US123580A - Huskee compact - Google Patents

Description

. J. RUSSELL;

Improvement in Corn HuskerRollers. No.12'3,580; Patented Feb.13,1872.

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JACOB RUSSELL, OF BROOKLYN, ASSIGNOR TO THE AMERICAN O. K. CORN- HUSKER COMPANY, OF GREENWIOH, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN CGRN-HUSKER ROLLERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 123,580, dated February 13, 1872.

SPECIFICATION. To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that .I, J noon RUssELL, of Brooklyn, Kings county, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rollers for Husking Corn; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full description of the same.

The nature of my invention consists in makin g the rollers hollo w,with.pe1forations through their sides and end openings, so that they will, as they rotate, produce an exhaustion of air in the cylinders, and thus suck in through the side perforations the silk and husk to assist in freeing it from the corn. Also, in combination with the hu skerrollers the series of huskerpins having their ends crossed or marked into points or teeth to enable them to seize the husk readily and yet not injure the kernel of corn.

But to describe my invention more particularly, I will refer to the accompany drawing forming a part of this specification, the same letters of reference wherever they occur referring to like parts.

Figure l is a plan view of a pair of rollers as they appear when arranged in the machine. Fig. 2 is an end or transverse section of the same through the line a; m, Fig. 1,and showing their relation to the guide-strip of the huskertrough as it appears in the husker-machine. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal cut section of the roller. Fig. 4. is an end view of the same.

LctterA represents the husker-rollers, which are made of metal. These rollers are hollow cylinders, the shell only being of sufficient thickness to insure strength enough for the duty required of them. To their upper ends are secured cog-wheels B, which gear together, and are both rotated by the propelling cogwheels of the husker-machine, as described in my patent of March 21, 1871, for an improved husker-mach'ine. Through the sides or shell of these rollers, at opposite sides thereof, are out three or 'more cone-shaped holes, 0, of

'about half an inch diameter at the base by about one-quarter of an inch diameter at their apex. The object of cutting these holes entirely through the shell and of the conical form, as set forth, is to produce a current of air through them to the interior of the rollers in consequence of their rapid rotation, forcing it out of the cylinders through the openings D at their lower ends. This effect will be obvious, as the cross-bar E, for supporting the journal F at the lower ends of the rollers, acts somewhat like a propeller to force the air away from the end of the roller, and thus by dis turbing its equilibrium cause a drawing in of it through the holes 0. By this means the silk and fibrous parts of the husk are drawn into the holes so as to enable the impinging surfaces of the rollers to readily seize and strip it from the ear of corn, while the coarser or outer leaves of the husk are torn into fragments by pins Gin the surfaces of the rollers arranged in the opposing rollers, so as to be oppositethe holes O,'that the whole may be simultaneously stripped before the car can escape from the trough H. To facilitate the action of the pins to tear open the husks their ends are indented so as to present a hatched or roughened face, and thus cause them to take hold of the husks readily, which, owing to their shortness, is not always practicable where they are flat-faced, as is the case with all the pins heretofore used in the face of huskerrollers. The arrangement of these rollers in the machine is the same as in my improved husker patented 21st March, 1871, wherein one of the rollers forms the bed of the husker-trough, the other roller one side of it,'while the opposite side of it is a guide-strip,"described in my said patent of the 21st March, 1871, and indicated by the letter 1). As illustrating the arrangement of my improved rollers in the husker-machine, an end view of the guide-strip is shown in Fig. 2; but, as being no part of the inven tion, has not been considered necessary to be shown in the model.

Having now described my invention, 1 will set forth what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States- 1. I claim the hollow cylinders or huskerrollers having the conical-shaped perforations through their sides and openings at their lowerends, substantially as described and for-the purposes set forth.

2. Ialso claim the combination of the rollers described, to form a husker-trough, as set A with pins G, when said pins are indented forth.

or roughened on their ends, constructed and i J A0013 RUSSELL.

operating substantially as set forth. Witnesses:

3. I also claim the combination of the two cylinders having conical side perforations, CHARLES L. BARRITT,

end openings, and indented pins therein, as FRANKLIN BARRITT.

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