Thresher

Book Index
" Science of Successful Threshing"
Dingee - MacGregor
Sixth Edition, Revised and Enlarged
Published by
J I CASE THRESHING MACHINE CO.
incorporated
RACINE, WIS. 1911

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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T V W

Subject Page
Adjusting Connecting Rod 50
Adjusting Cross-Head 52
Adjusting Eccentric Strap 54
Adjusting Engine' Bearing 50~54
Adjusting Friction Clutch 124
Adjusting Horse Power 135
Adjusting Tailings Elevator 176
Adjustable Sieves 170
Admission, Steam 67
Alfalfa, Threshing 199
Alsike Clover 199
Ascending Hills 62
Ascertaining Cylinder Speed 155
Ashes, Removing the 41
Asphaltum Paint 113
Attached Stacker 233
Attached Stacker, Oiling 234
Attached Stacker, Operating 234
Attaching Horse Power Brake 138
Attaching Combined Stacker 238
Attaching Engine Fittings. 9
Attaching Feeder 228
Attaching Grain Handlers 245
Attaching Oil Pump 46
Attaching Lubricator 48
Subject Page
Babbitting Boxes 224
Babbitting Cannon Bearings 56
Babbitting Eng. Bearings 4
Babbitting Solid Box 224
Babbitting Split Box 226
Bagger, No.4 244
Balancing Separator Cyl. 159
Barley, Threshing 186
Beading Boiler Tubes 115
Bean Pulleys 194
Bean Threshing 193
Bean Threshing, Soy 193
Bearings, Adjusting engine 54
Bearings, Adjustment of 50
Bearings, Babbitting Cannon 56
Bearings, Babbitting Eng 54
Bearings, Engine 50-54
Bearings, Hot 219
Bearings, Lubricating Eng. 43
Bearings, Separator Cyl. 156
Beater 162
Beater, Removing the 222
Belt, Governor 73
Belt, How to Cross 61
Belt, Main Drive 212
Belting of a Separator 210
Belts, Care of 211
Belts, Lacing 213-218
Belts, Lacing Canvas 216
Belts, Leather 211
Belts, Length of 206
Belts, List of 206
Belts, Rubber 211
Blinds, Fan 169
Blower, The 110
Blower (see Wind Stacker)
Beard, Check 163
Board, Wind 170
Boner, The 107
Boiler, Cleaning the 113
Boiler, Fittings 107
Boiler, Foaming 111
Boiler, How to Test 117-119
Boiler, Paint 113
Boiler, Pressure in an Old 117
Boiler, Priming 112
Boiler, Temp. of Water in 120
Boiler, Temp. of Steam in 120
Boiler, Tubes, Expanding 115
Boiler, Using an Old 117
Bourdon Tube 108
Boxes, Babbitting 224
Boxes, Babbitting Solid 224
Boxes, Babbitting Split 226
Boxes, Separator Cylinder 156
Brake, Horse Power 78
Brake for Horse Power 138
Brake, Prony 78
Brass Fittings, Attaching 9
Brasses, Connecting Rod 50
Brasses, Eccentric Rod 53
Brick Arch 37
Broken Water Glass 20
Burning Coal 33
Burning Cobs 40
Burning Oil 39
Burning Straw 35
Burning Wood 34
Brome Grass, Threshing 202
Buckwheat, Threshing 189
Bull-Pinion Boxes 137
Bull-Pinion Shaft 137
Subject Page
Cable, Use of 64
Calculating Horse Power 81
Calculating Amount Grain 247
Cannon Bearings, Oiling 121
Canvas Cover 222
Canvas Belt, Stitched 216
Care of Separator 221
Center-Head, Packing 87
Center-Head, To Test 88
Centers, Finding the Dead 93
Chaffer 171
Chain for Grain Handlers 246
Chains for Eng., Steering 60
Chains for Tailings Elev. 176
Check-Board 163
Check-Valve 28
Check-Valve, Regrinding 29
Cleaning Apparatus 169
Cleaning Boilers 113
Cleaning Tubes 115
Clearance of Engine 68
Clearance, To Divide 68
Clinkers 34
Clover, Hulling 198
Clutch, Friction 123
Clutch, Friction, Adjusting 124
Clutch, Friction, Oiling 125
Coal, Firing with 33
Cobs, Firing with 40
Cobs, Fuel Value of 41
Combination Stackers 238
Combination Stacker, Attaching 238
