AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR WASHING ORES
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Xavier Mousty, of 29, Boulevart St. Martin, Paris,
in the Empire of France, Mechanician, for the Invention of "An In-
Sealed the 3rd September 1860, and dated the 3rd March 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Xavier Mousty at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 3rd
March 1860.
I, XAVIER MOUSTY, of 29, Boulevart St. Martin, Paris, in the Empire ot
France, Mechanician, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR WASHING ORES," to be as follows:-
This
My Invention consists of an improved apparatus for washing ores.
apparatus consists of an annular vessel, to which motion is given by means of
a pinion and circular gearing. This rotating vessel imparts a to-and-fro motion
to lever agitators, which stir up the ore contained therein. The bottom of the
vessel is inclined, and the sides have valves at the lower part of the incline,
which open at given times, when the vessel passes certain fixed obstacles, the
valves close again automatically. During the time that the valves open the
muddy water escapes.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Xavier Mousty in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
3rd September 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, XAVIER
MOUSTY, of 29, Boulévart St. Martin, Paris, in the Empire of France,
Mechanician, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Third day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-third year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Xavier Mousty, Her special licence that I, the said Xavier Mousty, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Xavier
Mousty, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR
WASHING ORES," upon the condition (amongst others) that T, the said Xavier
Mousty, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of
the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Xavier Mousty, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, reference being had to the Sheet of Drawings hereunto annexed,
& to the letters & figures marked thereon (that is to say):-
My Invention consists of an improved apparatus for washing ores. This
apparatus consists of an annular vessel, to which motion is given by means of
pinion and circular gearing. This rotating vessel imparts a to-and-fro-motion
to lever agitators, which stir up the ore contained therein. The bottom of the
vessel is inclined, and the sides have at the lower part of the incline four valves,
which open at given times for letting out the muddy waters contained in the
apparatus.
The washing of ores is thus effected in a complete & continuous manner,
and as the platform which supports the apparatus is inclined, the muddy water

page_text: will escape by the four valves fastened to the external sides of the apparatus,
and which open as they pass at the lower part of the incline, and close again
automatically at the working point of the shovels. The opening of the valves
is obtained at will by means of an arc of a circle placed in the interior of and
on the same plane as the apparatus. This arc of a circle which is fixed to the
framing has a movable part lowering at will & forming an inclined plane,
upon which turns a roller, the axis of which is fitted to the upper part of the
valves. The rotary motion of the apparatus causes the upper valve to rise for
the escape of muddy water. When the attendant desires to open the lower
valves, he hooks them up to the next above, whereby they are raised and give
passage to the sand which was mixed with the ore. A lid fixed above the
working point of the shovels causes to drop again in the apparatus the ore and
the water thrown out by the working of said shovels, without the circular
motion of the washing apparatus being thereby disturbed. Beneath this lid is
fitted an iron piece having the form of a ploughshare, and held there by two
iron rods secured to the framing; this piece serves to drive the ore towards
the centre of the washing apparatus, and also to form a channel for the easier
escape of the muddy water and sand through the valves. For this arrange-
ment the following may be substituted, which consists of a turnplate placed at
the end of a rectilineal railway, and having two parallel ways. The first washing
apparatus on leaving the machine rests on the turnplate, & is detached from
the next, which is already engaged; the turnplate is then made to turn half a
revolution, by which motion the first apparatus is turned in an opposite direc-
tion, placed upon a second way parallel to that which led it up, & conveyed
afterwards down to a slide placed on another way perpendicular or at right
angles to the two parallel ways described. By this slide or carriage this first
washing apparatus is placed again on the first way, and made to advance
and hook on the other apparatus, and so forth, until the ore is sufficiently
washed, when they are made to take any direction on the turnplate, in order to
be unloaded or loaded again.
My improved machines are represented in the annexed Drawings, in which
Fig. 1 shows a circular rotating vessel, one part of which is shown in elevation
and the other in plan; Fig. 2 shows the plan; Fig. 3 shows an elevation of
the grinding machine for grinding the ore laid on a rectilineal way; Figure 4
shows the plan of the same. In these various Figures the same letters of
reference indicate the same parts where they recur.
a, cast-iron framing upon which the machine is supported; b, motive fly-
wheel imparting motion to a wimble or counter-elbowed crank c; d, connecting
rod fastened to said wimble sliding in an axle e, which oscillates upon its axis;

page_text: f, two wood handles fitted to the rods by means of rings and having at their
ends two shovels which describe the curve 9; h, annular vessel rotated by
means of rollers i; j, four iron uprights fixed to the rail wood, and connected
to each other by means of iron braces; these uprights have their upper part
wormed and receive the cast-iron bearings k, which can be raised or lowered
at will. The wimble c has a fly-wheel b, acting as a pulley and imparting
motion to the machine; 7, rectilineal railway, consisting of two parallel ways
placed on the turnplate m; n, slide or carriage placed upon a way, which is
perpendicular or at right angles to the two parallel ways 1.
Having thus described the nature of the said improvements in apparatus for
washing ores, and the manner in which the Invention is to be carried into
effect, I wish it to be distinctly understood that I do not confine myself to the
precise details herein. described, as such may bo varied or modified without
departing from the principle of action thereof; likewise, I do not confine
myself to the strict figure or form of any of the apparatus described; but I
claim as new, and of my Invention, the new arrangements of my ore washing
apparatus us described, in combination with their machinery, which may
assume the form of either rectilineal ways, or that of a circular rotating vessel,
as and for the purposes herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Xavier Mousty, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
X. MOUSTY. (L.S.)