INVENTIONS & APPLIANCES OF INTEREST TO AGRICULTURE.

Otago Witness, Issue 3885, 28 August 1928, Page 73

INVENTIONS & APPLIANCES OF INTEREST TO AGRICULTURE.

FARAI GATE. The gate frame, made of hollow members, is hinged at its lower right corner. Its upper left corner is connected to a counterbalanced lever. A pull on either hand rope (which passes through the

hollow top rail), releases the latch and the counterweight swings the gate up past its point of balance, when a spring eases the rest of its travel. A second pull on either hand rope then lifts it back to closed position. BUG COLLECTOR. Two sets of light prongs revolving in opposite directions beat the foliage of two adjacent rows towards a cloth hung

from the centre member of the frame. Bugs -knocked off the foliage hit the cloth and fall into a receptacle carried between the rows and below the cloth. ENSILAGE HARVESTER. This machine is mounted in front of and on top of a tractor, from which it takes necessary power. It is designed to sever the ensilage material at the

butts, gather it and feed it, tops first, into a chopper, chop and elevate the cut material into a self-dumping receptacle located over the operator’s seat. CHICK HOVER. Fresh air is drawn througlj. the hole in the centre of the floor into the space around the heater, thence out by the adjustable holes, and is then deflected up by the outside ring plate. Ascending

nearly to u..e cop of the cone, it spreads outwards down the slope, thus preventing incoming cold currents. The damper is thermostat controlled. FOOT LEVER LIFT FOR AIOWERS. In this design the weight of the cutter bar is carried through links from the end of a lift lever pivoted to the draft tongue. The bar is raised by depression of a foot lever and remains locked

although the foot lever, through a spring 1 and toggle action, is returned to its original position. A second depression of the foot lever lowers the bar to operating position again.

CONTROL FOk RAKE TEETH. At the end of the rake shaft. is a circular member having three arms corresponding to the three arms of the rake spiders, each arm ..of the former and latter being crank connected. Across the face of the circle and connected to it by

two rollers, is a bar whose end is pivoted to a hand lever. Movement of the latter displaces the circle relative to the rake shaft, thus moving the cranks and the angle of the rake teeth.