US815575A - Rotary cheese-paraffining machine. - Google Patents

Description

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ROTARY CHEESE PARAPPINING MACHINE;

` APPLICATION FILED APB.3, 1905.

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fNo. 815,575. PATRNTRD MAR. 2o, 1906*. l l0. o. lAMSDRN.

ROTARY GH'RRsE PARAPPINING MACHINE. y

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no1-Am CHEESE-PAR'AFFINING' MAoHlNE.

Be it known that I, ORvILLE O. AMsDEN, a

citizen of the United States, residing in Cuba,`-

povements in Rotary` Cheese--Parafining achines, of which the followingl isa specifi- The object of my invention is to rovide an improved cheese-paraffining mac ne by which cheese-rolls may be easily and `(uickly paraflined by being received and rev lved in swin ing baskets which receive them from a sup y-chute or the like, 4 sive y through a tank of ot'p'araffn, and

then allow them to drip and cool while pass-v ing around to a shelf upon which they are deposited, the rolls then passing down an incline to the l starting andI receiving bench, where they are ready for boxing. The operation of my device is a continuous one and comprisesa cycle of movements in which the cheese-rolls are first passed to the machine, are then acted upon by the latter, and are automatically returned to the starting-'point or some adjacent point ready for the boxing op-` eration. f

For a full description of the inventionand the merits `thereof and also .to 'acquire a view of one in all the views o knowledge of the details' of construction of the means for effecting the result reference 1s to be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, in whichf- Flgure 1 is a side elevation of an embodif .ment of my invention. 2 is a top plan viewthereof. Fig. 3 is a ail perspective of the swinging carriers or baskets'. I

.Corresponding and like vparts are referred toin the followin descriptlon and vindicated the drawings by the same reference characters.

l Referring to the drawings, the referenceletter K designates two.spacedapart hanv ers between which is journaled a transverse s aft F, carrying two sets of radial arms G, (in this instance four in number in. each set,) said armsbein secured at their inner ends by bolts J to ub-plates Hon the' shaft. The said shaft is driven in any suitable manner-'fin the present instance a band-.wheel or pnl-,- ley L eing employed. 'Between the outer ends ofevery two corresponding arms G is :sus ended a freely-swinging basketC, the

bas et being pivotall sus ended `from the arms at the upperendt ereo iThis basket'in Specicationof Letters-Patent. I application mea April 9,1905. serial No. 253,129.

ass them succesthe present instance-comprises twoy U-sha ed bars C', one of'which is'pi-voted to the ot er,

e two bars by means of this ar'd in a more orless spaced-,a art, ositionwithrespect to each other. Eai ofp the baskets isfurther rovided,with an arm D, extending rearwardly therefrom at one side and` preferably secured to .or formed inte alfwithone of the two LJ-shaped bars C 'llel arms D are preferably somewhat curved, as shown. The radial arms G, which are' designed to revolve about the shaft F as 'an axis, constitute, withtheir swingingbaskets C, a revoluble carrier for the cheese-rolls.

M designates a vchute or trackway over 'Patented umh '20,'19a

so that -theymay be more or less extended at ins C4 on the other'bar whereby'to which the cheese-rolls are designed tor'travel in their passa e to the receiving-platform N,

ed with a counterweigh't 0, to return it to itsnormal-horizontal ositionl Thetilting l 'platform N forms practically a' continuation of the track or chute M, and the forward end of the platform is located in juxtaposition to .the ath described b revo vin arms G. he cheese-rolls may be the outer ends of the fed to t e tilting platform in any suitable -I C 'mannen but as the feeding device does not form a material part of my present invention I have deemed it unnecessary to illustrate the same. lf desired, thel cheese-rolls may -be fed byV hand 'one at.r a time direct from the unboxing-bench onto the tilting platform, and the latter mag be provided with two s acedapart sto s between which the c eeserolls ma e set directly over` the hinge of the tilting p atform, so thatthey will be conveniently supported without danger of rollin off the same and yet be in position to roll o the stop `down the platform in tilted position and into one of the swinging baskets designed for its reception.

