US24444A

US24444A - Improvement in sugar-mills

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Publication number: US24444A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1859-06-21
Anticipated expiration: 1876-06-21

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J. w. CHAPMAN.

Sugar Mill. I

No. 24,444. Patented June 21; 1859.

KE l Q \i K) I R DR? o l R a S f l Wit messes: k I IM/vent or;

Why/ m NITE rarns TENT EE IMPROVEMENT IN SUGAR -MILLS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 25,441, dated June 21, 1859.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES WV. CHAPMAN, of Trinity Springs, county of Martin and State of Indiana, have invented certain Improvements in Sugar-Mills; and I do hereby de cl'are that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making apart of this specification, of which- Figure 1 represents a perspective view of the front part of this mill. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same.

My invention consists in the arrangement of two or more compressing wheels or cylinders in pairs, so that they can have a lateral adjustment and be brought closer together, and separated at pleasure while the machine is in motion, described, represented, and specifiedas follows:

A represents a solid bed-piece, upon which the compressing-wheelsB B rest. These compressing -wheels are provided with cogged' teeth C, and one of them has a flange, D,which projects a little beyond the periphery of said wheel and fits into an annular cavity, E, in the wheel B. This brings the surfaces of the two wheels in close proximity, and at the same time allows the cogs to mesh into each other. The compressing-wheels B B are placed on the journals F F, which are cast solid with the bearing-plates GG. These plates have a projection, H H, on their outer ends The projection H rests against the wedge I, and the projection H rests against a shoulder formed by letting this projection into the bedplate A and keeps the wheel B rigidly in place.

J J are bolts which pass up through the bedplate and through the journals F F, and receive washers K K on their ends,which serve to keep the compressing-wheels down firmly on the seats or bearing-plates G G.

The machine is supported on legs L L, and operated, by horse or other power, by means of a belt-wheel or if by horse-power the horse is hitched to the end of a forked lever, N, which is bolted to the top 'of the drivingwheel B. The cane is fed through the pas sage P and compressed by the rollers B B and carried on to the opposite side of the machine and deposited in a proper receptacle. The juice is pressed out of the cane and forced out through the channel B in the bed-pieceAinto a tub; or it may be conveyed away by a pipe or otherwise.

S is a piece of metal let into the bed-piece A and flush-with its surface, on which the lower edge of the compressing-wheels are made to wipe, which prevents the juice from passing out the wrong side of the mill. The wedge l regulates the distance between the surfaces of the compressing-wheels and dispenses with complex machinery for adjusting v these wheels.

I do not claim crushingrollers with flanges. Nor do I claim adjusting crushing-rollers by means of wedges. Nor do I claim the forked lever irrespective of the arrangement or combination.

What I claim is- The combination and arrangement of the forked lever, crushing-wheels B B, bearings, and table or bed-timber, the table being prepared with notches to receive the projections on the seat of the bearings and key-wedge, substantially as set forth.

- JAMES WV. CHAPMAN.

\Vitnesses:

ALEX. BELL, WM. T. BELL.