US55461A

US55461A - Improved centrifugal-machine

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Publication number: US55461A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1866-06-12
Anticipated expiration: 1883-06-12

Description

J. D. BROWNE.

' Centrifugal Sugar Machine. No. 55,461. Patented )une 12, 1866.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE'O JOHN D. BROVVNE, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

IMPROVED CENTRlFUGAL-MACHINE.

To all 'whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN DAVID BROWNE, of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Gen trifu gal Sugar-Separating Machines; and I do declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, iu which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the screen and deiiectors, part being left open to show the movement under the bottom of the screen. The under wheels are represented by red lines. Fig. 2 represents a deflector of two spirals; Fig. 3, a single oblique deiiector 5 Fig. 4, a double oblique deflector.

The nature of the invention consists in giving to the screen and distributer separate motions, so that they may be driven at different velocities to each other, to deposit the sugar more equally; also, in making the detlectors of the distributers oblique or spiral to the axis of rotation, by which means the feed is made automatic, not requiring the point of supply to be varied.

To enable others skilled in the art to fully understand and construct my improvement, I will proceed to describe it.

A is the main shaft, to which the motion is to be given, on which is attached a cog-wheel, a. b c are two cog-wheels of different diameters, attached together on spindle d, which will revolve on the stand or frame F. One wheel, e, (shown by red liues,) gears into wheel a on the shaft A. B is the screen, on the under side of which a cogged wheel, c, is fixed, n

which gears into wheel b. G is the distributer fitting on the main shaft A. D is the deiiector of the distributer O, the face of which is made oblique or spiral to the axis of rotation. E is a tub or receptacle to receive the sirup, the bottom of which is inclined so that lthe sirup will all drain through the openingfo Gr, pipe or trough for supply; P, pulley on shaft A to receive the motion.

. The main shaft A being put iu motion, the wheel ct on it causes the wheels b c to revolve, which also gives motion to the screen B, through the wheel e, at a different velocity from the shaft A, which carries the distributer C, the speed variable by the size of the diameters of the wheels a b c c employed.

Operation: The machine being in motion, the sirup is allowed to run in the supply-tube Gr, which, in falling on the distributer O, is thrown offtangentially onto the screen B by the centrifugal velocity, the height of the distribution heilig` regulated by the Obliquity of the defiectors D without 'the necessity of varyin g or giving motion to the point of supply, thus rendering the feed automatic.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, in the construction of a centrifugal sugarseparating machiueis l. The separate or variable motion of the screen and distributer, as herein substantially described.

2. The oblique or spiral deiiector, as herein described, and for the purpose set forth.

JOHN DAVID BROWNE.

Witnesses:

HERM. MAEoKwoETE, VINsENr SCHWAB.