US1228178A - Cane-mill. - Google Patents

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8. E1 BROOKER. CANE MILL. APPUCATION FILED 0:0. 2. 91a.

Patented May 29, 1917.

SILAS E. BROOKER, OF LA GROSSE, FLORIDA.

. CANEeMILL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 29, 191 7.

Application filed-December 2, 1916. Serial 0. 134,735.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SILAS E. BROOKER, a citizen of the United States, resident of La Crosse, in'the county of Alachua and State of Florida, have made a certain new and useful Invention in Cane-Mills; and I declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the invention, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this and said loops exerting tension upon the upspecification.

Figure 1 is a vention.

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary section on the line 2-2 Fig. 1. v

The invention has relation to hand-operated mills, designed mainly for expressing the juice from sugar cane, and it conslsts in the novel construction and combinations of parts, as hereinafter set forth.

1n the accompanying drawings, illustratin a s upporting frame, having central uprights 3 and lateral extensions 4, 4, provided with downwardly and inwardly inclined platforms 5, leading to the rollers of the mill.

These rollers 6, 6 are located one above the other, the upper roller having endjournals 7 working in vertical slots 8 of said uprights, and the lower roller having end journals 9, bearing in perforations 10 of said uprights.

In order to provide for movement of the rollers with relation to each other, to allow the cane to pass between the rollers and to cause the rollers to exert a strong pressure upon the cane, to express the juice, horizon tal transverse straps 11, of spring metal, engage and work invertical slots 12 of the uprights, said straps having central-upwardly, arched portions 11, engaging the end jour perspective View of the inthe invention, the numeral 2 designates nals of theupper roller, and vertical U-form rods 13, of spring metal, engage at their extending diverging'arms 15, located at the outside of said uprights,'the upper free ends of said arms engaging end perforations 16 of said transverse straps.

In this way, as the cane is passed through the rollers of the mill, the transverse spring strapswill be bent, and the vertical U-form loops will have the diverging branches thereof bent, the inherent spring of said straps oer roller, to press it toward the lower roller and thereby exert strong pressure upon the the rollers. 1

The invention provides a simple and eficient han -0perated mill, that anyone can afford to buy and operate in his home. Suitable operatingcranks 7, 9, are provided for the rollers.

In a sugar cane mill, a frame provided with vertical slots and with perforations, a ro er ls of said cooperating roller and provided U-form loops at right angles to said straps,

engaging the perforations of said frame and having lateral arms engaging the perforations of said straps.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature,

in presence of two witnesses.

' S. E. BROOKER.

Witnesses: L. J. KNIGHT,

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