Asthe carrier is rotatedan arm S, secured to the l.outer end of one of eachhpair of radial arms G, will ystrike against the outer end of the platform and cause the latter to tilt, assuming the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1. .This tilting will result in acheeseroll being received in the basket that hap-l pens to be adjacent theouter end of the platform at the time, and as the carrier continues t0 rotate the said basket, withthe cheeseroll in it, will be carried through the tank of parailn, whereby the cheese-roll becomes coated. This tank ma be constructed 1n any desired manner, an as shown in Fig. 1,

`it referably comprises an vouter shell A, ,pro-

vi( ed with water-pipe R, waterlass P, and steam-outlet Q, and an inner s ell-B, designed to lreceive the paraflin and wedge into the outer shell A. As shown, the platform N is in the resent instance hinged directly to the parat '1n-tank, with its outer end projecting over the same. As the carrier then continues to revolve the Swingin suspended baskets, with the cheese-rolls 1n t em, will be carried out of the paraffin one at a time and passed around in the direction indicated by the dart in Fig. 1 through the air, ,whereby the are allowed to drip` and cool. When a bas (et reaches the upper end of its travel, its arm D will come into contact with a laterally-projecting pin W, secured on the lower end of the frame X, attached to the roof or the like, as shown, and by thus coming in contact the basket will be tilted rearwardly,

as is evident from the drawings, and this will allow the cheese-roll to" be discharged from the basket onto a receiving chute or runway T, which may be of any suitable character, in this instance being suspended from hangers V, the receiving end of said runway bein g located at the proper point, so that when the basket is tilted to discharge a cheese-roll its lower end will engage with the outer end of the`runway, as indicated in Fig. 1. The cheese-rolls are thus'permitted to roll down to the receiving-bench or similar device ready for boxing. As the carrier still continues to revolve the basket will be again presented to the platform to receive another cheese-roll, the foremost cross-bar C of the basket riding downwardly over a suitable inclined guide Y, which maintains the basket in the proper position and prevents it from swinging forwardly, in which eventit might not be in a position to properly receive the 4next cheese-roll.

As illustrated in Fig. 1 the parts of the apparatus are so proportioned that when a swinging basket is tilted by the pin W to deposit its cheese-roll onto the runway T the lower edge of. the basket is in contact with. the outer end of said runway, being held in this position by the en agement of the arm D with the said pin As the inclined guide Y projects downwardly fromthe said end of the runway, it is manifest that the basket in its'further downward movement will ride upon the said guide and be directed thereby onto the tilting platform. The baskets being U-shaped, as above described, as soon as their lowermost cross-bar clears the lower end of the inclined guide Y the basket as a whole is out of engagement with the in- /swinging baskets, means for automatical clined guide, for the reason that it is only the lower cross-ba which engages therewith.

In other words, the inclined guide Y is located between the planes of the vertical bars C ofthe baskets and subsequentl also within the plane of the arms G and oth in parts of'thepparatus.

he reference-letter U designates side guides for the roll as it is received upon the tilting platform N, said guides in the present instance being shown as attached to and depending from the runway T. l

From the foregoing description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, it will be seen that I have provided a useful and novel form. of apparatus, which is provided with a revolving carrier and operates contin- :ually to receive cheese-rolls one after the other and carry them successively through paraflin, after which the carrier will carry them through the air to allow them to drip and cool, and will deposit them one after the other upon a runway or the like. It will also be seen that the operation of the apparatus is entirely automatlc, it being only necessary to supply the inclined track or chute with er project-k cheese-rolls, the machine automatically going through all the other steps of the operation.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed `as, new is- 1. An apparatus of the character described comprising a revoluble carrier, a series of freely-swinging baskets mounted thereon, a suitable bath, and means whereby said baskets will receive the articles and carry them through said bath and automaticall deposit them upon a receiving-table or the ike.

2. An apparatus of the character described comprising a,n revoluble carrier, a freely-swin 1n basket carried thereby, a suitable bat t rough which said basket is designed to pass, a receiving chute or run- Way, and means for automatically tiltin the basket after it has emerged from the ath whereby to discharge its contents upon said runway.

3. An apparatus of the character described comprising a series of revoluble swinging baskets, a suitable bath, and means whereb said baskets will automatically receive t e articles one at a time and carr them through said bath and finally deposit them successively upon a receiving-table or the like. Y

4. An apparatus of the character described comprising a series of revoluble freelydepositing the articles in the successive bas5i kets, and means whereby said baskets'will deposit their articles successively onto a receiving-table or the like.

