US363370A

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Publication number: US363370A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1887-05-24
Anticipated expiration: 1904-05-24

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F. E. DAVIS & O. ABERLE. MACHINE FOR CLEANING INTESTINES.

No. 363,370. Patented May 24, 1887..

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MACHINE FOR CLEANING INTESTINES.

' No. 363,370. Patented May 24, 1887.

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ILLINOIS, ASSIGNORS TO SIGMUN D OPPENHEIMER, OF NEXV YORK, N. Y.

MACHINE FOR CLEANING INTESTINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 363,370, dated May 24:. 1887.

Application filed October 5, 1886. Serial No. 215,392. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that we, FERDINAND E. Davis, residing at Englewood, Cook county, State of Illinois, and OSCAR ABERLE, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, and citizens of the United States, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Machines for Cleaning Intestines, of which the following is a full description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan. Fig. 2 is a side elevation. Fig. 3 is a detail showing the devices for driving the reel from the main shaft. Fig. 4 is an end View. Fig. 5 is an end view of the reel. Fig. 6 is a vertical section of the. reel. Fig. 7 is a detail showing one of the eccentric levers used for holding the sliding frame in place. Fig. 8 is a plan of the main frame, somewhat reduced in size. Fig. 9 is a vertical section of one of the brushes. Fig. 10 is a detail, being a section at line 00 w of Fig. 1. The housing is not shown in Figs. 2 and 4. This machine is primarily designed to be used in cleaning beef-intestines to prepare them for various commercial uses. The machine may also be used for cleaning tripe and some other animal products.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of parts, as hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

In the drawings, A represents the main frame.

13 is a portion of the main frame somewhat elevated, as shown, above the other parts.

0 O are two armsor supports extending out from B.

a, Fig. 8, are slots in the arms 0 O, and in the raised portion 13 of the frame A.

b are ways projecting upward from that part of the main frame marked B, and from the arms O O.

D is a bar which rests upon the ways I), the bar being provided with grooves, into which the ways enter, and with downward projections, a.

E is a shaft supportedin bearings in the posts F, which extend upward from the bar D.

G is a brush on the shaft E.

c is a fixed pulley on the shaft E.

The bar D is held in place by bolts (Z, which pass through two of the slots a, and by the eccentric levers e, which are pivoted in the lower ends of the bolts d.

f is a screw, provided with a hand-wheel, g, by means of which the sliding bar D can be adjusted.

I-I, Figs. 2 and 10, is another sliding bar corresponding with D. corresponding with b.

E is another shaft-supported in bearings in posts F, which project upward from thebar II.

c is a fixed pulley on the shaft E.

G is a second brush on the shaft E.

The bar H may be held in place by bolts and eccentric-levers, as described for the bar D.

I I are housings or guards over the two brushes, the lower ends of which housings are,

It rests upon ways as shown, secured one to each of the bars D i H. (See Fig. 10.)

J, Figs. 1 and 10, is asmall roller supported in bearings secured to the housing 1.

The construction of the brushes is shown in Fig. 9, in which it is a head which is keyed to the shaft E. z is a collar upon the shaft E,the collar being screw-threaded. j is a head having a central opeuing vhich is screw-threaded to correspond with the screw-thread upon the collar 6. Theheads hj are each provided with a notched groove, 70, on the inside, which groove is cut into the heads at an angle. Z is a suitable cylinder, to which the brush material at is so cured in any known manner. The cylinder Z is of such size that its ends enter the grooves 7; in

the heads h j, and by turning the head j the cylinder can be clamped in place between the two heads h j, andwill be securely held. The brush material may be rice-roots, Russian bristles, palmetto, or other known suitable substance. The brushes revolve in opposite directions, as indicated by arrows in Fig. 2, and the screw-threads upon the collard on one shaft are to be right-handed and on the other left-handed.

K is a driving-shaft supported in bearings on the main frame.

