US182027A - Improvement in amalgamators - Google Patents
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- AMALGAMATORS No 132,021 Patented Sept.12, 1876.
- A designates a frame of suitable construction, on top which is an overflow-pan, B, fixed rigidly in its place. From the center of this pan B depends a tube, 0, seven feet, more or less, in length, and of any desired diameter, which tube is designed to be filled with mercury, and its lower end terminates in a removable section, 0, containing at its base a coni-' cal distributer, a.
- the pan B has an overflow-spout, b, and it is constructed with wings or brackets c, to which the limbs of a spider, D, are rigidly secured in any suitable manner.
- the hub of this spider receives through it a tubular axle, d, which is flanged, .as shown in Fig. 1, and which suspends a large beveled wheel, E, arranged to rotate in a horizontal plane.
- This wheel E receives slow rotation from a beveled pinion, c, on the shaft of a belt-wheel, F, which latter may be driven by any convenient motive power.
- This pipe H is provided with feathered blades f, the object of which will be hereinafter explained, and it receives its rotation from the wheel E.
- this tube J designates a tube which passes freely through the pipe H, and terminates at its lower end in a cone, g, of greater diameter throughout than the cone a.
- the upper end of this tube J communicates with a pump of any well-known kind, which will force sand through it.
- My invention is especially applicable to the treatment of tailings and in the treatment of tailings preparatory to subjecting them to my process, I shall desulphurize them, and thus allow a free amalgamation.
- the blades on the tube H are arranged so as to resist the ascending current, and to direct the gangue downward, at the same time to stir and agitate the mercury in the tube 0, as well as the sand, thereby aiding in the separation and amalgamation of the gold.
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2 Sheets-Sheet1 W- McCOURT.
AMALGAMATORS. No 132,021 Patented Sept.12, 1876.
ATTORN EY.
.PETERS. PNOTO-LITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. D C.
PATENTQFFICHJ WILLIAM Mcoountr, on VIRGINIA CITY, NE ADA.
IMPROVEMENT IN AM ALGAMATORS. I
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 182,027, dated September 12, 1876; application filed August 22, 1876.
To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM McGoURr,
' of Virginia City, Storey county, and State of Nevada, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Amalgamators; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,
. and exact description of the construction and a precious metals from their sands and the nature of my invention consists, mainly, in the machine hereinafter described, for compelling the goldbearing sand to descend to the base of a column of mercury, and discharging the sand at such point, whereby a much larger percentage of the metal will be extracted from the sand than by any other process with which I am acquainted.
In the drawings hereunto annexed, A designates a frame of suitable construction, on top which is an overflow-pan, B, fixed rigidly in its place. From the center of this pan B depends a tube, 0, seven feet, more or less, in length, and of any desired diameter, which tube is designed to be filled with mercury, and its lower end terminates in a removable section, 0, containing at its base a coni-' cal distributer, a. The pan B has an overflow-spout, b, and it is constructed with wings or brackets c, to which the limbs of a spider, D, are rigidly secured in any suitable manner. The hub of this spider receives through it a tubular axle, d, which is flanged, .as shown in Fig. 1, and which suspends a large beveled wheel, E, arranged to rotate in a horizontal plane. This wheel E receives slow rotation from a beveled pinion, c, on the shaft of a belt-wheel, F, which latter may be driven by any convenient motive power. G
per ends of which are attached concentrically to the arms of the wheel E. The lower end of this spider G is secured rigidly to a pipe, H, which extends down into the section 0.
This pipe H is provided with feathered blades f, the object of which will be hereinafter explained, and it receives its rotation from the wheel E.
J designates a tube which passes freely through the pipe H, and terminates at its lower end in a cone, g, of greater diameter throughout than the cone a. The upper end of this tube J communicates with a pump of any well-known kind, which will force sand through it.
In practice I shall apply to the beveled .wheel E, plows B, the object of which is to stir the sand in the overflow-pan B, and move the sand toward the tube 0, so that it may flow back into the mercury therein.
My invention is especially applicable to the treatment of tailings and in the treatment of tailings preparatory to subjecting them to my process, I shall desulphurize them, and thus allow a free amalgamation.
The blades on the tube H are arranged so as to resist the ascending current, and to direct the gangue downward, at the same time to stir and agitate the mercury in the tube 0, as well as the sand, thereby aiding in the separation and amalgamation of the gold.
Water and gold-bearin g sand are forced down through the tube J to the bottom of a long column of mercury contained in the tube 0, and the removable cup 0. At the lower terminus of the tube J, the pulp is distributed over the cone 0,, the light particles rising into the pan B, and being washed off therefrom, while the gold will amalgamate with the mercury, and percipitate into the section or cup 0'.
Owing to the great pressure of mercury on the atoms or spangles of gold in the sand, amalgamation will take place rapidly and completely. I
.What I claim is 1. In combination with a discharging-tube,
ot two witnesses. 7
WILLIAM MGOOURT. W'itnessess:
FRED. D. STUART, R. TLGAMPBELL;
In testimony thatI claim the above I ll awewv hereunto subscribed my name in thepres'enee'
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