US599535A - Machine for washing vegetables - Google Patents

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CASPER SIPPLE 0F. C.

MACHINE FORWASHING VBGBTABLBS.

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" are@ tries@ CASPER SIPPLE OF C., 0F G-ARDENVILLE, MARYLAND SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 599,535, dated February 22, 1893.

Application filed June lJ 1897. Serial No. 638,923. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, CASPER SIPPLE or 0 a citizen of the United States, residing at Gardenville, in the county of Baltimore and State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for 'Washing Vegetables, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a machine' for washing vegetables which are put up in bunches in readiness for the market.

The object of the invention is to provide a machine of simple construction adapted to wash bunched vegetables rapidly and thoroughly.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a side elevation of the machine in section. Fig. 2 is an end elevation, parts also being in section.

A tub or box A to contain water is mounted on a suitable stand or base B. Vithin the tub or box is a frame which comprises two uprights C, whereon a brush-roller cl is mounted. A gear-wheel e is mounted on one end of the brush-roller shaft d and meshes with another wheel f, mounted above. it. The wheel e on the roller-shaft d' is on the outer side of the upright C and between it and the wall of the tub. In this position the gearwheel can revolve in the water without interfering with the vegetables. The brush-roller d and this wheel are thus arranged to avoid perforating the Walls of the tub for bearings for the shaft and obviate the liability of leakage through the tub. The shaft f of the upper wheel has two bearings, one in the said upright @,which projects above the top of the tub, and the other in a vertical standard parallel with the upper projecting end of said upright and connected therewith at the top and resting on the upper edge of the tub A. The upper wheel f revolves between the upright C and said vertical standard. The shaft l45 f carries a crank or pulley to drive it. In the present instance it is a pulley g. A crankshaft 71, is mounted on the stand B andis operated by atreadle t', and on one end this shaft carries a fly-wheel j and at the other end a drive-pulley la. A cord or belt Z connects the drive-pulley 71; and pulley g. This simple mechanism provides for revolving the brushroller d. The bristles d2 on the roller revolve in the water, and the vegetables to be washed are brought into position in the water below the brushes, so as to be acted on by the revolving brushes, which thoroughly clean the vegetables,

An inclined board N is supported between the two uprights C and below the revolving brushes and serves to support the bunch of vegetables submerged in the water in proper position while the brushes and water do the Washing. The position of the inclined board may be changed to have it raised or lowered. In the present instance the lower end of the inclined board is supported on suitable blocks o, attached to the uprights C, and the higher end of the board is at the side of the tub or box where the operator stands. This higher end is sustained by a spring p, which will yield, and thereby said higher end may be depressed by the operator bearing his hand on the board. It will be seen that when the operator takes a bunch of vegetables in his hand to wash them his hand, with the vegetables, rests on the inclined board below the revolving brushes. He can therefore be governed by the size of the bunch and depress the board more or less, all the time holding onto the bunch with his hand.

As here shown, an operator can keep the machine in motion and wash vegetables in bunches with great rapidity.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is#- In a vegetable-washing machine, the combination of a tub, A; a frame within the tub and having two uprights, C, one of which projects up above the top of the tub; a brushroller, d, mounted in bearings in said two uprights; a gear-wheel, c, on the shaft of said brush-roller and between the upright and the wall of the tub where it can revolve in the water without interfering with the vegetables; a vertical standard resting on the upper edge of the tub and parallel with the upper projecting end of said upright and connected therewith; a shaft, f', mounted in bearings which are respectively in said upper projecting end of the upright and said vertical standard, and carrying a wheel, f, which meshes with said roller gear-wheel; a smooth In testimony whereof I affix my signature inclined board, N, between the said two upin the presence of two witnesses.

riohts and below the brush-roller; and a suspeansion spiral spring, p, having one of its CASPER SIPPLE OF C' ends attached to one of the uprights and the Witnesses: other end attached to the higher edge of the EMMA M. CARTER, said inclined board, as set forth. WM. I-I. CARTER.

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