US355073A - Joseph garcia - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

' J. GARCIA.

MACHINE FOR CLEANSING AND EXTRACTING FIBER. N0. 355,073.

Patented Dec. 28, 1886.

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SPECIFICATIONfor-ming part of Letters Patent No. 355,073, dated December 28, 1886.

Application filed May 5, 1886. Serial No. 201,255. (No model.)

To all whom it .may concern;

Be it known that I, JosErH Genera, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, certify that I haveinvented certain Improvements in Machines for Cleaning and Extracting Fiber, of which the following is V a specification.

My invention relates especially to devices employed for cleaning and extracting fiber from fibrous plants, and has for its object the provision of a device simple in construction, cheap in manufacture, adapted to be used without danger of injury or accident, and which will be efficient and rapid in operation.

To attain the desired end my invention consists in the construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully set forth.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a side 0 view of my machine, and Figs. 2 and 3 are'detail views of parts ofniy machine.

Like letters ofreference, wherever they occu r, indicate corresponding parts in all the figures. Referring to the drawings, Arepresents the bed-plate of my machine, which may be provided with any suitable standards, as a. The wheel B, supported by the bed-plate, revolves.

in suitable bearings, and is provided with a number of tools-namely, the hacking-combs 0 b,or equivalent picking devices, and the scutching blades or knives b, or equivalent scraping 'gidly attached to the periphery of devices-r1 the wheel B, so that each tool is held at a suitable inclination froin the direction in which the wheel B revolves, and preferably at an angle with the radius of the wheel that is nearest to it, as is customary in such machines.

Supported by standards rising from the bedplate A, and placed in front of the wheel B and 40 at the rear of the feed-table A, are the guide or feed rolls 0, preferably two in number, and similar removing-rolls, D, preferably three in number, are placed in suitable supports beneath the wheel B, as is clearly shown in the drawings. Also supported beneath the bedplate A, and placed on each side of the rolls D, under the wheel B, are two concave chutes, E and E, which are urged toward the revolving wheel B by means of the springs e, and limited in such motion by means of the adjustable screw-threaded rods 6 passing through the diagonal braces a of the frame-work of my machine, and stop-nuts e, thereon placed, as is indicated in Fig. 1.

Placed beneath. the rolls D is the endless apron F, which may be moved along by any suitable means. The operation of parts is as follows; The Wheel Bis driven by means of any suitable motive power. A pulley, B", rigidly attached to the shaft of the wheel B, serves to impart motion to the rollsO and D, as indicated. The fibrous material is fcdto the machine over the table A and passes through the rolls 0, thus. avoiding any danger of injury, which is incident to the former method of feeding by hand.

The fibrous plants are automatically urged with elastic pressure against the action of the tools on the periphery of the wheel B, the tools being inclined, to avoid cutting or tear- 7o ing the useful fibers and clogging of the tools with the useless portions of the leaf or plant,

and one end of the plant is thus cleaned while the same is being fed through and held by the rolls 0. As soon. as the cleaned portion of the plant has passed over the concave chute E it is grasped by the removing-rolls D,which serve to hold the plant, while the remaining portion of the same, when freed from therolls G, is cleaned by the joint action of the concave chute E and the tools 11 and b. It will be observed that my machine is thus automatic in its operation. The removingrolls D serve to move the plant-fiber after being cleaned, and place the same upon the endless belt F, or equiva- 89'" lent device, which is adapted to carryit to a. suitable-place for the purpose of further tram ment. The waste, dirt, &c., may becarried away over the top of the concave chute E. p

The number of the feed-rolls G or of the re- 90" moving-rolls D may be increased, if desired.

As it is evident that many slight changes in the construction and relative arrangement of parts might be resorted to without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention, 5 I would have it understood that I do not 'restrict myself to the particular construction and arrangement of parts shown and described.

I am aware that machines for disintegrating fibers have been hitherto used which have been provided with feeding and removing rolls and one chute bearing against a revolving wheel furnished with tools; but in all such machines, whenever one end of the fiber is fed to the machine and cleaned, the other end is retained, which latter end can only be cleaned (on account of the lack of the second chute with which my machine is furnished) by removing the plant and again feeding the same in areversed position; whereas by my improvement, before the plant has entirely passed through the feeding-rolls, the cleaned end is caught and retained by the removing-rolls,whilethe remaining portion of the plant is cleaned through the agency of the revolving wheel in connection with the second chute. I. do not therefore claim, broadly, a fiber-disintegrating machine; but What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

/ 1. In a machine for cleaning and extracting fiber, the combination, with feeding-rolls and one concave chute adapted to hold and support the plant while a portion of the same is being cleaned, and with removing-rolls and a second concave chute adapted to hold and support the .plant while the remainder of the same is cleaned, of a revolving wheel provided with suitable tools and adapted, in connection with the chutes, for the purpose of cleaning the plant, substantially as set forth.

2. In a machine for cleaning and extracting fiber, the combination, with the wheel B, provided with tools, as set forth, of the feedingrolls 0 and chutes E and E, substantially as described. 3. In a machine for cleaning and extracting fiber, the combination, with the wheel B, provided with to0ls,as set forth, of the removingrolls D and chutes E and E, substantially as I described.

4. In a machine for cleaning and extracting fiber, the combination, with the wheel B, pro vided with tools, as set forth, of the endless apron A and of the removingrolls D and chutes E and E, substantially as shown and described.

5. In a machine for cleaning and extracting fiber, the combination, with the wheel B, provided with tools, asset forth, of the feed-rolls G and the removing-rolls D and chutes E and E, substantially as and for the uses and purpose shown and described.

In testimony of the foregoing specification I do hereby sign the same, in the city, county, and State of New York, this 1st day of May,

JOSEPH GARCIA. In presence of- J AS. B. KILSHEIMER, JN. MILLs.

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