ATTACHMENT FOE TRACTIONOPERATED IMPLEMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9034, 22 January 1908, Page 7

ATTACHMENT FOE TRACTIONOPERATED IMPLEMENTS.

An attachment for farm implements, particularly harvesters, binders and the like, has recently been invented, which provides means for operating such implements independently of the traction wheel?. It consists of a motor, preferably a gasoline motor, of such design ar.d so mounted that it can easily be attached to any implement. The motor is •supported on a platform vhich is secured by U-shaped bolts to a.pair •of tubular members. By mer.na of a number of U-shape clamps, these tubular members may be quickly secured to the side frame members of the implement. The motor is provided with sprocket gearing, whereby it may be operatively connected with the machinery of the implement. No changes whatever are made in the structure of the implement, und in applying the attachment, all that is necessary is to remove the chain from the sprocket gear of the motor to the driving sprocket of the mechanism. The motor is enclosed in a casing to keep out dust and dirt. The casing may be opened to provide access to any part -of the motor whenever desired. The

engine employed is a comparatively small one, and its weight does not / materially increase the weight of the implement; but as it operates all the mechanism of the harvester and binder, the power required of the thorses to draw the implement is re ■ duced to a very material extent, thus making it possible to operate the machine at a much faster rate and with greater efficiency. If anything should accidentally happen to the engine, or the supply of fuel run out, the driving chain may be again applied to the sprocket gear on the •traction wheel, and the machine operated in the same manner as before.