US813190A - Disintegrating-machine. - Google Patents

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N0. 8 13,190. PATENTED. FEB. 20, 1906. M. F. WILLIAMS. DISINTEGRATING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.13,1904.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MILTON F. WILLIAMS, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO NYILLIAMS PATENT ORUSHER & PULVERIZER COIIPANY, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI,

A CORPORATION OF MISSOURI.

DISINTEGRATING-MACHINE.

Patented Feb. 20, 1906.

Application filed August 13, 1904:. Serial No. 220,665.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MILTON F. WILLIAMS, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Louis, Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Disintegrating- Machines, of which the following is a'full, elear,'and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is aside elevational view, partly in section, of a shredding and pulverizing machineconstructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a fragmentary sectional view through a portion of the disintegratingchamber, the hopper including the breakerplate, and the grinding-plate with the adj ustments therefor. Fig. 3 is a fragmentary end view of the machine, showing the adjusting devices; and Fig. 4 is a modified form of hopper and connection between the grindingplate and breaker-plate.

This invention relates to a machine for disintegrating or pulverizing material-such, for example, as the machine shown and described in my Patent No. 726,602, dated April 28, 1903; and one of the objects of the invention is to provide means whereby the breaker-plate and the grinding-plate in the machine may be synchronously adjusted so that irrespective of the adjustment of the two plates their relative positions will not be changed.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in the construction, arrangement, and combination of the several parts, allas will be hereinafter described and afterward pointed out in the claims.

The reference -numeral 1 designates the base of the machine, which is provided with base-flanges 2. The base carries the usual disintegrating casing or chamber 3, which in this instance is provided with elongated openings or slots 4. A grinding-plate 5 is slidab y Supported within the disintegratin chamber 3 on shoulders formed on the wal s of said chamber, as shown in Fig. 2, said grinding-plate 5 being in the form of a hollow segment comprising a steam-jacket carrying pipes 6, one of which is an inlet-pipe and the other an outlet-pipe.

Supported at one end of the machine are bearing-support brackets 7, which consist of approximately rectangular frames, on the top edges of which are the bearing-blocks 8 to receive the shaft 9 of a hollow cylindrical breaker-plate 10, similar to the one illustrated in my patent above referred to. As hereto-- fore stated, it is the purpose of this invention to provide means whereby this breaker-plate and the grinding-plate may be synchronously adjusted so that their relative positions will be permanent. This is preferably accomplished by providing the lower bars 11 of the brackets 7 with slots 12, through which bolts or other suitable fastening devices 13 project, said fastening devices being rigid with the base 1.

On the opposite sides of the base are lugs 14 for the reception of the threaded adjusting devices 15, which project through said lugs and are'permitted to rotate, but are held against reciprocating movement by the collars 16 and 17. These adjusting devices are threaded in the vertical bars of the brackets, so that the rotation of the adjusting devices will cause the brackets to slide upon the base in a direction which may be governed by the direction of rotation of the adjusting device. In order that both brackets may be adjusted simultaneously, I have provided sprockets 18 on said adjusting devices, and on one of them I have provided a hand-wheel 19, so that said adjusting devices may be operated in an an obvious manner.

Projecting through the slots 4 in the chamber-casing 3 are projections or lugs 20, which are rigid with the grinding plate 5. The rods 21 are connected to these projections 20 and to the bearing-brackets 7, so that whenever the brackets are moved movement will be imparted to the indinglate through the medium of the re s21,-the imit of movement of the grinding-platebein g governed by the lengths of the slots land the adjusting movement of the breaker-plate shaft being permitted by the slots 22 in the disintegrating-chamber casing. The hopper 23 at the feed end of the machine is provided with a the concentrical movement of the steam-jacket rear wall 24, which is rigid with the hopper portion of the machine, so that From the foregoing it will be obvious that the single adjusting means for controlling the position of the breaker-plate will efiectually cause the grinding plate to move synchronously with said breaker-plate, so that the relative positions of the two plates will not bi: changed at any adjusted position of either p ate.

