US630541A - Apparatus for treating tobacco. - Google Patents

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No. 630,54I. Patented Aug. 8, |899. A. V. HYSDRE.

APPARATUS FOR TREATING TOBACCO.

(Application led July 26, 1898.)

\\ NVENTOR 5 I zAtllofney UNITEDl STATES.

,PATENT OFFICE.

ALPHENAS V. HYSORF., OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, ASSIGNOR OF T\VO-'I`IlIRDS TO S.. P. MAYO AND W. J. INI-IITEI-IURST, OF SAME PLACE.

APPARATUSFon TBATING TOBACCO.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Lttasratent'm. 630,541, dated August 8,1899.

Application inea July 2e, 189s.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALPHENAs V. HYSORE,

of Richmond, in the county of Henrico and State of Virginia, have invented certain newr dipping apparatus, the object of the invention being to provide means whereby the tobacco can be quickly and effectually dipped and to so construct the apparatus that practically all the solution employed can be used, thus avoiding the waste heretofore occasioned by the necessity of discarding large quantities of the solution (when used in prior apparatus) on account of the same becoming' foul or unduly saturated with the tobacco.

A further object is to construct the apparatus in such manner that it can be readily cleaned.

A further object is to produce an apparatus of the class stated which shall be simple in construction ,comparatively cheap to manufacture, and which shallbe effectual in all respects in the performance of itsfunctions.

With these objects in view the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, as hereinafter set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional view of an apparatus embodying my invention, and Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the dippingroller.`

A represents a tank or vat which may be made of met-al or of any other suitable material and supported bymeans of legs 1 atits respective ends. A portion of the bottom of the tank or vat, near the inlet end thereof, is made concave and curved,as at 2. Near the outlet end of the tank or vat standards 3 4 are provided, vin each of which two rollers a b c d are mounted. The lower roller of each pair is mounted in fixed bearings, while the journals of the upper rollers b cl are mount- Serial No. 686,926. (No model.)

ed in movablejournal-boxes 5. Semi-elliptical vsprin gs U bear at their respective ends on the journal-boxes 5, and the tension of these springs and also the distance apart of the rollers 'ofthe respective pairs of rollers can be regulated and adjusted by means of screws 7. An elastic belt or carrier B passes between the pairs of rollers and about an idle roller S, disposed in proximity to the concave portion or curved basin 2 of the bottom of the tank or vat, so as to receive material from the basin and carry it between the pairs of rollers. The rollers of vthe lirst pair will be adjusted farther apart than the rollers of the last pair, so that the tobacco will receive light and greater pressure when it passes through the last pair, and thus clogging of the mate- 4rialat the presser-rollers will be avoided and surplus solution will be effect-ually pressed out of the tobacco. The lower rollers ac are provided with gear-wheels 9, which receive motion from a pinion 10 and impart motion to long-tooth gear-wheels 11 on the journals of the upper rollers b d. Motion is imparted to the pinion 10 from a `pinion 12, and the YAflatter may receive motion from any convenient source of power. I

The sides of the tank or vat, at opposite sides of the concave portion thereof, are protvided with slotted standards 13, between which the dipping-drum 14 is disposed. The rjournals of this drum are mounted in journal- `boxes 15, removablyv disposed in the slotted standards 18. The journal-boxes 15 are carried at the free ends of arms 16, which are pivotally supported by the journals of the .upper presser-roller b. The pi-voted ends of the arms 16 are connected by a depending yoke 17, and the latter is provided with a horizontal arm 18, on which a counterweight 19 is adjustably secured. By manipulating the weighted arm 18 the arms 16 can be turned `on their pivoted supports and the journal-box `15 and dipping-drum 14 raised, thus permitting ready access to the partsfor cleaning purposes. If desired, chains e may be attached to the journal-boxes 15, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1, for raising the dippingdrum. l

The dipping-drum 14 may be made of wood pressure when it passes between the first pair.

