An Improved Construction of "Scalper" for Separating Flour, Middlings, and the like from Broken Wheat.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Jan., 1893
Complete Specification Left. 25th Oct., 1893-Accepted, 25th Nov., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Construction of "Scalper" for Separating Flour,
Middlings, and the like from Broken Wheat.
I ERNEST REDLER, of Longaller Mills Taunton, Somersetshire, Miller, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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A "scalper according to this invention, is tapered or rounded for a portion
of its length and may be clothed with silk, grit, bunting, or wire. The scalper is
set so that the tail end may be raised or lowered to give the material passing
through a gentle or severe action.
Dated this 25th day of January 1893
FREDERIC PRINCE,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Construction of "Scalper" for Separating Flour,
Middlings, and the like from Broken Wheat.
I, ERNEST REDLER, of Longaller Mills, Taunton, Somersetshire, Miller, 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:-
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My invention refers to an improved construction of "scalper" for separating
flour, middlings, and the like from broken wheat, whereby I obtain an improved
action upon the material treated, and I am enabled to vary such action in a ready
and efficient manner all as hereafter described with reference to Figures 1 and 2 of
the accompanying drawings.
According to my invention I form the device of cylindrical contour for a portion
of its length and the tail end I form of conical shaped, or tapered, as shown in
Figure 1, where A is the cylindrical portion of the device and B the coned or
tapered end.
The device is constructed with suitable framework carried by the driving shaft C
and is covered with silk, bunting wire, or such other material as may be adopted
for the purpose. Instead of the coned tail B being as at Figure 1 that is with the
inclined sides straight, the latter may obviously be caused to assume a curved form
as shewn at Figure 2, and still be well within the scope of my invention. The
apparatus or "scalper" is mounted so as to be capable of being inclined upwards or
downwards as required by adjusting the position of the shaft C. At Figure 1, the
shaft is shown in a horizontal position but it may be adjusted in the direction of
either of the dotted lines shown on the said Figure 1, by means of ordinary
mechanical devices commonly employed for such purposes or by the means shewn,
that is a hinged bearing D at one end, and a suspended bearing E at the other
end operated by a rod which may be screwed and fitted with a nut to work
against a fixed bearing not shewn in the drawing. At Figure 2 the device is shewn
in a tilted or inclined position.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In scalpers or screens for separating flour, middlings and the like from broken
wheat the combination with a cylindrical form A of a tapered or coned, curved

page_text: or straight tail part B, substantially as described and illustrated by the accom-
panying drawings.
2. In scalpers or screens for separating flour, middlings and the like from broken
wheat, having a cylindrical part A and a tapered or coned tail part B, the com-
bination therewith of means for tilting or varying the angle of the axis to the
horizon as set forth.
Dated this 25th day of October 1893.
FREDERIC PRINCE,
37, Cursitor Street, London, E.C., Agent for Applicant.