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OFFICIAL RETROSPECTIXK KXIIIIUTIOX 



No. 33. 



i'.\rcHErsi<: Kikr.v. 



Lo 2 SopteinbrL' 1S5(. un l)i\'vcl (K's I'U.'it^-l'nis tut octroyc a 

 \Villiain A. Kirhv i)()ur porloctionnoiiicnl do iauchouses. 



Uno roue uni^juo do support lut oniployoo. Dos lo debut, on adopta 

 I'appareil de coupe Hussey et la machine iut considerablement mise 

 au niarche par D. M. Osborne & Co. de Auburn, New- York. La seulc 

 chose remarquable dans la machine etait sa simplicite. On s'enservit 

 immediatement et elle resta preferee dans certaines parties de la 

 Cdiitroe juscpfapros I'invention de la barre coupeuse jointee de 

 Aullmaii tS: Miller. 



No. 34. 

 WIUTKLY'S REAPING MACllIXE. 



On November 25, 1856, a United States patent was granted to Wil- 

 liam N. Whiteley for improvement in reaping machines. 



A single main supporting wheel was used. Carried upon this was 

 the main gear frame, and supported at the rear was the usual grain- 

 receiving pUitform. The cutting apparatus, of the Hussey type, pro- 

 jected from tlie side of the machine, and its outer end was carried by a 

 small supporting wheel. The novelty consisted in its automatic rake. 

 A hmg arm was pivoted to the main gearing frame, in rear of the sup- 

 porting wheel, upon a universal a.\is. Upon the grain-side end of the 

 axle was a crank, from which a pitman extended rearwardly and was 

 connected by means of a universal joint to the rake-arm. Immediately 

 behind the stubble end of the cutting apparatus a cam was provided, 

 up(jn which the rake could slide in moving to the rear, the movement 

 of the rake being in a horizontal direction until at the point it became 

 necessary to raise its teeth from engagement with the gavel, the cam 

 was deflected upward. A latch, having a stop over which the rake-head 

 could pass rearwardly, was counterpoised in such a manner that after 

 the rake-head had passed it would rise and by the forward movement of 

 the rake lift the latter so as to move forward over the accumulating 

 swath, and finally permit it to drop, engage the gavel, and in its backward 

 movement sweep it to the rear. 



This machine was one of the earliest self-rakers, and was manufac- 

 tured by the predecessors of the Warder, I'ushnell «S: (xlesner Com[)any. 



