CA1051740A - Vegetable peas sheller and separator apparatus - Google Patents
Vegetable peas sheller and separator apparatusInfo
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Abstract
INVENTOR: W. W. WELBORN
Route 3, Box 375 Laurel, Mississippi 39440 TITLE: VEGETABLE PEAS SHELLER AND SEPARATING THE
HULLS THEREFROM AND THE LIKE
ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE
Method and apparatus for shelling vegetable peas and separating the hulls from the pea, in which the method and apparatus includes a tumbler and agitotor for displacing the peas from the hull, agitator which shells the peas, and a separator of novel design and function for separating the hulls therefrom.
Route 3, Box 375 Laurel, Mississippi 39440 TITLE: VEGETABLE PEAS SHELLER AND SEPARATING THE
HULLS THEREFROM AND THE LIKE
ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE
Method and apparatus for shelling vegetable peas and separating the hulls from the pea, in which the method and apparatus includes a tumbler and agitotor for displacing the peas from the hull, agitator which shells the peas, and a separator of novel design and function for separating the hulls therefrom.
Description
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The present invention is an improvement and departu.re :~rom prior art devices such as ~ound in the ~ol-lowing patents:
Satake 3,750,884 Barton 3,578,161 Gaddie 3,061,094 The invention relates generally to the shelling of agricultural ~ood products ~rom their h~lls or vegetable bodies in which the~ are ~ound~ and more particularly the ~ -- invention relates particularl~ to the shell~ng and separating of the hulls or vegetable bodies ~rom the desirable vegetable components such as the peas or beans ~ound therein.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PRIOR ~RT
In the past ~armers who grew agricultural ~ood pro-ducts such as peas and butterbeans and the li~e3 would har-vest their crops and then the whole ~amily would sit around and spend hours hand-shelling and separating the hulls ~rom the peas or beans, In order to reduce the cost of labor and time in shelling and separating these vegetables many apparatus ap-pear to have been invented, Most o~ these inventions will do a fair job o~ shelling the peas, but all of them have a major problem in separating the hulls and keeping trash out of the edible peas. They also have a problem in ~hat too many o~ the peas ~ell through the screening devi~es around the tumbler :~ ~ 2 - :
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without being shelled, This again requlres considerable labor and time in picking out those peas which were not shelled ~rom the hulls of the shelled peas and either hand shelling them or recycling them through the sheller. A1SO~
extensive labor and time is required in hand picking the hUllS and trash from the edible peas, all to no great ad-vantage in time or costs.
~G ~ INVENTION
The invent~on is a method and apparatus for ac-cepting vegetable bodies containing desirable vegetable components which are distinguished by being found under a given predetermined radial dimension distinguished Purther for æeparation by being separated ~rom undesirable vegetable bodies. The invention compriseæ a tumbling in a given ap-paratus and the vegetable as found in nature within a motor driven drum, agitating groups o~ these vegetable bodies within - -said drum and rotating an agitating element driven by a var-iable speed motor to shell or detatch the vegetable bodies from the desirable vegetable components, separating the vegetable bodies from the desired vegetable components by sets oP separat-ing elbow-shaped passage ways disposed throughout the psriphery of the drum for passage of the vegetable components away from the vegetable bodies or hulls. The vegetable body or hulls remain within the drum while the desirable vegetable components are passed through the elbow-shaped passage ways into a through where they may be shakened to be separated from undesirable elements therein. The rotation of the motor drum and the - ~s~
agitator are at a di~erent rate of speed and ma~ be in a clock wise or counter clockwise relation to each other.
The vegetable bodies and components are introduced in their whole relation through a removable hatch in the drum.
FIELD OF AND SUMM~RY OF THE INVENTION
It is an object and advantage of the present in-vention to provide an apparatus and method for automatically shelling peas or beans and separating their components so that the hulls and trash are removed and the edible product is collected in a trough.
