Improvements in Machinery for Cleaning and Grading Barley, Wheat, Oats, and other Grains, Suitable also for Cleaning and Polishing Rice and for other Analogous Purposes.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Mar., 1886.
Complete Left, 20th Jan., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 22nd Feb., 1887.
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Improvements in Machinery for Cleaning and Grading Barley,
Wheat, Oats, and other Grains, Suitable also for Cleaning and
Polishing Rice and for other Analogous Purposes.
We JOHN WILLIAMS CLINCH of Lake Brewery, Douglas, Isle of Man, Brewer and
LINNAEUS GREENING of Bewsey Road, Warrington, in the County of Lancaster Wire
Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of our invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements upon an invention for which Letters Patent
No. 15,646 were granted to us on the 19th day of December 1885 and has for its
object the utilising, of the same class of machine as described in our former
specification for grading or sorting barley or other grains. Instead of employing a
part only of the length of the cylinder as a grader we construct the entire length with
perforations suitable for grading purposes and which perforations increase in width as
they approach the outlet. end of the machine-the different sizes of grain being
received in separate compartments provided with shoots leading to sacks or other
receptacles.
In this case the barley or other grain is first introduced into an oscillating separator
which screens the dust and other particles and then leads the grain only into the
hopper of the cylinder. The cylinder is fitted with the same description of spiral
brush as in our former specification. The improvements are also applicable to
apparatus for cleaning and grading wheat and oats and other grain and for cleaning
and polishing rice.
If it is desired the cylinder may be immersed in water and thus be utilised for
washing wheat.
JOHN G. WILSON,
Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: Improvements in Machinery for Cleaning and Grading Barley,
Wheat, Oats, and other Grains, Suitable also for Cleaning and
Polishing Rice and for other Analogous Purposes.
We, JOHN WILLIAMS CLINCH, of Lake Brewery, Douglas, Isle of Man, and
LINNAEUS GREENING of Bewsey Road, Warrington, in the County of Lancaster, Wire
Manufacturer 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 Improvements upon an Invention for which Her Majesty's
Letters Patent No. 15646 were granted to us and dated the 19th December, A.D. 1885.
These Improvements have for their object the further utilization of the apparatus or
machinery described in our former specification, or apparatus or machinery similar
thereto for grading or sorting barley, wheat, oats and other grain, for cleaning or
polishing rice and for other analogous purposes; and they consist in employing the
whole length, instead of only a part of the length, of the cylinder for cleaning or
grading. The perforations which exist or are formed or produced in the material of
which the cylinder is constructed are of small dimensions at the inlet end, and increase
in size as they approach the opposite end of the cylinder, or they may be of various
dimensions at different parts of the cylinder.
By this arrangement the dust, small seeds and finer or smaller foreign matter may
be discharged through the perforations of the cylinder at or near its inlet end, and
may be received by a bin, shoot or other receptacle arranged and adapted to receive it.
Beyond this part of the cylinder, the smaller grain is discharged into another shoot,
bin or receptacle, through larger perforations, and so on to the end of the cylinder,
where the perforations may be just large enough to discharge the largest grains into
the last bin, shoot or receptacle; when stones, straw, and other objects larger than the
grain will be discharged from the end of the cylinder. Alternatively, the perforations
may be proportioned and arranged to discharge successively larger or smaller sizes of
grain or other material into successive bins, shoots or receptacles and to discharge
the largest grains, particles or masses from the outlet end. A very convenient
arrangement is to employ a short cylinder having perforations of two sizes, through
the smaller of which the dust is discharged, the whole of the grain or other material to
be graded being discharged from the larger perforations into a second cylinder having
graduated sizes of perforations for grading, as hereinbefore described. The straws,
sticks, stones or other foreign matter are in this case ejected or discharged from the
end of the first cylinder. The cylinder is fitted with a spiral brush as described in our
former specification and the cylinder may further, be immersed in water and thus be
employed for washing wheat or other grain.
The accompanying sheet of drawings illustrates our present Invention, and is
hereinafter described.

page_text: Fig. 1 is a cross section, and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal view partly in section. The
various parts or details are indicated by letters of reference, and where similar parts
occur in each of the figures they are indicated by similar letters.
A is the spiral brush; B is the perforated cylinder; Care straps, by means of
which, and the screws D the diameter of the cylinder is adjusted; E is the spindle or
axis of the spiral brush, the ends of which are by preference carried in adjustable
bearings F G G are bins, shoots or receptacles into or through which the grain is
discharged from the cylinder as herein before described; H is the hopper and I the
framing or support of the apparatus. The spiral brush may be removed from the
apparatus or be replaced in the cylinder by removing the bearing caps, and lifting the
suspending rods, carrying the bearings F.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim is :-
(1) In machinery or apparatus of the type hercinbefore described, employed for
cleaning, grading and polishing grain, and for other analogous purposes; constructing
the perforated cylinder with sets of perforations of various dimensions, perforations of
similar dimensions being located together; substantially as and for the purpose
herein before described.
(2) In machinery for cleaning, grading, and polishing grain and for analogous
purposes; the combination with a perforated cylinder constructed as described in the
preceding claim, of bins, shoots or receptacles arranged and adapted to receive the
various grades of grain or other material, as they are discharged from the cylinder:
substantially as hereinbefore described and as illustrated by the accompanying sheet of
drawings.
(3) Cleaning or washing wheat or other grain by means of the hereinbefore
described apparatus, having its cylinder immersed in water.
WILLIAM E. HEYS,
70, Market Street, Manchester,
Agent for the Applicants.