US550010A

US550010A - Mills

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Publication number: US550010A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1895-11-19
Anticipated expiration: 1912-11-19

Description

(No Model.)

H. J. WILLIAMS.'

DEVICE PoR PBBDING ORANGBS 0R SIMILAR FRUIT. No. 550,010. f Patented Nov. 19, 1895.

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HUMPHREY J. IVILLIAMS, OF NEW YORK MILLS, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO SAMUEL CAMPBELL VARNER, OF SAME PLACE.

mavlcE FOR FEEDING QRANGESQR SIMILAR FRUIT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters lPatent No. 550,010, dated November 19, i895.

Application fled September l, 1 890. Serial Np. 363,675. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, `IIUMPHREY J. WIL- LIAMs, of New York Mills, in the county of Oneida and State of New York,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Feeding Oranges or Simi/lar Fruit; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form part of this specification.

My invention relates to a device for feeding oranges or similar fruits at regular intervals, and is adapted to be used in connection with a wrapping or brushing machine or other similar mechanism.

In the drawings which accompany and form a part of this specification, and in which simiv lar letters and figures of reference refer to like Fig. 4 shows the device in perspective, a por-- tion being broken out to reduce the size of the figure. Fig. 5 shows a vertical central section of the device. Fig. 6 is a detailed view showing a section of a tubular pocket, the section being taken on a plane with line y of Fig. 5, the edge of which is parallel with the diameter of the shell of the device.

Referring more specifically to the referencenumerals marked on the drawings, l indicates a` conical-shaped shell or carrier having one side open at 2 and the other closed by a diaphragm or end plate 3. To the diaphragm is secured on the inside a plate 4 and on the outside radiating ribs 5 5 to give strength and solidity to the structure, and the whole is mounted on a shaft or gudgeon 6.

The diaphragm or plate 3 is provided with a series of openings aroundits circumference, (indicated by 7 7 7, &c.,) and on the outer side of the plate 3 are secured (one for each opening) a number of short tubular pockets 8, which surround the opening and are flush with one side of the opening and are secured at a point va little removed from the other side of the opening 7, as indicated at c in Fig. (i and shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 2, also at The pockets 8 all incline inwardly toward the shaft or axial rline from their point of attachment to the diaphragm or end plate. At the outside of Ythe diaphragm or end plate 3 the shell is provided with a circumferential enlargement 9, which answers the purpose of deepening the pockets formed adjacent to the plate of the shell for purposes hereinafter set forth. A t l0 is indicated the delivery-chute of this feeding device, and 1l is aretainingwall to which it is afxed, andin close proximity to which retaining wall or surface the open-ends of the tubular pockets on the upper half of the device run. The open side 2 of the device is to run against an opening in the side of a bin, preferably having an inclined bottom, inclining toward the device, so that the fruit contained in the bin will move by its own gravity into the open end of the device, as indicated at a in Fig. 5.

The device in operation is slowly rotated in the direction indicated by the arrow in Fig. 2. As the openings 7 are at the bottom, as the device revolves the fruit rolls into the pockets, one article in each pocket, and as 'the device continues to rotate they are cutv o or separated from the remaining fruit by the edge (shown at a) of the diaphragm or plate 3 and retained in the pocket and thus carried by the carrier upward toward the deliverychute l0. As they pass above the horizontal plane through the axis of the device, they roll to the outer end of the tubular pocket 8 and are retained therein by wall or surface 1l, the fruit rolling in lcontact with wall 1l until it reaches the top of the machine, and when the tubular pocket 8 containing the fruit registers with the opening in the wall 1l at which the chute 10 is provided the fruit rolls out of the tube or pocket 8 and is delivered from the chute l0. Y

Each pocket as it travels from its lowest position to its highest position carries an article of fruit as long as they are fed to the machine, and that without injury or bruising the fruit in any wise.

The deeper portion 9 of the device deepens IOO the pocket just outside ofthe diaphragm or end plate, thus very readily retaining a single article of fruit in each pocket as it starts from its lower position to travel upward.

It is evident that the shell portion l of the device might be made cylindrical instead of conical, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. l, and the whole device mounted on an inclined shaft or gudgeon and accomplish substantially the same result; but I prefer the construction described; and other variations in and from the construction described may be made without departing from the equivalents of my construction.

NVhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination in afeeding device of a circular shell mounted to be rotated about a substantially horizontal axis, a plate having openings around its circumference secured to and closing one end ofthe shell, tubular elevator pockets secured at one end to the plate on the outer side and surrounding the openings therein and inclined inwardly toward the axial line of the shell and the wall or surface, in close proximity to which the outer ends of the pockets move, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination in a feeding device having a circular shell adapted to be rotated, a plate closing one end of the shell having openings around its circumference, inwardly inclined tubular pockets secured to the plate surrounding the openings and the circumferential enlargement outside of the diaphragm plate whereby the pockets are deepened, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination in a feeding device of a circular shell, means for rotating the circular shell on its horizontal axis, a plate secured in and closing one end of the shell and having openings around its circumference, inwardly inclined tubular elevator pockets secured to the outer side of the plate surrounding the openin gs, substantially as set forth.

4E. The combination in a feeding device of a circular shell, a diaphragm plate closing one end of the shell having a series of openings around its circumference, the inwardly inclined tubular pockets secured on the outside of the diaphragm plate surrounding the openings therein and having a portion of the plate projecting between the point where the tube engages the plate and the edge of the opening in the plate, substantially as set forth.

5. The combination in a feeding device of a circular shell, inclining tubular pockets sccured around the circumference of the shell and the projecting edge at the end of the pocket adjacent to the shell, substantially as set forth.

In witness whereof l have aiiixedmy signature in presence of two witnesses.

HUMPI-IREY J. VILLIADIS.

Witnesses:

S. CAMPBELL WARNER, LAWRENCE BLACK.