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S. B. STROBEL & W. O. GONE. HORSE POWER.

No. 559,914. Patented May 12, 1896.

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S. E. fiTROBEL & W. G. GONE. HORSE POWER.

No. 559,914. Pate t d May 12,1896.

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SIMON E. STROBEL AND IVILLIAM C. CONE, OF DE SMET, SOUTH DAKOTA, ASSIGNORS OF ONE-THIRD TO NANCY M. PATCHEN, OF SAME PLACE.

HO RSE-POWER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 559,914, dated May 12, 1896.

Application filed November 15, 1894. Serial No. 528,892. (No model.)

To whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, SIMON E. STROBEL and WILLIAM C. CONE, citizens of the United States, residing at De Smet, in the county of Kingsbury and State of South Dakota, have invented a new and useful HorsePower, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to a horse-power for driving machinery, such as baling-presses,

[o threshing-machines, and the like; and it has for its objects to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efiicient apparatus adapted to multiply the speed of the driving-shaft, the same being provided with simple means for controlling the speed to suit the machine in connection with which it is used.

Further objects and advantages of the invention will appear in the following description, and the novel features thereof will be particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a machine embodying our invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view, partly broken away, to

zg show the multiplying mechanism below the platform. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of the same with the platform or table occupy ing a position at a right angle to that shown in Fig. 1 to illustrate the brake-bars in crosssection. Fig. lis a bottom plan view of the platform or table. Fig. 5 is a detail sectional view of the brake-bar-operating mechanism.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures of the 5 drawings.

1 designates a portable frame mounted upon the ground-wheels 2, the front wheels being mounted upon a pivotal axle 3, to which is attached a tongue at. At the center of the frame, which is in the form of a wagonbody, are arranged the upper and lower parallel cross-bars 5, provided at their centers with bearings G, in which is mounted the vvertical drive-shaft 7, provided above the 4 5 upper cross-bar with a squared or angular terminal 8. Fixed to the driveshaft between the upper and lower cross-bars is a master gear 9, which meshes with a pinion 10 on the vertical counter-shaft 11, mounted in bearings in the parallel upper and lower crossbars 12. tion to said pinion, the sprocket or chain wheel 13, of large diameter, which is connected by the chain 1a with a small chainwheel 15 on a second counter-shaft 16, arranged near the rear end of the framework and mounted in upper and lower cross-bars 17. This second counter-shaft is provided at its lower end with a bevel-gear 18, meshing with a bevel-pinion 19 of the horizontal longitudinally-disposed driven shaft 20,mounted in suitable bearings 21 near the bottom of the framework. This driven shaft is provided with squared terminal 22 for engagement with a socket of a connecting-shaft of the ordinary construction. (Not shown.) Intermediate portions of the chain travel upon the antifriction-rolls 23, mounted upon the transverse spindle 24 and support the weight of the intermediate portion of the chain to prevent deflection and binding upon the teeth of the chain-wheels; also, a chain-tight euing device, consisting of an idle pulley or roll 25, mounted upon an adjustable bracket 26, is employed to take up slack in the chain and cause an effective transmission of mo tion.

Fitted upon the upper squared end of the driving-shaft is a rotary platform or table 27, bearing at or near its periphery upon the ant-ifriction bearing-rolls 28, arranged at intervals thereunder on the framework, and provided upon its upper side with a series of keepers 29 for the reception of the inner reduced ends of the sweeps 30, to which are adapted to be attached the draft-animals. Said sweeps are held from deflection during operation by means of the tensile braces 31, attached, temporarily, to hooks 32, formed integral with the said keepers. The inner ends of the braces are hooked, as shown at 33, for engagement with said hooks 32 and are connect-ed at their outer ends to the sweeps by means of interlocking eyes, as shown at 3l. The table is provided upon its upper side with an extension or hub 35, in which is arranged a removable pin 36 for engagement with a transverse perforation 37 in the driving-shaft.

This counter-shaft carries, in addilubricated without displacing any of them.

Attached to the upper side of the upper cross-bar, in which the driving-shaft is mounted, is a station ary peripherally-gm ove d brakewheel 39, and pivotally connected to the un-= der side of the table, and lying upon opposite sides of said brake-wheel, are the brake-bars.

40, fitting at their extremities in guides 41.

Mounted in a vertical bearing 42 in the platform, and provided at its upper end with a,

hand-wheel 43, is a brake-shaft 4%, provided at its lower end, below the plane of the platform, with a drum 44, to which are connected cables or chains .45, attached to the free ends} By reeling said cables? or chains through the rotation of the handwheel the free ends of the brake-bars may be drawn toward each other to cause the bars to l of the brake-bars.

bind against opposite sides of the brakewheel, and thus regulate the speed of rotation of the driving-shaft. A ratchet-wheel 46 is attached to the brake-shaft, and arranged in operative relation therewith is a dog 47 for holding the same at the desired adjustment.

The operation of the above mechanism will without departing from the spirit or sacrificinglany of the advantages of the invention.

Having thusdescribed the invention, we claim In a machine of the class described, the combination with a portable frame, of a ver tical main shaft mounted in bearings in upper and lower transverse bars 5, ahorizontal rotary platform or table secured to the upper end of the main shaft, a stationary brakewheel secured to the upper transverse bar with its upper surface contiguous to the lower surface of the rotary platform or table and concentric vwith the main shaft, a keeper ail secured to the platform or table, brake-bars pivoted to the under side of the platform and operating at their free ends in said keeper, means carried by and operatedfrom the plat- .form or table for drawing the free ends of said brake-bars toward each other to engage the surface of the stationary brake-wheel, a counter-shaft connected by gearing with the main shaft, a second counter-shaft connected by multiplying-gear with the first-named counter-shaft, and a driven shaft geared to the second counter-shaft, substantially as specified.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we have hereto affixed our signatures in the presence oftwo witnesses.

SIMON E. STROBEL. XVILLIAM O. CONE. lVitnesses:

GEO. "W. LA'rrIN, H. R. FOLSOM.

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