US699004A - Sand-sprinkling machine. - Google Patents

Description

No. 699,004. Patented Apr. .29, I902. 6. F. ONEIL.

SAND SPRINKLING MACHINE.

(Application filed Dec. 31, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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WITNESSES ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES P TENT @rrrcni.

CORNELIUS F. ONEIL, OF PATTERSON, NEVV JERSEY.

S.AND-SPRINKLING .MACHlN-E.

SPECIFICATION forming part or Letters Patent No. 699,004, dated April 29, 1902 Application filed December 31, 1901. Serial No. 87,946. (No model.)

To all whom it nzay concern." Be it known that I, CORNELIUS F. ONEIL,

a citizen of the United States, residing in.

face of considerable area with sand, the op oration is at present usually effected manually, which means a great waste of time and labor.

The'object of this invention, therefore, is to provide simple and effective automatic means for sprinkling or throwing sand -on streets, roadways, and the like.

A further object of the invention is to so construct the mechanism thatit maybe readily ad justedto'and removed from any vehicle, but preferably a street-sweeping machine.

My invention is fully illustratedin the accompanying drawings, wherein corresponding parts are designated by like reference characters, and wherein v Figure l is a top plan view of a streetsweeping machine provided with my sanding mechanism. Fig. 2 is a view in side elevation of what is seen in Fig. 1, with the nearv wheelof the machine removed and certain parts shown in section and others broken away; and Fig. 3 illustrates a detail of the invention.

In said drawings, a designates a streetsweeping machine from which the brush thereof and the-brackets for said brush have been temporarily removed. The machine is provided, as usual, with a bevel-gear 5, carried on the main axle c and adapted to be connected thereto for rotation therewith by a clutch (1, controlled by a lever e. As usual, the machine is also provided with a countershaft f, suspended by brackets g from, the frame and carrying a beveled pinion g,which meshes with the gear I), said shaft f being the form a part shaft from which the brush 'when in use gets its motion. I

On the frame of the machine rests a recep- 5 5 tacle or hopper h, the bottom wallsiof. which slope toward a common point, where is formed an openingj; In this opening is fitted a funnel 1c, the passage through which is controlled by a valve or damper Z, adapted to slide in a guiding projection m of said funnel. By a link-motion n the valve or damper is connected with a lever 0 for operating it.

p designates a stirrup which is suspended from the frame and which provides a bearing for a beveled pinion g. This pinion is se cured to the upper end of a box or chamber T, which has an opening at the bottom normally closed by a plug or head 8, which is box. or chamber, which, with its nozzles, is

designed to serve as the distributing device, it may be removed by taking out the plug 8. At the sametime since the inner end of the plug is conical in form it tends to cause the sand to fall toward the openings u. and not collect in the'bottom of the chamber. The

gear q also carries a sleeve 10, which receives the lower or discharge end of the funnel is.

In order to insure against the sand becoming clogged while passing through the funnel, cylinder, and chamber, Iextend through them a shaft 00, which has its lower end squared, as at y, and projecting into a squared recess z in the plug 3, and on this shaft place blades or breakers l. The upper endof this o shaft has bearings in the cross-piece 2, carried by the hopper h. To prevent the shaft or interfering with the damper Z, the-latter is formed with a slot 3, and in order that this slot when the damper is closed may be covered the funnel is carries a blade 4:, designed to overlap the slot., By means of a shaft 5,

journaled in brackets 6 and connected with the counter-shaft f by a sprocket-and-chain arrangement 7 and a beveled pinion" 8, oar- 10o ried by said shaft 5 and engaging the gear q, the box or chamber r, sleeve w, and shaft w and its breakers may be rotated. Since the sand will have a tendency to clog in the openingj of the hopper, I prefer to partially cover said opening with a tapered or pyramidshaped guard 9, mounted on supports 10.

In order that the throwing range of the nozzles 1) may be varied according to the area of the surface which is being sanded, I provide the said nozzles with auxiliary nozzles or tips, which may be of varying lengths, detachably secured to the nozzles 12, so as to be interchanged at will.

It will be unnecessary to describe the operation of the mechanism other than to say that the vehicle being in motion and the damper open the sand will pass from the hopper into the box or chamber, to be there distributed by centrifugal action as the parts rotate.

The arrangement and construction of the parts of my sanding mechanism are such that with the minimum labor and inconvenience and the loss of a practically inconsiderable amount of time the brush of the machine and the sanding mechanism may be interchanged the one for the other.

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

1. In combination, with a vehicle-frame, a hopper arranged on said frame and having a discharge-opening in the lower portion thereof, the lower walls of said hopper being inclined toward said opening, a rotary receptacle arranged under said opening, a stationary funnelinterposed between the hopperand said receptacle and projecting into them at its ends, means for securing said receptacle detachably to the frame, and means for rotating said receptacle, substantially as de scribed.

2. In a distributing mechanism for sanding-machines, the combination of a suitable frame, a rotary box or chamber, means for supporting said box or chamber in the frame,

a removable plug having its top or inner end of conical form constituting the lower wall of said chamber, and discharge-nozzles projecting laterally from said box or chamber immediately above said plug, substantially as described.

3. The combination of a vehicle-frame, a hopper arranged on said frame and having an opening in its bottom portion,the bottom walls of said hopper beinginclined toward said opening, a pyramidal guard arranged over said opening and spaced from said hopper at the sides thereof, a rotary receptacle arranged in said frame under said opening and having lateral discharge-openings, a shaft revoluble with said receptacle and projecting up into said hopper, breakers carried by said shaft at spaced points substantially throughout the length of said shaft, and means for rotating said receptacle, substantially as described.

4:. The combination of a vehicle-frame, a hopper arranged on said frame and having an opening in its bottom portion, a rotary rcceptacle arranged in said frame under the opening of the hopper and having lateral discharge-openings, a sleeve surmounting said receptacle, a funnel interposed between said sleeve and the hopper and projecting into said sleeve and the opening in said hopper, a shaft revoluble with said receptacle and projecting up into the hopper through said sleeve and funnel, and laterally-projecting nozzles for said receptacle communicating with the openings therein, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 23d day of December, 1901.

CORNELIUS ONEIL.

Witnesses:

ROBERT J. POLLITT, ALFRED GARTNER.

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