Improvements in Chemical Manure Mixers and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 13th July, 1896-Accepted, 22nd Aug., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Chemical Manure Mixers and the like.
I, EDMOND PATERNOTTE of Hamme-Mille, in the Kingdom of Belgium, Merchant,
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:
The object of my invention is a mixer of chemical manares, effecting a complete
and proportionate mixture of substances of different densities such as enter into the
composition of chemical manures. This thorough mixture is effected by the previous
disintegration in the mixer itself of the several substances, by means of a beater,
the movement of which is proportionate to the speed of the apparatus and the
position of which is adjustable according to this speed.
The accompanying drawing represents my apparatus.
Figure 1 is a longitudinal section thereof.
Figure 2 a section on the line A B and
Figure 3 a section on the line C D.
Throughout the views similar parts are marked with like letters of reference.
The apparatus is made of sheet iron or other suitable material in the form of a
cylindrical body A, closed by two end-pieces B. In the centre of these end-pieces B
are fixed the naves or hubs c, e turning freely on a fixed axis D passing through
the whole apparatus and carried by supports E.
The nave or hub e carries outside of the apparatus and of a piece with it, a worm
wheel e engaging with a worm G which transmits motion to the apparatus.
The inside face of the cylinder A is lined with a corrugated piece of sheet iron H
the object of which is to prevent the slipping of the substances to be mixed.
Within the apparatus there is arranged a beater consisting of an axle L traversed
by beaters or dash-boards and turning at the extremity of two rods K passing
through mortises k formed in the fixed axle D and held by screws k'. This beater
may be fixed close to or far from the axle D by sliding the rods K in the
mortise-holes k.
It may also be raised or lowered according to the speed with which the apparatus
is made to rotate and the corresponding surface level of the substance, by causing
the fixed axle 1) to turn in the supports E, where it is pressed or locked by a screw e
in the desired position.
This beater is, of course, secured in the direction of the movement of the
apparatus or of movement of the material within it; and is turned by means of a
toothed pinion M keyed on the axle L of the beater, a chain-wheel N keyed on the
nave or hub c and a chain O. Motion may also be transmitted by means of gearing
or by any other method.
The cylinder A is provided with a sliding-door P for loading the apparatus by
means of a hopper or otherwise and near one of the ends there are provided several
sliding doors P, for emptying the apparatus when it is judged the substances are
sufficiently mixed.
The substances introduced through the door P fall into the lower part of the
apparatus and are drawn by the motion of the latter to the height of the beater
where they revolve on themselves and fall again on the dash-boards, endowed with a
very rapid motion proportioned to the speed at which the cylinder is rotating; thus
the lumps in the substances are completely beaten out and disintegrated and the
whole mass is reduced to powder and completely mixed,
Throughout the views similar parts are marked with like letters of reference.
The apparatus is made of sheet iron or other suitable material in the form of a
cylindrical body A, closed by two end-pieces B. In the centre of these end-pieces B
are fixed the naves or hubs c, c¹ turning freely on a fixed axis D passing through
the whole apparatus and carried by supports E.
The nave or hub c carries outside of the apparatus and of a piece with it, a worm
wheel e engaging with a worm G which transmits motion to the apparatus.
The inside face of the cylinder A is lined with a corrugated piece of sheet iron H
the object of which is to prevent the slipping of the substances to be mixed.
Within the apparatus there is arranged a beater consisting of an axle L traversed
by beaters or dash-boards and turning at the extremity of two rods K passing
through mortises k formed in the fixed axle D and held by screws k'. This beater
may be fixed close to or far from the axle D by sliding the rods K in the
mortise-holes k.
It may also be raised or lowered according to the speed with which the apparatus
is made to rotate and the corresponding surface level of the substance, by causing
the fixed axle D to turn in the supports E, where it is pressed or locked by a screw e
in the desired position.
This beater is, of course, secured in the direction of the movement of the
apparatus or of movement of the material within it; and is turned by means of a
toothed pinion M keyed on the axle L of the beater, a chain-wheel N keyed on the
nave or hub c and a chain O. Motion may also be transmitted by means of gearing
or by any other method.
The cylinder A is provided with a sliding-door P for loading the apparatus by
means of a hopper or otherwise and near one of the ends there are provided several
sliding doors P, for emptying the apparatus when it is judged the substances are
sufficiently mixed.
The substances introduced through the door P fall into the lower part of the
apparatus and are drawn by the motion of the latter to the height of the beater
where they revolve on themselves and fall again on the dash-boards, endowed with a
very rapid motion proportioned to the speed at which the cylinder is rotating; thus
the lumps in the substances are completely beaten out and disintegrated and the
whole mass is reduced to powder and completely mixed,

page_text: The working and mechanism of the apparatus are extremely simple, and perfectly
effectual.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A disintegrating mixer of chemical manures, distinguished by a cylinder closed
at its two ends, furnished with an ingress door and egress doors and turning by
means of hubs on a fixed axle, a beater secured laterally to the axle in the
cylinder, to tear to pieces or disintegrate and mix the chemical substances, and a
.corrugated sheet-iron covering or lining on the inside surface of the cylinder for the
conveyance of the substances in the line of motion, substantially as hereinbefore
described and shown.
2. In the disintegrating mixer described under Claim 1, the arrangement of a
beater consisting of an axle traversed by dash boards or beaters and turning at the
end of rods capable of sliding in mortise-holes formed in the fixed axle to draw in or
extend the beater; also the arrangement of the fixed axle in supports to allow of
its turning with the beater in the desired position, and of its being held therein by
means of a screw, substantially as described and for the purpose specified.
Dated this 13th day of July 1896
ROBERT E. PHILLIPS, Assoc. M. Inst. C.E., M.1. Mech. E.,
Consulting Engineer and Patent Agent,
70, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Associate Agent.