US1540582A - Hog scalder - Google Patents

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June 1925.

W. J. WEISBROOK HOGSCALIQER iled $ept.'10- 1924 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 "III" June 2, 1925.

W. J. WEISBROOK HOG SGALDER' Filed Sept. 10. 1924 3 Sheets-Sheet v f awnlmntoz o having an orbital movement Patented June '2, 1925.

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Application ma September f1924. sesame. 736,921.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM J. Wnrs- BROOK, a citizenof the United States, residing at Madison, in the countyof Dane and 5 State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Scalder's,,pf which the following is agspecie hogs at the ess or move the-ho s for Figure 2 is a. si

away;

'Figure 3-is a section at 3-3 Figure 1; Figure 4' is a section sti t-4 Figure '1;

Figure 5 is a like section to Figure 4 but with the cranks in a difi'erent position.

Like reference characters represent like parts throughout the following specification elevation, pa broken and in the several views, in which, .2 is a tank J or vat and 3 are longitudinal conveyor slats of the cranks 3 and 4, which cranks are interconnected bylchains 5 and 6 working on suitable sprockets such as 7 and suitably conncct'ecl to some source of power not shown.

40 Carried by the slats 3 "are cleats 8 passingbeyond the edges of the slats and far enough to interlazp and just clearing the next slat so that a complete roof is formed. The specific gravity of the hog being less than 1, its ten j 5; any is to float and it is intended that wh n Y same time progressor Improvements in Hog invention relate s to pncking' house' e some. time to provide an f Figure 1 is a top plan view of 'mIv device e rt y cleats interlap by the turning a hog is dropped into one end ofthe vet and pushed beneath the slats,='that the cleats-will I push the hog onward-underlies h veyer slats and thatthesegfili u other end and that owih'g to the lite lap-v ping of the cleats thatth h gsgcannotbob up between-thefslats,

The relative'sizes preferred? woirld'be, for;

a trough orlvat twelve my long wide, two crank shafts carrying eight slats: with a; four inch radius or eight inc to the crank. I 1 I Claims: I Q 1.In combination, a' vat, and longitudinal conveyor slats within the vat, and-means for reciprocating the slats vertically. f

2. In combination in a hog vat,- a plurality of longitudinal slats and means for moving the'slats in an'orbit.

3. In combination in'a hog vat, ity' of shafts provided with cranks, a plurality of slats carried by the cranks and cleats carried by the slats. I

4. Incombination-in a ho vat, a pluralityof cleats be ing an, orbita movement, the

5. In'combifit on in a hog vat; a sectional roof for the vat, and means for moving the longitudinal sections of the roof both longitudinally-and vertically.

6. In combination with a hog vat, a movable roof for the vat, the roof provided with members having alternate vertical reciprocations. i

7. In combination with ahog vat, a roof for the vat, the roof in sections, the. sections alternately vertically reciprocating.

in the presence of two witnesses.

WIL IAM awinsnnookf In testimony whereof I :ufix my signature Witnesses: O'r'ro Nerrz, A. J. Kim'rrr six feet-- t ll L a plural-

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