Improvements in or connected with Apparatus for Cutting, Pulping, Slicing, or Reducing Turnips and other Roots or Vegetables.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Nov., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 18th Aug., 1896-Accepted, 24th Oct.,
1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Apparatus for Cutting, Pulping,
Slicing, or Reducing Turnips and other Roots or Vegetables.
We, WILLIAM JOSEPH CHANTRY, Farmer, and CHRISTOPHER WILLIAM
STANDAGE, Blacksmith, both of Asselby, near Howden, East Yorkshire, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention, to be as follows:-
The object of our invention is to prevent the lodging or stoppage of turnips, and
other roots or vegetables during the process of cutting, pulping, slicing, or reducing
such, and thereby effect a saving in time and labour.
In carrying out our said object we employ a shaft arranged at the front end of
the machine, which said shaft carries fingers or prongs which pass through the
hopper, between the frame and the cutting cylinder.
The said shaft is carried in bearings attached to the frame of the machine, and
carries at one end an arın attached to a lever joined to a hand lever under the
control of the operative. By operating the said hand lever, the shaft aforesaid is
caused to turn and raise the fingers or prougs so as to remove the obstruction
caused by the lodging of such roots.
Instead of using fingers or prongs as aforesaid we may employ cams or eccentric
pieces upon the shaft, and chain and chain wheels so geared as to revolve by the
action of turning the cutting cylinder, and cause the said cams to remove the
obstruction.
Or we may employ upon the shaft or axle of the cutting cylinder, cams or
eccentric pieces having uprights with cross pieces attached thereto so that when
the said shaft is revolved the said uprights displace the obstruction.
Or instead of the fingers or prongs being arranged to work through slots in the
hopper or frame, they may be arranged to work over the top of the hopper for
the purpose aforesaid.
Or the fingers or prongs may be arranged to work from underneath the machine
by means of sliding bar or rods.
Dated thin 90th do of November 1895
JOHN E. WALSH,
Royal Exchange Chambers, Boar Lane, Leeds,
Patent Agent to the Applicants.
Improvements in or connected with Apparatus for Cutting, rui
Slicing, or Reducing Turnips and other Roots or Vegetables.
We, WILLIAM JOSEPH CHANTRY, Farmer, and CHRISTOPHER WILLIAM
STANDAGE, Blacksmith, both of Asselby, near Howden, East Yorkshire 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 our invention is to prevent the lodging or stoppage of turnips and

page_text: other roots or vegetables during the process of cutting, pulping, slicing, or reducing
such, and thereby effect a saving in time and labour.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1, is a side elevation according to our invention.
Fig. 2, is a plan.
Fig. 3, is a side elevation of modification.
Fig. 4, is a further modification.
In carrying out our said object we employ a shaft A, arranged at the front end
of the machine, which said shaft A carries fingers B or prongs, which pass through
the hopper, between the frame and the cutting cylinder F. The said fingers or
prongs B may have horns or extensions attached thereto. The said shaft A is
-carried in bearings C, attached to the frame D of the machine, and carries at one
end an arm E attached to lever F joined to a hand lever G, under the control of
the operative. By operating the said hand lever, the shaft aforesaid is caused to
turn and raise the fingers or prongs B, so as to remove the obstruction caused by
the lodging of such roots.
Instead of using fingers or prongs as aforesaid, we may employ cams or eccentric
pieces upon the shaft A and chain H and chain wheels J and L so geared as to
revolve by the action of turning the cutting cylinder and cause the said cams to
remove the obstruction.
Or instead of the fingers or prongs being arranged to work through slots in the
hopper or frame, they may be arranged to work over the top of the hopper for the
purpose aforesaid.
In Fig. 4, this arrangement is for "disc or slice " cutters, and is of simpler
construction. The arrangement is fixed across the top in front of the feed and is
worked over the top by drawing the handle N over. The apparatus consists of
the shaft A having fingers B, the said shaft A. is carried by brackets or bearings C
fixed to the frame. Upon the end of the shaft A is a handle N by which the
shaft A is operated so as to actuate the fingers B, as required.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
-claim is :-
1. In apparatus of the kind referred to, the combination of means for mechanically
.removing obstructions or stoppages, substantially as set forth.
2. The combination of parts forming our invention for mechanically removing
obstructions or stoppages in machinery of the kind referred to, substantially as set
forth.
Noted this 174L
P A
Noted this 174L J
17th day of August 1898.
JOHN E. WALSH,
Boar Lane, Leeds, Patent Agent to the Applicants.