US215483A - Improvement in cider-presses - Google Patents

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M. P. SGHENOK Cider-Press.

Pateted May 20, 1879.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEETGEQ MARCUS I?. SOHENOK, OF FULTON, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN CiDER-PRESSES.

Specification forming part 0f Letters Patent No. 215,483, (lated May :20, 1879; application filed January 31, 1878.

To all fwhom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARcUs P. ScHENcK, of Fulton, in the county of Oswego and State of New York, have invented a certain new y and Improved Cider-Press, of which the folnecting shaft or shafts, operated 'either by` power or by hand, as required.

My improvement particularly consists ina combination of stationary screws, press-beam,

Y wheels, nuts, recessed steps, and detached washer placed within the steps to reducewear and friction; also, in the combination, with the aforesaid screws, beam, and nuts, of a levverand-ratchet movement for operating the gearing, as hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a front elevation of my improved press.. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of one of the screw-nuts and attached gear-wheel on a larger scale. Fig. 3 is an elevation of the ratchet-lever detached. Fig. el is a plan view of a rack of connected slats to be interposed between the layers of material in the press. Fig. 5 is a plan of a mat made of cords transversely arranged in successive layers for a similar purpose.

A represents the base or bed of the press; B, the press-beam; C C', a pair of stationary screws having a right and left thread, respectively, both of them fixed by nuts D D to the bed A, and projecting upward through suitable apertures in the beam B. y

E represents a bridge-piece extending from one to the other ofthe screws C C at the top, and serving to support a drivingsh aft, through which the machine is worked by means of a pulley, F, beveled pinion F', beveled gear G, and a vertical shaft, H, which is formed with either a spline or a groove, in which the hub of the gear-wheel Gr works, so as to impart rotary motion to the said shaft, while the latter slides freely up and down within the gear- Wheel as the press-beam is raised or lowered.

`beveled pinions 7c 7c, which drive beveled, wheels K K1, the hubs of which form nuts K2,

as shown on a larger scale in Fi' 2, working on the vertical screws C C', and resting in recessed steps M M on the press-beam. The recesses or chambers of the step contain steel or brass washers N, which receive and reduce the friction of the lower vend of the nuts or hubs K2. i

By constructing the steps with recesses to receive the said Washers and the lower ends of the hubs, the hub and nut and the step and washers are all held in concentric position, so as to protect the moving part-s from any chafing of the screw.

rIhe loose pinions it are connected with the shaft I at the will of the operator, so as to impart rotation thereto in either direction by means of a clutch, L, operated by a lever, O, and connecting-rod P, and sliding on a suitablespline or groove in the shaft, so lthat when it is thrown into connection with the pinion i', as 'illustrated in Fig. 1, the shaft I will be driven by the shaft H in one direction, and when the said clutch is thrown into connection with the .pinion i the shaft l will be rotated in the other direction, or by setting the clutch in intermediate position both pulleys it" will run loosely, and the shaft I and nuts and pressbeam will remain at rest, while the power-con lnections F G H may run continuously. The

driven by beveled pinions r rl on a horizontal shaft, B, which is rotated in either direction by a haiid-lever, S, working over a ratchet wheel, r2, on the shaftR, and turning the said wheel in either direction by means of' an adjustable pawl, T, pivoted at s to the lever S, and having an elastic arm or lever, t, which may be set in either of the notches u, ul, or u2 on the face of the lever S, in order that the reciprocation of the said lever may turn the ratchet-wheel r2 iu either direction, so that it may be elevated or lowered or left at rest. The connections of the hand-lever are shown on a larger scale in Fig. 3.

In order to afford albearing for the presscloth, which will protect it from great violence or danger of tearing, and especiallyT from forcible outward pressure, I place between the cheeses a rack constructed, as shown in Fig. 4, of slats, V, connected by a webbing., r, or cloth oi' any kind. A rack thus constructed is readily rolled up for transportation or for stowing away, and while in use not only fully protects the press-cloth, but affords perfect freedom of drainage for the cider or other liquid running from the press.

I further employ for the same purpose a mat represented in Fig. 5, consisting of cords W W', laid in alternate coils in two layers, the coils of one being transverse to the coils of the other, as shown.

X represents the customary platen or follower, upon which the press-beam rests through the medium of transverse beams x.

Y is the bottom board, resting on the bed A, and surmounted by the customary rack y. Z represents the press-curb, made of boards with notched ends locked together.

For elevating the beam and supporting it from the nuts K2, I employ brackets or arms B2, securely bolted to the top of the beam B,

and engaging in grooves 7a2 in the periphery of the nuts or hubs K2.

Having thus described my invention, the following is what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

l. The combination of the wheels K K1, nuts K2, recessed steps M, and the loose anti-fric tion washers N,placed in the bottoni of the recessed steps beneath the nuts without attach nient thereto.

2. The combination oi' the` press-beam B, screws C C, wheels K Kl, nuts KZ, shafts H I, clutch L, and pinions h i i', substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

MARCUS P. SGHENCK.

Witnesses JAs. A. Fosrnn, H. RosENBLooM.

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