An Improved Portable Mechanical Turnip Cutting and Oil Cake Breaking Apparatus.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Apr., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Jan., 1899-Accepted, 21st Apr., 1899
An Improved Portable Mechanical Turnip Cutting and Oil Cake
Breaking Apparatus.
I, RICHARD DAVY, of Worlaby House, Lincoln, Yeoman, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved portable mechanical turnip cutting and
oil cake breaking apparatus which will be found of particular service in the pre-
paration of the feed for cattle.
The apparatus consists essentially of a frame or body (mounted upon wheels and
capable of being drawn, pushed, or propelled, to any required position or place)
carrying, within suitable standards or bearings, gear wheels actuated from a central
vertical spindle by means of a horizontal bar or lever connected at one end to said
vertical spindle, and to the other or free end of which horizontal lever a horse or
pony may be harnessed.
As the horse or pony harnessed to the bar or lever aforesaid proceeds in a circle
around the machine the gearing is actuated and a horizontal shaft provided,
carrying one of the gear wheels, is caused to revolve. Coupled to this shaft is the
shaft or spindle of a turnip cutting or slicing machine bolted to the frame or body
of the apparatus so as to be attachable and detachable.
The revolving of the gear wheels gives motion to the blades or slicers of the
turnip cutting machine and the horizontal actuating bar or lever to which
the horse or pony is attached being of a suitable length two or three loads of
turnips may be stacked around the apparatus, between it and the animal, without
inconvenience.
When desired or required an oil cake crusher or breaker may be bolted on to
the frame or body of the apparatus in the place of the turnip cutter or slicer and
be coupled to the main shaft and the cogs or teeth of the same will be actuated
and revolved similarly to the blades or cutters of the turnip cutting machine
above mentioned.
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An Improved Portable Mechanical Turnip Cutting and Oil Cake
Breaking Apparatus.
I, RICHARD DAVY, of Worlaby House, Lincoln, Yeoman, 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 an improved portable mechanical turnip cutting or

page_text: pulping and oil cake breaking apparatus which will be found of particular service
in the preparation of the feed for cattle, preparing as it does larger quantities
feed" in a shorter time than was heretofore possible.
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The apparatus consists essentially of a frame or body (mounted upon wheels and
capable of being drawn, pushed or propelled, to any required position or place)
carrying, within suitable standards or bearings, gear wheels actuated from a central
vertical spindle by means of a horizontal bar or lever connected at one end to said
vertical spindle, and to the other or free end of which horizontal lever a horse or
pony may be harnessed.
As the horse or pony harnessed to the bar or lever aforesaid proceeds in a circle
around the machine the gearing is actuated and a horizontal shaft provided,
carrying one of the gear wheels, is caused to revolve. Coupled to this shaft is the
shaft or spindle of a turnip cutting or slicing machine bolted to the frame or body
of the apparatus so as to be attachable or detachable.
The revolving of the gear wheels gives motion to the blades or slicers of the
turnip cutting machine and the horizontal actuating bar or lever to which
the horse or pony is attached being of a suitable length two or three loads of
turnips may be stacked around the apparatus, between it and the animal, without
inconvenience.
When desired or required an oil cake crusher or breaker may be bolted on to
the frame or body of the apparatus in the place of the turnip cutter or slicer and
be coupled to the main shaft and the cogs or teeth of the same will be actuated
and revolved similarly to the blades or cutters of the turnip cutting machine
above mentioned.
In order that this my said invention may be the more readily understood and
carried into practical effect reference is hereby made to the accompanying sheet of
illustrative drawings in which is shewn a perspective view of the invention as
applied to the purpose of cutting or slicing turnips.
Referring to the drawing a represents the frame or body of any suitable form
mounted upon wheels b. c are the standards or bearings in the upper and lower
parts of which are mounted the vertical spindle d' of the horizontal gear-wheel d,
which gears with a spur-wheel e, the spindle e¹ of which is connected by a suitable
link connection f (capable of being disconnected) with a shaft g to which is coupled
the shaft or spindle of the turnip cutting or slicing machine h of ordinary con-
struction bolted to the said frame or body a so as to be detachable therefrom.
Any other suitable form of gearing may be employed to effect the revolution of
the cutters.
The blades or slicers (not shewn) of the turnip cutter h are set in motion through
the medium of the gearing before described, by means of horizontal bar or lever i
connected at one end to the upper end of the vertical spindle d, while to the
other end of such horizontal bar or lever a horse or pony is harnessed. The animal
is caused to travel in a circle around the machine and thereby put the mechanism
into operation. The turnip cutter or slicer h is provided with a receiving hopper h¹
having a sifting-grid he, while a shoot j is situated below the cutting machine h
for the purpose of delivering the cut feed into a trailing receiver & attached to
the rear axle of the frame. Fly-wheels are provided on the shaft of the cutting
machine for the purpose of facilitating and increasing the speed of the
revolutions thereof.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
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1. In an improved portable mechanical turnip-cutting or pulping and oil cake
breaking apparatus, the frame or body mounted on wheels and carrying a turnip
cutting or pulping machine, or oil cake breaker or crusher actuated through the
medium of suitable gearing by means of a horizontal lever capable of a circular
travel around and clear of the apparatus, substantially as specified.

page_text: 2. In portable mechanical turnip cutting or the like apparatus the frame or
body a mounted upon wheels b and having bolted thereto a turnip cutting
machine h, in combination with a horizontal actuating lever i capable of a circular
travel connected at one end to the upper end of the vertical spindle of a toothed
wheel, actuating, through suitable gearing, the shaft of the cutting machine,
said spindle having its bearings in the frame or body and the upper part of
standards c, all arranged, combined, and operating, substantially as described, and
as shewn by the drawings.
Doted this 21st day of Ton 1800
HUGHES, SON & Co..
38, Chancery Lane, London, W.C. For the Applicant.