MOISSONNEUSE

MOWING MACHINE

Revendications

Claim lst A mowing machine in which the frame which carries the working part is supported by ball bearings in open centre carry¬ing wheels, and the knife driving mechanism is flexibly connected with the knife shoe by an oscillating tubular arm, which swings from a driving shaft, substantially as herein shown and for the purpose set forth. 2nd A mowing machine having open centre carrying wheels, of which the inner hand C and the cylindrical band F of the machine frame have formed in them the grooves al, in which the bearing balls roll and are held at regular intervals by the perforated pitch band H, substantially as herein shown and,for the purpose set forth. 3rd In the open centre carrying wheels of a mowing machine, the grooved inner rim of band C having the flange e1 extending inward, and the grooved cylindrical band F, of the machine frame hav¬ing the flange d1 extending outward, substantially as herein shown and for the purpose set forth. 4th A device for tilting the cutting edge of the machine knife upward and downward, consisting of the draft pole f11 pivoted to the front bar D, the lever a11 also pivoted to said bar and connected by the rod d11 to one arm of the bell crank e11, which has its other arm attached to the rear bar E, and its angle pivoted to the rear end of the draft pole, substantially as herein set forth. 5th The combination in a mowing machine of the circular gear rack I, attached to the carrying wheel with a pinion and clutch mechanism on the shaft K, consisting of the pinion J having wings i, i, box hub M having an inner rose clutch face, the disk N having also a rose clutch face, and the wings i, i, and the spring al, substantially as described and for the purpose set forth. 6th The spectacle frame R secured to the front bar D, and rear bar E, and supporting in adjustable bearings the shaft Q which carries the pinion P, the gear wheel m1 having a rose clutch face, fixed collar nI having projecting clutch wings, grooved sliding collar or having a rose clutch face, and projecting clutch wings to engage with those on collar ox, substantially as specified. 7th. The shaft ax journalled in the radial shaft tube S which swings from the shaft Q geared to the bevel wheel m1 by the pinion ti, and to the pinion yi on the crank shaft T by the bevel wheel v1, substantially as herein shown and described.8th The device for connecting or disconnecting at will the knife-driving mechanism, consisting of the double forked lever ql, and the handled eccentric r1, both being pivoted to the spectacle frame R by moving the rose faced sliding collar ox into or out of gear with the bevel wheel m1 on the shaft Q, all substantially as herein shown and described and for the purpose set forth.