5. An apparatus ofthe character described comprising a revoluble carrier, a suitable IOO - receiving-runway above said bath, and means v whereby said carrier will automatically rey like is bath, a supply-chuteladjacent said bath, a

ceive the articles from said chute,carry them throug 'e the bath and nally deposit them upon said runway.

, l 6; An apparatus ofthe character described comprising a revoluble carrier prov.ided-withl a series of Jfreely-swinging baskets, a;-Qsuitable bath through w'vhich said baskets aredesigned to successively ass, and means for'automat- `ically tilting said baskets to allow them to deposit their contents upon a runwayor the comprisinga revoluble carrier including a'se'- ries of lswinging baskets,4 asuitable bath carrier, a stationary abutment,` and: an" arm on said abutmentwherebyt'o tilt'the basket for the purpose set forth.v

8. An apparatus ofthe character described comprising a freely-swinging revoluble basket, a suitable bat the basket with the article to be acted upon by the bath, and means for automatically ti ting tue basket after itl has emerged from the bath whereby vto discharge its contents.

9. An apparatus of the character described comprlsing a revoluble carrier including a.

swinging basket', a suitable bath throu h which said basket is designed to pass, a ti ting platform arranged in the path' of said bas# ket, and an arm secured to the carrier and designed to'tilt said platform whereby to allow e the'articlethereon to enter the basket.

10. apparatus of the character describedcomlprising' aV revoluble carrier including a free yswinging basket, -a suitable bat-h .through which-said basket is designed to ass, la tilting r platform forthearticles, thel orward end ofsaid platform lying within the path of said basket, Iand a depressing device supported on the carrier and esigned to tilt the outer-end 'or said platform when-the lbasket is ad jacentth'ereto as andl for the purpose set forth.' i v 1.1:. An apparatus of the character described comprisin a revolub'le carrier including. a swinging asket, a suitable vbath through which said basket is designed to pass, an arm rigidly secured to said basket and'ex'tending rearwardly therefrom at one side, and a pin W projecting laterally into the ath of'said arm and designed to engage the atter to tilt y the basket, as and for the purpose set forth.

12. An apparatus of the character described comprising a revoluble shaft, two sets of ravat a time and will 'through the' bath an them upon said runway. 1, 13. Anapparatusof the characterdescribed lcomprising a revoluble carrier including a 7 An apparatusfof the character-described `said basket, 1a runway a v 4means' for tilting the basket rearwardl ad#` v 'jacent' the ends of said runway, where y to "..discha'rge the-contents ofthe basket ontothe same, and'guides extending from said run-l through whlch said' bas-4 ket is designed to pass, means for supplying y which said basket is desi dial armssecured'thereon, Swingin baskets l .kets are desi ned to successively pass, a supply-chute ad]acent the path of said baskets, areceivirg-runway `or the like above said chute, an means whereby the baskets will automatically receive the articles one basket (pass th`em successively automatically deposit swinging basket, a bath through which said basket '1s vdesigned "to pass, a su ply'- chute having an end adjacent the ath escribed by ilove said chute,

way 1and designed to prevent the free swing- 14'. An apparatus ofthe characterdescribed` vcomprising a revoluble carrier, a lswingin .ing of the basket as it passes to the said chute. l

basket embodiedV therein, a bath throuo' b edl to pass, a suply device havin an en adjacent the ath described by sai basket, a runway a ove saidchute means for tilting the basket rear- ,wardly adjacent the end of saidv runway whereby to discharge the contents of the basket onto the same,t e parts being so arranged that the lower front edge of the basket will engage with the end of said runway when the basket is tilted, and a guide extending downwardl lfrom the edge of the runwa and de'- t signe lto direct the basket toward t e supply device.` l

. 1'5. -In an apparatus of theA 'character del scribed ,a basket comprising )ivoted U-shaped bars, a guard for the rear o the basket, and an adjustable connection between said guard and said bars. I

16. In an a paratus of the character described, `a bas et comprising U-shapedl bars- IOO pivotally. connected together'at their ends, a

Y orizontally-extending guard secured to 'one of said bars and provided with a series of recesses or the like, and one ormore pins secured to the other bar and designed to be received in said recess for the pur ose set forth.

In testimony whereo I have signed my name to this speciiication in the presence of two subscribingwitnesses.

ORVILLE ojAMsDEN. Witnesses:

STANLEY C. SWIFT, EDWIN M. PARK.

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