L L are two pulleys, one of which is loose, and the other is a fixed drivingpulley driven by a belt which is not shown. a

M is a shaft, one end of which carries a reel, N, which, as shown, is collapsible. a isahead at one end of the reel. are bars, each of which is pivoted at one end to the head a. p is a sliding hub on the shaft M.

q are rods. One end of each rod is pivoted to the outer end of a bar, 0, and the other end of each rod is pivoted to the hub 10. (See Figs.

' 1, 5, and 6.) Each of the bars 0 isprovided on one edge with devices for holding one end of the intestines. Three forms are shown, one of which are notches r. Springs 1" are another form. Small hooks 7" are the third form.

8 is a worm-screw on the shaft K, which engages with a worm-wheel, t, on one end of a shaft, 20, supported in suitable bearings. The other end of the shaft 20 carries a beveled gearwheel, '0, which engages with another beveled gear-wheel, w, on the reel-shaft M,and by these devices the reel-shaft is driven from the main shaft K.

O is a large sprocket-wheel on the shaft K.

P is a small sprocket-wheel on a shaft, Q, which is supported in bearings at the upper ends of standards R, which are secured to the frame.

S is a driving-pulley on the shaft Q.

T is a belt which drives the shaft E.

U is a belt which is crossed, and drives the shaft E.

V is a chain on the sprocket-wheels O 1?.

The operation is as follows: One end of each intestine which is to be cleaned is to be passed in between the brushes, which can be readily done from their outer ends, there being an opening between the arms 0 O and the brushes, as shown in Figs. 8 and 10. The intestine is to be carried up over theroller J by the operator to thereel N, where one end may be passed to one of the holding devices on one of the bars 0, and the machine being in motion the movement of the reel will gradually draw the intestine between the two brushes, which, being in rapid motion, will thoroughly clean the intestines. When the reel is full the machine is to be stopped, the hub 19 can be moved in or out a little on the shaft M, and the parts '0 q, being hinged,-as aforesaid, the reel will partially collapse, and then the clean intestines on the reel can be easily removed. The parts of the reel can then be returned to their former position ready for use again. The driving-pulley L may have about eighty revolutions per minute, which'will give about two revolutions per minute to the reel and about sixteen hundred revolutions per miuute to the brushes. The shaft Q is driven by the chain V, which runs upon the sprocket-wheels O P.

The distance of the brushes from each other can be adjusted by moving the bar D, which can be done by loosening the eccentric levers c, and then turning the screw f. We have not shown a screwvfor moving the bar H; but one may be provided, if desired.

It may be stated that cleaning beef-intestines consists chiefly in removing the mucous lining of the intestines. We do not limit our machine and devices to the single use of cleaning beef-intestines.

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a machine for cleaning intestines, the combination of a pair of rotary brushes, one of which is adjustable to and from the other, and brush-supports open at one end to facilitate the insertion of intestines between said brushes, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the arms 0 O', h aving ways I) b, the bars D H, and the rotary brushes G G, said brushes being mounted on shafts supported in bearings on the bars D H, and one of said bars being adjustable to vary the distance between the brushes, substantially as described.

3. The combination, with the rotary brushes G G and brush-supports open at one end to facilitate the insertion of intestines between said brushes, of a collapsible reel for receivting the cleaned intestines from the brushes,

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4. The combination, with the rotary brushes G G, of the shaft M, and a collapsible reel mounted 011 said-shaft and composed of the head n, the bars 0, pivoted in said shaft and provided with devices for holding one end of the intestines, the sliding hub 10, and rods q, pivotally connected with said bars and hub, substantially as described.

5. The combination of the frame A, having raised portion 13 and arms 0 O, the bars D H, one or both adjustable on said arms, the brushshafts E E, journaledin bearings on said bars, and carrying brushes G G and pulleys c c, the shaft M, carryinga collapsible reel, the driving-shaft K, having sprocket-wheel O, the shaft Q, having sprocketwheel 1? and pulley S, the chain V, belts TU, and gearing for connecting the shafts K M, substantially as described.

FERDINAND E. DAVIS. OSCAR ABERLE. Witnesses:

E. A. Wns'r,

ALBERT H. ADAMS.