A ~urther and additional object and advantage o~
the present invention is to provide that during the operatlon of a sheller o~ the crop, which has been gathered from the field, the product gathered from the field is placed in a tumbler which rotates at a desired rate of revolutions per minute and an agitator which rotates at a different rate of revolutions per minute processes these crops for separating the hulls or undesirable portions from the edible product~
and the edible product is passed through an elbow-shaped aper-ture in the drum where the edible product is then collectedin a trough ~or moving the peas from under the tumbler into an empty container at one end thereof.
A ~urther object and feature of the present inventio~
is to provide for the shelling of peas which ~all lnto a separator and are then dumped out of the tumbler, le~ving the hull and trash inside o~ the tumbler to be dumped out after~
all pea have been shelled therefrom, and the shelled pea i~ ~ ;
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dumped or passed through an elbow-contoured aperture within the periphery of the drum so that the pea or vegetable body i~ received within a trough where it is vibrated so that they are collected into a given container, BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS OF THE INVENTION
The above and other objects and advantages o~ the invention will become apparent upon full consideration o~ the following detailed description and accompanying drawings in which:
FIGURE 1 is a front elevation view of a preferred embodiment of the present invention;
FIGURE 2 is a right side elevation view of the in-vention shown in FIGURE l;
FIGURE 3 fragmentary or broken away sectional view of the elbow-shaped apertures of the separator elements in the drum according to a preferred and distinctive embodiment ~:
of the present invention;
FIGURE 3a is a cross-sectional view of the separator of FIGURE 3;
FIGURE 4 is a section of a left side elevational v~ew of the preferr~d embodiment o~ the invention shown in FIGURE lo ~.
Referring no~ to the drawing3 there is sh~wn a fr~me structure or body comprising essentially of a frame 10 25~ which is provided for mounting a tumblar drum 12 which is motor driven by a V belt 14 connected to a drive motor 16 with a pulle~ 18 shown in FIGURE 1, :~ _ 5 _ 1~5~7~0 There are positioned and appropriately located throughout the center of the tumbler drum 12 a set o~
agitator elements 20~ 20 as shown in FIG~RE 4 which are also driven by a motor by means of a V belt 22 driven ~rom a variable speed motor 240 The tumbl~r drum 12 and the agi-tators 20, 20 may turn in a clock wise rotation at dif~erent speeds relative to each other, or they may turn in counter clock wise directions to each other at the same or variable rate of revolutions per minute.
1~ Throughout the peripheral sur~ace o~ the drum there is shown as illustrated in FIGURES 3 and 3a a series of aper-tures forming elbow-shaped passage ways 26, 26. The vegetable bodies or peas or beans as ~ound in the garden or in the field or collected and a group o~ them are placed and loaded within the tumbler drum 12 through a removable hatch 28 shown in FIGURE 2 which is locked in place during the rotation, shelling and separating processes, ~he rotation of the tumbler drum 12 and the agitators 20, 20 act upon the shell or hull of the vegetable bodieæ so that the peas or beans, referred .:
to herein as the desirable vegetable components are separated ~rom the hull or shell thereo~ The shelled pea sr bean is gathered up into a given elbow-shaped aperture passage wa~
26~ 26, carried around with the revolution of the drum 12 and by means o~ the force due to centrifugal action of rotation, the pea or desirable vegetable body is passed there through and dumped into a shaker through 32 leaving the hull or shell wlthin the tumbler drum 12.
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Th~ shaker trough 32 is actlvated by a cam-operating mechanism 34 shown in FIGURE 2 attached to the sha~t 36 of the tumbler drum 12. A gate 38 shown in FIGURE 4 is provided at the top o~ the shaker trough 32 which is opened ~or allowing shelled peas or beans to ~all within the shaker trough 32, and is then closed when the hulls le~t in the tumbler 12 are emptied through an opening 40 at the top of the shaker trough 32 The shel:Led peas or beans which have fallen into the shaker trough 32 are moved through the trough by vibrating due to the action of the cam-operating mechanism 34 so that they are emptied at one end into a container ~not shown).
