Fig. 8 is a bagger attachment on the " Min nesota" thresher, consisting of an erect revolv ing drum, with four half-bushel compartments to receive the cleaned grain from a cup elevator. As each half bushel of grain is passed into the bag, it is automatically tallied. In the Nichols-Shepard thresher, two gangs of vibra tors are used, comprising five vibrating shakers.
The first two and last three are repectively connected. While the duplex gang is moved backward and downward, the triplex gang is moved forward and upward, to pull the straw apart transversely about midway of its course through the machine, to facilitate separation. The counter-motions of the two shaker gangs are so proportioned as to steady the whole ma chine while running.
Fig. 9, interior of the Huber thresher, pre sents a novel and effective arrangement. The "beater" is placed low in the machine, and revolved with moderate speed near to and in reverse direction of the cylinder rotation. The effect is to lift the straw on the edges of the beater-flanges and receive loose kernels in the angular spaces between the beater wings, and allow them to slide downward upon the grain pan at the very outset of the career of the threshed material. The other features of this thresher are comprehensible in the figure with out verbal description.
Automatic Feeder for Threshers.—Ander son's automatic band cutter and feeder, Figs.
10 and 11, is an attachment for threshing ma chines to cut the bands of the sheaves and feed the grain evenly, by maintaining a steady delivery of it to the thresher cylinder. Only very • • - expert operators can do this by hand, and the labor is onerous, and usually very trying to throat and lungs by reason of the fine dust which is thrown out from the machine ; an assist ant is also required to stand by and cut the bands of the sheaves, and his position is danger• ous. This attachment is provided with a row of belts which intercept the sheaves of grain delivered by a man with a pitchfork haphazard into the receiver, down the shake-table of which they are propelled by raking teeth fixed to its surface. This surface has a recip rocating movement longitudinally. A row of spring-teeth is adjustably suspended above
the descending stream of grain, to retard its upper stratum whenever it runs thicker than a determined gauge, while the shake-table uninterruptedly propels the lower stratum at a constant rate of speed into the thresher. A gang of half-moon vibrating knives out the bands of the sheaves from above. It is made at Racine, Wis.
Trusser, for Threshing 12 is a pair of twine-binding machines, of the Appleby type, driven by one knotter shaft and one needle shaft for both, by a chain belt from the neighboring shaker spindle of a thresher. When the thresher presents sufficient threshed straw to fill the binder receptacles and trip either knotter, both are tripped in unison by its pressure on the trip lever ; the needles rise and compress the straw into a long truss, to be bound in two places by the two knotters, and ejected. The attachment is mounted on an independent transport axle. with two wheels and thills for a horse. The threshed straw on leaving the shakers is forced between two canvas conveyors against the trip levers of the attachment until enough straw accumulates to overcome the resistance of these levers, and thus start the binding mechanism, which automatically stops again after ejecting each, truss, ready for the next presentation of straw. In binding trusses of about 20 lbs. weight, the consumption of twine will be about NU ft. to the ton of straw. The trusser can be applied to threshers of all patterns.
The " Cyclone" or Pneumatic stacker for threshers consists of revolving fans driven from the thresher. and directing an air-blast into it receiving cylinder, from which straw and chaff pass through a pneumatic spout out upon the stack at any desired height as the growth of the stack progresses. The spout is swung automatically sidewise through an arc to form a long stack. The weight of this stacker complete is about 400 lbs.
Throating Machine : see Wheel-making Machines.
Ties see Rails.
Tile Machines : see Brick Machines.
Tires : see Carriages and Wagons, and Rolls, Metal-working.