IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PULPING, STRIPPING, AND SLICING TURNIPS' AND OTHER VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Harrison, of Leigh, in the County. of
Lancaster, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR
APPARATUS FOR PULPING, STRIPPING, AND SLICING TURNIPS' AND OTHER
VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES."
Sealed the 14th June 1872, and dated the 18th December 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Harrison at
the Office of the Commissioners, of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 18th December 1871.
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I, HENRY HARRISON, of Leigh, in the County of Lancaster, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY
OR APPARATUS FOR PULPING, STRIPPING, AND) SLICING TURNIPS. AND
VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES," to be as follows:-
OTHER-
This Invention relates to improvements upon the Invention for which
Letters Patent were granted to Reuben Sims, bearing date the Twenty-

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seventh day of August, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-two, No. 2374.
I have found in practice that although the cone is the best form for
pulping, yet the slicing and stripping knives do not act so well or easily
when fixed on the conical surface, but have a tendency to scoop out-or
break the turnips or other vegetables instead of slicing them evenly; and
another disadvantage is that owing to the contracted space left between
the double cones in this machine turnips or vegetables of large size
cannot fall to the bottom of the hopper, and are not therefore readily
operated upon by the knives.
My improvements consist in forming, a combined pulper, slicer, and
stripper, by having on one side of the hopper a single conical. pulper as
described in the Specification of the Patent before alluded to, and on the
other side of the same, and facing the conical pulper, a disc having fixed
thereon the knives for slicing and also the transverse knives for stripping.
This arrangement not only enables the knives to make a fair straight cut
or slice through the turnips or other vegetables to be cut, and con-
sequently delivers them-in-a-better condition, but, also. allows of much
more space in the hopper, for the turnips or other vegetables to fall to
the bottom..
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,: I, . HENRY
HARRISON, of Leigh, in the County of Lancaster, send greeting. A
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WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of December, in the year
-71.

page_text: stripper, by having on one side of the hopper a single conical pulper, as
described in the Specification of the Patent before alluded to, and on the
other side of the same, and facing the conical pulper, a disc having fixed
thereon the knives for slicing and also the transverse knives for stripping. 5
This arrangement not only enables the knives to make a fair straight cut:
or slice through the turnips or other vegetables to be cut, and con-2
sequently delivers them in a better condition, but also allows of much
more space in the-hopper for the turnips or other vegetables to fall to
the bottom.
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The machine is more easily and economically made, and the work is
more quickly and efficiently performed.
Such being the nature and object of my said Invention for improve-:
ments in machinery or lapparatus for pulping! stripping, and slicing
turnips and other vegetable substances; I will now proceed to describe :1
more in detail the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed i
or carried-into practical effect, and in order that the same may be clearly.
understood I have annexed hereunto a Sheet of Drawings illustrative
thereof, and have marked the same with figures and, letters, of-reference
corresponding with those in the following explanation thereof:
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Fig. 1 in the annexed Drawing represents a side view of the cutter
shaft of a combined pulping, slicing, and stripping machine with the
pulper and cutter made according to my Invention; Fig. 2 is a face view*
of the conical pulper; and Fig. 3 is a similar view of the disc carrying
the slicing and stripping knives.
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a, ja, is the shaft; b, b, the cone with its, pulping knives c, c, d, d, is
the disc with its slicing knives e, e, and transverse stripping, knives, f,So
These latter will, as before observed, act much more advantageously upon
the turnips or other vegetables, owing to their being, mounted upon, á
flat surface or disc, than they would if placed upon a cone, whilst the 3
latter is the best form for the pulper, and at the same time, a larger space,
is left between them for the roots to fall to the, bottom than could be
obtained by placing two conical surfaces face to face as hitherto
practised.
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"Having now described the nature and object of my said Invention, '3
together with the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed

page_text: as my invention, the combination in one machine or a conical pulper,
with a disc carrying slicing and stripping knives, constructed and arranged
substantially as herein-before described and illustrated by the Drawings
annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Harrison, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of May, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
two.
HENRY HARRISON. (L.S.)