US24376A - Improved sugar-cane press - Google Patents

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T. CRANE- I Can Mill.

Patented June 14, 1859.

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PATENT OFFICE,

THOMAS CRANE, OF FORT'ATKINSON, WVISOONSIN.

IMPROVED SUGAR-CANE PRESS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 2 1,376, dated June 14, 1859.

170 ct whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS CRANE, of Fort Atkinson, in the county of Jefferson and State of WVisconsin, have invented a new and Improved Machine for Expressing the Juice from Sugar-Cane and other Vegetable Substances, and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification;

Figure l is a top view of the above-mentioned machine; Fig. 2, a side elevation of the same; Fig. 3, a section in the line 00 x of Fig. 1; and Fig. 4, a section in the line yy of Fig. 1.

Similar letters indicate like parts in each of the drawings.

The frame of my improved machine for expressing the juice from sugarcane, 85c. may be composed of the two long beams D E,the parallel transverse beams J J, the jointed beam F, and the other minor parts which are combined with said beams in the manner represented in the drawings; or the said frame may be constructed in any other manner deemed preferable,by the builder. Such a shape should be given to the aforesaid frame that it will rest safely upon three supports, viz., the large wheel A, the small wheel I, and pivot-post K. The machinery upon the said frame should be so located as to cause the greatest portion of its weight to rest upon the large wheel A. Two

slotted uprights, I) b, which are connected to each other by means of bed-pieces that rest. upon the transverse beams J J, carry the bear beams D E may be covered with thin planks or slats for the reception of the cane-stalk and the operator who is to feed in the same between the said rollers when the machine is in motion; or a platform, G, may be placed upon the said beams for the operator to stand upon, andthe cane-stalks may be supported by the crosspieces h h, the rail f, which is secured to the inner ends of said cross-pieces, and the uprights 9 g from the opposite ends of said crosspieces.

The journals of the small bearing-wheel I are received into apertures in a pair of lugs which descend from the oblique beam H, which is secured to the main beams D E near the outer ends of the same, or the bearings of said wheel may be connected with either of the beamsD E in any suitable manner.

A vessel, a, is suspended to the parallel beams J J, which is of such a size and shape that it will catch all the juice that is eX- pressed by the rollers BO from any substance that may be passed between them. A tube, 2', which is secured to the under side of the beam F, and which opens into the vessel a, conducts the fluid contents of said vessel to the annular vessel j, which incloses the body of the pivotpost K, and from this annular vessel 9 the spout 7c discharge the said fluid into a receiving-vat by means of any suitable conductor.

The perforated plate d, which is jointed to the beam J immediately in front of the roller '13, has a sharp upper edge which bears obliquely against the periphery of said roller and prevents the accumulation of any trashy matter upon the same. The said plate d also serves to conduct the crushed cane-stalks, as they pass through the pressure-rollers, into the receptacle Lwhich is suspended to the transverse beam J, and to transverse beam m, which is connected to the front ends of the beams D and E. The handle 0, which rises from one end of the plated, enables the said plate to be moved outwardly or inwardly, and by means of suitable weights suspended to the end of said lever the edge of said plate can be made to bear with any desired degree of force against the periphery of the roller B.

The pivot-post Kmay be secured to the center of the cross-arms a n, and the said arms may be secured in any desired position by means of pins or stakes, or the said pivotpost may be planted in the earth or secured in a fixed positions in any other manner..

The clevis p, to which the power is applied for operating the machine, I generally combine with the front end of the beam D, and the outer end of the beam F, Igenerally combine with the pivot-post K; but this arrangement may be varied at the pleasure of the builder.

The respective operating parts of the machine may be so arranged and combined with the frame of the same that either of its three projections may be combined with the pivotpost.

Having thus fully described my improved machine for expressing the juice from canestalks, 850., I would observe thatI do not separately claim to be the inventor of the pressure-rollers, nor do I claim to be the inventor of the arrangement of the frame by which it may be turned upon a centralpivot-post; but

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

The combination of the pressure-rollers B G, with the main bearing-wheel A, of a frame which is so proportioned and supported that it can be rotated arounda pivot-post; but this I only claim when a fluid-receiving vessel, a,

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