A Machine for Cutting Green Bones.
Year: 1896

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Machine for Cutting Green Bones.
HENRY PROCTER, of Station Road Otley, Joiner and JOHN HENRY SUTCLIFfe
of Kettlesing vid Leeds Schoolmaster do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
Our invention consists of an appliance by means of which greasy or green bones
and like substances can be cut or pared into a suitable condition for feeding poultry
and other stock. The bones are placed into a kind of hopper or feeder of
convenient shape and by a weight or pressure, which can be regulated by means
of a screw or lever, they are pressed against a series of suitably-shaped cutting
instruments or knives which can be made to rotate.
Dated this 7th day of July 1896.
HENRY PROCTER.
JOHN HENRY SUTCLIFFE.
A Machine for Cutting Green Bones.
We, HENRY PROCTER, of Saw Mills, Station Road, Otley, in the County of
York, Poultry Appliance Manufacturer, and JOHN HENRY SUTCLIFFE, of
Kettlesing, Ripley, in the County of York, Schoolmaster, 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 :-
This invention relates to a new or improved appliance whereby greasy or green
bones, that is to say comparatively fresh bones or the like, may be readily reduced
to a condition for feeding poultry and other "stock" for which the food is
suitable.
To fully describe our invention, reference is made to the accompanying sheet of
drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference
indicate corresponding parts in each of the figures.
Figure 1, represents an elevation of the machine.
Figure 2, represents a sectional plan of the same on the line a, b Figure 1.
Figure 3, represents a cross section of the machine without the standard and
driving wheel on the line y, z Figure 2.
Figure 4, represents a view looking towards the underside of the same.
Figures 5 and 6 respectively represent a front view and a side view of the
cutters.
The feed hopper A is made with an external flange A. 2 to which the four
standards A 3 are secured. A boss A 4 is also formed on the underside of the
flange A 2 which forms a bearing for the driving shaft B which shaft is fitted with
a wheel B 2 and a handle B 3 by which it may be rotated or it may be operated in

page_text: any other convenient way. A bevel wheel B4 is fixed on the inner end of the
shaft B which engages the teeth C formed round the underside of the cutter
plate C2. This cutter plate is fixed on the lower end of the vertical shaft D
mounted in a bearing D2 formed in the partition A 5 extending diametrically
across the hopper A. The shaft D is supported in its bearing by its collar D 3
resting upon the top of D2 and fixed to the shaft by the pin D 4.
A presser E having feet E 2, E2 approximately fitting the hopper A each side
of the partition A 5 is loosely mounted upon the shaft D and a fine screw thread D 5
is formed on this shaft above the collar D 3. A. hand wheel D 6 having a female
screw thread fitting the thread D5 is screwed upon the shaft D and rests upon the
top of the presser E. It will be readily understood that when the cutter plate C 2
and shaft D are rotated in the proper direction and the hand wheel D 6 is held
stationary the feet E2 of the presser E resting on the bones contained in the
hopper A on each side of the partition A 5 will press such bones against the
cutter plate C 2. Or if the hand wheel be turned by hand the same result will be
obtained.
To cut or reduce the bones as they are thus forced down upon the cutter plate
the latter is provided with adjustable cutters C 3 fixed by the screws C4 to the
inclined projections C 5 formed upon the under side of the plate C 2. The cutting
edges of the cutters project through openings C 6 in the cutter plates and they are
set so as to project the required distance above its upper face by the set screws C7
fitted into the projections C 5 and arranged to bear against the lower ends of the
cutters.
In order to produce a serrated edge on the cutters they are made with longitudinal
grooves C 8.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :
1. A machine for cutting or reducing bones and the like, having a hopper to
receive the bones and a presser to press them down and a rotary cutter or cutters
below arranged and operated substantially as herein shown aud described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
2. The improved machine for cutting paring or reducing bones or the like,
substantially as herein shown and described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 23rd day of December 1896.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Bradford, Patent Agents.