US228205A - Corn-popper - Google Patents

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D. LUMBERT. Corn-Popper.

No. 228,2Q5. Patented .lune 1,1880.

Inventar.'

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IINTTED STATES CORNWPOPPERl SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 228,205, dated June 1, 1880,

Application filed February 27, 1880.

To all whom it may concern Beit known that I, DANIEL LUMBERT, of Centreville, in the county of Barnstable and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in a Corn-Popper or Coffee-Roaster, and I hereby declare the following to be a full and clear description thereof.

The nature and object of this invention will be readily understood by the accompanying drawings and by the subjoined description.

Figure I of the drawings is a side elevation of the rolling screen or roaster proper supported on two end bearings. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the saine parts shown in Fig. l, except that the front-end support is removed the better to show the cylinder. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional elevation of the complete machine, showing the removable cover. Fig. 4 is a detail, showing the arrangement of the arbor or journal and the standards or braces.

The roaster or popper consists of a cylindrical screen or shield, A, formed preferably of wire-cloth, and secured in its cylindrical form by two circular end plates, A and A2, to which the wire-cloth is attached, and which are centrally secured to the axle or arbor B, onwhich the screen or roaster revolves.

The supported axle or arbor B has its bearings in two end supports or stands, G, which may be set directly upon the stove or other heater, the arbor passing through the said stands, so as to hold the whole of the parts A, B, and C together.

The stands C are formed so as to furnish a double journal-bearing. Where they meet at the top the arbor passes through. They then bend over, forming a bow and exposing the journal or arbor for a short space, and at the end of the cylinder niake another bearing. This enables the cylinder to be placed over a hole in the stove, while the stands or braces sit at considerable distance away on the stoves cover, thus keeping cool.

One end, A', of the cylinder is provided with two half-disks, one of which is held iirmly in place, while the other slides over it, so as to make an opening to allow the admission or removal of the corn or coffee. The sliding halfis lettered a, and is hung upon the arbor,

which passes through the center of the cylinder.

Asemi-eylindrical cover, D, is provided for shutting down over the ioaster, so as to keep the heat in during the roasting operation. The ends of this cover are slotted from the shaft down, sc as t0 permit the said cover to be set down over the popper or left off at pleasure, a handle or lifter being attached to the top side of the cover for this purpose. This handle is of any ordinary vor convenient form, and I have not thought it necessary to show it in the drawings..

There will be one or more vent-holes, d, in the top ofthe cover D, as shown in Fig. 3, for the escape of any steam or hot air that may be generated during the roasting operation.

The roaster or pepper, constructed as above described, may be set on top of a properlyheated stove or other suitable heated surface, and used either to roast coffee or-pop corn, the roaster A being turned during the roasting operation by means of the projecting' arbor B.

I am aware that openings have been made in the ends of devices of this kind and covered by sliding doors, and I do not broadly cla-im such; but

What I do claim is- The herein-described improved coffee-master or corn-popper, consisting of the cylinder A, having a closed and a partially-open end, the latter formed of two half-disks, one permanently fixed and the other, a, pivoted to the arbor and sliding over the fixed disk, the arbor B, the stand C, forming the double bearing, as described, and the cover D, all arranged and combined as described, and for the purpose set forth.v

DANIEL LUMBERT.

Witnesses:

F. G. KELLEY, GEO. F. Mniees.

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