US1861391A - Press construction - Google Patents

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May 1932. R L 1,861,391

PRESS CONSTRUCTION Filed Aug. 22, 1930 R05, B 8725072 Hall INVENTOR,

Patented May 31, 1932 UNITED STATES PATENT @FFICE ROY BENSON HALL, OF HAMMOND, INDIANA PRESS CONSTRUCTION Application filed August 22, 1930. Serial No. 477,141.

My invention relates to improvements in may be secured to the columns 3 by threaded press constructions, and it consists in the bolts or any other suitable means adapted to combinations, constructions, and arrangerigidly secure the collar members 4 at any dements herein described and claimed. sired height on the guide columns 3. The

An object of my invention is to provide a drum 5 may be provided with an annular 5 press construction which is light in weight, flange adapted to fit within the recessed coleonvenient in use, and economical in operalar members, substantially as shown. The tion. drum 5 may be provided with a close fitting A further object of my invention is to prosealing plate 7 which is adapted to be placed vide a device of the character described havupon the material when the drum is loaded.

ing a pivotally mounted head which may be This plate serves to seal the space between the swung outwardly when it is not being used. drum 5 and the head 1 when the material is A further object is to provide means wherebeing pressed. by the drum may be lowered a predetermined From the foregoing description of the va- 15 distance for the purpose of enabling the rious parts of the device, the operation thereswinging head to be moved out of the way of may be readily understood. WVhen the when the material has been pressed and is pressure on the piston 9 is removed, the drum readv to be unloaded. 5, with its plate 7 slides downwardly as far Other objects and advantages will appear as the grooved collar members permit. This in the following specification, and the novel action enables the swinging head 1 to be features of the invention will be particularly swung outwardly .and out of the way after pointed out in the appended claims. the locking bar is removed from the swinging My invention is illustrated in the aceomhead. panying drawings, forming part of this ap- I claim plication, in which 1. A press for extracting liquids including Figure l is a top plan view of a press ema ram construction, a swinging head for said bodying my invention, and press rotatably mounted and adapted to be Figure 2 is a front elevational view showswung horizontally above said ram construcing, partly in section, the device depicted in tion, a pair of guide columns connecting said Figure 1. head with said ram construction, and a per- In carrying out my invention, I make use forated drum slidably carried by said guide of a press construction having a swinging columns between said head and said ram conhead 1, guide columns 3, a perforated drum 5 struction, said drum being provided with a for holding the material 8 while it is being flanged top cover plate adapted to seal the pressed, and a driving ram or piston 9 which upper portion of said drum when said drum is adapted to move upwardly for the purpose is loaded and said material is being pressed. of pressing the material 8 and thereafter 2. A press for extracting liquids including ejecting it from the drum 5. a ram construction, a swinging head for said One end of the swinging head 1 may be press rotatably mounted and adapted to be pivotally mounted around one of the guide swung horizontally above said ram construccolumns 3 substantially as shown and the tion, guide columns connecting said head other end may be adapted to be locked in with said ram construction, and a perforated operating position around the other guide drum slidably carried by said guide columns column by any suitable means, such as, for between said head and said ram construction, instance, a locking bar 2. said guide columns being provided with stop The drum 5 may be slidably mounted on means for limiting the movement of said the guide columns 3. The guide columns 3 drum'on said columns for the purpose of re may, if desired, be provided with recessed moving pressure on said head when the ram of collar members at adapted to limit the move said ram construction is moved downwardly.

* ment of the drum 5. These collar members ROY BENSON HALL.

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