US848033A

US848033A - Apparatus for processing packaged goods.

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Publication number: US848033A
Application number: US34630206A
Authority: US
Inventors: Ernest K Hood
Original assignee: ARTHUR M HOOD
Current assignee: ARTHUR M HOOD
Priority date: 1906-12-04
Filing date: 1906-12-04
Publication date: 1907-03-26
Anticipated expiration: 1924-03-26

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PATENTED MAR 26, 1907 E. K. HOOD. APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING PACKAGED GOODS.

APPLICATION FILED DEO.4,1906.

3 SHEETS-SHEET 1 No; 848,033. PATENTED MAR.'26, 1907.

. Y E. K. HOOD. APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING PACKAGED GOODS.

APPLICATION FILED DEO.4=,1906.

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citizen of the United States, residing at In dianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Processing Packaged Goods, offwhich the following is a specification.

In the production of canned or otherwise packaged goods, es ecially food products, the material is lace within the packages in a raw or partia y cooked or unsterilized condition and sealed therein,- the volume of the contents generally being somewhat less than 1 sealed packages-{are then placed in a retort the volume of the package. The filled and or cooking vessel, where they may be subjected to a desired temperature, which if the outside.

"material within the packages is not agitated must be attained adually in order to preventscorching of t at portion of the material within each package which ,lies nearest the provided for agitating packages in such manner as to cause a mlxmg. movement of the contents in each package, and the most successful of such apparatus is one in which the packages are given a rolling reciprocation through a comparatively short ath of movement, which permits substantia ly a complete rotation of each can or package. With such an apparatus it has been found, however,

, that where ordinary tin cans, are used as packages there is a tendency for the cans to ecome axially slightly displaced so that the blows of the cans upon each other are at such points as to cause abreaking. of the joints'between the main body andthe caps or covers, and thus unseal the cans so that the content either leaks out or ecomes spoiled in course of time, 'many of these breaks being so small as to be insuflicient to permit leakage, and thus cause u timate molding of the con.- tent. 1

The object of my present invention is therefore to produce a mechanismin which packa ed goods may be processed under such conditions that the packages maybe moved axially and preferably suddenly stopped. at

each end' of the travel, so as to sub ect the contents of the package to a propellingforce axially of theplackaga; whic w1ll cause in- 'termixture of t e contents, the arrangement Specification of Letters Patent. I Application filed December 4, 1306. Serial No. 846.302.

Mechanisms have been heretofore et sufiicient to admit air,

Patented March 26, 1907.

being such that a series of packages may be.

arranged'end to end and the column thus formed given a travel lengthwise which will cause the cans of the series to strike one another endwise; In such an arrangement the blow .of one can'upon another is in such direction as to be completely resisted by the material of the joints in the pac age will be opened or injured thereby.

.The accompanying drawings illustrate my invention.

Figure 1 is a central vertical section of an apparatus embodying my invention; Fig.. 2 is a-section on line 2 2 of Fig.4; Fig. 3, a detail on line 3 3 of Fig. 1; Fig.' 4, a section on line 4 4 of Fig. 3; Fig. 5, adetail of the automatic rotating mechanism, and Fig. 6 a section on line 6' 6 of Fig. "5.

In the drawings, 10 indicates a tubular carrier open, as at 11, to permit a circulation of a heating medium therethrough. Each of the carriers '10 is designed to receive a plurality or column of packages 12, arranged end to end, said column being shorter than the carrier in order that there may be an axialrecilprocation of the column within the carrier, t e column coming to a sudden stop at each end of its travel. I prefer that the internal bore of the carrier 10 be somewhat larger than. the external diameter of thelargest package to be handled, and in order to produce. a mechanism easily handled and for large capacity I provide a multiplicity of ackage and such that no carriers 10, and each of these carriers is pro-,

vided at one end with ahead 13, having an axial spud '14 serving as a journal therefor. The opposite end of carrier 10 is provided with a tubular spud 15, the exterior of which is adapted to form a 'ournal for that end ,of the carrier 10, while-t e bore thereof is sufiicient to admit'any packa e which will enter the carrier. The severa carriers 10 are journaled in a air of

plates

16 and 17, which are connected by suitable brace members 18 and rovided with trucks 19 to'form a car which maybe readily handled.

- In order that the carriers 10 may be rotated about their axes, each spud 14 1s projected through the plate 16, in which it is j ournaled, and secured to the projected end is a gear 20, which gears mesh with each other in series.

The heads 13 are adapted to receive the-blows 1 from the columns of packages 10 at one end of their movement, and in order to provide a similar abutment at the opposite end I hinge upon plate 17 a door 21 which is rovided with a'plurality of bosses22, adapte to enter the outer ends of the'bores of the hollow spuds For convenience I prefer to provide the door 21 with ears 21 at each side, adapted to receive pintles 17, carried by plate 17, so that byremoving either vertical series of pintles 17 the door 21 mi). be swung in either direction. This is pure y a matter of operae s n e, d f c urse any oth r means may be provided without depart ng from my invention.

The car may be placed in any suitable receptacle for treatment of the packages, and in the present case I have shown a retort 30,

- closed at one end by head 31 and at the other end by a swinging door 32. The retort 30 is supported upon 'a horizontal axis 33, so as to permit rocking in a vertical plane to such an extent that the packages 12 will slide. from one end of their carriers to the other] Any suitable. mechanism may be provided for rocking the retort-:for instance, a shaft 40, provided with a crank 41, connected by a pitman 42 to the retort.

In order to get the. car into and out of the retort readily, I provide the retort with a pair of tracks 43, adapted to receive the trucks 1 9 of the car, and arrange. a stationary track 44, having a swinging bridge portion 45, which may be swung down, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 1, to form a connection with the tracks 43 in the retort when the retort is held in loading position by means of the strut 46,

which during 0 oration is dropped to the po-v sition indicate by dotted lines in Fig.1.

