US122508A - Improvement in cider-mills - Google Patents

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U9 y DANIEL T. WILLSON. mvement in Cider MiHs.

Patented Ian. 2, 1872.

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DANIEL T. WILLSON, OF HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN CIDER-MILLS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 122,508, dated January 2, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

.Beitknown that I, DANIEL T. WILLsoN, of Harrisburg, in the county of Dauphin and in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cider- Mills; and do hereby declare that the following is full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing and to the letters of reference marked thereon making a part of this specification.

My invention is intended as an improvement upon the cider-mill for which Letters Patent No. 52,583 were granted Samuel Males. February 13, 1866; and it consists in the formation of the rollers with a groove between the crushing parts and the cog-wheels; and'also in having one cog on the wheel for every rib and every groove on the roller, as will be here inafter more fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, I will 'now proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, in which 'Figure 1 is a side view, and Fig. 2 a bot tom view of my cider-mill. Fig. 3 is an enlarged end view, and Fig. 4 an enlarged longitudinal vertical section of one of the rollers.

A represents the framework of my machine; B B, the crushing-rollers, with cog-wheels O O at their ends and D, the hopper,.with another roller, E, within the same, said parts being the same, and operated in the same manner as in the case of Males above referred to, with the following exceptions, which I deem of vital importance to the practical and successful working of the mill The roller B and its cog-wheel O are cast together in one piece, as shown in Fig. 4, wit-11 a deep circumferential groove, a, between them. The hopper D fits in said groove between the cog and the crushing parts (ribs and grooves) of the roller, thus leaving the cog-wheels outside of the hopper. In the patent of Males the cogs are inside of the hopper, and the apples gather in the teeth and cause them to break and otherwise not opererate. In the case of Males there are also more cogs in the wheels than there are ribs and grooves on the rollers. In my case there is one cog on the wheel for every rib and every groove on the roller, as shown in Fig. 3, in which the dotted line represents the cog-wheel, b b the cogs on the same, at the ribs, and e the grooves on the roller. The advantage of this is, that when a farmer or other person takes my machine apart for repairs, &c., it can be easily and readily set together and operate at once whereas, if the cogs do not equal in number the ribs and grooves on the rolls it would take considerable time to reset them together without knowing the marks; and if not set exactly to the marks, and the machine started to run, breakage would be sure to be the result.

Having thus fully described .my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. The cog-wheel O and the ribbed and grooved rollerB cast together with a groove, a, between them for the insertion of the hopper sides, whereby the cog mechanism is on the exterior and the crushing mechanism on the interior of said hopper of a cidermill, substantiall y as and for the purposes herein set forth.

2. In a cider-mill, one or more grooved and ribbed rollers B cast in one piece with cogwheel 0, and intervening groove a, the cogs on the wheel 0 corresponding in number with the grooves and ribs on the roller, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony thatI claim theforegoin g I have hereunto set my hand this 5th day of October, 1871.

DANIEL T. WILLSON.

Witnesses:

J. M. MAsoN, O. L. EvEn'r.

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