Identifier: modernmechanisme00benj (find matches)
Title: Modern mechanism, exhibiting the latest progress in machines, motors, and the transmission of power, being a supplementary volume to Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922
Subjects: Mechanical engineering
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton
Contributing Library: Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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Fig. 8.—Thresher and bagger. Appleby type, driven by one knotter shaft and one needle sliaft for both, by a chain beltfrom the neighboring shaker spindle of a thresher. When the thresher presents sufficientthreshed straw to fill the binder receptacles and trip either knotter, both are tripped inunison by its pressure on the trip lever ; the needles rise and compress the straw into a long THRESHING MACHmEo. 863 truss to be bound in two places by the two knotters, and ejected. The attachment ismounted on an independent transport axle, with two wheels and thills for a horse. The
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threshed straw on leaving the shakers is forced between two canvas conveyors against thetrip levers of the attachment until enough straw accumulates to overcome the resistance oithese levers, and thus start the binding mechanism, which automatically stops again aiier 864 TORPEDOES. ejecting each truss, ready for the next presentation of straw. In binding trusses of about20 Ib.-i. weight, the consumption of twine will be about 600 ft. to the ton of straw. Thetrusser can be applied to threshers of all patterns. The Cvclone or Pneumatic stacker for threshers consists of revolving fans driven

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