US1046168A

US1046168A - Hackling-machine.

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Publication number: US1046168A
Application number: US63665311A
Authority: US
Inventors: Juan Forseck
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1911-07-03
Filing date: 1911-07-03
Publication date: 1912-12-03
Anticipated expiration: 1929-12-03

Description

J. FORSEOK.

HAGKLING MACHINE.

APPLICATION IILED JULY a, 1911.

Patented 1160.3,1912

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JUAN FORSECK, 0F SAN LUIS POTOS, MEXICO.

' 'HACKLING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Dec.. 3, 1912.

Serial No. 636,653.

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Application filed July 3, 1911.

drum journals and the transmission gear, Fig. 5 is a detail side view of the rear wheel for the upper conveyer chain showing the upper supporting beams therefor in section. Fig. 6 is a transverse section of a conveyer wheel rim provided with a rubber tire. Fig. 7 is a transverse section of a conveyer wheel rim having radial retaining pins on the inner flange of its rim.

This machine will preferably be mounted on wheels, not shown, in order to readily transport it in mountainous districts. The framework is constructed with longitudinal lower U-beams 1, longitudinal intermediate U-beams 2, and longitudinal upper U-beams 3, and transverse arched beams 4, one at each To all whom. t may concern Be-it known that l, JUAN Fonsnoii, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at San Luis Potos, State of San Luis Potosi, Mexico, have invented ycertain new and useful Improvements in Hackling- Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in machines for tearing up the leaves of fibrous plants such as the maguey plant, hitherto refractory to shredding, and also the lechuguilla and for removing all the bagasse or fleshy parts from the bers at the same time and to which action the leaves are gradually subjected in such a manner that the hackling takes place endwise and approaches the middle of the leaves and in a second stage of the operation the same action is effected from the end of the other half of the leaves and clearing beyond the middle of the leaves in order not to leave any part of the entire length of the leaves without treatment.

rlhe object of such gradual treatment is to remove the bagasse or fleshy parts in small portions by the hackling drums and by stripping the fibers from the extremities of the leaves toward the middle of the leaves so that choking or accumulation of the separated bagasse or fieshy parts is avoided and which otherwise, as deposits, adhering to the fibers, would present a serious obstacle to an advantageous working on plants with soft and fine fibers.

My machine furthermore provides an effective means for retaining the cleared fibers against the pull of the hackling drums. Y ln order that the invention may be more fully understood l will proceed to describe it with reference to the accompanying drawings in which:

Figure 1 is a top view of my improved hackling machine; the conveyer chains being omitted. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same; the conveyer chains being indicated in broken lines. Fig. 3 is a front end view thereof; the gear wheels and conveyer chains being omitted. Fig. 4 is an elevation of the double standard for the front end of the A is the first hackling drum, of conical shape, located near to one side of the framework, with its smaller end directed toward the feed end of the machine. This first hackling drum is fixed to a driving shaft 5 journaled in the single standards 6 and the double standards 6a which rest upon the lower beams 1. The driving shaft 5 is provided at its inner end with a worm '7 and at its outer end it carries the gear wheel 8, and a driving pulley 9, from which the various parts of the machine receive movement. Retired or isolated from the first hackling drum A, is a second hackling drum B, also of conical shape, located near to the other side of the framework with its smaller end also directed toward the feed end of the machine. This second hackling drum B is fixed to a driven shaft 10, journaled in two standards 11, and the double standard 6a, all of which rest on the lower beams 1. To the front end of this driven shaft 10, is secured the gear wheel 12, which is meshed by the gear wheel 8, en the driving shaft 5, and rotates the second hackling drum B in a direction contrary to the movement imparted to the first hackling drum A.

The conveyance of the leaves is effected transversely in front of the first hackling drum A, and the means employed consists of a front conveyer wheel 13, a lower and larger intermediate conveyer wheel 14, and

a rear conveyer wheel 15. The front conveyer wheel 13 is mounted in short arms 17 pivoted to the outer ends of the upper beams 3, and yieldingly pressed downward by -leaf or plate springs 18 extending thereover. The intermediate conveyer wheel 14, of which a cross section of its rim is shown in Fig. 7, has a number of radial retaining pins 19 on the inner flange of its rim which faces the first hackling drum A, wherebyeven under a great lateral pull the upper conveyer chain 16 and the lower conveyer chain 20, may be kept wit-hin the channel of the rim. The rear conveyer wheel 15, is mounted on an axial pin 15a supported in a turn on' a sleeve 15c having lugs 15b and l5d respectively secured by bolts 15e to and between the upper beams 3.

