PREPARED BV THE DEERIXG HARVESTER COMPANY. i^7 



No. 6i. 

 LA LIEUSE EOR.MAXT JAVELLE DE JAMES V. CORDON. 



BkEVETEE LE l6 JUIN' 1S74. 



Cette machine fut considerablement operee pour des experiences. 

 Quoiqu'elle ne soit jamais venue en usag-e g-eneral, elle servit a 

 montrer la diligence et le g-enie de son inventeur. Ouelques-unes de 

 ses dispositions, cependant, se trouvent dans des machines construites 

 ulterieurement. 



No. 62. 

 GORHAM'S GRAIN BINDER. 



Between February 9, 1875, and October 12, 1880, several patents 

 were granted to Marquis L. Gorham. This machine is said to have 

 bound some grain. It was of enormous dimensions, and its principles 

 mainly old. Mr. Spaulding's self-sizing device, somewhat modified, was 

 used. The binder was placed upon a Marsh harvester, but the weight 

 of the attachment was so great that it was necessary to place a heavy 

 weight upon the grain divider; in fact, the vertical portion of the same 

 in one or more of the machines was made of cast iron, in order to coun- 

 terpoise the weight of the binding attachment. 



The above photo-engraving is from a model made in accordance with 

 the various patents; the proportions given are those shown in a photo- 

 graph of one of Mr. Gorham's later machines. 



The patents covering this machine were bought by one of the last 

 companies to take up the Appleby binder, and suits brought against 

 those manufacturers who had perfected and introduced the Appleby 

 binder. The plaintiffs were defeated in some of the preliminary moves. 

 One manufacturer stood suit, and it was held by the court that one of 

 the elements of the Gorham binder was found in the Appleby binder. 

 No manufacturers ever put the Cxorham binder out in the form in which 