By means o~ the present invention shown and appara~us and method ~or providing automatic pea shelling including a means and m~thod ~or tumbling of the vegetable body as ~ound in nature by placing it within the rotating tumbler drum, agitating the vegetable body ~or shelling the unshelled vege-table components therefrom, a separator for separating the shell pea ~rom the hull, and a shaker trough ~or collect~ng the shelled peas into a container~ A partlcular and unique ~eature o~ the separator is that it is constructed of a con-toured passage way or elbow shaped aperture throughout the peripher~ of the drum in the ~orm o~ a bend which completely separates the pea or bean ~rom its hull or its shell, respect-ively.
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Additional embodiments of the invention in this specification will occur to others and there~ore it is intended that the scope of the invention be limited only by the amended claims and not by the embodlments described hereinabove, Accordingly, reference should be made to the following claims in determining the full scope of the invention.
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The present invention is an improvement and departu.re :~rom prior art devices such as ~ound in the ~ol-lowing patents:
Satake 3,750,884 Barton 3,578,161 Gaddie 3,061,094 The invention relates generally to the shelling of agricultural ~ood products ~rom their h~lls or vegetable bodies in which the~ are ~ound~ and more particularly the ~ -- invention relates particularl~ to the shell~ng and separating of the hulls or vegetable bodies ~rom the desirable vegetable components such as the peas or beans ~ound therein.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PRIOR ~RT
In the past ~armers who grew agricultural ~ood pro-ducts such as peas and butterbeans and the li~e3 would har-vest their crops and then the whole ~amily would sit around and spend hours hand-shelling and separating the hulls ~rom the peas or beans, In order to reduce the cost of labor and time in shelling and separating these vegetables many apparatus ap-pear to have been invented, Most o~ these inventions will do a fair job o~ shelling the peas, but all of them have a major problem in separating the hulls and keeping trash out of the edible peas. They also have a problem in ~hat too many o~ the peas ~ell through the screening devi~es around the tumbler :~ ~ 2 - :
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without being shelled, This again requlres considerable labor and time in picking out those peas which were not shelled ~rom the hulls of the shelled peas and either hand shelling them or recycling them through the sheller. A1SO~
extensive labor and time is required in hand picking the hUllS and trash from the edible peas, all to no great ad-vantage in time or costs.
~G ~ INVENTION
The invent~on is a method and apparatus for ac-cepting vegetable bodies containing desirable vegetable components which are distinguished by being found under a given predetermined radial dimension distinguished Purther for æeparation by being separated ~rom undesirable vegetable bodies. The invention compriseæ a tumbling in a given ap-paratus and the vegetable as found in nature within a motor driven drum, agitating groups o~ these vegetable bodies within - -said drum and rotating an agitating element driven by a var-iable speed motor to shell or detatch the vegetable bodies from the desirable vegetable components, separating the vegetable bodies from the desired vegetable components by sets oP separat-ing elbow-shaped passage ways disposed throughout the psriphery of the drum for passage of the vegetable components away from the vegetable bodies or hulls. The vegetable body or hulls remain within the drum while the desirable vegetable components are passed through the elbow-shaped passage ways into a through where they may be shakened to be separated from undesirable elements therein. The rotation of the motor drum and the - ~s~
agitator are at a di~erent rate of speed and ma~ be in a clock wise or counter clockwise relation to each other.
The vegetable bodies and components are introduced in their whole relation through a removable hatch in the drum.
FIELD OF AND SUMM~RY OF THE INVENTION
It is an object and advantage of the present in-vention to provide an apparatus and method for automatically shelling peas or beans and separating their components so that the hulls and trash are removed and the edible product is collected in a trough.
