IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN EFFECTING THE COM- PRESSION OF OIL SEEDS TO EXTRACT OIL THEREFROM AND PRODUCE CAKE, WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE IN THE COMPRESSION OF OTHER SEEDS OR Drama AR GOURD AADING " PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Horatio Harriman Ayrc, Algernon Sydney Ayre,
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William Chambers, and Walter Albert Ayro, all of Kingston-
upon-Hull, in the County of the same Town, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN EFFECTING THE COM-
PRESSION OF OIL SEEDS TO EXTRACT OIL THEREFROM AND PRODUCE CAKE, WHICH
IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE IN THE COMPRESSION OF OTHER SEEDS OR
Drama AR GOURD AADING "
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Horatio Harriman Ayre,
Algernon Sydney Ayre, William Chambers, and Walter Albert Ayre
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Potition,
on the 19th December 1874.
We, HORATIO HARRIMAN AYRE, ALGERNON SYDNEY AYRE, WILLIAM
CHAMBERS, and WALTER ALBERT AYRE, all of Kingston-upon-Hull, in
the County of the same Town, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN EFFECTING
THE COMPRESSION OF OIL SEEDS TO EXTRACT OIL THEREFROM AND PRODUCE CAKE,

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WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE IN THE COMPRESSION OF OTHER SEEDS
OR MATTERS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF CAKES, BLOCKS, OR OTHER FORMS," to be as
follows -
The Invention has reference to improved means or apparatus employed
in effecting the compression of oil seed or other seed or matter without
the necessity for the use of bags or wrappers during such compression,
by the matters to be compressed being placed for compression between
plates in rings of the character described in the Specification of Letters
Patent granted to me, the said Algernon Sydney Ayre, dated the 21st day
of October 1873, No. 3409.
According to our present improvements the feeding to such rings of
the matters to be compressed is effected by the rings being successively
placed in a table, part of which is formed as a moveable bottom to a feed
trough or hopper for the supply of such matters in a heated state, and
another part to receive the rings. The part of the table acting as a
moveable bottom to the hopper is formed at a level corresponding with
the depth of the respective rings, and the table is capable of being
readily slided, so that a ring containing the bottom plate may be moved
under the hopper to be filled and then readily withdrawn, in order that
another ring may be placed in like position to be filled and the material
be supported during the shifting. The matters with which each ring is
filled are then covered by the top plate being placed on them, and the
rings thus filled are then in succession placed for the compression of
their contained matters separately between press plate in a hydraulic
press. These press plates are for convenience formed so that the under
surface of each bears on the upper surface of a ring and the top plate
of such ring, and this surface is provided with channels or holding means
adapted to receive corresponding parts formed on each ring so that when
a ring is slided thereon against suitable stops it may be held in correct
position against this under surface of such press plate. The upper
surface of these press plates is formed with a projecting surface in form
corresponding with that of the interior of the rings, and so that when
borne upwards such projecting surface may act as a plunger on the
bottom plate in such ring, and thereby compress the contained matter.
These press plates are also formed with channels to receive and conduct
oil obtained by the compression, and they are guided to move correctly

page_text: in the press. The press is also provided with rests to receive and hold
the respective press plates in correct relative position when at rest after
each operation. Each ring, after the compression of the seed or other
matters therein and its removal from the press, is placed in position
under a moveable plate or rammer, by which the plates therein with the
matter compressed are at once forced out therefrom.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Horatio Harriman Ayro, Algernon Sydney Ayre,
William Chambers, and Walter Albert Ayro in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 15th June 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, WC, HORATIO
HARRIMAN AYRE, ALGERNON SYDNEY AYRE, WILLIAM CHAMBERS, and
WALTER ALBERT AYRE, all of Kingston-upon-Hull, in the County of
the same Town, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto us, the said Horatio Harriman Ayre,
Algernon Sydney Ayre, William Chambers, and Walter Albert Ayre,
Her special licence that we, the said Horatio Harriman Ayre, Algernon
Sydney Ayre, William Chambers, and Walter Albert Ayre, our exe-
cutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said
Horatio Harriman Ayre, Algernon Sydney Ayre, William Chambers,
and Walter Albert Ayre, our 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED
IN EFFECTING THE COMPRESSION OF OIL SEEDS TO EXTRACT OIL THEREFROM AND
PRODUCE CAKE, WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE IN THE COMPRESSION OF
OTHER SEEDS OR MATTERS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF CAKES, BLOCKS, OR OTHER

