IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR CUTTING, CRUSHING, BRUISING, OR OTHERWISE PREPARING FURZE OR GORSE, STRAW, BARK, OR OTHER VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Wallis Rivers Goulty, of Reading, in the County of
Berks, Engineer and Manager to the Reading Ironworks Limited, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR CUTTING, CRUSHING,
BRUISING, OR OTHERWISE PREPARING FURZE OR GORSE, STRAW, BARK, OR
OTHER VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES."
Sealed the 14th February 1868, and dated the 17th August 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Wallis Rivers Goulty at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 17th August 1867.
I, WALLIS RIVERS GOULTY, of Reading, in the County of Berks, Engineer
and Manager to the Reading Ironworks Limited, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR CUTTING,.
CRUSHING, BRUISING, OR OTHERWISE PREPARING FURZE OR GORSE, STRAW, BARK,
OR OTHER VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to improved arrangements of machinery for cutting,
crushing, bruising, and preparing furze or gorse, straw, bark, or other vegetable,

page_text: substances suitable as food for cattle or for other useful purposes. For this
purpose revolving spiral cutters are employed in combination with grooved
pressing surfaces, so arranged according to my Invention that a shearing as
well as a pressing action is obtained. Two or more grooved rollers or pressers
may be employed arranged in contact at their peripheries (but by preference
.two only are used having pressure applied thereto), their surfaces being either
smooth or otherwise; and the speeds at which they are driven may be
the same, but by preference one is driven at a higher speed than the other so
as to produce a grinding action between the surfaces in contact. Suitable
feed apparatus is arranged for supplying or conducting the vegetable
substances regularly to the cutters, consisting either of a roughened, grooved,
or other surfaced roller or rollers arranged in combination with a feed table,
inclined or otherwise. Or an endless travelling web mounted upon rollers
may be employed for this purpose either alone or combined with the apparatus
previously described,
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said, Wallis Rivers Goulty in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 15th February 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WALLIS
RIVERS GOULTY, of Reading, in the County of Berks, Engineer and Manager
to the Reading Ironworks Limited, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first year of Her reign
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Wallis Rivers Goulty, Her special licence that I, the said Wallis Rivers
Goulty, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Wallis Rivers Goulty, 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 "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MACHINERY FOR CUTTING. CRUSHING, BRUISING, OR OTHERWISE PREPARING
FURZE OR GORSE, STRAW, BARK, OR OTHER VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Wallis Rivers Goulty, my

page_text: 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 per-
formed, 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
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NOW KNOW-YE; that I, the said-Wallis-Rivers-Goulty, do-hereby declare.
the nature of the 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 thereof, that is to say:—
This Invention relates to improved arrangements of machinery for cutting,
crushing, bruising, and preparing furze or gorse, straw, bark, or other
vegetable substances suitable, as food for cattle or for other useful purposes.
For this purpose revolving spiral or parallel cutters are employed in
combination with grooved pressing surfaces so arranged according to my
Invention that a shearing as well as a pressing action is obtained. Two
or more grooved rollers or pressers are employed and arranged so as to
be in contact or nearly so at their peripheries, being either smooth or
otherwise, and the speeds at which they are driven may be the same,
but by preference one is driven at a higher speed than the other so as to
produce a grinding action between the surfaces in contact. Suitable feed
apparatus is arranged for supplying or conducting the vegetable substances
regularly to the cutters consisting either of a roughened, grooved, or
other surfaced roller or rollers arranged in combination with a feed table
inclined or otherwise; or an endless travelling web mounted upon rollers may
be employed for this purpose either alone or combined with the apparatus
previously described..
And in order that my Invention may be most fully understood and readily
carried into practice, I will proceed to describe the Drawing hereunto
annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure i shows a pian, and Figure 2 an end elevation (partly in section)
of so much of a machine suitably arranged for cutting, crushing, bruising, or
otherwise preparing furze or. gorse, straw, bark, or other vegetable substance
in accordance with my Invention; Figure 3 is a diagram showing the arrange-
ment of the rollers which I prefer to employ in carrying out my improvements,
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gure shows a pian, and Figure 2 an end elevation (partly in section)
of so much of a machine suitably arranged for cutting, crushing, bruising, or
otherwise preparing furze or. gorse, straw, bark, or other vegetable substance
in accordance with my Invention; Figure 3 is a diagram showing the arrange-
ment of the rollers which I prefer to employ in carrying out my improvements,
although the number and arrangement of the series of reed cutting and

page_text: pressing rollers employed may be considerably varied without departing from
the true character of my Invention.
circumference.
The gorse, straw, or other vegetable materials to be cut, crushed, bruised,
or prepared as food for cattle or for other purposes are fed, into the machine
down the inclined feed board a (which may be combined with a self-acting
endless web if desired) on to the surface of the feed roller b, revolving in the
direction of the arrow, and having parallel or spiral grooves formed on its
c is a cutter roller, also formed with spiral (or parallel).
cutting edges or surfaces upon its circumference; and d, e, are pressing rollers
having grooved, roughened, or smooth surfaces, the series of of rollers.c, d, and e,
being arranged in contact or nearly so with the surface or circumference of
the feed roller b, upon which they act either as cutters or pressers to cut,
crush, or bruise the vegetable material as it travels between them and the
surface of the roller b. The axes of the several rollers are mounted in bushes
or bearings (supported in the framing f of the, machine) which are capable
of adjustment, and the axes of the feed roller bare carried by arms on the
ends of the bar 9, which can be forced forward by the screw g¹ so as to adjust
the position of the feed roller b with the surfaces of the rollers c, d, and e..
The toothed wheels, and pinions are indicated by dotted circles in Figure. 3,
and motion is communicated to the series of rollers b, c, d, and e in the s
following manner:-The roller is fixed upon and revolves with the axis b¹, to
which motion is communicated in any convenient manner. 62, 63, and b, are
toothed pinions fixed upon the axis b', which take into and drive the toothed
wheels c', d¹, and e¹, fixed respectively upon the axes ², d², and e², of the
rollers c, d, and e, so as to cause them to revolve in the direction of the s
arrows, and at a suitable relative speed to the roller b. I prefer that the
grooves or cutting edges of one of the rollers b, c, and d, should be arranged
spirally around its circumference to obtain a shearing action in conjunction
with the roller against which it revolves; 6* and e* are blades arranged
in contact with the surfaces of the rollers and e to scrape and thus
prevent any undue accumulation of vegetable matter upon the circumference
of these rollers.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the best means
I am acquainted with for carrying the same into practice, I would have it
understood that I do not confine myself to the exact details herein described;
but what I claim is, the arrangement of a series of revolving spiral or parallel
cutting surfaces in combination with revolving, pressing, or crushing surfaces
so driven as to have a shearing as well as a pressing action upon the vegetable.

page_text: materials to be cut, crushed, or bruised as they are caused to pass between
them in the manner herein described and shown in the accompanying
Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Wallis Rivers Goulty, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Eleventh day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
Witness,
J. G. TONGUE,
Patent Agent,
WALLIS R. GOULTY: (L.S.)
34, Southampton Buildings,
Chancery Lane, W.C.