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N TED TATES PATENT OFFICE.
P1TE3 PAUL HARING, OP GOLIAD, TEXAS.
COTTON-PICKER.1,176,891. specifcation oz
Applicaton Sled September
To all whom it may concern:
Beit known that I, Prrn PAUI HARNo,
a citizen of the United States, residing at
Goliad, Texas, have invented certain new
and usefulImprovements in Cotton-Pick-
ers, of which the following is a specification.
My invention relates to cotton picking
machines and it involves a two wheeled
structure carrying, two drums or endless
10 chains of slats, upon which the picker arms
aremounted, said drums being arranged on
each side of the pathway for the plants so
that as the-machine is drawn forward the
endless chain of slatswill be given 'a travel-
I, ing movement to make the picker arm trav-
erse the pathway for the slats, so that the
picker fingers will come .into contact with
the plant.
The invention consists in the features and
20 combination and arrangement of parts. here-
inafter described and particularly pointed
outinthe claims.
In:the accompanying drawings;-Figure
1 is a rear view of the machine with parts
25 in section, the seat for 'the driver being
omitted and some of the parts being broken
away. Fig. 2 is a sectional view through
one of the endless chains of slats taken from
front to rear with parts shown in elevation.
gs Fig. 3 is a plan view showing one picker
arm complete and another in dotted :lines
with their.'slats and the carrier:chain to
which they are pivotallyy connected. Fig. 4
is a vertical sectional view through a por-
s5 tion of one of the slats and showing apor-
tion of thepicker arm partly in section with
gearing for driving, the picker spindles.
Fig. 5 is a plan view of the lower portion
or-section of the tubular picker arm with
40parts in section ~Fig. 6 is a 'traiisvense sec-
tional view'of' the picker aim with parts in
elevation. Fig. 7 is a detailed view of a
picker fingerwith associated parts in sec-.
tion. Fig.' 8'is .a detailed sectional view of
the picker finger -detached. Fig.'9 is an ele-
vation of a' portion of the elevator for the
cotton.
Inthese drawings 1 indicates the carrying
wheels mounted on the frame which in-
5 eludes an axle member 2 having'at 'its end
depending arms 3 on.which are mounted
the journals 4 for the carrying wheels.
The frame: work also includes transverse
bars 5, 6 and longitudinal bars 7. In this
6 f"frame work are mounted, on each, side of
the plant pathway A, 'a pair of verticalLetters patent. Patented Mar. 2,116.
6,1913. Serial No. 788,467.
shafts 8, one shaft of each pair being mount-
ed at the front and the other at the rear of
the machine. At the upper and lower por-
tions of these shafts sprocket wheels 9, 10 60
are mounted, about which pass upper and
lower sprocket chains 11 and .12. 'These
sprocket chains support and carry tubular
slats 13, said slats having ears 14 extending
therefrom and 'perforated to fit over up- 65
wardly extending pins 15 on the sprocket
chains, so that the slats may be attached
by .simply slipping the ears 14 down over
the pins 15. The weight of the slats is taken
off from the sprocket.chains by rollers 16 70
bearing upon a track 17 suitably secured to
the uprights 18 of the frame work. The
slats are of tubular form and each has a
shaft 19 journaled therein and extending
vertically, to which shaft are fixed beveled 75
gears 20, meshing with similar gears 21
fixed on shafts 22 extending length wise of
the picker arms 23, which picker arms are.
secured to the tubular slats and extend hori-
zontally therefrom. The shafts 22 carry so
.beveled gears 24 fixed thereon, meshing
with similar gears on the shanks 25 of the
picker fingers 26. The shanks are screw
threaded and the gears are threaded onto
these shanks. s.
In order to drive the vertical shafts 19
they have gears 27. fixed near their upper
ends to mesh with racks fixed 'on the' ma-
chine frame. One of these racks is indi-
cated at 28 to engage the inner periphery 90
of the gears, that is the periphery toward
the center of the drum or endless series of
slats, while on the' opposite side of the drum
or chain of slats the gear 27 meshes with a
rack 29 which is located to engage the outer 95
periphery of the-gears. By this arrange-
ment the picker.. fingers will be rotated in
one direction as the picker arms carry them
along the pathway A for the plant, and
when any slat is ;on its return movement on 100
the outside of tli, drum or endless chain of
slits the picker fiuigers will be rotated.-in a
reverse direction so as to withdraw from the
cotton, this forward rotation and reverse ro-
tation resulting from the pinion 27 engaging 105
first the. inner rack 28 and then the outer
rack 29.
In order to hold the vertical shfts 19
against rotation, as soon as the gear leaves
the rack 28 so that it will engage the rack 1n
29 properly, I provide a locking track or
cam at 30 fixed on the frame and adapted
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Haring, Peter Paul. Cotton-Picker, patent, March 28, 1916; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth859107/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.