Improvements in Apparatus for Mixing or Treating Provender for Horses, Cattle, and other Animals, and for like Purposes.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Apr.. 1887
Complete Left, 16th Jan., 1888
Complete Accepted, 17th Feb., 1888
Improvements in Apparatus for Mixing or Treating Provender for
Horses, Cattle, and other Animals, and for like Purposes.
We, JOHN HAMILTON and THOMAS HAMILTON, Wishaw, in the County of Lanark,
Scotland, Grocers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows
--
The improved apparatus constituting the Invention consists of a series of elevators
mounted on chains which pass through and lift the required compounds and discharge
them into a perforated cylinder in which a shaft revolves. On the said shaft there
are a number of blades set at different angles for the purpose of mixing and sifting
the provender or the like as it passes through the aforesaid perforated cylinder. At
the bottom of the aforesaid perforated cylinder there is a shoot or channel for
discharging the mixed and sifted provender or the like.
DL 1.:.
SA 1007
CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
62, Saint Vincent Street, Glasgow,
Agents.

page_text: Improvements in Apparatus for Mixing or Treating Frovender for
Horses, Cattle, and other Animals, and for like Purposes.
We, JOHN HAMILTON and THOMAS HAMILTON, Wishaw, in the County of Lanark,
Scotland, Grocers, 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 improved apparatus constituting the Invention is represented in sectional
elevation at figure I, and in plan at figure 2 of the accompanying drawings, and it
consists of a series of elevator buckets or forks A, mounted on chains B, which pass
round chain pulleys C, carried on shafts D, the buckets or forks dipping into and
raising the provender or other material out of a chamber E, into which it is discharged
from a series of hoppers or garnels F, containing the several ingredients to be mixed.
Sliding doors are fitted in the garnels to regulate the rate of delivery of the materials
and the buckets A are preferably formed as indicated at figure 3 each with a movable
side a pivotted at a¹ so that it may be contracted or enlarged. The buckets discharge
the material on to a shoot G, and thence into a casing H formed with perforated sides
or made of wire cloth, the material being therein subjected to the action of inclined
blades 1 fixed on a rotating shaft J, whereby the said materials are mixed and sifted
the dust or other foreign matter which passes through the perforations or interstices
in the casing H being drawn off by means of a fan or exhauster K, connected to an
enclosing chamber L, and discharged through a shoot L'; and the mixed and sifted
provender or other material being discharged from the casing H through shoots M
leading from the bottom thereof to suitable receptacles. As indicated in the drawings
the shaft J carrying the mixing blades may be driven through bevel gearing and
belting from the shaft D by which motion is imparted to the elevator chains. The
improved apparatus is particularly adapted for mixing and sifting oats, beans, hay
and similar materials used as provender for horses, cattle and other animals, but it
may also be advantageously employed for mixing tea and for like purposes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
1. The combination of parts constituting the improved apparatus for mixing or
treating provender and other materials, substantially as herein described.
2. In apparatus of the kind and for the purpose set forth the combination of an
elevator dipping into a chamber receiving the materials to be treated and a casing or
'vessel for mixing and sifting said materials, substantially as described.
Dated this Fourteenth day of January 1888
CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
62, Saint Vincent Street, Glasgow,
Agents.