IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR MOISTENING AND DISINTEGRATING OIL AND OTHER SEEDS." SP
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Harrison Holt, of the Firm of Willows, Holt, and
Willows, of Hull, in the County of the same Town, Seed Crusher, for an
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR
MOISTENING AND DISINTEGRATING OIL AND OTHER SEEDS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Harrison Holt at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 5th July 1880.
HARRISON HOLT, of the Firm of Willows, Holt, and Willows, of Hull, in the
County of the same Town, Seed Crusher. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD
OF AND APPARATUS FOR MOISTENING AND DISINTEGRATING OIL AND OTHER
SEEDS."
The object of my Invention is to impart moisture to oil or other seeds whilst
disintegrating the same, which I accomplish somewhat as follows:-
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I construct a flat circular casing, the interior circumference of which is corrugated,
and may be parallel or conical. In the centre of this casing I mount one or two
revolving shafts, as the case may be, upon which 1 secure a number of radiating
arms so arranged that the seed which passes into the said casing at the circum-
ference at one side and near the top of the same is disintegrated whilst passing
through the machine, and delivered at the circumference on the opposite side and
near the top of the said casing.
In order to thoroughly permeate the oil or other seed with moisture whilst
passing through the disintegrator I attach one or more nozzles to the casing in a
suitable position, or I make the shaft or shafts upon which the radial arıs
revolve hollow, and perforated in such a manner that when I inject steam or other
moisture under pressure the same will penetrate and thoroughly combine with the
oil or other seeds during the process of disintegration.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Harrison Holt in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 5th January
1881.
HARRISON HOLT, of the Firm of Willows,, Holt, and Willows, of Hull, in the
County of the same Town, Seed Crusher. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD
OF AND APPARATUS FOR MOISTENING AND DISINTEGRATING OIL AND OTHER
SEEDS."
The object of my Invention is to impart moisture to oil or other seeds whilst
disintegrating the same, which I accomplish somewhat as follows:-
In the accompanying Drawings illustrating my Invention Figure 1 is a sectional
clevation of the apparatus with-one-of-its-sides removed in order to better illustrate
the interior, Figure 2 is a plan with the top part of the casing removed, Figure 3
is a front elevation of casing shewing the outlet, and Figure 4 is an enlarged
sectional detail of the nozzel secured to casing for imparting moisture to the
seed.
In carrying out my Invention I construct a flat circular casing A, which may be
parallel, that is to say, both ends of the casing of equal diameter, or it may be
conical, one end being larger in diameter than the other. In either caso the
circumference of the casing is corrugated the full width, as at B. In the centre of
this casing I mount a revolving shaft C, upon which is secured a number of
radiating arms D so arranged that the beators D' at end of arms form sections of a
coarse threaded screw.
The seed, which has been previously crushed, is-fed-into the casing A through a
hopper E fixed near the top and at one side of the same, and is disintegrated by
the beaters D¹ revolving through the seed, which is carried across the casing by
incans of the arms and beaters D₁ being set one behind the other, forming as
already said a coarse pitched screw, so that the seed is delivered from one set of
beaters to the next following, thus travelling from one side of the machine to the
other, where it is delivered through opening F into hopper G thoroughly disinte-
grated or reduced to a fine powder.
In order to keep the sides of the casing clear of seed I attach to one arm on cachi
side of the same a scraper, which revolving with the arins removes any seed
that may be thrown against and would otherwise adhero to the sides of the
casing.
I wish it to be understood that although I show all the beater arms mounted on
one shaft and driven from one side by pulley H, two shafts can be employed having
a number of beaters secured to each, and driven from each side of the machine,
both of which may be run at the same or at a different rate of speed, and thereby
accomplish the object I have in view.
In order to thoroughly permeate the oil or other seed with moisture whilst
passing through the disintegrator 1 attach one or more nozzels J (in a suitable
position) to casing A, the number of nozzels varying according to the diameter of
the casing. In the machine illustrated I have shewn one nozzel placed between
the inlet E and outlet F about one-third the width of the machine. This nozzel is
shewn in section at Figure 4, and is supplied through pipe J' with steam or other
moisture under pressure, which when injected into the casing through the narrow
opening K extending near the width of nozzel penetrates and thoroughly combinos
with the oil or other seeds during the process of disintegration.
I can also moisten the seed by making the shaft or shafts hollow with per-
forations into casing, or fix one or more nozzels at the inlet side of casing, so that
when steam or other moisture under pressure is thereby injected into the casing

page_text: the same will penetrate and combine with the oil or other seeds during the process
of disintegration.
What I claim as my Invention is,-
First. The arrangement of disintegrator having radial beating arins, substantially
in the manner described and illustrated by the accompanying Drawings.
Second. The injecting of steam or other moisture under pressure into the
disintegrating casing whilst the seeds aro undergoing the process of disintegration,
substantially in the manner described and illustrated in the accompanying
Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Harrison Holt, have hercunto set my hand
and scal, this Third day of January, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty one.
HARRISON HOLT. (L.S.)