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Application filed October 20,1890. Serial No. 368,685. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, James K. Miller, of Emporia, in the county of Lyon and State of Kansas, have invented a new and Improved 5 Shock-Binder, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in that class of binders which are used in compressing fodder and corn shocks and holdto ing them while they are being tied, although it may also be used in compressing any other kind of bundle, if desired.

The object of my invention is to produce a binder of simple construction, by means of 15 which a shock may be quickly and easily compressed, which may be instantly released after the shock is tied, and which may be used either right or left handed and either side up.

To this end my invention consists in certain features of construction and combinations of parts, which will be hereinafter fully ^described, and then pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying 25 drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the binder with a rope attached, showing the position of 30 the binder and rope when the shock is bound. Fig. 2 is an inverted plan view of the binder. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the same, and Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the binder.⁴

The binder is preferably made of hard wood, 35 although metal may be used in its construction, if desired, and it comprises a handle A, which is located at one end, and which terminates in a central body portion B, which is split longitudinally to form the two opposite 40 arms B' and B², between which is pivoted a grooved pulley C. Both the arms B' and B³project beyond the pulley; but the arm B' is prolonged to form the head B³, the outer side of the arm B' being beveled, as shown at b 45 near its opposite edges, and the arm B' is cut away and rounded slightly beyond the outer portion of the pulley C to form the neck b', which facilitates the removal of the bindingrope from the pulley and enables it to be 50 easily belayed.

The outer end of the neck b' terminates abruptly in the shoulders b², which form the inner end of the head B³ and which insure the requisite amount of leverage on the binder to hold the free end of the rope when 55 it is belayed. The head B³ is rounded at its outer extremity, as shown, and is provided with a transverse hole δ³, which enables the binding-rope D to be attached to the head, the rope being preferably passed through the 60 hole and tied into a knot, as shown in Fig. 1.

The arm B³ terminates opposite the neck b' of the arm B', and the outer end of the arm B³ is concaved, as best shown in Figs. 2 and 3, thus forming retaining-shoulders δ⁴ at 65 the outer corners of the arm. These shoulders hold the free end of the binding-rope and catch under a portion of the rope, and thus prevent the binder from rolling.

The operation is as follows: The head B³ is 70 thrust into the side of the shock so as to hold the binder in place while the free end of the rope is being carried around the shock; or, if desired, the operator may hold one end of the rope D and throw the binder around the shock. 75 Then the binder is taken in the left hand, with the arm B' on the upper side, the rope D is placed on the pulley C, and the rope drawn until the shock is sufficiently compressed. The handle A is then swung to the 80 left, thus throwing the rope off the pulley onto the neck b' of the arm B'. The free end of the rope is then carried up around the neck b' above the pulley and down between the retaining-shoulders on the arm B³, and 85 finally the handle is swung to the right and the projecting shoulder on the right side of the arm B³is thrust under the rope D to prevent the binder from rolling. The strain of the binding-rope D upon the binder securely 90 holds the free end of the rope between the shoulders δ⁴ and the main portion of the rope which bears upon the free end, a bight being thus formed which securely belays the rope. The manner in which the rope is belayed is 95 clearly shown in Fig. 1. To release the binder after the shock is tied, the handle A is merely swung to the left, thus releasing· the strain of the ropeD upon the free end thereof, and the device can be removed. _ 100

From the foregoing description it will be seen that the neck b' on the opposite shoul447,619 tiers on the arm B- enable the binding-rope to be easily belayed, as the shoulders ft² of the head B prevent the rope from slipping from the binder, and the shoulders ft² of the head 5 B³ insure a definite amount of leverage on the binder to hold the free end of the rope when it is belayed. The binder may be made of any desired size.