Improvements in Rag Engines.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Oct., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 20th May, 1893-Accepted, 24th June, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Rag Engines.
AARON GEORGE Junr., Millwright Street Lane Gildersome via Leeds Yorkshire
We do
WILLIAM GEORGE, Paper Maker East Morton near Bingley Yorkshire.
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The improvements in rag engines is a roller made of wood with iron plates
projecting from it, and is intended for mixing and circulating the pulp in the
ordinary beating rag engines. The improvements is fixed in a horizontal position
at the back of the ordinary beating roll.
Dated this 8th day of October 1892.
AARON GEORGE, JUNR.
WILLIAM GEORGE.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Rag Engines.
We AARON GEORGE Junr. of Street Lane Gildersome near Leeds in the
County of York Millwright, and WILLIAM GEORGE of East Morton near Bingley
in the County of York Paper Maker, 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 :-
Our improvements in rag engines for making pulp in the manufacture of paper,
mill board, and the like, consists in adding a circulating, mixing and stripping
roller to the rag machine immediately behind the tearing or pulping roller, for the
purpose of preventing the latter roller becoming choked. Our circulating roller
consists of a cylinder provided with iron plates, knives or blades bent slightly in
the opposite direction to that of the rotation of the roller. A cover encloses both the
beating and the circulating rollers and is carried sufficiently close to the circulating
roller, that the edge of the cover acts as a stripper to the circulating roller, whilst
the latter also acts as a stripper to the beating or pulping roller; both rollers
revolving in the same direction.
The advantage obtained with our invention is, that owing to the beaters of the
rag engine being constantly cleared and the pulp or rags rapidly carried away from
the beating roller, the effectiveness of the machine is considerably increased.
And in order that our invention and the manner in which the same is to be
performed may be more clearly understood reference is given to the accompanying
drawings, in which
Fig. 1 is a plan and Fig. 2 a longitudinal section of a rag engine constructed in
accordance with our invention.
a a indicates the side frame of the engine.
bb is the tearing or pulping cylinder, and c is the shaft of the same.
dd is the shaft of the circulating, mixing and stripping roller, which is provided
with iron plates or blades p p, which latter are bent in the opposite direction to
that in which the shaft d rotates.
The direction of the rotation of the shafts c and d is indicated by arrows.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. In rag engines of the kind herein set forth, the arrangement and use of a
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page_text: circulating, mixing and stripping roller placed close behind and rotating in the same
direction as the beating or pulping cylinder, and provided with plates blades or
knives preferably bent or curved in the direction opposite to that of its rotation.
2. Our improved rag engine characterized by a circulating and mixing roller
placed close behind the beating or pulping cylinder.
Dated this 18th day of Max 1803
J. CLARK JEFFERSON,
2, East Parade, Leeds, Agent for Applicants.