US45515A

US45515A - Improved grain-elevator

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Publication number: US45515A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1864-12-20
Anticipated expiration: 1881-12-20

Description

J N IG H 0 L S. GRAIN BLBVATOR.

No. 45,515. Patented 13120.20, 1864.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN NICHOLS, OF FOND DU LAG, WISCONSIN.

Specification forming partiof Letters Patent No. 45,515. dated December 20, 1864.

T0 @ZZ whom it may concern.:

. Be it known that 1, J onN NICHOLS, of Fond exact description thereof, reference being had.

to the accompanying drawings, and t0 the letters of reference marked thereon.

My invention consists in a peculiar arrangement and combination of devices for elevating and distributing gra-in.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side view'of my improved grain-elevator. Fig. 2 is a top view ot' the saine, the top board being removed to show the endless belt and grain-buckets. Fig. 3 is a view of the top board detached from the machine.

In the'eonstruction of my improved grainelevator any suitable frame, A, is erected for f the support of the two pulleyshafts B and O.

Upon these two shafts are pulleys O and B', operated in the usual manner. An endless belt, I), is carried by the pulleys. This belt is provided With a series of grain-buckets, F, in the usual manner. VVhena bucket of grain i is elevated, the bucket empties its load upon theplate U, Fig. 2, from which the grain flows intothespout E, and is thence discharged upon the spout K. rIhe spout E is arranged so as to revolve at pleasure in order to direct the grain to any point in the circumference of the circular table L, and empty the same into the different spouts K, which are placedto direct the grain into dii'erent bins' or to different parts of the building.

In the lower story of the mill or storehouse I have arranged a dial-Wheel, H, which also acts as a pulley for the cord or band G. This band passes up over the pulleys I, and thence around the pulley F upon the shank or shaft of the revolving spout E. By this arrangec nient the miller in the lower story of the mill I can take hold of the handle S, and by thus turning the wheel H lie can turn the spout E in any direction, while the index on the-face of the pulley H will indicate in exactly what direction the revolving spout E is pointing-:5 Thus the miller, without going up stairs, cau direct the flow of grain, and also know the'y course it takes.

-The dial on the face of the pulley corresponds to the circular table L in the upper part of the mill, and as the dial turns the index shows iii-what direction the spout E is conducting the grain. This' circular table L is permanently fastened to the elevator-frame A, so that the frame, the table, and the spout E will always maintain a working position, and not be disturbed by the settling or lurching of the building.

The endless belt l) may be tightened by means of the screw M, which is more fully described in another application, in which L especially claim an improvement in belttightelleIS.

I do not broadly claim the use of a revolving spout or index, but confine -my claim to the peculiar arrangements and improvements above described.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent ofthe United States, is-- 1. rlhe arrangement and combination-of the index-wheel H with the revolving spout E, operated by pulleys and band, substantially in the manner and for thev purposes setforth.

2. The use of the circular table L, attached tothe ,elevator-pipe A, substantially as described. i

. 3. The combination of the table L with the elevator-frame and the revolving spout, substantially as specified.

4. The use of the pulleys I, in combination with the vertical pulley H and horizontal pillley F and band G, substantially as speciled.

JOHN NICHOLS.

Witnesses:

GEO. W. SAWYER, G. W. Psnsco'r.