US623281A

US623281A - Cider-press

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Publication number: US623281A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1899-04-18
Anticipated expiration: 1916-04-18

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N0. 2 ,2 Patented Apr. I8, I899.

J. H. JENNINGS.

CIDER PRESS.

[Application filed Nov. 1, 1897.)

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JOSEPH HENRY JENNINGS, OF MIDDILEW'AY, VEST VIRGINIA.

CIDER-PRESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 623,281, dated April 18, 1899.

Application filed November 1, 1897. Serial No. 657,084. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, JOSEPH HENRY J EN- NINGS, of Middleway, in the county of Jefferson, State of 'West Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cider-Presses, of which the following is a complete specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

The object of my invention is to produce improvements in machines for expressing by a process of gradual reduction the liquid or cider from pomace, whereby the expulsion of the liquid is facilitated and in which apparatus is provided for collecting and conveying the expelled liquid.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure I is a longitudinal Vertical section of my machine complete. Fig. II is a sectional view on the line II II of Fig. I.

Referring to the figures on the drawings, 1 indicates the shell of my machine, which may be made of suitable material and of any suitable size and dimensions. It is preferably provided at one end with a hopper 2, that communicates with the interior of the shell, discharging, preferably, against an inclined partition 3.

lVithin the body of the shell I provide two series of rollers. 4 indicates each individual roller of the lower series, and 5 each individual roller of the upper series. The number of the rollers in the lower series preferably exceeds that in the upper series by at least one, the terminal roller of the lower series being located partially under the inclined partition Each of the rollers 4 is mounted, as upon trunnions 6, in suitable bearings in the side walls 7 of the shell. (See Fig. II.) The rollers 5 are mounted in like manner upon trunnions S in suitable bearings in the side walls 7. One of the trunnions 8 of the roller 5, next to the hopper 2, may be elongated, as indicated at 0, and provided with a drivc-pulley 10. (See Fig. II.) Beginning with the opposite rollers 4 and 5 next to the hopper 2, each succeeding pair of rollers is mounted in closer juxtaposition one to the other until the last pair of rollers is reached, when their peripheries are brought into close frictional contact.

Between each of the rollers 5 I employ a spacing-block 11, substantially triangular in cross-section and firmly mounted, as shown in Fig. II, in the side walls 7 of the shell. The surfaces 12 of the respective blocks 11 are tangential with the periphery of each of the rollers. Between the first and last of the rollers 5 there is by that means constructed a practically continuous downwardly-inclined wall, of which the several peripheries of the rollers 5 constitute the movable sections. All of the rollers 5 are surrounded by a belt 13, preferably consisting of' a permeable fabric,

provided upon its edge with a chain of flexible links 14, that are firmly united to the belt and which engage with sprocket-teeth 15, ranged around the ends of each of the rollers 5.

Through the employment of the belt 13, secured to the rollers, in the manner described the belt is caused to travel taut and smoothly over the faces of each of the rollers 5 and to communicate motion from the roller 5, to which the pulley 10 is secured, to each of the other rollers 5 of the series. tional contact of the rollers 5 with the last of the rollers 4 the belt 13 imparts motion to the last roller 4.

All of the rollers 4 are united by a belt 16, similar to the belt 13, being provided upon its opposite edges with a chain of links 17, that mesh with sprocket-teeth 18 upon the opposite ends of each of the rollers 4. By this means the motion communicated from the last of the rollers 5 to the last of the rollers 4 is also communicated to each roller 4 of the lower series.

Between adjacent rollers 4 opposite to each of the blocks 11 I providea tilted spacingblock 20, secured in the side walls 7 of the shell 1. The blocks 20 serve with respect to the rollers 4 not only to perform the office which the blocks 12 perform with respect to the rollers 5, but also by their tilted position to prevent buckling of the belt 16 between the rollers 4 when in operation it is loaded with pomace. The blocks 20 have their forward edges or the edges near the hopper 2 tilted downwardly out of contact with the under surface of'the belt 16.

Each'of the blocks 20 is provided with a spout or stripping-plate 21, one edge of which, as indicated at 22, is secured to the block, and the other edge being free rides resiliently Through fric-v upon the periphery of the next adjacent roller 4:. The stripping-plates or spouts are designed to carry off the liquid compressed from the pomace by each successive set of rollers 4 and 5. Each spout is provided with a terminal discharge-aperture 25, that communicates through one of the side walls 7 with a common inclined trough 26.

I prefer to provide in operative proximity with the last rollers of each of the series

ro tary brushes

26 and 28, which, rotating in opposition to the direction of the movement of the rollers against the face of the aprons 13 and 16, serve to keep them clean of pomace and to discharge it after final compression through the tail-gate 29 of the shell 1.

In operation pomace deposited into the hopper 2 drops upon the belt 16 and is carried by it and the belt 13 in the direction or" the arrows between the first pair of rollers 4 and 5. It is there, in the first place, merely accumulated, the rollers land 5 serving merely as forming or feed rollers, the distance between their peripheries being so great as to exert little or no pressure on the mass of pomace delivered between them. It the pomace be not equally distributed to each of the successive rollers, it will interrupt the operation of the machine, and it is in this view of the conditions necessary to the practical operation of the machine that the first set of rollers may be regarded as feed-rollers. Carried by the belts 13 and 16 the pomace is carried between the next rollers and is there subjected to pressure which expresses some of the liquid or cider, but without clogging the operation of the machine.

The cider expressed is caught in the spout 20 and passes out into the trough 26. The compressing operation is carried on between each successive pair of rollers L and 5, each one serving to express a portion of the moisture which remains in the pomace until the last set of rollers is reached, when through the close j uxtaposition of their peripheries all expressible moisture is separated from the pomace, which is discharged practically dry through the tailgate 29.

What I claim is" 1. The combination with two series of rollers, their driving mechanisms, and belts, of spacing-blocks between adjacent rollers, and an individual spout for each pair of the rollers of the lower series, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination with two series of rollers, their driving mechanisms, and belts, of spacing-blocks between adjacent rollers, an individual spout for each pair of the rollers of the lower series, and a common trough communicating with the several spouts, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination with two series of rollers, their belts, and driving mechanisms, of tilted spout-bearing spacing-blocks between the adjacent rollers of the lower series, substantially as set forth.

In testimony of all which I have hereunto subscribed my name.

R. WV. RILEY, W. S. ALEXANDER.