Combination Stacker, Oiling 239
Combination Stacker, Operating 239
Common Sieve 171
Common Sieves, List of 174
Common Sieve, To Insert 172
Common Stacker 233
Compound Cyl., Taking Apart 86
Compound, The Woolf 85
Compounded Engines 84
Compounded Valve, Setting. 102
Compression, Steam 67
Concaves, Adjustment of 161
Concaves, Setting the 160
Concaves, Special 161
Concaves, The 160
Connecting the Equalizers 133
Connecting Rod 50
Connecting Red Brasses 50
Conveyor Boxes 168
Conveyor Extension 171
Conveyor, Removing the 223
Conveyor, Sieve Speed 167
Conveyor, The 167
Contents of Wagon Box 248
Cost of Oils 45
Covers, Nailed Pulley 209
Covers, Riveted Pulley 209
Cracking Grain 157
Crank Disc 70
Crank Pin 70
Cross-Head, Adjusting 52
Cross-Head Shoes 52
Crown Sheet, Warped 17
Cup, "Ideal Grease" 45
Cushion, Steam 67
Cut-Off, Steam 67
Cut-OJ[ for Woolf Gear, Even 101
Cylinder, Balancing Sep 159
Cylinder Boxes, Sep 156
Cylinder, End Play of Sep. 156
Cylinder, Engine 65
Cylinder, Lubrication of Engine 44
Cylinder Oil, Cost of 45
Cylinder Pulleys, Sep 155
Cylinder, Separator 153
Cylinder, Special Separator. 159
Cylinder Speed, Ascertaining 155
Cylinder, Speed of Sep 155
Cylinder Teeth, Separator. 153
Cylinder Teeth Tracking Separator 157
Subject Page
Dead-Centers, Finding 93
Descending Hills 63
Differential Gear 126
Differential Gear, Locking 127
Differential Gear, Oiling 128
Disturbing Valve Settings 96
Dividing Clearance 68
Draft, Forced 110
Draft, Natural 110
Draw Bar Horse Power 81
Drawing Taper Keys 209
Dressing for Belts 211
Subject Page
Eccentric Strap, Adjusting. 53
Elevator, Tailings 173
Emmer, Threshing 190
End-Play, Separator Cyl 156
Engine, Compounded 84
Engine, Fittings for 9
Engines, Handling the 59
Engine, Horse Power of 81
Engine, Oiling the 43
Engine Packed for Shipment 9
Engine, Setting the 61
Engine, Speed of 73
Engine, Starting an 11
Engine on Road, Starting 12
Engine, Starting Up 10
Engine, Steering 60
Engine Tender 129
Engine, Valve Gear 89
Equal Leads, Woolf Gear 102
Equalizers, Connecting the 133
Exhaust Nozzles 42
Exhaust Ports 66
Expansion of Steam 66
Expanding Boiler Tubes 115
Extension, The Conveyor 171
Fan, The 169
Fan Blinds 169
Fan, Removing the 224
Fan, Speed of 170
Fan, To Reach 224
Feather Keys 207
Feeder, Attaching 228
Feeder Carrier, Folding 229
Feeder Governor 230
Feeder, Oiling the 229
Feeder, Self 228
Feeder, Speed of 231
Feeder Speed Governor 230
Feeder Straw Governor 230
Feeding by Hand 227
Feeding the Separator 227
Feed Water Heaters 29
Feed Water Straining 15
Feed Water, The 15
Figuring the Horse Power 81
Finding the Dead Centers 93
Fire, In Case of 152
Fire, Starting 10
Firing with Coal 33
Firing with Cobs 40
Firing with Oil 39
Firing with Straw 35
Firing with Wood 34
Firing with Various Fuels 33
Fittings for Boiler 107
Fittings, Attaching Brass 9
Fitting up an Engine 9
Flax, Threshing 188
Flues, Cleaning the 115
Flues, Expanding the 115
Foaming of Boiler 111
Folding Feeder Carrier 229
Friction-Clutch 123
Friction-Clutch, Adjusting 125
Friction-Clutch, Oiling 25
Fuel, Coal 33
Fuel, Cobs 40
Fuel, Oil 38
Fuel, straw 35
Fuel, Wood 34
Fusible Plug 17,110
Subject Page
Gage Cocks 19
Gage, Glass 18
Gage, Steam 107
Gage, Water 18
Gear, Differential 124
Gear, Locking Differential 127
Gear, Oiling Differential 128
Gear, Valve 89
Gearing, Lubricating the 122
Gearing, Traction 121
Glass, The Water 18
