US106395A - Improvement in fanning-mills - Google Patents

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1 tanned' time @time Gtiiii HARRISON OGBORN, OF RICHMOND, ASSIGNORIO SAMUEL WATSON, OF LEWISVILLE, INDIANA. l

Letters'Patent No. 106,395, dated Augustl6, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN' FANNINGj-MILLS.

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The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1,HARR1S0NA Oc-Bonn, of Richmond, inthe county of Wayne and State of Indiana, have invented new and useful Improvements in Fanning-Mills; andI hereby declare the following to be a full and clear description of the same, sufficient to enable others skilled in the arts to which my improve. ment belongs to fully understand, construct, and use the same, reference being had toA the accompanying drawing making part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a perspective View of my machine; Figure 2 is a top view of the shaker and adjoining parts.

Similar letters of reference refer to correspomling parts in the diierent igures.`

The nature of my invention consists in the use of al double shaker for a tanning-mill, and of horizontal hars or rods'and guides for hanging the shoe ota fanningvmill, so that the motion given to it by theshaking devices will be a firm, steady, smooth, horizontal motion.

K M N Pis a doubleshaker, for givinga light or heavy shake, which is also a'regular rm shake, to the shoe of a tanning-mill over its entire length, and for regulating the shake of' the shoe, so that either end of the shoe can be made to vibrate more orless, with- `out changing the lengtlrof the vibrations ofthe other end of the shoe. p

L L- are boxes for holding the shaker in position.

A A is a. cross-frame, which supports the various parts lot' the machine. v

B arc the cross-braces. r

G is the fan-case, through which passes Aa shaft, to which wings are attached, all made in the usual'manner.

G is a pinion-wheel, ou the end of the fan-shaft, for giving motion to the same.

F'is the master-wheel, to which the handle O is attached.

'I T are sides forming part of the drum; also act as a support for the rod X', anda-s ends to the hop- .per D.

. the shoe.

N is an arm, forming part ot' the bell-crank M, connected with the same by the longer rod H into the pinion G.

On. the bottom of the shoe U is placed wire-cloth, finer than that onscreen V, to allow of two or more separations at the same time; a great variety of grain Iand seeds may be cleaned and separated on 'the ma chine Vby having suitable screens.

Y is a spout, the bottom of'whieh is inclined downward to onevside, which conveys the large tine wheat to one side of the machine. By its side is another spout into which the smaller wheat falls, by reason of the lower screen being-a little shorter, and is sloped in the opposite direction to the other side of the machine, Where the wheat is carried and falls oli.

X X are rods that support the shoe; the rod X passes through the frame, and through holes in plate a, on the 'sides of the shoe. The holes through the plate are enough below the bottom of the shoe to prevent its rubbing. The screen-rod X' passes through the fan-case 'I and shoe U,A above the Ion g screens and below the short one, 'and through plates fastened on the sides of the' shoe.

To clean wheat it is placed in the hopper D, and,` i

motion being given to the machine, the board E is slightly drawn out. The wheat and all impurities fall vdown `on to the screen W, which takes out all large particles. The wheat falls through the screen'W onto a chessboard,'and from there onto the upper end of the long screen, or from the upper screen directly onto the long screen when the chess-hoard is removed. iVhile failing the blast ot' air from the fan strikes it, and ,blows out the iight chaify particles; the screen V retains the large tine grains or seed-wheat which passes down the screen, and falls into the spout Y, and from it into any convenient vessel.

The smaller grains of wheat, chess, cockle, and other small impurities, fall through screen V onto the lower screen, heretofore spoken of, which again screens it, and retainsv the small grains oi' wheat, suitable for market, and passes them down the screen and linto the other spout, from which they fall ou the other side, in any vessel suitable for the purpose, while the chess, cockie, Vsmall foul seeds, sand, dirt, and other impurities,y fall through the screens onto the tioor.

- Having described my improvement in fanninganills,

What I claim as new, and wish to secure by Letters Patent, is`

The shoe U, provided with plates a' a and ears S S, the supporting-rods X X', operating-rods H I R, and bellcrank K M Nl P, when said parts' are constructed, combined, and arranged to ope-rate substantially asfdescribed, and for the purposes-set forth.

Witnesses: HARRISON .OGBORN EDM. F. BROWN, H. J. ARETZ.

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