US179091A - Improvement in presses - Google Patents

Description

G. B. BOOMER.

PRESS.

No. 179,091.. Patented June 27,1876.

N. PETERS, FHOTO-UTHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. D p.

the press is greatly increased.

GEORGE E. BOOMER, 0F SYRACUSE, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN PRESSES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 179,091, dated June 27, 1876; application filed February 24, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE B. BOOMER, of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Presses, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, is a full, clear, and exact description.

Thisinvention relates to improvements in platforms for cider-presses and other devices connected therewith, whereby the capacity of It consists, first, of a platform about double the length of an ordinary platform of a cider-press, interposed between the follower and bed-plate, and mounted on trucks or wheels traversing on tracks at opposite sides of the press-bed, constructed and arranged to operate as hereinafter fully described. Second, in the combination, with the said improved platform, of a wedging-key, placed transversely under the same to support it in the center when the weight of the press is brought to bear upon it,

' substantially as hereinafter fully described.

The accompanying drawing fully illustrates my invention, wherein Figure 1 is an end view of a press, with my improvements applied; Fig. 2, a front View of same, and Fig. 3 a horizontal section through line :10 00 in Fig. 2.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. 1

b is the press-head rigidly secured at a fixed distance to the press-bed b by rods 1' r. a is the follower passing through and guided at the top by an opening in the press-head b, and guided at the bottom by clasps rigidly secured to the press-plate c, and loosely en gaging the rods 1" 1". d is the platform which is interposed between the follower and pressbed, and of a length to carry a presser, 1), outside of that whichis under the follower a. It is mounted on wheels or trucks t, and traverses on tracks 6 e at opposite sides of the press-bed b, and at right angles thereto, which tracks guide the platform at in its movement under the follower. In order to reduce the height of the trucks t t I terminate the tracks 0 e at the sides of the press-bed b, and allow the latter to settle to its foundation below the tracks or rails. The trucks t t are attached such a distance apart, and in such relative position to the platform at that their contact with the press-bed will limit the movement of the platform in either direction, so as to bring the cheese of pomace on the corresponding end of the latform directly under the follower, thereby obviating delay and extra labor for adjusting the cheese under. the follower. fis a wedge-shaped key, which is placed transversely under the platform at at the side of the press-bed, opppsitethat which is in contact with the trucks. This key supports the platform when loaded and subjected to the additional weight of the press. It rests on blocks n n, inclined to correspond with the taper of the key, andarranged on both sides of the press to support the platform in either position, and in such a manner as not to interfere with the movement of the trucks, Z l are posts secured to the floor, and firmly braced at the top, and provided with vertical guiding surfaces for the press-head and press-bed, which slide thereon, when the press is lifted from its foundation, and resting on the pomaee, thus bracing the press-frame in its vertical movement. One construction of the guides is represented in the drawing by slots at m, in which slide studs 0 '0 attached to the ends of the press-head and press-bed, and provided on the ends with washer to and nut o.

\Vhen suitably located and admitted of by the surrounding structure these posts can be substituted by short guides on the floor, and others, for the head-beam, secured to the ceiling or joists above.

In operating a press containing my improvements a cheese of pomace is placed near one end of the platform at, and conveyed thereon under the follower. The keyfis then adjusted under the platform and the press applied to the pomace. The action of this causes the press-frame to rise until the press-bed is brought against the under side of the platform, the posts l l guiding the press in its vertical movement and maintaining it in a vertical and operative position. While this cheese isbeing pressed another is laid at the otherend of the platform, and prepared for pressing. At the proper time the press is reversed, allowing it first to settle to its foundation, and then causing the follower to rise from the cheese. The platform d being thus relieved of the weight of the press thekeyfis readily withdrawn, and the platform moved along to bring the last laid pomace under the follower, when the key is placed under the platform on the opposite side of the press-bed, and the press applied to the pomace, as before described. In the meantime the pressed cheese is removed, and another laid up and made ready to be transferred under the follower. Thus, alternating from one. end of the platform to the other, two men are able, with a powerpress, to lay up and press from eighty to one hundred barrels of cider in ten hours.

I am aware that platforms of presses have been mounted on trucks or rollers before this, and therefore do not claim the same broadly.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The arrangement, with the press-bed b and platform d, of the trucks t t, attached to the platform such distance apart that their contact with the press-bed will limit the movement of the platform, so as to bring the cheese of pomace on the corresponding end of the platform, directly under the follower, and the rails or tracks a c terminated at the sides of the press-bed, and allowing the same to settle to its foundation below the tracks, all constructed and arranged to operate substantially as and for the purpose specified and shown.

2. The combination, with the movable platform d, mounted on trucks 1? t, and the tracks GEORGE B. BOOMER.

Witnesses:

G. HoLMsTRUP, J r.,

1. O. LAASS.

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