Year: 1896

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JOHN PARNALL, and PARNALL & SONS, LIMITED, both of Narrow Wine Street,
in the City and County of Bristol, Grocer's Machinists do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to improve the construction of Machines, used
for cleaning and taking off the stems from Currants, Raisins, and similar fruit.
In Machines as usually constructed the cleaned fruit passes from an opening in
the side of the Seive, through a shute into a box or receiver placed inside, or cen-
trally under, the frame of the Machine, such receiver having to be specially made
to suit it.
To dispense with this special Receiver we construct the frame of the Machine,
so that the wire seive in which the fruit is brushed, or cleaned, projects beyond it,
and instead of leaving an opening in the side of the seive, for the fruit to pass
through into a shute, we fix a covering plate in such a manner as to leave the
bottom end of the seive partly open, allowing the cleaned fruit to pass out freely
into any receptacle placed to catch it. This covering plate is secured by a wing
nut on the end of a pivoted stud, enabling it to be instantaneously removed for
access to the brushes or seive, when required to be cleaned.
The Side Frames of the Machine are connected by a ring, through which the
Cylinder or Seive passes and is held in position. The driving pinion and spindle
is formed in one piece, with a square hole in the end, to receive the brush spindle,
and is also cast hollow, so as to facilitate fitting and avoid jambing. The fly wheel
driving the Machine is constructed with a projecting stud, which fits into a recess
on the large cog wheel, thus forming a clutch for transmitting motion to the
machine.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Machine for Cleaning Currants and other Fruits.
We, JOHN PARNALL, and PARNALL & SONS, JAMITED, both of Narrow Wine
Street, in the City and County of Bristol, Grocers Machinists, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention and in-what manner the same is to performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
The object of this invention is to improve the construction of Machines used for
cleaning and taking off the stems from Currants, Raisins, and similar Fruit.
In Machines as usually constructed, the cleaned Fruit passes from an opening
in the side of the Sieve through a shute into a box or receiver placed inside, or
centrally under the frame of the Machine, such Receiver having to be specially
made to suit it.
To dispense with this special Receiver, we construct the frame of the Machine,
so that the wire Sieve in which the Fruit is brushed or cleaned, projects beyond it,
and instead of leaving an opening in the side of the Sieve for the Fruit to pass
through into a shute, we fix a covering plate in such a manner as to leave the
bottom end of the Sieve partly open, allowing the cleaned Fruit to pass out freely
into any receptacle placed to catch it. This covering plate is secured by a wing,
nut on the end of a pivotted stud, enabling it to be instantaneously removed for
access to the Brushes or Sieve, when required to be cleaned.
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The side frames of the Machine are connected by a ring, through which the
Cylinder or Sieve passes, and is held in position. The driving pinion and spindle
is formed in one piece with a square hole in the end to receive the Brush spindle,
and is also cast hollow, so as to facilitate fitting and avoid jambing. The fly
wheel driving the Machine is constructed with a projecting stud, which fits into
a recess on the large cog wheel, thus forming a clutch for transmitting motion to
the Machine.
The invention is described in the accompanying drawings.
Figure 1 is a side Elevation partly sectional,
Figure 2, is an end Elevation of our improved Machine.
A represents the frame of the Machine, B the wire sieve, C the end covering
plate, the tray or receptacle for the Fruit to be cleaned, E the ring connecting
the side frames, and carrying a pivotted wing nut, E¹ to secure the end covering
plate C, which latter holds the sieve B, in position. F, is the Fly wheel formed
with a projecting stud F, G is the cog wheel with a recess G¹ to receive the pro-
jecting stud F. H is the pinion and spindle formed in one piece with a square
hole H formed in the end. I is the shaft which carried the Brushes, the upper
end fitting into the hole H' and the lower end working in a bearing hole C formed
in the end plate C. The end of the Brush shaft H, is fitted with a small wheel, He
for regulating the Brushes. J is the shute which receives the dirt and stems
brushed from the Fruit when cleaned.
The method of working the Machine is as follows: The Currants or similar
Fruit to be cleaned is placed in the upper tray D, it then passes down into the
upper end of the sieve B, where it is operated upon by the revolving Brushes,
and comes out clean at the lower end through an opening below the covering
plate C, where any kind of Receiver or receptacle can be placed to catch the clean
Fruit.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:
1. The combination and arrangements of the parts of the Currant or Fruit
Cleaning Machine as shown on the drawings annexed.

page_text: 2. The combination of a Currant or Fruit Cleaning Machine delivering the
cleaned fruit through an opening in the end of the Sieve projecting beyond the
frame of the Machine, substantially as herein described and shown in the drawings
annexed.