Governor .Jumps, If Engine 74
Governor Troubles 74
Governor, Adjusting Feeder 230
Governor, Belt for Engine 73
Governor, Engine 72
Governor, Oiling the 73
Governor, Packing 73
Governor, Speed of Engine. 73
Governor, Speed of Feeder 230
Grain Conveyor, Removing 223
Grain Handlers 241
Grain Handlers, Attaching 245
Grain Handlers, Chain for 246
Grain, Calculating Am't of 246
Grain, Headed 181
Grain, Quantity of 247
Grain, Threshing 181
Grain, Weighers of 241
Grain, Weight per Bushel 240
Grates, Rocking 41
Grates, Separator 163
Grates, Warped Engine 33
Gravel Hills 63
Grease Cup, "Ideal" 45
Greasing the Trucks 220
Grouters, High 64
Subject Page
Hand Feeding 227
Hand-Hole Plates, Packing 114
Handling the Engine 59
Hard Oil 45
Heater for Feed Water 29
Heater, Repairing 31
Heater, Testing 31
Hills, Ascending 62
Hills, Descending 63
Hills, Gravel 63
Holes, Mud G63
Horse Power of an Engine 81
Horse Power, Brake 78
Horse Power, Calculating 81
Horse Power, Draw Bar 81
Horse Power, Indicated 78
Horse Power, Rated 75
Horse Powers 131
Horse Powers, Adjusting 135
Horse Powers, Brake for 138
Horse Powers, Bull Pinion for 139
Horse Powers, Equalizers for 133
Horse Powers, Horses for 131-140
Horse Powers, Jacks for 135
Horse Powers, Lubricating 132
Horse Powers, Parts for 142
Horse Powers, Pinions for 134
Horse Powers, Reversing 138
Horse Powers, Setting 131
Horse Powers, Starting 131
Horses, Work of 140
Hot Bearings 219
Hulling Clover 198
Subject Page
"Ideal" Grease Cup 45
Independent Pump 23
Independent Stacker 234
Indian Corn, Threshing 203
Indicated Horse Power 78
Injector 20
Injector Failing to Work 21
Inserting Common Sieves 172
Subject Page
Jack for Horse Power 135
Jack, Lifting 227
Jack, Screw 61
Jacks, Bolster 151
Subject Page
Kaffir Corn, Threshing 203
Keys, Drawing Taper 208
Keys, Feather 207
Keys, Fitting 208
Keys, Taper 207
Subject Page
Lacing Canvas Belts 216
Lacing Leather Belts 213
Lacing Rubber Belts 215
Lamp Black Paint 113
Laying up a Separator 222
Lead of Valve 100
Leather Belts 211
Leveling a Separator 151
Lining up Eng. and Sep. 61
Link Reverse Valve Setting 103
Linseed Oil, Paint 113
Loader, No. 5 215
Loader, No. 6 245
Locking the Differential 127
Lost Motion in Engine 50
Low Water 16
Lubricating Horse Powers. 132
Lubricating Separators 148-219
Lubricating the Engine 43
Lubricating the Gearing 122
Lubricating Wind Stackers 237
Lubrication of Cylinder 44
Lubricator Troubles 49
Lubricator, Attaching 48
Lubricator, Operating 48
Lucerne Threshing 199
Subject Page
Main Cylinder Pulleys 155
Main Drive Belt 212
Main Engine Bearing 54
Maize, Threshing 203
Marsh Pump, Starting 23
Millet, Threshing 190
Mud Holes 63
Mud Hooks 64
Subject Page
Nailed Pulley Covers 209
New Separator, Starting 147
No. 5 Loader 245
No. 6 Loader 245
No.1 Weigher 242
No.2 Weigher 244
No.3 Weigher 244
No.4 Bagger 245
Nozzles, Exhaust 42
Subject Page
Oats, Threshing 185
Oil Pump, Attaching 46
Oil, Cost of 45
Oil, Cylinder 44
Oil, Fuel Value of 40
Oil, Hard 45
Oil, Firing with 39
Oiling a Separator 148
Oiling Attached Stackers 234
Oiling Cannon Bearings 121
Oiling Combined Stacker 239
Oiling Differential Gear 128
Oiling Engine 43
Oiling Feeder 229
Oiling Friction Clutch 125
Oiling Governor 73
Oiling Separator 148
Oiling Tailings Elevator 176
Oiling Trucks 220
Oiling Valve of Engine 44
Oiling Wind Stacker 237
Old Boiler, Danger of Using 117
Old Boiler, Testing an 117
