New or Improved Apparatus for Facilitating the Removal of the Contents of Hop Bins or Receptacles
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Apr., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 4th June, 1895-Accepted, 7th Sept., 1895
New or Improved Apparatus for Facilitating the Removal of the
Contents of Hop Bins or Receptacles.
I, FRITZ WIESINGER, of Artern, Germany, Brewer, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The removal of compressed hops from the bins, or receptacles containing them
is as usually effected, a tedious and laborious operation, which it is the object of
this invention to considerably lighten and simplify, to which end I use apparatus
comprising suitable knives or cutters carried by an arm that is mounted upon a
spindle and is through suitable means caused to rotate and be forced down into the
receptacle, the arrangement being such that as the rotation and downward
movement take place the knives will cut out and loosen the hops.
An arrangement of apparatus according to the invention is shewn in the annexed
drawing.
b is a knife-carrying arm which is forced slowly down into the hop receptacle.c
by means of a screw-spindle a that works in the female screw-thread of a bevel
wheel d which is rotated by means of a bevel wheel e, shaft f, and crank 9. The
knife-carrying arm b revolves on or in the pressed hops and is forced into the
latter, which is loosened and cut out by means of the knives or cutters h h which
are adjustably mounted on the arm.
By setting the knives in various positions and by shifting them in a radial
direction, any desired degree of fineness of the cut-out hops may be produced.
The apparatus may be made to suit hop receptacles of various shapes and sizes.
Dated this 25th day of Anril 1895.
F. WISE HOWORTH,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.
New or Improved Apparatus for Facilitating the Removal of the
Contents of Hop Bins or Receptacles.
I, FRITZ WIESINGER, of Artern, Germany, Brewer, 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 removal of compressed hops from bins or receptacles containing them is as
usually effected a tedious and laborious operation, which it is the object of this
invention to considerably lighten and simplify to which end I use apparatus
comprising suitable knives or cutters carried by an arm that is mounted upon a
spindle and is through suitable means caused to rotate and be forced down into the
receptacle, the arrangement being such that as the rotation and downward
movement take place, the knives will cut out and loosen the hops.
An arrangement of apparatus according to the invention is shewn partly in
vertical section and partly in elevation, in the drawing filed with my Provisional
Specification.

page_text: b is a knife-carrying arm which is forced slowly down into the hop receptacle c
by means of a screw spindle a that works in the female screw thread of a bevel
wheel d which is rotated by means of a bevel wheel e, shaft f, and crank g. The
knife-carrying arm b revolves on or in the pressed hops and is forced into the
latter so that they become loosened and cut out by means of the knives or cutters h h
which are adjustably mounted on the arm.
The knives or cutters h consist of steel plates each of which is stamped at its
lower edge into the form of a comb, the teeth of one knife covering the spaces
between the teeth of the other knife. The teeth are arranged at an angle to the
surface of the plate, and are sharpened, and bent upwardly so that they enter,
after the manner of a plough, into the mass of hops under treatment.
By setting the knives in various positions and by shifting them in a radial
direction, any desired degree of fineness of the cut-out hops may be produced.
The apparatus may be made to suit hop receptacles of various shapes and sizes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
An apparatus for facilitating the removal of the contents of hop bins or
receptacles, comprising a screw spindle a, an arm b fixed to the spindle and
carrying adjustable knives or cutters, and driving mechanism for rotating and
forcing down the knife-carrying arm 6 substantially as herein described.
Dated this 1th doir of Twin 1905
F. WISE HOWORTH,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.