page_text: FORMS," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Horatio
Harriman Ayre, Algernon Sydney Ayre, William Chambers, and Walter
Albert Ayre, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under our, or their, or of 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 we, the said Horatio Harriman Ayre and
William Chambers, on behalf of ourselves and the said Algernon Sydney
Ayre and Walter Albert Ayre, do hereby declare the nature of our said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be par-
ticularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement
thereof, that is to say:
This Invention has reference to improved means or apparatus employed
in effecting the compression of oil seed or other seed or matter without
the necessity for the use of bags or wrappers during such compression,
by the matters to be compressed being placed for compression between
plates in rings of the character described in the Specification of Letters
Patent granted to me, the said Algernon Sydney Ayre, dated the 21st day.
of October 1873, No. 3409.
According to our present improvements the feeding to such rings of
the matters to be compressed is effected by the rings being successively
placed on a table, part of which is formed as a moveable bottom to a
feed trough or hopper for the supply of such matters in a heated state,
and another part to receive the rings. The part of the table acting as a
moveable bottom to the hopper is formed at a level corresponding with
the depth of the respective rings, and the table is capable of being
readily slided, so that a ring containing the bottom plate may be moved
under the hopper to be filled and then readily withdrawn, in order that
another ring may be placed in like position to be filled and the material
be supported during the shifting. The matters with which each ring is
filled are then covered by the top plate being placed on them, and the
rings thus filled are then in succession placed for the compression of
their contained matters separately between press plates in a hydraulic

page_text: press. These press plates are for convenience formed so that the under
surface of each bears on the upper surface of a ring and the top plate
of such ring, and this surface is provided with channels or holding means
adapted to receive corresponding parts formed on each ring, so that when
a ring is slided thereon against suitable stops it may be held in correct
position against this under surface of such press plate. The upper
surface of these press plates is formed with a projecting surface in form
corresponding with that of the interior of the rings, and so that when
borno upwards such projecting surface may act as a plunger on the
bottom plate in such ring, and thereby compress the contained matter.
These press plates are also formed with channels to receive and conduct
oil obtained by the compression, and they are guided to move correctly
in the press. The press is also provided with rests to receive and hold
the respective press plates in correct relative position when at rest after
each operation.
Figure 1 shows a front view, and Figure 2 a side view of an arrange-
ment of apparatus for effecting the filling of the rings by the matters
to be compressed.
Figure 3 indicates a sectional plan view of the lower part of the
apparatus represented by Figures 1 and 2, and Figure 4 shows a longi-
tudinal section of the parts represented by Figure 3..
Figures 5 & 5* shew by plan and front view one of the rings to be
filled.
In each of the views the same letters indicate corresponding parts.
a, a, indicates the feed trough or hopper, which in use is kept supplied
with the matters to be compressed, and for facility of compression these
matters are supplied in a heated state. The lower part or open mouth
of this trough or hopper a is of a shape corresponding with the internal
form and size of the rings to be filled, so that supposing the form of the

