATING MACHINE.1,239,103.
Specification of Letters Patent.
Patented Sept. 4, 1917.
Application filed January 30, 1917. Serial No. 145,350.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, ROBERT J. HAYNEs,*
citizen of the United States, residing at
Razor, in-the county of Lamar and State of
5 Texas, have invented certain new and useful
Improvements in Gathering and Extermi-
nating Machines, of which the following is
a specification.
This invention involves means for destroy-
10 ing plant infesting-insects, eggs, worms and
larvae and thus gradually exterminating such
parasites as boll weevils, worms, potato and
other bugs and other crop destroyers..
It is proposed to accomplish this result by
15 means of an implement drawn through the
field and equipped with means for dislodg-
ing from the plants, all insects, dead squares
and buds, and other diseased vegetable mat-
ter. Suitable means is also provided on the
20 frame of the implement for picking up the
dislodged matter together with previously
fallen matter and conveying the same to a
grinding device.-
In carrying out the inventiorf a wheel
25 supported frame is provided and equipped
with spring returned knocking arms which
are spread apart by the plants and brought
together when released, thus jarring the
plants and dislodging diseased vegetation as
80 well as insects and worms. The dislodged
matter falls to the ground and a suction
creating device mounted on the frame is pro-
vided with depending boots which suck up
said matter. This device also acts as a con-
85 veyer and carries the matter rearward to a
grinder. This device should be constructed
to release the air and not to choke up.
The invention will be more readily un-
derstood from a perusal of the following
40 specification and by reference to the accom-
panying drawings, in which an example of
the invention is shown and wherein:
Figure 1 is a side elevation of the ma-
chine,
45 Fig. 2 is a plan view,
Fig. .3 is a transverse sectional view on the
line 3-3 of Fig. 1,
Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional view of the
grin ing device1
so Fig. 5 is a rear elevation of the grinding
device, portions being illustrated in section,
and
Fig. 6 is a detail of the spring arm stop.
In the drawings the numeral 1 designates
55 a horizontal frame mounted on an axle 2
supported in ground wheels 8. The for-ward end of the frame is contracted and has
a tongue 4 fixed therein. At each side of
the forward end.of the frame a bearing box
5 is secured and each box supports a de- 60
pending. shaft 6. Each shaft has fixed
thereon inwardly and rearwardly curved fin-
gers 7. These fingers project toward each
other, the upper fingers coming nearer to-
gether than the lower. The upper end of 65
each shaft is provided with an inwardly ex-
tending rocker .arm 8 and these arms are
connected by a coiled spring 9. The spring
tends to pull the arms together. For limit-
ing the inward"'swing of the shafts and fin- 70
gers a collar iQis fastened on each shaft and
carries a set screw 11 which abuts the cor-
related box 5; this -collar also supports the
shaft. By adjusting the screw the ampli-
tude of the return swing of the fingers may 75
be controlled. The fingers are set so that
when the machine is drawn along a row of
plants the .stalks of the latter will pass there-
between, but the branches and limbs will
swing the fingers outward against the ten- 80
sion of the spring. As the fingers pass over
a limb they will have a tendency to spring
inward, thus severely agitating or jarring
the plants whereby dead squares or buds and
all insects and worms will be dislodged. 85
The action is not severe enough to injure the
plant and may be controlled by varying the
tension of the spring 9. It is to be under-
stood that other means for dislodging the
vegetable matter and insects and worms 90
from the plants could be used if desired and
that variations in the structure shown could
be made.
While considerable matter both vegetable
and animal will be dislodged from the 95
plants, quite a little vegetable matter will
have fallen to the ground, the quantity de-
pending on the agricultural conditions and
the prevalency of the vermin. This matter
will lodge mostly along the sides of the row 100
and in the furrow between the rows. While
various devices for picking the dislodged
animal and vegetable matter from the
ground might be employed, I have found a
suction creating device the most practical. 105
On one side of the frame a suction fan 12 is
mounted and provided with a depending
suction trunk 13 on its inner side and an ex-
haust trunk 14 leading from its rear. The
trunk 13 has two branches 15 from which 110
flexible legs 16 hang on each side of the ma-
chine. These legs each have a suction boot
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Haynes, Robert J. Gathering and Exterminating Machine., patent, September 4, 1917; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth854032/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.