US537909A - Emanuel stauber - Google Patents

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'(NoMbdeL) E. STAUBER.

TEGRA TING AND COMPRESSING PEAT.

MACHINE FOR DISIN No. 537,909.

Patented Apr; 23, 1895..

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EMANUEL STAUBER, or BEIiLIN, "GERMANY.

.MACHlN E fOR DISINTEGRATING AND COMPRESSING PEAT.

S1TECIFICA 13ION forming part of Letters Patent No. 537,909, dated April 23, 1 895.

Application filed May 31, 1894:.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known'thatI, EMANUEL STAUBER, a

subject of the German Emperor, residing at Berlin, Germany, have=invented certain Improvements in Machines for Disintegrating and Compressing Peat, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain improvements in machines fordisintegrating and compressing peat, such as are used in the manufacture of peat briquet, and the object of theinvention is to provide a machine of a simple and inexpensive construction, con tinuous in operation, which shall be adapted to disintegrate the wet peat and remove the coarse fibers therefrom and to compress and partly dry the disintegrated peatand deliver the same in a condition to be further. dried and coked. t v

My invention also contemplates certain improvements in the machine whereby it is made adjustable so as to compress the peat to different degrees and also to different sizes (5f brl'liquets, all as will be hereinafter fully set ort The novel features of my invention will be carefully defined in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a vertical longitndinalsection'of the machine; Fig. 2, shows a cross-section through the hoppers thereof. Fig. 3 is a perspective view'of the grid and screen employed in the machine.

In the said-drawings n represents the compression cylinder having a piston Z,,-'to which longitudinal movement is. communicated by means of any suitable enginefior othersource of power. The cylinder at has a'feed opening on above which is arranged a chest c,of a some what globular or spheroidal form crowned by; avfeed-hopper a, wherein are mounted in p0 sition to receive the peat supplied to the hop-. per, two transverse shaftsb, b, driven from the engineand provided with cutters or teeth,

c. The shafts b,b, are so geared as to cause the cutters c to rotate in opposite directions as indicated by the arrows, whereby the peat is torn or disintegrated. The teeth 0, deliver:

the torn or disintegrated peat down intouthechest e',wherein is suspended in chains, k,"a. swinging, inclined grid'or grate g, arranged in position under-the said teeth to catch the long fibers of the peat an l'convey the same Serial No. 513,090. (No modeL) away laterally through an opening e in the side of chest e.

To the under side of the swinging grid 9 is secured a sieve f adapted to, siftand mix the finer particles of the peat and in order to .move'the grid in the chest 6, a transverse shaft h, driven from the engineiisjournaled in said chest, and provided with 2. came, adapted to strike, and move the said grid longitudinally so as to capse it to swing in the manner of a pendulum; or f desired a;

series of these girds 9 may be einployedand a series of cams ialso provided, said cams ing timed so as to cause the grids to movejin different directions;' or in lieu of it came as shown, connecting links may be employed between shaft hand the grid, but I prefer the construction shown as the cheapest and most durable. v v

In order to compress the peat, I provide the forward end of the cylinder n with a removable section 0, having a contracted bore, as clearly shown, whereby as the peat is forced through said section 0, by the forward movement of the pistonl it will be compressed and a portion of the water forced therefrom,which wa er will escape through suitable outlets, (not. shown.) In order to still further coinpress the peat I provide a section 12, having a be connected atr'one of a series of months "I, provided with diit'erentsizedbores. In or-- der to make the section 1) adj ustable to section), said section r is provided with a rearward extension'r" to which said hinged cover 10' is adapted to be drawn by means of abolt or screw r as clearly seen in the drawings.

. My invention is susceptible of considerable 'lbose top or coverp hinged at (1 to which may modification aswill be obvious to those skilled in theart, and for this reason I do not wish to lie understood as limiting myself to the exact construction and arrangement herein shown.

Having thus described my invention, 1 claim- I. In a device for disintegrating and compressing peat, the combination with a compressing cylinderhaving a feed opening and a piston therein of a chest, arranged over said feed opening,, a feed hopper arranged over said chest, a disintegrating device in said hopper, a grid arranged in said chest, and ashaking sieve arranged between said disintegrat- Ice ment of said shaft to said grid, substantial] chest between said disintegrating device and said feed opening, a sieve connected to said grid, a shaft, rotativel mounted in said chest, and means for communicating the movey as set forth.

3. In a device for disintegrating and coinpressing peat, the combination with a compressing cylinder having a feed openingand .iilpiston therein, e-f achcst having an opening in its well and arranged over said feed opening, a feed hopper over said chest, a disintegrating device arranged-in said hopper, an

inclined grid arranged in the chest between the disintegrating device and said feed pening, and adapted to convey the coarse fiber through the opening in the wall of the chest, a sieve connected to said grid, and means for moving said grid, substantially as set. forth.

4:. Ina device for'compressing peat, the combination wi t h a compressing cylinder having a feed opening and a piston arranged therein, of a section 11 secured to said compressing cylinder and provided with a bore coinciding with the bore of the cylinder, said section having a hinged cover, a section 1', connccted to section p, and also provided with a bore coinciding with the bore of said section 1), and means for adjusting the inclination of the cover of section 1'), to the size of the bore of section r, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

E M AN U EL STAL ll E It.

Witnesses:

MAX SCHUNING,

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