US1218250A

US1218250A - Grain-pickler.

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Publication number: US1218250A
Application number: US3803815A
Authority: US
Inventors: John Fox
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1915-07-03
Filing date: 1915-07-03
Publication date: 1917-03-06
Anticipated expiration: 1934-03-06

Description

J. FOX.

GRAIN PICKLER.. APPLICATION Fl LED JULY 3. 915.

Patented M51126; 1917.

2 SHEETB-SHEETI 1. FOX.

7 GRAIN EICKLER. APPLICATION! FILED JULY 3. l9l5.

1,21 8,250. Patented Mar. 6, 1917.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

JOHN FOX, OF WOLSELEY, SASKATCHEVTAN, CANADA.

GRAIN-PICKLER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 6, 1917.

Application filed July 3, 1915. Serial m. 35,038.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OHN Fox, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at Volseley, in the Province of Saskatchewan and Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Grain-Picklers; and I do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention is a grain-pickling appa ratus for use in destroying the germs of smut by thoroughly sprinkling the grain and mixing the same with a suitable germ destroying solution, the object of the invention being to provide improved apparatus of this kind which is simple in construction and which is thoroughly efiicient in operation.

The invention consists in the construction, combination and arrangement of devices hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of a grain pickling apparatus constructed in accordance with my invention.

Fig. 2 is a plan of the same.

Fig. 3 is a detail sectional view through the spout and baflies and illustrating a modified form of the mixing spout.

Fig. 4 is a detail sectional view of the spout and its associated parts, on a plane at right angles to that of Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is a detail vertical sectional view on the plane indicated by the line 5-5 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 6 is a sectional. view showing another modified construction of the mixing spout and its connections.

Fig. 7 is a sectional view on the line 7-7 of Fig. 1.

In the embodiment of my invention here shown a supporting frame 1 is provided which comprises a pair of inverted U-shaped members each of which has a horizontal intermediate portion 2 and downturned supporting legs 3. The legs of the said members are connected together in spaced relation by crossed braces 4. A tank 5 to contain a suitable germ destroying solution is arranged on one end of the supporting frame and is secured thereto by means of a pair of hook rods 6, which have their upper ends connected over the upperedge of the wall of the tank and their lower ends pass through a cross bar 7 under the parts 2 of the frame and provided with clamping nuts 8.

Near the opposite end of the frame is an inverted frusto-conical hopper 9, which has an opening 10 at its lower end and has its lower end secured as by means of rivets 11 in the uppervoutwardly flared and enlarged end 12 of the vertically arranged mixing spent 13. Said spout is arranged in an opening in a cross plate 14 which connects the parts 2 of the frame. A pipe 15 leads from the bottom of the tank 5 to the upper portion of the mixing spout, extends across the mixing spout and is provided in that part which extends across the mixing spout with perforations 16. A controlling valve 17 is also provided for said spout. In the lower end of the hopper is a conical valve 18 which may be raised and lowered by means of a rod 19 and a handled nut 20 which engages the threaded upper portion of said rod, said rod passing and being free to slide vertically through a central opening in the top 21 of the hopper.

Mixing devices are arranged in the spout 13 and in the form of the invention shown in Fig. 1 comprise spreading cones 22 and inverted frusto-conical concentrators 23, each spreading cone having its base arranged in the center of and spaced from the upper end of one of the concentrators and connected thereto by radially arranged wires 2-1. These mixing devices are arranged one above another, with the upper end of each cone excepting the uppermost in the center of the lower end of one of the concentrators and said mixing devices I are connected together by wires 25 which form a bail at the upper end of which is a hook 26 which engages over the pipe 15 and hence suspends the mixing devices in the spout. The greatest diameter of the concentrators is practically equal to the innor diameter of the-mixing spout so that the mixing devices are arranged closely in the spout.

In the operation of my invention the grain to be pickled is placed in the hopper U and the tank 5 having been supplied with solution and the valve 17 opened to the desired extent the valve 18 is then slightly raised to permit the flow of grain from the hopper into the mixing spout. As the grain descends through the mixing spout.

it is sprinkled with the solution from the lorperforations 16. The grain as it descends is first spread by one of the cones 22 and then concentrated by one of the concentrators 23 and hence the grain is thoroughly mixed and all of the grains are effectually wetted or pickled by the solution, thus killing the smut germs the pickled grain being finally discharged at the lower end of the spout through the lowermost concentrator.

In Fig. 3 I show a modification. in which the mixing spout 13 isprovided with oppositely inclined deflectors or baffles 27-28 between which openings 29 are formed. It will be understood that as the grain passes down through this spout it is thoroughly mixed and is also subjected to the action of the solution discharged through the perforations of the pipe 15.

In Fig. (3 I show another modified con struotion in which a mixing worm or screw 30 is arranged in the spout 13.

Having thus described my invention I claim:

1. A grain pickling apparatus including a spout, and a unit of mixing devices rcmovably mounted in the spout, said unit comprising a vertical. rod, a plurality of cones having their apices connected to said rod and arranged in superposed relation, a plurality of Wires arranged upon the base of said cones and extending radially therefrom, frusto-conical concentrators having their larger ends secured to the radial wires, their lower ends positioned beneath the base of the cones and extending below the apex of one of the cones, and means for removably supporting the mixing devices in the spout.

2. A grain pickling apparatus including a hopper, a spout having one end flared and h surrounding the mouth of tl1Bl101)P6l,2lvalve vertically movable within the hopper closing the spent, a unit of mixing devices remow ably arranged in said spout, means extending through the upper end of the spout adjacent its point of connection with the hopper for remombly supporting the mix-- ing devices in the spout, said mixing de vices comprising cones arranged in superposed relation and held at spaced distances apart and frusto-conical concentrators secured to the larger ends of the cones for thoroughly mixing the grain passing through the spout.

In testimony whereof I allix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN F X.

Vitnesses FREDERICK P. COLE, D. P. KENNEDY.

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