US110301A - Improvement in grain-scourers - Google Patents

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A SMITH GRAIN SUOURERH- 1 Patented Dec. 20, 1870.

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Letters Patent N 0. 110.301. dated December 20, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN GRAlN-SCOURERS.

The Schedule referred. to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, AIJSTIX SMITH, of Valmont, in the county of Boulder and Territory of Colorado, have invented a new and useful Improvcmeutiu Grain-Seom'er; and I hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, --and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilledin the art to make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section of my improved machine.

Figure 2 is a vertical cross-section of the same,

.taken through the line a: x, fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My invention has for its object to furnish a simple, convenient, inexpensive, and effective machine for cleaning and scouring wheat for grinding; and

It consists in the construction and combination of the various parts of the machine as hereinafter more fully described.

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1; is a shaft, the ends of which revolve 'in bearings in the ends of the frame-work or casing A.

A is the frame-work, box, or casing of the ma square punch diagonally with the shaft 13, and with their rough edges upward.

The cleaned grain escapes from the machine through the spout F, bywhich it is conducted to the-burs or to some suitable receiver.

The dust-may be allowed to fall to the floor into some suitable receiver, or into a box, G, placed beneath the perforated bottom E, and in which worksa. shaft, H, having a spiral thread or flange, I, at-

tached to it, by which the dust is conveyed into the spout J, 'by which it is conducted to some suitable wheels M N, attached to the vertical shaft 0, which may be driven by any convenient power.

It may be observed that the rough edges of the perforated bottom E tend to prevent the grain from beand thus facilitate the operation.

Having thus'described my invention,

Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- e 1. The spiral brush 0 and concave screenE, combined with the spiral flange D, arranged as and for the purpose described.

i 2. The rotating-scouring brush and concave screen, combined witha spirally-flanged shaft H I, arranged thereunder, in the receifing-chamber, as and for the purpose described.

'ing carried around by and with the spiral brush 0,

AUSTIN SMITH. \Vitnesses JEROME THOMAS, J nssn HARTLEY.

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