US653874A - Pea huller and cleaner. - Google Patents

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No. 653,874. Patented .luly l7, I900.

E. D. MORRIS.

UNI-TED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDMOND DARLING MORRIS, OF NASHVILLE, GEORGIA.

PEA HU LLER AND 'CLTEANER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 653,874, dated July 17, 1900.

Application filed October 12, 1899. Serial No. 733,370. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDMOND DARLING Moa- RIS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Nashville, in the county of Berrien and State of Georgia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pea Hullers and Cleaners; and I do hereby 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.

This invention relates to pea hullers and cleaners, and has for its object the provision of an improved hand-operated machine of simple and durable construction, adapted to perform its offices in a highly-satisfactory manner with the expenditure of a comparatively small amount of energy on the part of the operative, but more particularly to provide a novel form of cover for the hullingdrum, which can be easily removed or placed in position to give ready access to the drum and hulling-breast for purposes of repair or cleaning.

The invention is embodied in a machine comprising certain improved features and novel combinations of parts set forth in detail hereinafter and pointed out in the appended claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a longitudinal section, dotted lines representing the belt and pulleys; Fig. 2, a detail view of the hulling breast and drum, and Figs. 3 and 4 detail views of the cover and improved fastenings.

The frame 1 is provided with an inclined chute or table 2, down which the peas are fed to the hulling mechanism. Thehulling chamber or box has a semicircular bottom provided with a transverse discharge-slot 3 in its bottom, which provides the two breasts 4 and 5, the latter having hulling pins or teeth 6, arranged in continuous rows transversely and vertically at suitable distances apart. The breast 4 is not provided with pins, as they are unnecessary at this point. A suitable blower or fan 7 is provided in a casing 8, from which the air is blown across the space below the discharge-slot, which separates the hulls from the peas, the latter falling to the ground and the former being blown off at one side,

The hulling-drum 9 is provided with joun nals 10, which turn in semibearings 11 on the frame, thus permitting the drum to be easily lifted out whenever necessary. On one journal is a band-pulley 12 and crank 13, and a belt 14 connects said pulley to a pulley 15 on the fan or blower. The drum is provided with hulling pins or teeth 16, arranged in circumferentially and transversely disposed rows, which are so positioned as to pass between the vertical rows of teeth on the hulliug-breast,th us insuring the proper stripping of the bulls from the peas and the cleansing thereof.

The improved cover employed has side pieces 17 having curved or semicircular tops and provided with projections 18, which have squared ends or shoulders 19, adapted to abut snugly against the squared ends of the side boards of the inclined chute; A curved sheet-metal top 20 is secured to the upper edges of the side pieces 17 and has its ends anchored or secured by cleats 21 and 22, fastened to the side pieces, the cleat 22 having its ends resting on the projections 18, thus providing a mouth 23 for the entrance of the peas to the hulling-box.' On the frame are fasteners 24, having upright portions, which are sunk into the ends of the side boards of the inclined chute, and horizontal portions, which are adapted to enter apertures 25 in the shoulders 19. I The numeral 26 designates a removable screw on the frame, which is received in a depression 27 in cleat 21. By unloosening this screw the cover can be removed bodily, giving access to the hulling mechanism; but when the fasteners are fitted in the cover and the screw is in position the cover is very secure and houses the operative parts and prevents the peas from fly ing out.

In operating the machine the crank is turned, which sets the drum and fan in rotation. The teeth strip the hulls from the peas and clean them, and both hulls and peas fall through the slot, to be met by a strong blast of air from the fan, which insures a proper separation.

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

In a pea boiler and cleaner, the combination with a hulling-box and hulling-drum cover, and another fastening consisting of a therein, of a feed-chute leading to the box removable screw'for holding the cover in poand having its side boards provided with I sition and in engagement with the fastenings squared shoulders at their ends next the box, aforesaid.

5 acover for the drum and box having a mouth In testimony whereof I aflix my signature [5 or opening to receive the peas from the chute in presence of two Witnesses.

and provided with shoulders which abut the EDMOND DARLING MORRIS. shoulders on the side boards, fastenings at Witnesses: theshoulders of the side boards which have J. H. GASKIN,

1o projecting portions entering holes in the J. P. KNIGHT.

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