A ~urther and additional object and advantage o~
the present invention is to provide that during the operatlon of a sheller o~ the crop, which has been gathered from the field, the product gathered from the field is placed in a tumbler which rotates at a desired rate of revolutions per minute and an agitator which rotates at a different rate of revolutions per minute processes these crops for separating the hulls or undesirable portions from the edible product~
and the edible product is passed through an elbow-shaped aper-ture in the drum where the edible product is then collectedin a trough ~or moving the peas from under the tumbler into an empty container at one end thereof.
A ~urther object and feature of the present inventio~
is to provide for the shelling of peas which ~all lnto a separator and are then dumped out of the tumbler, le~ving the hull and trash inside o~ the tumbler to be dumped out after~
all pea have been shelled therefrom, and the shelled pea i~ ~ ;
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dumped or passed through an elbow-contoured aperture within the periphery of the drum so that the pea or vegetable body i~ received within a trough where it is vibrated so that they are collected into a given container, BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS OF THE INVENTION
The above and other objects and advantages o~ the invention will become apparent upon full consideration o~ the following detailed description and accompanying drawings in which:
FIGURE 1 is a front elevation view of a preferred embodiment of the present invention;
FIGURE 2 is a right side elevation view of the in-vention shown in FIGURE l;
FIGURE 3 fragmentary or broken away sectional view of the elbow-shaped apertures of the separator elements in the drum according to a preferred and distinctive embodiment ~:
of the present invention;
FIGURE 3a is a cross-sectional view of the separator of FIGURE 3;
FIGURE 4 is a section of a left side elevational v~ew of the preferr~d embodiment o~ the invention shown in FIGURE lo ~.
Referring no~ to the drawing3 there is sh~wn a fr~me structure or body comprising essentially of a frame 10 25~ which is provided for mounting a tumblar drum 12 which is motor driven by a V belt 14 connected to a drive motor 16 with a pulle~ 18 shown in FIGURE 1, :~ _ 5 _ 1~5~7~0 There are positioned and appropriately located throughout the center of the tumbler drum 12 a set o~
agitator elements 20~ 20 as shown in FIG~RE 4 which are also driven by a motor by means of a V belt 22 driven ~rom a variable speed motor 240 The tumbl~r drum 12 and the agi-tators 20, 20 may turn in a clock wise rotation at dif~erent speeds relative to each other, or they may turn in counter clock wise directions to each other at the same or variable rate of revolutions per minute.
1~ Throughout the peripheral sur~ace o~ the drum there is shown as illustrated in FIGURES 3 and 3a a series of aper-tures forming elbow-shaped passage ways 26, 26. The vegetable bodies or peas or beans as ~ound in the garden or in the field or collected and a group o~ them are placed and loaded within the tumbler drum 12 through a removable hatch 28 shown in FIGURE 2 which is locked in place during the rotation, shelling and separating processes, ~he rotation of the tumbler drum 12 and the agitators 20, 20 act upon the shell or hull of the vegetable bodieæ so that the peas or beans, referred .:
to herein as the desirable vegetable components are separated ~rom the hull or shell thereo~ The shelled pea sr bean is gathered up into a given elbow-shaped aperture passage wa~
26~ 26, carried around with the revolution of the drum 12 and by means o~ the force due to centrifugal action of rotation, the pea or desirable vegetable body is passed there through and dumped into a shaker through 32 leaving the hull or shell wlthin the tumbler drum 12.
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Th~ shaker trough 32 is actlvated by a cam-operating mechanism 34 shown in FIGURE 2 attached to the sha~t 36 of the tumbler drum 12. A gate 38 shown in FIGURE 4 is provided at the top o~ the shaker trough 32 which is opened ~or allowing shelled peas or beans to ~all within the shaker trough 32, and is then closed when the hulls le~t in the tumbler 12 are emptied through an opening 40 at the top of the shaker trough 32 The shel:Led peas or beans which have fallen into the shaker trough 32 are moved through the trough by vibrating due to the action of the cam-operating mechanism 34 so that they are emptied at one end into a container ~not shown).