/ In Fig. 4 are shown the roller breaker-plate and links 27, mounted on the axles thereof, said links being1 pivotally connected .to lugs rojecting on t e under sides of curved si e ars, mounted in guideways in the side frames of the machine. These side bars, which are indicated at 28, carry cage-bars, (indicated at 29.) In this way the connection between the roller breaker-plate and the grindingsurface is within the casing instead of being outside of the casing, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3. In the construction shown in Fig. 4 the roller breaker-plate may be adjustedhorizontally, of concentric movement with respect to the axis of rotation of the pivotedrevolving hammers which cooperate with the breaker-plate and said grindmg-plate. The pivotal con- .nection between said roller breaker-plate and inding- .plate is such that while the brea er-plate moves horizontally the grinding-plate may move concentricallyybut the relative positions of the breakerlate and ind-ing-plate will not appreciably e change Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by LettersPatent, is v 1. In a machine of the class described, the

combination with a disinte ating-chamber, a hop er, a rotary breaker-p ate and a grindvided with a rotary beater, a horizontally-ad'- ing-p ate, of means for imparting synchronous movement to the rotary breakerlate and grinding-plate for urposes of a justmen t; substantially as escribed.

2. In a machine of the class described projustable rotary breaker-platef'a grindingplate concentrically ad ustable wit respect to'the axis of rotation of the beater, the

(Not shown.) The shaft 'horizonta y-adjustab while the grinding-plate is capable siaio' breaker-plate being adjacent to the entrance opening of the machine and the grindingp ate being immediately below said breakerplate, and means for imparting synchronous movement to the breaker-plate and grinding-plate; substantiall as described.

- 3. In a machine of the class described provided with rotary beaters, a horizontally-adjustable rotary breaker plate, a grindingplate concentrically adjustable with respect to the axis of rotation of the beaters, and a connecting means between the two whereby the movement of one will impart movement to the other; substantially as described.

4. In'a machine of the class described provided with rotary beaters, a horizontally-adjustable rotary breaker-plate, a indingplate concentrically adjustable with resp'ect to the axis of rotation of the beaters, sliding bearings supporting the breaker-plate, and rigid connections between the slidin bearings and the grinding-plate; substantially as described. j

5. In a machine of the class described prbvided with rotary beaters, a cylindrical casing havin an openin in its periphery and a e rotary breaker-plate adjacent to said opening, a grinding-plate be-. low the breaker-plate and concentrically adjustable with respect to the axis of rotation of the beaters, sliding bearings supporting the breaker-plate, and connecting means between the sliding bearings and the grindingplate; substantially as described. v

6. In a machine of the class described provided with a pivotally-mounted beater, the combination with a cylindrical casing having an opening in its periphery, of a horizontallyadjustable rotary breaker late, a grindingplate concentrically adj usta 1e with respect to the pivot of the beater, sliding bearin s supporting the breaker-plate, and a screw or 1111- parting motion to the sliding bearings where the rotary breaker plate and the grinding p ate will be synchronously moved'ysubstantially as described.

7. In a machine of the character described, the combination with a rotary breaker-plate and a grinding-surface, of means for simultaneously adjustmg the breakerplate horizontallg and the grinding-surface in a curved, P

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centrically movable grinding surface; substantially as described. I

9. In a machine of the character described,

- the combination with pivoted revolving ham+ mers, of a roller breaker-plate, a grinding-surface concentrically movable with respect to the axis of rotation of said hammers, a link connection between said grinding surface and said roller breaker-plate, and means for adj ustjng'said parts simultaneously; substan- IO tially as described.

In testimonywhereof I hereunto affix my signature, in the presence of two witnesses, this 10th day of August, 1904.

MILTON F. WILLIAMS Witnesses:

F. R. CORNWALL, GEORGE BAKEWELL.

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