US270180A

US270180A - Feank corner

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Publication number: US270180A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1883-01-02
Anticipated expiration: 1900-01-02

Description

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V F. GO HNEN. MAUHINE FOR CLEANING PEATHERS AND SEPARATING THE DOWN THEREFROM.

Patented Jan. 2, 1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK GOHNEN, or DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR or ONE-HALE 'ro HORACE TURNER, or SAME PLACE.

MACHINE FOR CLEANING FEATHE RS AND SEPARAT ING THE DOWN THEREFROM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 270,180, dated January 2, 1883.

Application filed J one 16, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, FRANK CoHNEN, of Detroit, in the county of \Vayne and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful improvement in Machines for Cleaning Feathers and Separatingthe Down therefrom, of which the following is a specification. i

Figurel is a side elevation of my invention with a portion of the drying-cylinder and fancase broken away. Fig-s2 and 4 are left and right end views of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a vertical section on-line y 3 Fig. 1.

This invention has for its object to provide a simple and efficient machine for steaming and drying feathers and for separatingthe down therefrom as the feathers are discharged from the machine.

The object of my invention I accomplish by the mechanismillustrated in the accompanying drawings, which I will now proceed to describe-in detail.

D represents the bars of a cylindrical cage, having one end closed, S, and having on its upper side a hopper, A. The open end of this cage is attached to one end of adoublewalled cylinder, B, and to the other end of the cylinder B is attached one side of a fan-case, C, which I prefer to makelarger in diameter than cylinder 13. Suitable legs,f, support the cage.

and cylinder. A shaft, 0, runs through the center of the cage-cylinder and fan-case, and is journaled in suitable bearings, F F. In said shalt O are fastened a number of pins, 1%, which are preferably of wood, and of such length that the shaft and pins will just revolve freely in the cage and cylinder and extend the whole length of the cage and cylinder. Pins it are so set'in shaft 0 that they form a spiral thread around said shaft, as clearly shown in Fig. l. A pulley, P, secured to one end of shaft 0, serves to transmit power thereto.

a K are the arms and vanes of a rotary fan, hung on shalt O and rotating in fan-case O.

The sideof fan-case O which is attached to cylinder 13 is open, and is provided with a damper by which it can be partially orwholly closed, and there is acen'tral opening in the other side of said fan-case, which is provided with dampers by which it can be opened or closed.

G is the eduction-pipe of fan-case G.

E isa steam-pipe, divided into two branches which pass lengthwise, under the cage, and

are perforated so as to discharge steam into the cage. Steam isalso admitted into the space W between the walls of cylinder B, so as to keep said cylinder warm.

The feathers to be operated upon are fed into hopper A and fall into the cage. There they are beaten by the pins on shaft 0, which is revolved at as high speed as will not injure the feathers (about three hundred revolutions per minute,)-and are steamed by the steam from pipes E. The dirt and dust which are thus removed from the feathers fall through bars D. The spiral row of pins It carries the feathersfrom the cage into the hot cylinder D, where the feathers are dried, and thence into the fan-case G, from which they are forcibly ejected through the mouth or eduction-pipe G.

The blast of air from the fan separates the down from the rest of the feathers, and the feathers fall to the floor at a short distance from the machine, while the lighter down is carried much farther and deposited entirely clear of the pile of feathers.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a machine for cleaning feathers, the combination of the drying-cylinder, the steaming-chamber at one end thereof for steaming and delivering the feathers to the drying-cylinder, and a fan-case and blast-fan arranged.

at the other end of the drying-cylinder and receiving the feathers therefrom, said feathers being discharged from the fan-case and the down blown off by the action of the air-blast, substantially in the manner and for the pur pose described.

2. In a feather-machine, the combination of a cage in which feathers may be steamed,

set forth.

FRANK OOHNEN. 4 Witnesses:

GEO. B. BEMIoK, GEo. H. LOTHROP.