US135370A - Improvement in cider-mills - Google Patents

Description

J. E. SAUGI.

Cider-Mills.

No.135,370. Patentedmmmns.

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Witnesses Inventor.

AM. PHOTMITHDGHAPHICCG. MXMSBoRNEPRocESs) UNITED STATEs PATENT OFFICE.

JULES EDOUARD SAUGI, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN ClDER-MILLS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 135,370, dated January 28, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J ULEs EDOUARD SAUGI,

of Washington, in the District of Columbia,

Nature and Objects of the Intention.

The mill is constructed with a revolving cylinder formed of anumber of circular saws arranged spirally, and with washers or annular disks ybetween lthem upon a suitable driving arbor or shaft," the teeth of the cylinder pass-` ing` between and cutting shearwise with a cluster of knives, which are adjustable toward the cylinder. The cylinder is driven at a high velocity by a belt or by suitable gearing, and its teeth work between stationary clearing-teeth at back. The pomace is in part driven between the knives and in part carried down in front of them by the teeth of the cylinders,

Vboth parts being finely divided, and passing into a common receptacle beneath, for which purpose a throat is provided at front and one at back of the lower end of the knife-plate, as hereinafter described.

General Description.

Figure 1 is a top view, and Fig. 2 a vertical section, of a machine embodying my improvements. Figs. 3 ande are detached views of my gang of throat-knives and of my clearer.

A is a hopper, two of whose opposing sides converge downward, one of said sides, B, being stationary, and the other one, C, being hinged, near its lower edge, to the hopper by meansof screwlthreaded pivots c, which also serve to attach a gang of knives, to be presently described, and said side is adjustable inward or outward by the nut screws D. J ournaled athwart the hopper, in the vertical sides thereof, is a shaft, E, armed with a gang of circular saws, F, whose bladesv are separated at equal distances by means of washers G. These saws are preferably so disposed upon the shaft as to give a spiral arrangement to the teeth. Attached to the inner face of the adjustable hopper side C is a series or gang of knives, H, which are parallel to and equidistant from each other, and which are interposed so as for each one to occupy the space between two consecutive saw-blades in the manner represented. That part of the inner face of the side C immediately behind the knives His excavated so as to form a channel or passage, I, for the descent of whatever matters pass through between the knives. Attached -to the inner face of the side B, and extending inward in the horizontal plane of the shaft F, is a comb or clearer, L, consisting of a series of ngers, of which one projects between every two consecutive saws on their rear or ascending side. These lingers prevent the descent in rear of the saws of small apples, which would otherwise escape unground into the pomace.` Theyalso operate to scrape from the saws all adhering pomace, and to prevent its return intothe upper part of the hopper. The gang of saws is driven at a high velocity by the represented geared connection J or other suitable connection with a winch, K, which may be duplicated, K', so as to enable two persons to operate the ma chine. The saws and knives are preferably so attached, as shown, as to be easily removable for regrinding or substitution. Y

Operation.

The knives having been set to their desired proximity to the gang of saws,kthe latter is rotated, and apples being fed into the hopper are crushed by the rapidlyidescending sawi teeth, and the fragments driven down and at the same time still further comminuted by the joint action of the saws and the knives, and escape in the form of pomace, a portion of them in front of and the remainder at the rear of the knives.

It will be seen that the rotary gang F op` erates to agitate and break up the apples in the hopper, and, by acting shearwise with the interposed knives, operates to ei'ectually slice the fragments thus presented and to feed thenl downward, in the manner already indicate Claims.

I claim as new and of my inventionm j 1. The combination of a series of circular saws arranged spirally upon the rotating' Crusher and feeder F and bladed adjustable hopper side H C, substantially as and for the tive circular saws F separated by Washers G, purpose set forth. the Whole being arranged and operating sub- 2. The described combination of hopper A sbantially as and for the purpose set forth. having the inclined adjustable and channeled JULES EDOUARD SAUGI.

side C c I, armed with knives H, and station- Vitnesses: ary sideB7 armed with c1earersL,Whieh knives OGTAVIUS KNIGHT, and clearers intervene between the consecu- WALTER ALLENs

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