US178306A - Improvement in packing thrashing-machines for transportation - Google Patents

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M. LAUFENBUR'G. PACKING T'HRASHING-MACHINES FOR TRANSPORTATION.

Patented June 6, 1876.

Vitnesses I1 ventor' I Tim WQWZM 4w Ii. PETERS. PNDTO-LITHOGRAPNER UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MICHAEL LAUFENBURG, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN PACKING THRASHlNG-MACHINES FOR TRANSPORTATION.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 178,306, dated June 6, 1 876; application filed March 24, 1876.

Manufacturers ofthrashin g-machines always set up each machine ready to go intothe field before shipping it, and these machines have always been shipped in this condition, because of the great amount of labor required to set them up, and the danger of losing some of the numerous parts of which they-are composed in case they were shipped in pieces, and also because the manufacturers had. no adequate way of boxing them for transportation. The extreme bulk of these machines shipped in this manner renders the cost of transportation quite excessive, especially where they are shipped over long distances by rail, the cost of transporting them to the Pacific coast often exceeding the original cost of the machine.

The object of my invention is to pack this class of machines in a smaller compass without taking down the sides, which are the most bulky and troublesome to set up. To do this 1 employ the sides of the machine as a packing-case for the interior works of the machine by setting them up close together, so as to leave a space between them, and connecting them together by short rods or girts. I then place the remaining parts of the machine between these sides, thus greatly red'ucing the size of the machine, and lessening its cost of transportation, while it can, at the same time, be readily set up, as the sides remain intact.

and bring the two sides close enough together to provide a space between them of just suficient size to contain the remaining parts of the machine. I then use short rods or girts b b b, for connecting the sides together in the same manner as when the long girts are used in the complete working machine. Between these sides I then carefully pack the parts \vhich'were' previously taken outof the machine, and properly stay themin place, so that they will not be lost in moving the packed machine. The machine is then ready to be transported.

I thus employ the original sides of the machine as a packing-case for the remaining parts, thus condensing the machine in the smallest possible space, and saving thereby one-half in the cost of transportation.

What I claim is- The improvement in packing thrashing-machines for transportation, the same consisting in dismantling the sides A A of said machines, and connecting them together at a suitable distance apart by means of short girts or binding-rods b, and within the space so formed packing the remaining parts of the machine, substantially as and for the purpose described.

MICHAEL LAUFENBURG. Witnesses:

GEo. H. STRONG, JNo. L.'BOONE.

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