Cooperating with the upper conveyer chain 16 is the lower conveyer chain 20, running over a lower front conveyer wheel 21, supported on a pedestal 22, and also over a small conveyer pulley 23 adjacent to the intermediate conveyer wheel 14 and then below the latter over another conveyer wheel 24 secured to a conveyer drum 25 in rear of the intermediate conveyer wheel 14, see Fig. l, and iinally under an. intermediate conveyer idler wheel 26 at the base of the framework.

The carrying of the half treated leaves in front of the second hackling drum B is aci, complished by a single conveyer chain 27 traveling over a conveyer wheel 28 and also under a larger conveyer wheel 30 also attached to the conveyer drum 25 and then over a conveyer wheel 29, while the larger intermediate conveyer wheel 30 having a rubber tire 31 (see Fig. 6) offers a very effective hold on the bers confined between the conveyer chain 27 and the tire 31. The conveyer wheel 29 is supported in a sliding block 32, which plays within a slot 33, of a standard 34, and is forced upward by a spring, not shown, surrounding the eXtremity of a screw bar 35, provided with a nut 36 for adjusting the tension.

In Fig. 1 the conveyer wheel 29 is shown as having attached thereto a drum 37 on the top of which a rubber belt 38 is moved by friction; this rubber belt 38 running over the

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39 and 40, and drawing the cleared fibers from the intermediate conveyer wheel 30, above the conveyer wheel 29 and the drum 37 from where the fibers are discharged. The shaft 4l upon which the conveyer wheel 24, the conveyer drum 25, and the conveyer wheel 28, are secured has also attached to it at its outer end the worm wheel 42. e

The conveyer drum 25 is provided forthe purpose of supporting the cleared parts of the leaves and prevents such parts from falling between the two parallel running sets of 'face thereof to move in advance of the other,

conveyer chains and also for lifting the cleared parts of the leaves which after being cleared are slack, and so that the cleared parts may be placed on top of the conveyer chain 27 where it turns around the conveyer wheel 28.

Both of the hackling drums are provided with encircling rows of teeth 43 arranged with ecreasing spaces between them toward the base of the cone. Y

It will now be understood that in operation the different parts of the machine moved in the direction indicatedby the arrows, the brous leaves may be inserted between the two conveyer chains 16 and 2O in such a manner that the open ends of the leaves, which result from being cutoff of the plant, will project against the rst due to the semi-circu` ling drum A, and also in view of the conical shape of the drum, the hackling commences at the extreme end of the leaves, and as these advance toward t-he larger periphery of the drum, a longer portion of the leaves will come within the action of the teeth, in fact almost up to that part of the leaves which is embraced by and 20. By the further traveling of these conveyer chains the now hackled part of the leaves, which are still integral with the other part, which is not yet treated, is drawn over the conveyer drum 25, and immediately 'taken hold of by the conveyer chain 27, which,

being" by the coperatie-n of the conveyerk the two conveyer chains 16V wheel 30, advances the leaves in front of the Y second hackling drum B, and, by operations similar to those of the first hackling drum A, concludes the hackling of the leaves. At this stage the rubber belt 38, which is in fric- Vtional connectionwith the conveyer drum 37,

discharges the bers.

aving thus described my invention the following is what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

l. A hackling machine comprisinga shaft, conical drum mounted on the shaft with its smaller end directed toward the feed end of the machine; the with encircling rows of teeth; therows of teeth being decreased in distance apa-rt from the smaller to the larger Vend of the drum, g the leaves in front of the working face of the drum and means for as to cause the working upwardly.

2. A hackling machine for fibrous plants comprising two parallel shafts, conical drums mounted one on each shaft and one each conical drum being provided with encircling" rows of teeth; the rows of teeth on each drum being drum being provided decreased n distance apart from the smaller to the larger end of the drum and means for conveying the leaves in a semi-circular path in front of the working face of eaoh of the drums and means for rot-ating the drums so as to cause -the Working faces thereof to move upwardly.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

In testimony whereof I have afflxed my signature n presence of t-Wo Witnesses.

'JUAN FORSECK.

Witnesses THOMAS DIoKINsoN, E. HEYSER.

Washington, D. C.