J. DICK.
CONVEYEH.
APPLICATION FILED MAY 18. m1.
1,293,059.
Patented Feb. 42:, 1919.
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' ‘JOSEPH DICK, OF CANTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE JOSEPH DICK MANUFACTURING
COMPANY, OF CANTON, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.
CONVEYER.
Speci?cation of Letters Patent.
1,293,050.
Application ?led May 18, 1917.
Patented Feb. 4, 1919.
Serial N 0. 169,442.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it‘ known that I, J OSEPI-I DICK, a
cutter feed-conveyer showing the use of con
of Ohio, have invented certain new and use
The endless conveyer with which the pres
veyers embodying the present invention.
citizen of the United States, and resident
Similar numerals refer to similar parts
of Canton, in the county of Stark and State throughout the drawings.
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ful Improvements in Conveyers, of which ent invention is concerned, includes a series
the following is a speci?cation.
The invention relates to fodder cutter feed
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'ofcross bars 1 made of wood or the like,
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having a plurality of V-shaped teeth 2
conveyers having an endless ‘belt comprising thereon, and secured to an endless chain or
a plurality of spaced cross bars mounted belt 3 which may operate around suitable
upon a pair of conveyer chains or the like, pulleys 4;
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and having a plurality of substantially V
shaped conveyor teeth secured to the bars;
and the object of the improvement is to
provide conveyer teeth of simple design and
cheap construction which may be readily se
‘ cured to the cross bars and ?rmly and rig
idly held in place thereon.
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and the teeth may protrude
through and operate along slots formed be
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tween longitudinal bars 5 or 5‘1 forming the
bottom or face of the conveyer.
The side edges 6 of the cross bars 1 are
provided with series of cross cut kerfs or
grooves 7, the grooves on one side being lo 70
cated directly opposite those on the other
In conveyers of this character, the teeth. side so as to form pairs of grooves for the
frequently operate in and through longitu reception of the free ends of the legs 8 and
dinal slots formed in the bottom of the con
veyor, and the impelling work of the teeth
8a of the teeth 2.
The legs 8 and 8“ of each tooth 2 are 75
is performed by the protruding ends there connected together intermediate their ends
of, so that great strain is sometimes placed by a tie bar 9, which is adapted to bear
25 upon the securing means, especially at the against the face of the cross bar when the
rear end of the conveyer where the teeth free ends of the legs of the' tooth are insert
are withdrawn through the slots, with the ed in the grooves on the sides thereof, there
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result that the teeth are sometimes loosened by properly positioning the tooth upon the
and torn from the cross bars.
cross bar.
This difficulty is overcome by connecting
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Across one side of the free end of each
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the legs of the teeth intermediate their ends leg of 'the tooth is preferably provided a
by tie bars, which not only strengthen the half round notch 10, and for positively se
teeth, but rest upon the face of the cross bar curing the tooth to the cross bar, full round
and properly position the teeth thereon; and pins 11 may be driven through these notches
by securing the free ends of the legs in the into the cross bar; and it is evident that
kerfs or grooves provided therefor in the one half of the width of these pins will
edges of the cross bar, which may be done be driven through the wood at the sides of
by the use of nails or pins interlocking with the grooves, and that the whole of the in
the sides or legs and the grooves.
nor ends of the pins will be driven into the
A preferred embodiment of the invention body of the wood inside the grooves; there
is illustrated in the accompanying draw by rigidly securing the tooth to— the cross
ings, in which
Figure 1 is a perspective view of a cross
bar for a conveyer, having two of the im
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proved teeth secured thereto;
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It is evident that by cutting the trans
verse kerfs or grooves 7 so narrow that the
free ends of the legs of the teeth must be
driven into the same, the Wedging engage
tooth and two of the securing pins;
ment of the legs and the grooves together .100
Fig. 3, a cross section of the cross bar with the bearing contact of the tie bar upon
showing a tooth in elevation, with one of the face of the cross bar, may be sufficient
the securing pins driven part way into. the to hold the tooth in proper position upon
cross bar and the other securing pin driven the cross bar without other securing means
for certain kinds of use; but when the teeth 105
full way therein; and
Fig. Zl, a fragmentary section of a fodder are subject to sudden shocks and severe
- Fig. 2, a detached perspective view of a
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ar.
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strains, it is preferred to supplement such V-shaped teeth having their legs connected
frictional engagement by the use of the pins by tie bars bearing on the face of the cross 15
bars, and their free ends secured in the
as described or other like securing means.
I claim':———
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grooves.
1. A fodder-cutter feed-conveyer includ
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' 3. A fodder-cutter feed-conveyer includ
ing a cross her having a series of transverse ing a cross bar having a. series of grooves
grooves across the side edges thereof, and 2 across the side edges thereof, and V-shaped 20
V-shaped teeth having their legs connected teeth having the free ends of their legs en
by tie bars and their free ends secured in tered in the grooves and provided “with
notches across the side thereof, and pins
the: grooves.
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2. A fodder-cutter feed-conveyer includ driven through the notches and into the ad
ing a cross bar having a series of transverse jacent parts of the cross bar.
. JOSEPH DICK.
.rgrooves‘across the side .edgesthereof, and
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