Stone Picker (Patent No: 195120)

Inventor: Boman, Julius

Location: Travers

Comments: N/A

Description: Julius Boman, Travers, Alberta, Canada, 23rd December, 1919; 6 years. Filed 31st March. 1919. Receipt No. 307,523.

Claim.—1. In a stone pickings machine, a collecting pan mounted forwardly on carriage wheels and rearwardly on castor wheels, upstanding closure boards enclosing the sides and the rear end of the pan. a cross shaft pivotally secured to the front end of the pan, forwardly extending spaced similar fingers extending from the cross shaft and designed to rest normally with their forward tips on the ground, a pivoted controlling lever located at the rear of the machine. a connection between the lever and the shaft whereby in the backward swinging of the lever the fingers are swung upwardly to deposit the stones collected thereon in the pan and a draft connection connected forwardly to the machine.

2. In a stone picking machine, an under open centered frame having the sides and rear end enclosed, a collecting pan closing the bottom of the frame and inclining gradually downwardly from the front towards the rear, a cross shaft pivotally secured to the front end of the pan. similar forwardly extending pick-up fingers carried by the shaft, forward carriage wheels supporting the front end of the frame and mounted on drop axles, rearward castor wheels supporting the rear end of the frame, a controlling lever pivotally secured to the rear end of the machine, a crank extending upwardly from the cross shaft, a link connecting the lever and the crank, a draft bar attached to the sides of the machine and extending forwardly in advance of the fingers and a hitch connected to the draft bar.

Claims allowed, 2.