US137240A - Improvement in feather-renovators - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES B. RILEY, OF MIINOY, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN FEATHER-RENOVATORS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 137,240, dated March 25, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

' thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing and to the letters of reference marked thereon making a part of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangement of a featherrenovator, as will be hereinafter 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 l is a longitudinal vertical section; Fig. 2 an end elevation, and Fig. 3 a transverse vertical section, of my feather-renovator.

A A represent two metal standards or brackets, in which the box or cylinder B is hung on suitable journals. This box is in its upper side provided with a hinged door, 0, and on the inside of said door another hinged door, a, which latter is made of perforated metal, as shown. Both of these doors are opened to allow of the feathers being put into the box. During the process of cleaning the feathers both doors a and O are closed and when drying the feathers the door 0 is open, allowing the steam within the cylinder to escape, and also carrying off the dust which rises while the feathers are being agitated. On one side of the cylinder B is a door, D, extending the entire length of the cylinder, which door is only to be opened after the process of cleaning and drying the feathers is completed, when they are to be emptied out of the machine. In the bottom of the cylinder or box B is an aperture of suitable width extending the entire length of the cylinder and covered with a wire-cloth frame, E, which may be attached or detached at will. Below this wire-cloth frame is the dirt-receiver or dirt-drawer G in to which the dirt falls through the wire-cloth during the process of cleaning the feathers. Below the dirtreceiver G, to

the bottom of the cylinder, is attached a pan, H, which forms a steam-chamber, I, extending a suitable distance up the sides of the cylinder, and communicates atthe ends with chambers J formed in or attached to the ends or heads of the cylinder. Steam is admitted from a boiler through a steam-cock, K, which has two branches, 1) and (l, the branch I) leading into the steam-chamber I and the branch (1 into the dirt-receiver G. The cock K is so arranged that the steam can be entirely shut off from the machine or be admitted through either one or both of the branches 1) and d. When the steam is admitted through the branch 11 into the dirt-receiver G it rises through the wire-cloth E and passes into the cylinder or box where the feathers are placed.

The shape or form of the cylinder B is immaterial, but I prefer to make it polygonalshaped, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

Through the center of the cylinder passes the horizontal shaft L, provided with radiating arms M M, which are revolved to agitate the feathers by the following means: On one end of the shaft L is a pinion, c, which gears with a cog-wheel, f, and the shaft or journals of said cog-wheel provided with a crank, N,

the whole arranged in a box, 0, on the end of The machine may be run by hand or by any suitable power, if desired.

The top of one of the standards or brackets A is cut off slanting,as shown in Fig. 2, and the box 0 in which the gearing is held forms a stop for the oscillating motion of the box or cylinder, so that it can only tip over at a certain angle, and when rocked in the opposite direction it will be stopped in proper position for work.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. The cylinder B, having steam spaces in each head and steam and dirt chambers G I in its bottom, in combination with the pipes d and b and stop-cockK, which connects with both, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In combination with the above the pipe m, used for allowing an exit for the steam and dirt from the chambers G and I, as set forth.

3. The combination of the cylinder B with the standards A, by which it is supported, when one or both of said standards are so formed that the cylinder may be tilted and supported in that position, as is herein set forth. In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 26th day of

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