Operating Attached Stacker 234
Operating Combined Stacker 239
Operating Lubricator 48
Operating Wind Stacker 235
Orchard Grass, Threshing 201
Subject Page
Packing Center Head of Engine 87
Packing Cylinder Head 69
Packing Governor 73
Packing Hand-Hole Plates 114
Packing Piston Rod 69
Packing Pump 27
Packing Steam Chest Cover 147
Packing Swift Lubricator 50
Packing Valve Rod 69
Packing Valve Stem 69
Packing Water Glass 19
Painting the Boiler 113
Parts for Horse Powers 142
Pea Pulleys 194
Pea Threshing 191
Peanut Pulleys 205
Peanut Threshing 204
Peas, Special Cylinder for 159
Peep Hole 38
Penberthy Injector 20
Piston, Engine 68
Pop Safety Valve 109
Port, Exhaust 66
Port, Steam 66
Pounding of an Engine 56
Pounding of Straw Rack 168
Pressure for an Old Boiler. 117
Priming 112
Prony Brake 78
Pulley-Covers, Nailed 209
Pulley-Covers, Riveted 209
Pulleys for Cylinder Shaft 155
Pulleys, Covering 209
Pump Packing 27
Pump Troubles 24-27
Pump, Independent 23
Pump, Starting 23
Subject Page
Rated Horse Power 75
Red-Top-Grass, Threshing 202
Regrinding Check Valves 29
Removing Spur-Wheel Shaft 137
Removing Taper Keys 208
Removing the Ashes 41
Removing the Beater 222
Removing the Conveyor 223
Removing the Fan 224
Removing the Rock-Shaft 223
Removing the Shoe 224
Removing the Straw Rack 223
Repairing Heater 31
Reverse Gear for Engine 89
Reversing Tumbling Rod 138
Reversing Gearing of H. P. 138
Rice Pulleys 197
Rice, Threshing 195
Riveted Pulley Covers 209
Rock Shaft, Removing 223
Rocking Grates 41
Rubber Belts 211
Rye, Threshing 184
Subject Page
Safety Plug 17, 110
Safety Valve 109
Scraping the tubes 115
Screens 172
Screens, List of 174
Seed, Weight per Bushel 240
Self-Feeders 228
Separating, Difficulty of 180
Separator Cylinder 153
Separator Lubrication 219
Separator, Belting 210
Separator, Belts for 211
Separator, Canvas Cover for 222
Separator, Care of 221
Separator, Feeding the 227
Separator, Laying up 222
Separator, Leveling the 150
Separator, New 147
Separator, Oiling the 148
Separator, Pulleys for 207
Separator, Setting the 145
Separator, Setting up 147
Separator, Side Gear 134
Separator, Starting a 147
Setting as to Wind 152
Setting the Concaves 160
Setting the Engine 61
Setting the Horse Power 132
Setting the Separator 150
Setting the Valve, Compound 102
Setting up Separator 150
Setting Valve, Link Rev 103
Setting Valve, Woolf Rev. 98
Shoe, Removing 224
Shoe, Waste at 179
Side Gear for Separator 134
Sieves 170
Sieves, Adjustable 170
Sieves, Common 171
Sieves, Common, List of 174
Sieves, To Insert 172
Simple Engine 66
Slide-Valve 66
Slip of Valve, Woolf Gear 99
Smoke Box 41
Smoke Box, Painting 113
Smoke Stack 113
Soft Plug 17, 110
Solid Boxes, Babbitting 24
Soy Beans, Threshing 193
Special Concaves 161
Special Cylinders, Beans 194
Special Cylinders, Peas 194
Special Cylinders, Rice 159-194
Special Cylinders, Sep. 159
Special High Grouters 64
Special Straw Rack 168
Speed of Engine 73
Speed of Fan 170
Speed of Feeder 231
Speed of Separator Cyl. 154-156
Speed of Straw Rack 167
Speed of Tumbling Rod 134
Speed of Wind Stacker Fan 238
Speed, Ascertaining Cyl. 155
Speltz, Threshing 190
Split Box, Babbitting 226
Spur Pinions, Horse Power 134
Spur Wheel Shaft, H. P 139
Stack Building, Wind Stacker 235
Stackers, Attached 233
Stackers, Combined 238
Stackers, Common 232
Stackers, Independent 23'1
Stackers, Oiling Attached 234
