US94706A - Improvement in flax-brakes - Google Patents

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JAMES BOYGE,` OF WOOs;TER,OH1O.

Letters .Patent No. 94,706, dated September 14, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN FLAX-BRAKES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the came.

To all whom 'it may concern Be it known that I, JAMES BoYcE, of'Wooster, in the county of Wayne, and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement'in FlaXfBrakes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,`clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.' y

. The'object of this invention is to provide, in'combination with the Sanford .and Mallory flax-brake, a feeding-attachment, whereby crossed and tangled stalks may be, in a great measure, straightened and arranged in the proper order for feeding into the said brake in the required lengthwise position.

The invention comprises the combination, with the said machine, of a set of' fluted-feeding-rollers, moving at a slower rate than the rollers of the said brake, and a broad dowmvard-inclining table, whereon the intermittent motion' imparted to the flax moving length wise and properly, and with which the crossed and tangled stalks are mixed, by the back and forward movement of' rollers ot' the brake, has the effect to straighten out and arrange the said crossed stalks, as hereinafter more fully specified.

Figure 1 represents a side elevation'of a Sanford and Mallory brake in dotted lines, and my improved attachment in full lines, and part-1y sectioned; and

I `igure2 represents a transverse sect-ion of my improved feeding-attachment.

VSimilar letters of' reference indicate corresponding parts.

The said Sanford 'and Mallory brake consists of three (more or less) pairs of tinted breaking-rollers@ arranged horizontally in a circular line around and above a driving-wheel common to all the said pairs, and having an intermittent forward and back movement, the back movement being materially less than the forward movement, so that the straw fed to it is carried through the machine.

The dotted lines at A, iig. 1, represent so much of this machine as it is necessary to show in this case, my improvement being only the attachment thereto of thedownWard-inclining feeding-table `B and the feeding-rollers C, consisting of' two or more pairs of fluted rollers, arranged and operated in the usual way, but moving ata considerably lower rate of speed than the' resulting forward movement of the. rollers of the breaker. i

The straw is now commonly fed to the breakers by hand, and is necessarily more or less crossed and tangled, which is very objectionable, as, before it can be scutched and cleaned, it must be arranged parallel together by hand, which is a slow and tedious process.

To remove this dilculty as much as possible, I have had recourse to the attachment `of' the said feedingrollers and inclined table, which I find accomplishes the object, in a great measure, in this way:

The straw feeding through the rollers C, being held back by them against the intermittent pulling motion of the breaker-rollers while on the inclined table, and subject to the action of gravity, which prevents it from going back t thebackward motion of' the rollers, will have a forward impetus imparted to all those straws not lying straight, calculated'to bring them into lin'e with those moving straightly, to a great extent.

The same result', but ina less degree, may be obtained with a horizontal table; but owing to the better results when arranged in this way, I propose to arrange them in inclines` Having thus described my invention, l

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent-'- The combination, with the breaking-rollers, having an intermittent forward and back movement, of a feeding-table, inclinirig downward. toward them, and feeding-rollers at the. higher end of the said table, suhstantiall y as` specified.

JAS. BOYGE.

Witnesses:

THOMAS HENRY, JAMES CosGRovE.

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