AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR CONDENSING HAY, STRAW, AND OTHER SIMILAR COMMODITIES FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES
Year: 1879

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Fitzmaurice Clarke and Robert
Boyle Phillips at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 21st
August 1879.
JOHN FITZMAURICE CLARKE, of Monacurragh, Carlow, and ROBERT BOYLE
PHILLIPS, Civil Engineer, Oxford Road, Rathmines, County of Dublin, Ireland.
"AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR CONDENSING HAY, STRAW, AND OTHER SIMILAR
COMMODITIES FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES."
"
.Our said Invention has for object condensing of hay, straw, or other similar
substance into a small space or compass to facilitate transit, for which pupose we
press such substances into sacks by means of apparatus as follows:-Through
circular apertures in a floor supported by framework. are passed two or more
vertical cylinders open at their tops, closed at their bottoms, and each of a form
tapering slightly towards the bottom, and provided with a flange or collar at its
upper edge whereby it is held in a fixed position. Above these cylinders are
arranged shorter cylinders of similar diameter open at both ends and provided with
faucets or flanges at their bottoms to fit on to the upper edges of the lower or first
described cylinders. These upper cylinders we call "chargers," and they are filled
with hay previous to being placed in position. Over these chargers are arranged
in the framework of the apparatus vertical rods, we call "pressure rods," which we
provide at their lower extremities with flat circular heads of metal and wood combined.
These pressure rods we cause to ascend and descend by means of rack and pinion or
other gear, and they may be worked by horse, steam, or other power, as may be
found convenient. The sack to be filled with hay is dropped into the lower
cylinder, having first been surrounded with a wire cage to facilitate its removal
when filled, and the flaps of its mouth are secured round the flange of the cylinder;
then the "charger" having first been loosely filled with hay and placed in its berth
over the lower cylinder (and consequently over the sack's mouth), as above described,
the "pressure rod" is caused to descend with considerable pressure forcing home the
hay into the sack underneath, and compressing it thus into the minimum space.
When the pressure rod is withdrawn the "charger" is removed, the mouth of the
sack laced up and the wire cage which holds it is drawn out of the cylinder, when
the said wire cage is removed and the sack is ready for commercial purposes.

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Fitzmaurice Clarke and Robert
Boyle Phillips at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 21st
August 1879.
JOHN FITZMAURICE CLARKE, of Monacurragh, Carlow, and ROBERT BOYLE
PHILLIPS, Civil Engineer, Oxford Road, Rathmines, County of Dublin, Ireland.
"AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR CONDENSING HAY, STRAW, AND OTHER SIMILAR
COMMODITIES FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES."
"
Our said Invention has for object condensing of hay, straw, or other similar
substance into a small space or compass to facilitate transit, for which pupose we
press such substances into sacks by means of apparatus as follows:-Through
circular apertures in a floor supported by framework are passed two or more
vertical cylinders open at their tops, closed at their bottoms, and each of a form
tapering slightly towards the bottom, and provided with a flange or collar at its
upper edge whereby it is held in a fixed position. Above these cylinders are
arranged shorter cylinders of similar diameter open at both ends and provided with
faucets or flanges at their bottoms to fit on to the upper edges of the lower or first
described cylinders. These upper cylinders we call "chargers," and they are filled
with hay previous to being placed in position. Over these "chargers are arranged
in the framework of the apparatus vertical rods, we call "pressure rods," which we
provide at their lower extremities with flat circular heads of metal and wood combined.
These pressure rods we cause to ascend and descend by means of rack and pinion or
other gear, and they may be worked by horse, steam, or other power, as may be
found convenient. The sack to be filled with hay is dropped into the lower
cylinder, having first been surrounded with a wire cage to facilitate its removal
when filled, and the flaps of its mouth are secured round the flange of the cylinder;
then the "charger" having first been loosely filled with hay and placed in its berth
over the lower cylinder (and consequently over the sack's mouth), as above described, .
the "pressure rod" is caused to descend with considerable pressure forcing home the
hay into the sack underneath, and compressing it thus into the minimum space.
When the pressure rod is withdrawn the "charger" is removed, the mouth of the
sack laced up and the wire cage which holds it is drawn out of the cylinder, when
the said wire cage is removed and the sack is ready for commercial purposes.