Statement of the case. than the base or elevation, so as to project beyond them, as shown at 3, Fig. 2. Near the center of this upper plate there is a slot made, in which the bevel-wheel is placed, its shaft being supported at each end by bearings on this plate. The upper crank-box, 4, is bolted to the inner side of this plate directly under the bevel-wheel box, f. By this ar rangement of the gearing it is more compact than it could otherwise be made, and admits of a pitman-rod of sufficient length being used, without the necessity of widening the machine to make room for the pitman-rod, which would have to be done were the gearing not thus compactly arranged. The mechanism may be thrown into or out of gear at will by means of a disconnecting lever, p, Fig. 3, which operates a sliding clutch on the shaft, O'. The sickles e e e are attached to the crank by means of a rod or pitman one and a half feet long, which gives the sickles a quick vibratory motion. The crank is two inches in length, and gives the sickles a stroke of four inches. There is a pulley, O', four and a half inches in diameter on the inner end of the bevel-wheel shaft, and another pulley, O', of nineteen inches in diameter on the reel-shaft in range with it, over which pulleys runs a belt that gives motion to the reel. The guard-teeth, oo o o, eighteen in number, more or less, are six inches long, made of cast-iron, and attached to the finger-beam C by means of wood-screws. These guardteeth have slots through them, through which the sickle vibrates, which slots are enlarged back of the sickle to prevent clogging. The side of the machine opposite the driving-wheel is carried on a wheel two and a half feet in diameter, the axle of which slides vertically in guides secured upon the post F, in which guides it is raised or lowered by means of a rack and pinion, F'. The platform, Q, instead of being made of a square form, Statement of the case. and extending back of the sickle only three or four feet, as heretofore, is extended back in a circular form, as shown in the drawings, so that the grain, instead of being raked off behind the machine, as heretofore, making it necessary to take up each swath as it is cut, is swept off on a circle, and dropped far enough from the standing grain to be out of the way of cutting the next swath, thereby obviating the necessity of taking up each swath before another can be cut. The guards ZZ' prevent the grain from falling off the platform and from becoming entangled in the gearing. The drawings also represent the machine as having an automatic rake; but a detailed description of said rake is deemed unnecessary here, as it forms no part of the subject matter herein claimed, and is, besides, fully set forth in Divisions A and B of the original patent hereinbefore mentioned, for which Letters Patent were issued on the 10th day of July, 1860. The operation of the machine is as follows: As the wheels revolve, the gearing is put in motion, and the stalks are severed by the cutting apparatus and swept backward upon the platform by the reel. They are then swept around upon the platform on an arc of a circle and discharged heads foremost upon the ground at the side of the machine, behind but somewhat inside of the driving-wheel, and out of the path of the horses in cutting the next swath. What is claimed under this patent, and for which Letters Patent are desired, is A quadrant-shaped platform arranged relatively to the cutting apparatus, substantially as herein described, for the purpose set forth. WM. H. SEYMOUR. Statement of the case. Witnesses as to signature of Wm. H. Seymour, D. S. Morgan, and Aaron Palmer: GEO. H. ALLEN, WILLIAM STOUGHTON. Witnesses as to signature of S. G. Williams: G. H. BENHAM, T. S. PADDOCK. WM. H. SEYMOUR, OF BROCKPORT, NEW YORK, ASSIGNEE, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO DAYTON S. MORGAN, OF SAME PLACE. IMPROVEMENT IN REAPING-MACHINES. Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 8,212, dated July 8, 1851; Reissue No. 1,003, dated July 10, 1860; Reissue No. 1,683, dated May 31, 1864. To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, William H. Seymour, of Brockport, in the county of Monroe, and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Reaping-Machines for Cutting all Kinds of Small Grain; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 represents a view in perspective of a reapingmachine to which my improvements are applied as it would appear to a spectator in the rear and on the stubble side thereof. Fig. 3 represents a similar view of the gearingframe as it would appear to a spectator stationed at the point of the divider and looking toward the driving-wheel; and Fig. 2 represents an isometrical view of what I term a "combination of boxes in one casting," in which the gearing is mostly supported. Statement of the case. The first part of the invention, which constitutes the subject matter of this patent, consists of the combination, in a harvesting-machine, of the following three members, viz: first, a cutting apparatus composed of a finger-beam, with its fingers and cutter; second, a reel to bear the grain against said cutting apparatus and insure its delivery upon a platform in the rear thereof; third, a quadrant-shaped platform in the rear of the cutting apparatus, with its delivery side arranged, substantially as hereinafter described, at an angle to the finger-beam, so that the grain cut by the cutting apparatus and compelled by the reel to fall backward upon the platform can be moved from the cutting apparatus head foremost, swept round in a curve, and dischaged upon the ground crosswise to the direction of the swath and out of the track of the horses when cutting the succeeding swath. The second part of the invention consists of the combination, in a harvesting-machine, of the following members, viz: first, a cutting apparatus, as above specified; second, a quadrant-shaped platform, as above specified; third, a sweep-rake, or rake arranged to sweep in a circular curve over said platform when acting on the grain; fourth, mechanism for moving the same; fifth, devices for preventing the rake-teeth from rising out of the cut grain on the platform, so that when this part of my invention is used the cut grain falling upon the platform is delivered therefrom with certainty automatically head foremost and in circular curves. A convenient arrangement of mechanism for carrying my invention into effect is shown in the accompanying drawings, which represent a harvesting-machine having an automatic rake and embodying the improvements which constitute the subject-matter of this patent, as well as others which are set forth more particularly in other patents expiring at the same date. The main or wheel frame A is constructed of two pieces of timber framed parallel to each other and connected by three girts, one in the rear of the |