Improvements in Reels for Dressing Meal and Flour.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Sept., 1897
Complete Specification Left. 23rd June. 1898-Accepted. 30th July, 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Reels for Dressing Meal and Flour.
I, ARTHUR MAURICE ROBINSON, of Railway Works, Rochdale, in the County of
Lancaster, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
The object of this invention is to provide reels for dressing meal or flour in
which a larger extent of silk or dressing surface shall be in action at one time
than is at present usual, and in which the material being dressed shall be gradually
propelled towards the outlets of the reels, and at the same time turned over or
stirred so as to ensure that the whole of such material shall be exposed to the
dressing surface.
For these purposes I make use of a solid or unperforated drum carried on a
shaft free to rotate. The drum is provided with projections at intervals round the
circumference. The said projections support a spiral or helix of wire or a like
device which in turn supports the silk or dressing surface. The material to be
dressed is fed in between the drum and the dressing surface, and, as the drum
rotates, is lifted by the projections up against one side and thrown down
against the other side of the dressing surface internally, at the same time the
material falling or rolling against the spiral wire is turned over and propelled
towards the outlet. More than one spiral or helix may be used if desired.
The material to be dressed is fed into and removed from the reel in any usual
manner.
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Cantamon 1807
Improvements in Reels for Dressing Meal and Flour.
I, ARTHUR MAURICE ROBINSON, of Railway Works, Rochdale, in the County of
Lancaster, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement, reference being had to the accompanying
drawings:-
The object of this invention is to provide reels for dressing meal or flour in
which a larger extent of silk or dressing. surface shall be in action at one time
than is at present usual, and in which the material being dressed shall be gradually
propelled towards the outlets of the reels, and at the same time turned over or
stirred so as to ensure that the whole of such material shall be exposed to the
dressing surface.
For these purposes I make use of a solid or unperforated drum carried on a

page_text: shaft free to rotate. The drum is provided with projections at intervals round the
circumference. The said projections support a spiral or helix of wire or a like
device which in turn supports the silk or dressing surface. The material to be
dressed is fed in between the drum and the dressing surface, and, as the drum
rotates, is lifted by the projections up against one side of the dressing surface, at
the same time the material falling or rolling against the spiral wire is turned
over, and propelled towards the outlet. More than one spiral or helix may be
used if desired.
The material to be dressed is fed into and removed from the reel in any usual
manner.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 is a longitudinal section partly in elevation and Fig. 2 is a transverse
section of a reel constructed according to my invention. a is a drum of sheet
iron or wood with an unperforated surface. The drum is closed at each end by
discs a¹ and carried on a shaft free to rotate in bearings c on the framework d.
e are projections or lifters secured to the drum in any convenient way such as
by rivetting to angle iron as shown. f is a helix of wire supported on the pro-
jections e and carried round the drum from end to end. g is the silk or dressing
surface which is laid over the wire helix f and supported thereby. h is an internal
disc near the end of the drum forming a chamber into which the material to be
dressed is fed from the feed spout i. are openings through the drum by which
the material can pass from the said chamber to the space between the drum and
the silk. In this space as the drum rotates the material is continually being lifted
up by the projections e and dropped down again, always in contact with the silk,
and in falling the said material rolls against the coils of the wire helix and is
thereby turned over and carried along towards the other end of the drum. The
whole of the material is thus exposed to the dressing surface in the most effective
and gentlest manner. Any material not passing through the silk escapes through
openings in the other end of the drum similar to j and into the outlet spout 7 in
any usual way. m is the casing of the reel. n is the usual collecting worm.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
First. In reels for dressing meal and flour the combination with a solid or un-
perforated drum of projections or lifters attached to the surface thereof and a helix,
or helices of wire, or equivalent devices supported by the projections substantially
as and for the purposes set forth.
Second. In reels for dressing meal and flour the combination with a solid or.
unperforated drum of a helix, or helices of wire, or equivalent devices supported
at a short distance above the surface of the drum substantially as and for the
purpose set forth.
Third. In reels for dressing meal and flour the combination with the silk or
dressing surface of an internal carrying helix or helices of wire or equivalent device
supported at a short distance above the surface of a drum by projections or lifters
or equivalent devices substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
Fourth. Reels for dressing meal and four constructed with a space between a
solid or unperforated drum and the silk or dressing surface within which space are
arranged a supporting and propelling helix, or helices of wire and projections or
lifters substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
Dated this Twenty-second day of June 1898.
W. B. JOHNSON,
4, Clayton Square, Liverpool, Agent.