Stackers, Operating Attached 234
Stackers, Straw 233
Stackers, Wind 234
Starting Engine 11
Starting Horse Power 131
Starting Injector 20
Starting Marsh Pump 23
Starting Separator 147
Starting Traction Gearing 12
Steam Admission 67
Steam Chest 66
Steam Cut-Off 67
Steam Expansion 67
Steam Gage 107
Steam Gage Siphon 108
Steam Ports 66
Steam, Temperature of 120
Steel Cable, Use of 64
Steering Engine 60
Straining the Feed Water 15
Straw Stackers 233
Straw, Firing with 35
Straw, Fuel Value of 40
Straw-Rack 167
Straw-Rack Boxes 168
Straw-Rack Fish-Backs 168
Straw-Rack, Oregon 168-187
Straw-Rack, Pounding of 168
Straw-Rack, Removing 223
Straw-Rack, Special 168
Straw-Rack, Speed of 167
Straw-Rack, Texas 203
Sweating 119
Subject Page
Tables of Weights and Measures 232
Tailings 177
Tailings Elevator, Adjusting 176
Tailings Elevator, Oiling 176
Tailings Elevator, The 173
Tank, Contractors 130
Tank, Tender 19
Tank, Water 129
Tank-Pump 130
Taper-Keys 207
Taper-Keys, Drawing 208
Teeth Tracking 157
Teeth, Cylinder 153
Tenders, Engine 129
Testing Boiler 117-118
Testing Water-Heater 31
Threshing Brome Grass 202
Threshing, Alfalfa 199
Threshing, Barley 186
Threshing, Bean 193
Threshing, Buckwheat 189
Threshing, Emmer 190
Threshing, Flax 188
Threshing, Headed Grain 181
Threshing, Indian Corn 203
Threshing, Kaffir Corn 203
Threshing, Lucerne 199
Threshing, Maize 203
Threshing, Millet 190
Threshing, Oats 185
Threshing, Orchard Grass 201
Threshing, Peanuts 204
Threshing, Peas 191
Threshing, Red Top Grass 202
Threshing, Rice 195
Threshing, Rye 184
Threshing, Soy Beans 193
Threshing, Speltz 190
Threshing, Timothy 200
Threshing, Turkey-Wheat 184
Threshing, Waste in 178
Threshing, Wheat 182
Throttle 71
Throttle, Leaky 71
Tightener Pulley, Oiling 149
Timothy, Threshing 200
Tracking of Teeth 157
Traction Gearing 121
Traction Parts, Starting the 12
Trucks, Greasing 220
Tubes, Beading 115
Tubes, Cleaning 115
Tubes, Expanding 115
Tubes, Leaky 115
Tumbling-Rod, Reversing 138
Tumbling-Rod, Speed of . 134
Turkey-Wheat, Threshing 184
Subject Page
Valve 98
Valve Gear 89
Valve Gear, Disturbing 96
Valve Gear, Woolf 91
Valve Lead 100
Valve Lubrication 44
Valve Oil 44
Valve Setting, Woolf Reverse 98
Valve, Check 28
Valve, Compound 85
Valve, if Disturbed 96
Valve, Pop, Safety 109
Valve, Portable Engine 102
Valve, Setting, Compounded. 202
Valve, Setting, Link Reverse 103
Valve, Setting, Portable Engine 102
Valve, Slide 66
Valve, Wide End of Slide 67
Valve-Seat 66
Valve-Slip 99
Various Fuels, Firing with 33
Subject Page
Wagon-Box, Contents of 248
Washing the Boiler 113
Waste at Shoe 179
Waste in Separating 179
Waste in Threshing 178
Water Tanks 129
Water, Feed 15
Water, Foaming 111
Water, Low 16
Water, Priming 112
Water, Temperature of 120
Water-Gauge 18
Water-Glass, Broken 20
Water-Glass, Packing 19
Water-Heater 29
Weigher Troubles 246
Weigher, No, 3 244
Weigher, No.1 242
Weigher, No.2 244
Weight of Grain 240-242
Wheat, Kernels per Bushel 178
Wheat, Threshing 182
Wheat, Threshing Turkey 184
"White-Caps" in Wheat 184
Wind-Board 170
Wind-Stacker 234
Wind-Stacker Fan Speed 238
Wind-Stacker Stack Building 237
Wind-Stacker, Lubricating 237
Wind-Stacker, Operating 235
Wood, Firing with 34
Wood, Fuel Value of. 39
Woolf Compound, The 84
Woolf Reverse, Setting 98
Woolf Valve Gear 91
Work of Horses 140
Traction Engine
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