ROTARY WASHING OR MIXING MACHINES FOR SAND AND OTHER MATERIALS
Year: 1884

page_text: ROBERT HENRY TAYLOR, Clare Villa Hale's Road, Cheltenham in the County
of Gloucester, Engineer, &c do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
ROTARY WASHING OR MIXING MACHINES FOR SAND AND OTHER MATERIALS, to bo
as follows:-
A cylinder mounted on bearings and suitable framework at each end, the
bearings being hollow admit of pipes leading the materials to be washed or mixed,
to the centre of the revolving cylinder which is made like a cask with a swell in
the centre, that shape tending by centrifugal action to keep the materials &c while
revolving within certain limits. A proper regulation of speed will cause the
materials to fall by action of gravitation when at the top to the bottom and so
thoroughly wash if sand &c or mix if concrete &c-Part of the water necessary for
the washing of sand would be admitted with the sand through the same trunnion
pipe, the remainder through the other trunnion, regulated by a tap, The continuous
automatic washing &c going on, The sand &c finding its exit through holes of a
size that can be regulated made in the cylinder at points just outside the before
mentioned swell-The sand and dirty water falling together into a duplex shoot-
The holes are closed by means of circumferential bands having holes in of the same
size-and with handles fixed thereto to close or open them while revolving, and so
regulate the discharge, The duplex shoot is made Y fashion and the lead to each
shoot, leading to the settling tanks is made by a small door having India rubber on
its bottom edge-The dirty water running to the tank is driven off overflowing, by
means of a spray nozzle, thus keeping the settling tank clean-The method of
applying power in the case of sand washing by water company's is arranged by
making the cylinder into a water wheel, the water thus consumed helping to
cleause the sand as it proceeds down the shoot.
The principle of the invention admits of many variations for various purposes,
and the inventor claims the various possible adaptations of the principle.
Bet 10LL

page_text: Rotary Washing or Mixing Machine for Sand and other
Materials.
ROBERT HENRY TAYLOR, Clare Villa Hale's Road, Cheltenham, in the County
of Gloucester, Engineer &c do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
WASHING SAND AND FOR MIXING PURPOSES SUCH AS THE MAKING OF CONCRETE &C
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
A cylinder mounted on bearings and suitable framework at each end, the
bearings being hollow admit of pipes leading the materials to be washed or mixed,
to the centro of the revolving cylinder which is made liko a cask with a swell in
the centre, that shape tending by centrifugal action to keep the materials &c whilo
revolving within certain limits, a proper regulation of speed will cause the
materials to fall by action of gravitation when at the top to the bottom, and so
thoroughly wash if sand &c or mix if concrete &c. Part of the water necessary for
the washing of sand would be admitted with the sand through the same trunnion
pipe, the remainder through the other trunnion, regulated by a tap, The continuous
automatic washing &c going on, The sand &c finding its exit through holes A. A of
a size that can be regulated, made in the cylinder at points just outside the before
mentioned swell, The sand and dirty water falling together into a duplex shoot B. B-
The holes are closed by means of circumferential bands having holes in of the same
size, and with handles fixed thereto to close or open them while revolving, and so
regulate the discharge, The duplex shoot is made Y fashion and the lead to each
shoot, leading to the settling tanks is made by a small door having india rubber on
its bottom edge-The dirty water running to the tank is driven off overflowing, by
means of a spray nozzle (not shewn on drawing) thus keeping the settling tank
clean The method of applying power in the case of sand washing by water
companies is arranged by making the cylinder into a water wheel, the water thus
consumed helping to cleanse the sand as it proceeds down the shoot-The principlo
of the invention admits of many variations for various purposes, and the inventor
claims the various possible adaptations, taking for instance an arrangement to mix
concrete on this plan-The cement and broken materials or shingle, forming the
body of the concrete, would be admitted through the larger pipe in their proper
proportions water from the other side, or the same side if necessary to keep the
pipe clear. The requisite number of turns would thoroughly mix it, and it could
bo liberated through a series of small doors worked on both sides by a lever having
its handle on one side and its centre of motion in the middle of the barrel working
the doors reverse ways while still revolving and discharging the contents closing
the doors by the reverse action and proceed as before-The water wheel would of
course not be required-but the rotary motion would be obtained by gearing or
a belt from an engine or other power-There being no satisfactory concrete mixer
in a small way at present before the public, I take it there would be a great
advantage in using the foregoing arrangement, because it could be made to suit
manual labor for small jobs with tho certainty of having the concrete well mixed―

page_text: The same kind of arrangements will bring it into use for various other purposes in
different trades.
Again with respect to the washing machine, The inventor thinks it may with
advantage supplant the gold diggers ordinary rocking cradle for washing at the
stream side, by merely making. a small dam to get a little head of water, the wheel
on a small cask with trunnion bearings &c would save the digger an immense
amount of washing labor, But its principal use is for washing filter sand as
required by all water works and where it can be used with economy as compared
with the present costly system of washing sand, both before and after use in the
filters The inventor has the machine in use doing its work in a first class manner
and at little cost.
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
(1.) The novelty of the arrangement as shewn on the drawing by introducing
the pipes to the centre of revolving barrel by means of trunnions and the method
of liberating the washed materials through holes in the circumference of the barrel,
capable of being closed, or opened to any degree of exit that may be desired.
(2.) The adaptation of the same machine for mixing purposes (various) notably
for the continuous automatic means it gives for making concrete, by introducing
the proper proportions of materials into the revolving barrel and discharging its
contents without stopping.
(3.) Its adaptation in a smaller size, with the wheel as shewn on the drawing,
for the use of gold diggers at the stream side, for gold washing: to be called the
gold diggers mate."
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Did thin 10th day of August 1885