Improvements in Machinery for Cutting and Pulping Turnips and other Roots.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Aug., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 12th May, 1894-Accepted, 23rd June, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery for Cutting and Pulping Turnips
and other Roots.
I, WILLIAM WILSON of Bedford Foundry, Leigh in the County of Lancaster,
Managing Director of Picksley Sims & Co. Limited, Agricultural Engineers, do
hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object Improvements in Machinery for Cutting and
Pulping Turnips and other Roots and consists firstly in the construction of the
discs or drums in such a manner that they are not only lightened in weight but the
friction in work is considerably reduced by a diminished surface resistance effected
by radial openings or corrugations in or upon the disc, barrel, or drum according
to the particular class of machine to which the said improvements are intended to
be adapted.
In what is known as the "Gardner" type of turnip cutter I propose to make
them conical to present a larger cutting surface and I may use them singly or in
pairs to act for one class of work on both drums or each drum differently fitted for
pulping, finger cutting, or slicing as may be predetermined.
A double hopper can thus be arranged to suit these requirements or a single
hopper with a hinged deflector. I can also arrange parallel or conical drums on a
vertical shaft driven by a horizontal shaft for example by a pair of bevil wheels
and I may arrange an auxiliary speed gear either to this type or to the others
herein described.
I find it advantageous in some cases to have the drum inverted and open and
into this drum the roots can be thrown instead of on to the periphery. Drums of
a conical or vertically arranged type are self clearing and the cut root is instantly
freed instead of remaining within the drum.
The cutting points, knives or blades may be diametrically arranged or hinged so
as to be readily inserted or set periphericaly or may be slid into position and fixed
by a pin upon which it may turn or hinge so that the opposite cutting edge may
be used.
In duplex machines I may intercept gearing so that by rotating the handle in
the one direction the drum or disc can go either way.
Dated this 10th day of August 1893.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery for Cutting and Pulping Turnips
and other Roots.
I WILLIAM WILSON of Bedford Foundry Leigh in the County of Lancaster
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention and what manner the
same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
This invention has for its object Improvements in Machinery for Cutting &
Pulping Turnips and other Roots and consists in providing concentric openings in
the disc face or drum surface by which they are not only lightened but the pro-
portion of metal is more equally distributed and in work they offer less resistance
and the spaces afford a clearance for the dirt or small stones. The section of the
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page_text: metal is taper so as to afford a ready escape of the dirt without any tendancy to
.clogging.
On the accompanying drawing Fig. 1 is a back elevation and Fig. 2 is a
section through a pulper disc in which A are the cuttings or pulping blades
attached to the disc B and C are the openings before refered to.
It is obvious that the surface resistance may be diminished otherwise than by
openings that is to say by making a corrugated section of disc as shown in the
enlarged scale view at Fig. 3.
In parallel or conical drums or hollow disc whether arranged singly or in pairs
& whether mounted on horizontal or vertical axis the same principle may be
employed for effecting diminished friction clearance and more equal distribution of
metal.
These openings can be arranged spirally or eccentrically as may be required to
tend to move the roots in the hopper.
Having thus particularly described & ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion & in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
-claim is :-
First. In machinery for cutting & pulping turnips or other roots providing the
-disc drums or barrels with openings for effecting clearance in work & more equal
distribution of metal substantially as herein set forth with reference to Figs. 1 & 2
of the accompanying drawings.
Second. In machinery for cutting & pulping of turnips providing a diminished
frictional surface by sectional corrugations or circular recesses in the disc
substantially as herein set forth with reference to Fig. 3 of the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 11th 11001
EDMUND WILSON,
Agent.