US1212101A - Fruit-seeder. - Google Patents

Description

D.` PHILLIPS.

FRUIT SEEDEH.

APfLlCATlON FILED MAY I, 1916.

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DAVID PHILLIPS, 0F DAYTONA, FLORIDA.

FRUIT-SEEDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

` Patented Jan. 9, 1917.

Application led May 1, 1916.y Serial No. 94,623.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID PHrLLrrs, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Daytona, in the county of Volusia and State of Florida, have made certain new and useful Improvements in Fruit-Seeders, of which the following is a specification.

The invention is a separator and is designed chieiiy for removing seeds, stems and like solid particles from the pulp of fruit and comprises a rotary member for receiving the pulp to be separated, a second receptacle for catching the product as the same esca-pes from the separator, and a pocket or like part for receiving the Seed and other matter separated from the pulp.

The drawing illustrates an embodiment of the invention, although within the scope of the invention as claimed hereinafter, various changes in the form, proportion and minor details of construction may be made without departing from the nature of the invention.

In the drawings hereto attached, Figure- 1 is an elevation of a fruit seeder embodying the invention, parts being in section. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of the separator bottom, and Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on the line m-m of Fig. 1.

In the following description and in the several views of the drawing like parts are indicated by the same reference characters.

The apparatus embodies a suitable support which as shown consists of a stand l. A vertical shaft 2 is mounted upon the stand and is adapted to be rotated from any suitable source of power in any convenient way. As illustrated a pulley 3a is secured to the shaft 2 and is adapted to receive a drive belt 3, leading from a suitable source of power. The upper end 4 of the shaft 2 is of non-circular form in cross section so as to make engagement with the rotary separator and cause the latter to turn with the shaft in the operation of the apparatus. It is tobeunderstood that the shaft 2 may be mounted in any manner so as to reduce the friction to the smallest amount possible.

The separator is mounted upon the upper end of the shaft 2 and comprises a suitable receptacle the walls of which are meshed or otherwise formed with openings for the escape of the pulp. The separator' comprises a body portion 5 and a bottom 6, the latter being heavy and preferably consisting of a casting. The body portion 5 of the separator is secured to the bottom 6 in any manner te admit of the parts being readily assembled or the body portion being replaced when occasion requires. A clamp 7 serves as fastening means for securing the body 5 to the bottom 6, the clamp being in the nature of a hoop which is forced upon the lower portion of the body 5 so as to clamp the same against the outer edge of the bottom 6. The bottom 6 is formed with a centrally disposed tubular extension 8 which is closed at its upper end and forms a socket in which is snugly received the upper end portion 4 of the shaft 2. The socket S forms a part of the bottom 6 and is cast as a part thereof.

The walls of the body portion 5 of the separator are upwardly flared, it being found to give best results inasmuch as the seeds, stems and other matter separated' from the pulp gradually creep upward and finally pass over the upper edge of the separator and into a suitable pocket. In the present instance the pocket 9 is formed with the separator and its walls are imperforate, such pocket comprising an outwardly eX- tending portion 10 and an upwardly and inwardly inclined portion 11. The parts 10 and 11 preferably form an integral part of the body 5. The pocket 9 is of annular form, hence is adapted to catch the seeds and other matter separated at every point.

A receptacle 12 is supported upon the stand 1 or in any suitable manner so as tol receive the pulp as it escapes from the separator. rEhe receptacle 12 is stationary and its bottom portion is formed with a central opening through which the shaft 2 passes. A collar 13 rises vertically from the bottom of the receptacle 12 in line with the opening formed therein and prevents escape of the pulp through such opening. The bottom of the receptacle 12 is disposed some distance below the bottom of the separator and the upper end of the collar 13 approaches close to the lower side of the bottom 6.

It is noted that the separator is retained upon the upper end of the shaft 2 by gravity and the close fit between the socket 8 and upper end portion 4: of the shaft causes the separator to rotate with the shaft 2. The oint formed between the separator and shaft is such as to admit of the separator being readily removed or placed in position upon the shaft. l/Vhen the separator is removed from the shaft 2 the receptacle 1.2 may be either removed or placed in position.

In the operation of the apparatus the fruit pulp or other product containing seeds, stems and other matter to be separated is placed in the separating receptacle comprising the parts 5 and 6. Rotary motion is imparted to the shaft 2 and is transmitted to the separator thereby causing the pulp to pass through the meshes or openings in the side walls of the separator and into the receptacle 12. The seeds, stems and other solid particles gradually climb the flaring or inclined sides of the separator and finally pass over the upper edge thereof into the pocket 9 which catches and retains the same. After the product has been thoroughly separated and the rotatable shaft 2 arrested, the separator is removed from the upper end of the shaft 2 and the receptacle 12 containing the separated product is removed from the stand.

The separator may be cleaned in any manner and the separated pulp removed from the receptacle 12 after which such parts are replaced when the apparatus is in condition for a repetition of the operation.

I claim:

l. A separator comprising a vertical roltary shaft, a separator proper mounted thereon and having an upwardly liared perforated side wall, and an annular pocket surrounding, and attached to, the upper edge of said wall, and its floor or bottom diverging horizontally directly from the wall, whereby the pocket is adapted to receive seed and refuse matter separated by centrifugal action from the material treated.

2. A rotary separator of the character specified, comprising an imperforate bottom having a centrally disposed socket and comprising upwardly fiaredwalls which are perforated and an annular pocket at the upper edge of the side walls for catching and retaining the matter separated from the material to be treated.

3. In apparatus of the character specified, a rotary separator comprising an imperforate bottom and perforate side walls and having an annular pocket at its upper edge and a receptacle comprising a bottom disposed some distance below the bottom of the separator and formed with a central opening and having a collar in line with the opening and rising from the bottom of the receptacle to within a short distance of the bottom of the separator.

DAVID PHILLIPS.

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

` Washington, D. C.

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