page_text: under the lower part of the feed hopper or trough a, when by the weight
of the column of matters in that trough, aided if desired by other
pressure applied on the upper surface of such matters, the ring d so
placed in position will become filled, and then on the withdrawal of the
frame 6 the plate 6' thereof will again come into position to close the
mouth of the hopper or feed trough a and support the matters in that
trough. The table 64 will also be again in position for the removal of
the ring d just filled and to receive another to be filled. Previous to the
removal of the filled ring d we apply on the upper surface of the con-
tained matter another plate e, as indicated by Figure 4. The respective
rings d, with their contained matters and upper and lower plates e, e, are
then removed to apparatus which we will now proceed to describe.
:
Figure 6 shows a front view, and Figure 7 a side view of a hydraulic
press, with parts arranged according to our Invention for more efficiently
effecting the compression of the matters under operation.
Figure 8 shows a front view of the press indicated by Figures 6 and 7,
but in this case the rings d containing the matters to be compressed are
shown in position in the press, and the ram is supposed to be acting in
effecting the compression of the contained matters.
Figures 9, 10, and 10* represent respectively an upper and an under
side view and an edge view of one of the press plates, and Figures 11
and 12 show a plan and a sectional view of one of the plates e separately.
Supposing a ring d to have been filled, as already described in relation
to Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, and the matters to be compressed to be held
therein between the plates e, e, with the impressing face of each plate
towards the surface of the matters in such ring, that ring thus furnished
will then be slided under one of the press plates f,f, into the hydraulic
press, so that such ring may be held centrally under a press plate f, and
in order to facilitate the correct placing of the respective rings & under
the respective plates f, f, those rings are each provided on opposite sides of
them with grooved plates d, the grooves or channels of which are taken
into or embraced by the fillets f', f', applied for that purpose to the
under side of each plate of for the support of the rings d by the plates f,
or the rings d and the parts of the press plates fmay be otherwise
formed. These fillets f¹ or such like parts are also provided with
stops f, or other suitable stops, which by acting on projections &³, or

page_text: other suitable parts applied to the rings d, adjust their position as desired
centrally under a plate f, in order that the projection fs formed on or
applied to the upper side of each of such press plates may act correctly
on the bottom plate e placed within a ring d in the upward movement of
the respective press plates. The projecting surface f³ of each press
plate fin. form corresponds somewhat with that of the interior of the
rings d in order that its upper surface may act more effectually upon
the lower plate e in the ring over it as the respective press plates fare
raised by the action of the ram g of the press. Each of the press
plates is also formed with a groove f* on the opposite edges thereof to
embrace guides h affixed to the frame of the press, and thereby guide
the respective plates f in their upward and downward motions, and i, i,
are stationary rests to receive and support the respective press plates f
in correct relative position when at rest after cach operation of com-
pressing the matters placed in the respective rings, to facilitate the
removal of the rings the matters within which have been compressed,
and the application of other rings with fresh supplies of matter to be
compressed. Each ring, after the compression of the seed or other
matters therein and its removal from the press, is placed in position
under a moveable plate or rammer, by which the plates therein with
the matter compressed into the form of cake are at once forced out
therefrom.
Apparatus as shewn and described is applicable not only to the com-
pression of oil seeds to extract oil therefrom and produce cake, but also
to the compression of other seeds or matters for the production of cakes,
blocks, or other forms.
Having thus described our Invention, and means which we adopt in
carrying the same into effect, we would have it understood that we do
not confine ourselves to the precise arrangements of parts as shown and
described, as the same may be varied without departing from the peculiar
character of the Invention, but what we do claim is, the arranging or
combining means or apparatus for effecting the compression of oil seeds
to extract oil therefrom and produce cake, and for the compression of
other seeds or matters for the production of cakes, blocks, or other forms,
whereby tho supply of the material from the feed trough or hopper to
each ring or receiver is controlled, and the rings or receivers are taken
into position to be filled and removed therefrom when filled, and whereby

page_text: the filled rings with their plates are capable of being separately placed in
position for compression of the contained matters by press plates and
parts connected therewith, substantially as described.
In witness whereof, we, the said Horatio. Harriman Ayre and
William Chambers, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this
Tenth day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and seventy-five.