IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PULPING, STRIPPING, OR SLICING TURNIPS AND OTHER VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Reuben Sims, of the Firm of Picksley, Sims, and
Company, the Bedford Foundry, Leigh, in the County of Lancaster,
Agricultural Implement Makers and Iron Founders, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PULPING, STRIPPING,
OR SLICING TURNIPS AND OTHER VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Reuben Sims at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 27th August
1862.
I, REUBEN SIMS, of the Firm of Picksley, Sims, and Company, the Bedford
Foundry, Leigh, in the County of Lancaster, Agricultural Implement Makers
and Iron Founders, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PULPING, STRIPPING, OR SLICING
TURNIPS AND OTHER VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES," to be as follows:―
This Invention consists, first, in placing upon a shaft or spindle a double
frustum of a cone, which is joined at the vertex ends and cast in one or
more parts.
Secondly, in placing upon the slant sides of the frustums, when used for
pulping, a number of steel, wrought or cast iron plates having teeth of
diamond, gouge, or other suitable shape fixed to, cast on, or pressed in their

page_text: convex surfaces, and in front of such teeth are holes to allow the pulped root
to pass through the slant sides and out at the wide ends of the cones and so
escape at the shoot.
Thirdly, when the machine is used as a stripper the aforesaid plates are
removed and others to suit spiral or straight knives substituted, together with
cross cutters in front of such knives, in order to divide the cut roots into the
proper width of strips.
Fourthly, when the machine is used as a slicer I remove the cross cutters
from the front of the spiral or straight knives, and the work proceeds as
required.
I do not confine myself to the precise form of the slant sides of the cones,
as this part of my Invention may be modified without affecting the working
of the machine.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Reuben Sims in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
27th February 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, REUBEN
SIMS, of the Firm of Picksley, Sims, and Company, the Bedford Foundry,
Leigh, in the County of Lancaster, Agricultural Implement Makers and Iron
Founders, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Reuben Sims, Her special licence that I, the said Reuben Sims, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Reuben
Sims, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PULPING, STRIPPING, OR SLICING TURNIPS AND
OTHER VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES," upon the condition (amongst others), that I,
the said Reuben Sims, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their, hands and seals, should parti-
cularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what

page_text: manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the
Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Reuben Sims, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, that is to say :-
This Invention relates to improvements in machinery for cutting, stripping,
or pulping turnips or other bulbous roots for the use of animals, and consists
in the use of a 'revolving double cone for hand or other power, having teeth
or knives formed upon or fixed to its internal or external slant sides, and in
the peculiar arrangement of the parts therewith connected.
These improvements will be clearly understood by referring to the figures
and letters on the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, in which Figs. 1 and 2
are longitudinal and transverse sections through the centre, and Fig. 3, a
plan, with the upper part removed, of my improved cutting, stripping, or
pulping machine; and Figs. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 18 are detached
views of some of the parts.
In Figs. 1, 2, and 3, a represents the framework of the machine, upon
which the cutting or pulping apparatus is fixed; b, the saddle, upon which
the roots are held; c, c, the back and bottom gratings for retaining the
partially cut material in contact with the teeth until they are reduced to the
proper fineness; d, d, the double cones, having the cutters or teeth upon their
slanting sides with suitable apertures in front of the teeth; e, e, the side plates
for the cones; f, the front plate; g, the back plate; h, the hopper; i, the
iron grid for the back part of the hopper; k, the shaft or spindle to which
the cones are fixed; l, l, the pedestals; m, the driving pulley; n, n, the
handles for turning by manual power; o, the box for receiving the pulped
material; p, the fly wheel; q, the teeth on the cones; r, the perforations
through the slant sides of the cones in front of the teeth for liberating
the pulp.
Fig. 4 is a side elevation, Fig. 5 a front elevation, and Fig. 6 a plan of
the saddle b, and Fig. 7 a sectional elevation of the same at the line A, B,
Fig. 4; Fig. 8 is an internal view of the back and bottom grating c for the
right-hand side of the machine; and Fig. 9 a front elevation of the inside of
the same; Fig. 10 is an elevation, shewing the inside of one of the side
plates e for the cones; Fig. 11 is an elevation of the front plate f; Fig. 12
an elevation of the back plate g; and Fig. 13 a plan of the iron grid or
grating for the back part of the hopper. When the machine is used as a

page_text: stripper the aforesaid plates are removed and others to suit spiral or straight
knives substituted, together with cross cutters in front of such knives, in order
to divide the cut roots into the proper width of strips. When the machine
is used as a slicer I move the cross cutters from the front of the spiral or
straight knives, and the work proceeds as required.
I do not confine myself to the precise form of the cones d, d, or gratings c, c,
as their slant sides may be made either straight, convex, or concave, nor to
the form of the saddle b, as this may be made either straight, convex, or
concave upon its slant sides; but what I claim is,-
First, the double cone d, d, with the teeth or cutters q, q, situated externally
or internally upon the slant sides of the cones, such teeth or cutters having
perforations r, r, at their front sides through the cones.
Secondly, the saddle b, upon which the turnips or other roots are placed or
held whilst they are being cut or reduced.
Thirdly, the bottom or back grating c, c, in connection with the cones d, d,
to retain the skins or tops or other parts of the roots in contact with the teeth
until they are reduced to the proper fineness to pass through the grating, as
such improvements are herein described and illustrated in the accompanying
Sheet of. Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Reuben Sims, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
within-named Reuben Sims, in the
presence of
E. J. HUGHES,
REUBEN SIMS. (L.S.)
Patent Agent,
Manchester.