US717912A - Drainer for garbage-digesters. - Google Patents

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DRAINER EUR GARBAGE DIGBSTERS. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 26, 1901.

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UNTTED STATES ATENT ERNEST SETH PECK, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO Il- IE NEWBURGI-I REDUCTION COMPANY, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

DRAINER FOR GARBAGE-DIGESTERS.

I SPEGXIFICATIGN forming part of Letters Patent No. 717,912, dated January 6, 1 903.

Application led September 26, 1901.` Serial No. 76,613. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, ERNEST SETH PECK, a shown, may be cast integral with the upright citizen of the United States, and a resident of walls. Eyes C are secured to said top plate, Cleveland, county of Cuyahoga, and State of whereby the entire structure may be lifted 5 Ohio, have invented a new and useful Imfrom the bottom of the receptacle. As illusprovementin Drainers for GarbagefDigesters, trated in the drawings, the top plate and upof which the following is a specification, the 'right portion of the side plates are left imprinciple of the invention being herein experforate; but the perfor-ations may be eX- plained and the best mode in which I have tended to the top of the top plate, if required. 6o 1o contemplated applying that principle, so as The end walls b3 may be also perforated, if reto distinguish it from other inventions. quired or necessary.

My invention relates to draining devices The perforations in the walls of the drainer utilized in apparatus for digesting garbage, are made so as to have a greater area upon its object being to provide a structure which the inside than upon the outside, as shown l5 will increase the econoinyof operation ofsuch in Figs. II and III, and are preferably made devices. of rectangular form, so as to present as large Said invention consists of means hereinafa perforated area as is possible. Such deter fully described, and speciiically set forth scribed form of the perforations prevents to in the claims. a large extent the clogging thereof by the 7o zo The annexed drawings and the following garbage which is placed in the receptacle and description set forth in detail certain mechrests upon the bottom of same around the anism embodying the invention, such disdrainer. Such garbage entering the side of closed means constituting but one of various perforation of least area finds upon progressmechanical forms in which the principle of ing therethrough, as indicated bythe arrow, z5 the invention may be used. Fig. III, the increasing area which permits In said annexed drawings, Figure I repreof its easy passage, as will be readily undersents a vertical axial cross-sectional view of stood. Such form of perforations may also the lower end of a garbage-digester embodybe applied, as is shown, to the bottom of the ing my invention. Fig. II represents a horireceptacle. 8o

3o zontal section taken upon the planeindicated The drainer having a plurality of perfoby the line 2 2, Fig. I. Fig. III represents a rated Walls located transversely of the bot- VieW of a portion of one of the drainer-walls, tom, as shown, presents a large drainage such view being made uponan enlarged scale.4 area, the increasing area facilitating greatly The garbage-receptacle A is provided with the draining process. The drainer, as is 35 the perforated bottom a, as shown in Fig. I, shown, rests freely upon the bottom of the a door A' being provided inthe side Wall of receptacle, so that when it is desired to rethe receptacle for the removal of solid matter move solid matter from the bottom of the from the latter. Located centrally and restlatter through the door A the entire strucing upon said bottom is the draining device ture may be lifted from such bottom and an 9o 4o B. Said device consists of a plurality of perunobstructed space presented for such reforated plates forming radially-located wings moval. i b, which open to communication with each Other modes of applying the principle of other and open at the bottom, whereby, it is `my invention may be employed instead of seen, they are open to communication with the one explained, change being made as re- 45 thereceptaclebottom. Said describeddrainer gards the mechanism herein disclosed, prois constructed so as to form one integral strucvided the means stated by any one ofV the ture, it being preferable to form the upright following claims or the equivalent of such Walls of separate plates, as shown in Fig. II, stated means be employed. and to bind the Whole together by means of I therefore particularly point out and dis- Ioo 5o bolts b and suitable separators. The top of tinctly claim as my inventionthe drainer is covered by a plate b2, which l. In a drainer for garbagerdigesters, the

combination with a garbage-receptacle having a perforated bottom, of a draining structure supported upon the latter and consisting of a plurality of perforated plates forming radially-located intercommunieating Wings, said draining device forming` one integral structure and being open to communie-ation with the receptacle-bottom.

Signed by me this 20th day of September, 1901.

ERNEST SETHv PECK. Attest:

D. T. DAVIES, GEO. WM. SAYWELL.

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