Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 28th May, 1888
Complete Specification Left, 28th Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Accepted, 6th Apr., 1889
CONTULICATION TUIN UUDET
I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 323 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex, M.L.M.E.
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The present invention relates to an improved grain sorting machine which is
driven by the grain itself and works as long as there is sufficient grain left in the
hopper or on the sorting wheel to overcome the friction in the machine.
A suitable frame preferably. of wood, or iron which carries the different parts of the
machine described hereafter is provided with a hopper preferably made of wood, sheet
metal or cast iron. The grain is introduced into the hopper and falls onto the boards
or in the pockets of a sorting wheel of the usual construction whereby this wheel
is driven automatically. To regulate the speed of the wheel and the quantity of
the grain falling through the hopper the lower opening of the latter can be
adjusted by means of a slide which can also if desired perfectly close the opening.
To prevent any interruption in the flow of the grain to the sorting wheel a cylinder
or shaft provided with paddle plates is journalled in the frame directly above the
slide of the hopper and may be driven by the sorting wheel by means of pulleys
and a belt.
The grain in the sorting wheel is sorted from the chaff and the like by spherical
cavities of the boards of the wheel and falls into a covered channel or shoot which
is made in one piece with a projectile or throwing channel. This combined channel
is pivotted to the frame and receives an oscillating motion by means of arms
fastened to the axis of the above named paddle cylinder or shaft. By means of this
oscillating motion the lighter grain will be thrown into receptacles placed further

page_text: from the bottom of the channel or shoot while the heavier grain will fall into the
receptacles nearer the bottom of the channel or shoot.
This machine may also be employed for sorting other material of similar shape and
size which has to be sorted according to weight.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Grain and other Sorting
Machines.
A communication from JOSEF REITTER, of Salzburg, in the Empire of Austria,
Engineer.
I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 323 High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, M.I.M.E.
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 present invention relates to an improved grain, sorting machine which is
driven by the grain itself and works as long as thore is sufficient grain loft in
the hopper or on the sorting wheel to overcome the friction in the machine.
In the accompanying drawings ;-
Fig. 1 represents a side elevation of the machine.
Fig. 2 represents the front view of the same.
Fig. 3 represents a longitudinal section of the sorting wheel.
A suitable frame A preferably of wood, or iron, which carries the different parts
of the machine described hereafter is provided with a hopper a preferably made of
wood, sheet metal or cast iron. The grain is introduced into the hopper and falls
onto the boards or in the pockets of a sorting wheel c of the usual construction
whereby this wheel is driven automatically. To regulate the speed of the wheel and
the quantity of the grain falling through the hopper the lower opening of the latter
can be adjusted by means of a slide a which can also if desired perfectly close the
opening. To prevent any interruption in the flow of the grain to the sorting wheel
a cylinder or shaft 6 provided with paddle plates is journalled in the frame directly
above the slide of the hopper and may be driven by the sorting wheel by means of
pulleys and a belt.

page_text: The grain in the sorting wheel is sorted from the chaff and the like by spherical
cavities in the boards of the wheel and falls into a covered channel or shoot d
which is made in one piece with a projectile or throwing channel f. This combined
channel is pivotted at g to the frame and receives an oscillating motion by means of
arms fastened to the axis of the above named paddle cylinder or shaft b. By means
of this oscillating motion the lighter grain will be thrown into receptacles e placed
further from the bottom of the channel or shoot while the heavier grain will fall into
the receptacle nearer the bottom of the channel or shoot. The chaff or the like
contained in the cavities s¹ of the plates of the sorting wheel c does not full into the
channel or shoot d but falls into the chamber m when the plates have passed the
shoot d.
This machine may also be employed for sorting other material of similar shape
and size which has to be sorted according to weight.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention as communicated to ine by my foreign correspondent, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is ;-
.
A self acting grain sorting machine in which the sorting wheel the boards or
platest of which are provided with cavities such as s' is set in motion by the grain
falling thereon and in which the grain passes through an oscillating channel or
shoot actuated by the arms h fastened to the axis of the cylinder or shaft such
as for the purpose of removing the chaff and sorting the grain substantially us
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
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Dave so way of reoi qa
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W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,.
Agents.