By means o~ the present invention shown and appara~us and method ~or providing automatic pea shelling including a means and m~thod ~or tumbling of the vegetable body as ~ound in nature by placing it within the rotating tumbler drum, agitating the vegetable body ~or shelling the unshelled vege-table components therefrom, a separator for separating the shell pea ~rom the hull, and a shaker trough ~or collect~ng the shelled peas into a container~ A partlcular and unique ~eature o~ the separator is that it is constructed of a con-toured passage way or elbow shaped aperture throughout the peripher~ of the drum in the ~orm o~ a bend which completely separates the pea or bean ~rom its hull or its shell, respect-ively.
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Additional embodiments of the invention in this specification will occur to others and there~ore it is intended that the scope of the invention be limited only by the amended claims and not by the embodlments described hereinabove, Accordingly, reference should be made to the following claims in determining the full scope of the invention.
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Claims (2)
What is Claimed Is:
1. Method of accepting vegetable bodies con-taining desired vegetable components distinguished by being under a given predetermined radial dimension and unsavable vegetable bodies comprising of the steps of:
introducing the unseparated vegetable components and vege-table bodies into a motor driven drum having a shaft through a removable hatch, tumbling a selected group of vegetable bodies within the driven drum, agitating groups of vegetable bodies within said drum by an essentially coaxially rotating agitating element driven by a variable speed motor to shell or detach the vegetable bodies from the desired vegetable components, separating the vegetable bodies from the desired vegetable components by sets of separating elbow shaped passage ways extending inwardly of the inter surface of said drum and disposed throughout the periphery of the drum for passage of the vegetable components away from the vegetable bodies which remain within the drum, the speed of the driven drum being at a different rate than the speed of the rotating agitating element, collecting the desirable vegetable com-ponents within a shaker trough positioned essentially below the drum and shaking the shaker trough by a cam-operating mechanism attached to the shaft of the motor driven drum, the rate of rotation of the motor drum being distinctly different from that of the rotation of the agitating element.
introducing the unseparated vegetable components and vege-table bodies into a motor driven drum having a shaft through a removable hatch, tumbling a selected group of vegetable bodies within the driven drum, agitating groups of vegetable bodies within said drum by an essentially coaxially rotating agitating element driven by a variable speed motor to shell or detach the vegetable bodies from the desired vegetable components, separating the vegetable bodies from the desired vegetable components by sets of separating elbow shaped passage ways extending inwardly of the inter surface of said drum and disposed throughout the periphery of the drum for passage of the vegetable components away from the vegetable bodies which remain within the drum, the speed of the driven drum being at a different rate than the speed of the rotating agitating element, collecting the desirable vegetable com-ponents within a shaker trough positioned essentially below the drum and shaking the shaker trough by a cam-operating mechanism attached to the shaft of the motor driven drum, the rate of rotation of the motor drum being distinctly different from that of the rotation of the agitating element.
2. Apparatus for accepting vegetable bodies containing desired vegetable components distinguished by being under a given predetermined radial dimension and unsavable vegetable bodies comprising means introducing the unseparated vegetable components and vegetable bodies into a motor driven drum through a removable hatch, means for tumbling a selected group of vegetable bodies within the driven drum, having a shaft, means for agitating groups of vegetable bodies within said drum by an essentially coaxially rotating agitating element driven by a variable speed motor to shell or detach the vegetable bodies from the desired vegetable components, means for separating the vegetable bodies from the desired vegetable components by sets of separating elbow shaped passages ways extending inwardly of the interior surface of said drum and disposed throughout the periphery of the drum for passage of the vegetable components away from the vegetable bodies which remain within the drum, the speed of the driven drum being at a different rate than the speed of the rotating agitating ele-ment, means for collecting the desirable vegetable components within a shaker trough positioned essentially below the drum and means for shaking the shaker trough by a cam operating mechansim attached to the shaft of the motor driven drum, the rate of rotation of the motor drum being distinctly different from that of the rotation of the agitating element.
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