US171761A - Improvement in wine and cider mills - Google Patents

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OHRISOSTOMUS BOUL, 0 OGLE STATION, rumors.

IMPROVEMENT IN WIN; AND CIDER MILLS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 171,761, dated January 4, 1876 5 application filed December 3, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OHRISOSTOMUS BoUL, of Ogle Station, in the county'of St. Clair and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Older and Wine Mills; and

I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and nomically, and yield the maximum quantity of uice; and my invention therein consists in the various new combinations of the principal operative parts, all as more particularly hereinafter described. I

To enable others skilled in the art to make my invention, I now proceed to describe the same in connection with the drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation; Fig. 2, a longitudinal section on the line of the crusher-spindle; Fig. 3, a cross-sectiomon the line of the crusher-spindle; and Fig. 4, a top view with the hopper removed, showing the shape of the mouth of the receiver.

Like letters denote corresponding parts in each figure.

A represents a block, preferably of wood, longitudinally divided into two equal parts, a a, which are supported upon four stout standards, B B B B. The two standards B B are connected at their lower ends by a cross-beam, b, tenoned into each, the joints being strengthened by bolts 1) I). These standards B incline toward each other and toward the center of the block A, and have their inner sides cut away from their tops, on 'a line at right angles to the beam 1), to a shoulder, b upon which rests the forward end of the block A. Bolts 0 0 pass through the standards B B and entirely through the block A, connecting its two parts a a and the said standards B B rigidly together. To the center of the beam 12 is pivoted,

by the king-bolt 0 the forward axle 0, having wheels 0 O. The two standards B B are inclined and secured to the block A by bolts 0 0 in a similar manner to the standards B B,

by bolts d d. The two sets of standards, by

their inclination and in connection with the bolts, brace each other, rigidly support the block A, and hold its parts a a tirlnlytogether, while the wheels allow it to be drawn from place to place. 0 is the receiver, which is an opening, in general" outline, of .the form of a frustum of a cone, made through theblock A.

longitudinally toward the forward end of the block, but laterally exactly in the center of said block A, one-half of the opening being made in each of the two parts a a. ,In the walls of the receiver are formed a number of grooves, e, descending spirally from the top to the bottom of the block A, a regular distance apart, each groove making about two-thirds of a revolution around said receiver. These grooves are made quite deep at their tops, and diminish in depth gradually until they reach the bottom of the receiver,where they are very shallow, and almost cease to be grooves. The grooves, where they open in the top of the receiver, are met by large circular vertical grooves c D is the crusher, preferably made of wood, of the same general outline as the receiver 0, and adapted to enter such receiver from the bottom. It has grooves corresponding to the grooves e of the receiver, but running in an opposite direction. The top of each groove 6 opens into a large circular vertical groove, 6 formed in thecrusher, corresponding to the'vertical grooves 0 of the receiver. E is the crusher-spindle, preferably made of metal passing, entirely through and rigidly secured to the crusher, and having its lower end f rounded and enlarged to form a shoulder, upon which the crusher rests. F is a brace passing over the mouth of the receiver, and holding the hopper Gin place. This brace also supports the upper endof the crusherspindle, which passes through wand has secured to its upper end a sweep, H, for rotating said spindle. The lower end of the'crushen spindle rests upon a step, I, which has a depressed bearing tbr the lowerrounded' end of the spindle. This step is suspended laterally across and'below the bottom of the receiver by two vertical rods,z i, which connect one with each end of the step and pass up through the block A on each side of the hopper, with nuts '5' t screwed on their upper ends for ad justing the same. Kis a trough resting in an inclined position upon the cross-beams b d, under the receiver and crusher, which conveys the juice to anyiproperremovable receptacle; The trough is raised onto therod g, which passes through the uprights B above the cross beamb, to remove it out of the way of the; wheels 0 0 when the mill is being drawn 3 around, and allows the wheels toqpass entirely, under thesaid trough. A screw 1'od,'g, holds; the trough in place. y p In operation the crusheris turned by a horse 1.

attached, by a line or rod, to the end of the;

sweep H. The crusher is adjusted togcrush thepomace to the desired fineness. Theapples are then thrown into the hopper whole.l' When two of thelarge vertical grooves, and? a, come opposite each other they form an open-% ing large enough to receive a whole apple; H

which is. drawn down wardlyiuto a gradually" diminishing space and thoroughlyoompressedl The juice flow'sfreely down betweenthe crush- 1 er and v receiver, but the opening is so small that none of the pomace cango through. When it is'desiredto cleanout the pomace the adj 11st able step is lowered until the spaceis large enough for it to pass out, the whole being cleaned by water thrownin from above, or in any other convenient way. The crusher, how

ever,can be 'entirelyremoved by taking the sweep off of the upper end of the crusher-spindle, and unscrewing the nuts 13 i, so that the bolts t t can be taken'out and the step 1 lowered out of the way.

When a lighter pressure is needed, as in making wine, the crusher is loweredpallowing the grapes to be compressedwithout being torn.

Having thus described my invention, what .I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letstantially as described, the combination of the following elements: the block A, the receiver 0, adjustable crusher D, hopper G, and inclined conveying-troughK, all the partsbeing mounted upon wheels and adapted to be drawn from place to place, substantiallyas described and shown. 1 i

This specification signed and witnessed this 9th day of October, 1875. y p p p t CH. LBOUL.

Witnessesi M CHAS. D. MOODY, SAMhS. BOYD.

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