IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OR ARRANGEMENT OF APPARATUS FOR CLEANING AND FOR PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Lamb Hancock of the firm F and C Hancock of
29 Oxford Street Dudley in the county of Worcester Domestic appliances
and Potato-Washing Machine Manufacturers for an Invention of IMPROVED
CONSTRUCTION
OR ARRANGEMENT OF APPARATUS FOR CLEANING AND FOR
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Lamb Hancock at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 20th June 1882.
CHARLES LAMB HANCOCK of the firm F and C Hancock of 29 Oxford
Street Dudley in the county of Worcester Domestic appliances and Potatoe
Washing Machine Manufacturers IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OR ARRANGEMENT
OF APPARATUS FOR CLEANING AND FOR REMOVING THE SKINS FROM POTATOES
The object of this Invention is an improved construction or arrangement of
apparatus within which by a scrubbing action of a vertically rotating brush
potatoes are cleaned and the skin removed by a combined rolling rubbing and
scraping motion against a punctured interior or vessels lining the jagged or
roughened edges or apertures projecting towards the brush so as to remove
the skin in fine particles
For the purpose of my Invention I form an oval or circular vessel and I line
the interior or portions of same only with one or more punctured plates the
punctures being left jagged and rough and projecting towards the axis of a shaft
or spindle fitted to revolve by a crank handle or otherwise. The spindle carries a
brush of bass, cane or like hard or comparatively hard texture of different lengths
of hair so that they in rolling the potatoes round in the vessel enter the hollows and
irregular portions of the potatoes and remove the dirt therefrom, and also remove
a portion or the whole of the skin adhering thereto the rolling, rubbing, grating
scraping action of the potatoe against the jagged rough edge of the punctures of
the lining plate or plates removing the skin from the other or plain part of the
potatoes. The quickness of this cleansing and removing the skin is dependent
upon the quantity placed in the vessel at one time and according to the speed at
which the brush is rotated.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said Charles Lamb Hancock in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 20th December 1882.
CHARLES LAMB HANCOCK of the firm F and C. Hancock of 29 Oxford
Street, Dudley, in the County of Worcester, Domestic Appliances and Potatoe
Washing Machine Manufacturers IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OR ARRANGEMENT
OF APPARATUS FOR CLEANING AND FOR REMOVING THE SKINS FROM POTATOES.
"
The object of this Invention is an improved construction or arrangement of
apparatus within which by a scrubbing action of a vertically rotating brush
potatoes are cleaned and the skin removed by a combined rolling, rubbing, and
scraping motion against a punctured interior or vessels lining, the jagged or
roughened edges of apertures projecting towards the brush so as to remove the
skin in fine particles.
For the purpose of my Invention, and as clearly shown in the annexed drawings
Figure 1, in elevation, Figure 2 in perspective and Figure 3 in section, I form an
oval or circular vessel A and I line the interior or portions of same only, with
one or more punctured plates B B the punctures being left jagged and rough and
projecting towards the axis of a shaft or spindle C fitted to revolve by a crank
handle D or otherwise.
The spindle C carries a brush E of bass, cane, or like hard or comparatively
hard texture of different lengths of hair so that they in rolling the potatoes
round in the vessel enter the hollows and irregular portions of the potatoes and
remove the dirt therefrom and also remove a portion or the whole of the skin
adhering thereto, the rolling, rubbing, grating, scraping action of the potato against
the jagged rough edge of the punctures of the lining plate or plates B B removing
the skin from the other or plain part of the potatoes.
The quickness of this cleaning and removing the skin is dependent upon the
quantity placed in the vessel at one time and according to the speed at which the
brush is rotated.
To prevent the potatoes clogging I attach to the spindle an arm F from which
a bar or preferably a rod with a punctured plate G on it is fixed the distance
between the plate G and the inner or lining plates B being sufficient for the
largest size potato to pass, consequently all the potatoes within the vessel are
operated upon to the same extent.
The strap H may be a fixture across the top of the vessel A but I prefer to
attach it by sockets I and screw pins and nuts J J.
The vessel may be of any size and in some cases I fit a door K to the lower
part as in Figure 1, to enable the vessel to be emptied. The door is readily made
water tight by an india rubber strip at the inner edge which can be pressed
firmly to the vessel by the hand lever L the head of which is pinned eccentrically
to the vessel so that its face can overlap the edge of the door and hold it firmly
when closed.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed I declare that I claim :-
The apparatus shown in the annexed drawings, the principle feature of which

page_text: is, the brush and jagged surfaced punctured plate or plates acting conjointly within
the vessel as and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth.
In witness whereof I the said Charles Lamb Hancock have hereunto set
my hand and seal this Twelfth day of December in the year of our Lord,
One thousand eight hundred and eighty two.
CHARLES. LAMB. HANCOCK. (L.S.)