US582596A

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Publication number: US582596A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1897-05-11
Anticipated expiration: 1914-05-11

Description

(No Model) L. BAUDENDISTLE & J. A. DINGLEY.

AMALGAMATOR.

No. 582.596. Patented May 11, 1897.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LAFAYETTE BAUDENDISTLE AND JULIEN A. DINGLEY, OF DENVER, COLORADO; SAID DINGLEY ASSIGNOR TO SAID BAUDENDISTLE AND PETER F. BAUDENDISTLE, OF SAME PLACE.

AMALGAMATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.. 582,596, dated May 11, 1897.

Application filed July 3 l, 1 8 9 6.

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Be it known that we, LAFAYETTE BAUDEN- DIsTLE and J ULIEN A. DINGLEY, citizens of the United States of America,residin g at Denver, in the county of Arapahoe and State of Colorado, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Amalgamators; and we do declare the following` to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as 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 figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in amalgamators and itconsists of the features, arrangements, and combinations hereinafter described and claimed, all of which will be fully understood by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which is illustrated an i.

embodiment thereof.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal Vertical section taken through the apparatus. Fig. 2 is a section taken on the line x x, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a section taken on the line y y, Fig. 1.

Similar reference-charactersindicating'corresponding part-s i11 these views, let the nnmeral 5 designate a suitable frame, in which is journaled a shaft 6, having a fast pulley 7 at one extremity. To the extremities of the shaft, just within the journals, are made fast the heads 8 and 9, respectively. To these heads are applied an amalgamat-ed plate 10, d

composed of a rectangular sheet of copper, which is bent around the heads, its longitudinal edges being overlapped, as shown at 10a. This plate is locked in place by metal straps 12,whose extremities are provided with apertured flanges 13, secured by fastening-bolts 14. As shown in the drawings, three of these straps are employed, one being placed at each extremit-y of the plate andthe other in the middle.

The heads 8 and 9 are provided with annular flanges Sa and 9, respectively, located a short distance from the extremities of the plate 10. To these flanges are applied a cylindrical screen 15, which is locked in place eral No, 601,278. (No model.)

by longitudinal metal straps 1G, applied to the outer surface of the screen and held in place by circular straps 17, surrounding the screen and secured by fastening-bolts passed through apertured fiangcs 17 a, formed on the extremities of the straps. The head S is closed between the plate 10 and Jthe screen 15, as shown at 80, while between the fiange 8a and the collar 8d, surrounding the shaft, the head is open to receive the pulp, which is fed into the machine from a chute or slnice 1S,which discharges the material to be treated through the annular opening in the head. The collar 8d is connected with the annular fiange Sa by the Spider-arms S. The head 9 is open and is provided with an outer flange 9,which the plate 10 engages. The Itwo flanges 9 and 9c are connected by narrow webs 9d, while the flange 9fL is connected wit-h the collar 9;, by Spider-arms 9h.

The apparatns comprising the shaft, the heads, the am algamatin g-plate,and the screen are rotated by connecting the pulley on the 'shaft with any suitable motor.

The pulp is fed into the cylindrical screen, which is of suitable mesh to reject the coarser gangue, which is disoharged from the screen through the opposite head 9, while the finer material and that containing the values passes through the screen to the amalgamated plate 10, and as the apparatus is rotated the mineral particles are brought into contact with the said plate and saved,while the balance of the gangue is discharged from the machine between the flanges 9a and 9c of the head 9.

In cleaning up it is only necessary to nnfasten the straps 12 and remove the plate 10. The latter may then be spread out and the amalgam removed from its inner.surface,after which the plate is replaced and fastened as before.

This apparatus may be used in connection with a sluice, as in placer-mining, or in connection with stamp-mills, or in any other relation where an amalgamator is desired.

Having thus described our invention,wl1at we claim is- In an amalgamator, the combination with a suitable frame, of the horizontal shaft journaled therein, the two open heads S and f) having collars snrrounding and made fast to the shaft, said heads having ann ular flanges 8 and 9IL located at a suitable distance from their peripheries, the detachable amalgainatimg-plate applied to the periphei'ies of the heads and having its longitudinal eclges overlapped, fastening straps snrronncling said plate and having flanges connected by suitable fastening devices, a detachable cylindrical screen Whose extremities are applied to the fiang'es 8a and 9 of the heads S and 9, longitndinal strips engag'ing` said screen on the outside,fastenin g-straps snrronnding said