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and is covered with a peripheral metal band 20, provided with teeth 21. The teeth 21 are made with curved edges 22, which receive the tobacco and carry it forward through the dipping solution. Motion is imparted to the dipping-drum by means of a sprocket-chainf, which receives motion from a sprocket-wheel g on a journal or roller b and transmits motion to a sprocket-wheel h on the journal of said dipping-drum. The teeth 2l move in comparatively close proximity to a curved perforated plate 23, removably disposed under the roller 14 and concentric with the curved bottom or basin 2 of the tank or vat.

In order to adjust the roller 14 relatively to the curved plate 23, should the teeth 21 become worn, screws 24 are disposed in the slotted standards 13, and on these screws the journal-boxes 15 rest.

A cross-bar 25 is adj ustably secured at its ends to the arms 16, and from this cross-bar a series of teeth 26 project and intermesh with the teeth 21 on the dipping-drum to insure the delivery of tobacco from the curved plate 23 to the carrier and prevent any tobacco being carried by the teeth 21 past said carrier.

The tank or vat will be supplied with the usual saturating solution in the concave portion or basin 2 and the tobacco will be fed between the dipping-roller and plate 23. The tobacco will be carried through the solution by the teeth 21 and be delivered to the conveyer, as above explained.

By the use of the curved concave bottom or basin of the tank or vat Iam enabled to utilize practically all the solution, and thus effect a greater saving of solution than when a flatbottom tank is used, because in the latter case a large amount of the solution becomes saturated and foul and must be discarded.

My improvements are simple in construction and effectual in all respects in the performance of their functions.

Various slight changes might be made in the details of construction of my invention without departing from the spirit thereof or limiting its scope, and hence I do not wish to imit myself to the precise details herein set orth.

Having fully described. my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination of a tank and a vertically-movable counterweighted toothed drum mounted over the same and adapted to feed material through liquid contained in said tank.

2. The combination of a tank, a concave perforated plate disposed in said tank and a vertically-movable counterweighted toothed drum mounted over the tank and adapted to cause material to pass over said plate and through liquid contained in the tank, substantially as set forth.

3. In an apparatus for treating tobacco, the combination with a tank, of a revoluble dipping-drum mounted over the tank and means for raising said dipping-drum, substantially as set forth.

4. The combination with a tank and a removable toothed drum mounted over the same, of a series of normally stationary teeth intermeshing with the teeth of the drum and means for adj ustingsaid stationary teeth relatively to the drum, substantially as set forth.

5. In an apparatus for treating tobacco, the combination with a tank having bearings for ljournal-boxes, of a revoluble dipping-drum,

approximately horizontal arms pivotallysupported at one end, journal-boxes for the drum carried by said arms and mounted in said bearings on the tank, substantially as set forth.

G. In an apparatus for treating tobacco, the combination of a tank having slotted standards, approximately horizontal arms pivotally supported at one end, a revoluble dipping-drum having its journals mounted at the free ends of said pivoted arms and adapted to enter said standards, substantially as set forth.

7 In an apparatus for treating tobacco, the combination with a tank, of pivoted arms, a dipping-roller mounted at the free ends of said arms and having teeth on its periphery and teeth carried by said pivoted arms and intermeshing with the teeth on the dippingdrum, substantially as set forth.

8. The combination withatank,ofaweight ed lever and a revoluble dipping-drum carried by said lever, substantially as set forth.

9. The combination with a tank, of pivoted arms, a revoluble dipping-drum carried by said pivoted arms, a yoke projecting from the pivoted ends of said arms and a weighted arm projecting from said yoke, substantially as set forth.

l0. In an apparatus for treating tobacco, the combination with a tank, pairs of presserrollers, means of transmitting motion thereto and a conveyer passing between the presserrollers, of arms pivotally connected at one end to the journals of one of the presser-rollers, a revoluble dipping-drum mounted at the free ends of said arms, and gearing between said drum and one of the presser-rollers, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALPHENAS V. IIYSORE.

IVitnesses:

M. A. WooDELL, E. M. CRUTCHFIELD.

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