In order to hold the car firmly within the retort while the retort is being-rocked, any

suitable means may be providedfifor iiistance, the stationary chock-blocks 47 and the removable chock-blocks 48, which may be backed up by.- removable brackets 49. I also provide a stationary.- bracket 50 within the retort, against which the forward end of the car may abut, and in order to hold the car tightly in position a temper-screw 51 may be passed through the door 32, so as to engage the door -.21 of the car in opposition to the bracket 50.

In order to automatically rotate the carriers 10 during .the rocking of the retort, I have provided a sliding pawl-bar 55, provided at one end with a stem 56, passing through a gland 57 in the side of the retort.

Bar carries a plurality of pawls 58, each of which is adapted to engage the lower one of each series of gears 20, so that by reciprocation of the pawl-bar the gears may be given a step-by-step advancement Pawl-bar 55 may be shifted to the left in Fig. 5 until the pawls lie between the series of gears in order that the car may be readily withdrawn from and introduced into the retort. Anysuits ing of the bell-crank 59, one arm of which is connected by a link 59 to the projected end of the stem 56, while the other arm of said lev r s c nn c d y a lin 60 With P 61,

carried by the adjacent pitman 42.

The operation is as follows: The car having been'withdrawn from the retort is loaded with a plurality of series of packages 12, the packages of each series being arranged end to end within a carrier 10 through the hollowspud 15. The car is then pushed into the retort and secured in the osition shown in Fig. 1. Thereupon the coo ing medium as, for instance, steam-.may be introduced into the retort through a suitable ipe 70, the connection of said pipe being sucfi as to permit the rocking of the retort. The retort is then rocked back and forth through a sufiicient angle to cause the packages 12 to slide endwise throu h the carriers 10, striking the head 13 orthe oss 22 at the opposite ends of the movement. The blow thus delivered to the packages is transmitted through the entire series or column, and the material in each package is thoroughly mixed, the blow, however, being delivered to the packages in such manner'as not to injure any of the joints thereof. At the same time, if desired, the carriers 10 are given a step-by-step rotative advancement, t us speeding the agitation or mixing of the contents of the packages. As a consequence of this construction the temperature within the retort may be made immediately very high without danger of scrorching the contents of the packages.

I claim as my invention 1'. In an apparatus for processing packaged goods, means for repeatedly moving the package axially and intermittently stopping the same suddenly so as to subject the same to axial shocks.

'2. In an apparatus for processing packaged goods, means for repeatedly moving the package alternately in opposite directions and axially and intermittently stopping the same suddenly so as to subject the said package to alternate axial shocks.

3. In an apparatus for processing packaged goods, means for alternately changing the axial inclination of the package and subj ectin said package to axial shocks.

4. n'an apparatus for processing ackaged goods, means for intermittently cl iangin the axial inclination of the package and su jecting said package to axial shocks alternately and in opposite directions.

5. In an apparatus for processing packaged goods, means for subjecting the package to a shock axially thereof, and means for rotating the package about its axis.

6. In an apparatus for processing packaged goods, means for subjecting the package to shocks axially thereof and alternating in direction, and means for rotating the package about its axis.

7. In an apparatus for processing ack-' aged goods, means for intermittently c ranging) the axial inclination of the ackage and su jecting said packa e to axia shocks, and means for rotating the package about its axis.

8. In an apparatus forprocessing ackaged goods, means for'intermittently c anging) the axial inclination of the package and su jecting said package to axial shocks alternately and in opposite directions, and

.means for' rotating the" package about its agedgoods, the combination with a holder for receiving the package and permitting same to slide axially, of abutments at the ends of said holder, means for varying the inclination of said holder whereby the package may slide axially in said holder and strike said abutments endwise.

1 2. In an apparatus for processing packaged goods, the combination with a holder 'for receiving the package and permitting same to slide axially, of abutments at the ends of said holder, means for varying the inclination of said holder whereby the package may slide axially in said holder and strike said abutments endwise, and means for rotating the package about its axis.

13. In an apparatus for processing packaged goods, the combination of a retort, means for rocking said, retort vertically, a

to'receive a package and permit the same to slide axially therein a material distance, and abutments arranged at the ends of said holder and adapted tos'uddenly arrest the sliding action of the package. I

14. In an apparatus for processing packaged goods, the-combination of a retort, means for rocking said retort vertically, a. package-holder in said retort and adapted to receive a ackage and permit the same to slide axia ly therein a material distance, abutments arranged at theends of said holder and ada ted to suddenly arrest the sliding action 0 the package, and means for rotating said holder to cause a rotation of the packa e about its axis. v 15. nan apparatus for processing packaged oods, thecombination of a retort, a car a apted to be received insaid retort, a plurality of package-holders carried by said car and adapted each to receive a seriesof packages end to end, abutments arranged at the ends of said carriers, and ada ted to sud- 7o denly arrest the axial sliding of the packages within the holders, and means for vertica ly rockin the retort.

16. 11 an apparatus for processing packaged oods, the combination of a retort, a car a aptedto be received in said retort, a plurality of rotatable package-holders car: ried by said car and ada I a series of packages en to end, abutments arranged at the ends of said carriers and adapted to suddenly arrest the axial sliding of the packages within the holders, means for rotating said holders, and means for vertically rocking the retort. p

In witness whereof I have hereuntoset my hand and seal, at Indianapolis, Indiana, this 27th day of November, A. D. 1906.

ERNEST K. HOOD. [L. 8.]-

Witnesses ARTHUR M. H001),

Tnomas .W. MCMEANS.

packaged holder in said retbrt and adapted ted each to receive a