Improvements in Centrifugal Whizzers.
Year: 1898

page_text: Improvements in Centrifugal Whizzers.
We, HENRY SIMON, of 20, Mount Street, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Civil Engineer, and SIDNEY LEETHAM, of Hungate, York, Miller, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows; —
Our invention relates to an apparatus known as centrifugal whizzers by which
moisture is expelled from wet wheat or other grain. In these apparatus the grain
is carried rapidly round while it is made to travel along within a stationary
perforated casing.
Our invention relates to the perforation of the casing in such a manner as more
effectually to cause ejection of the moisture, and to prevent any of that which is
ejected from returning.
For this purpose, instead of making the holes or slits, as they are usually made
at right angles to the surface of the plate through which they pass, we make them
inclined outwards in the direction in which the grain is travelling, and we shape
the edges of the holes or slits so as to assist the ejection of the water and to
prevent the expelled moisture from re-entering any of the holes or slits whilst
avoiding check to the travel of the grain. Also outside the casing when it is
vertical we fix at intervals inclined rings which serve as drips catching the moisture
as it runs down the surface and directing it outwards away from the parts of the
casing below the rings.
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ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicants.
Improvements in Centrifugal Whizzers.
We, HENRY SIMON, of 20, Mount Street, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster;
Civil Engineer, and SIDNEY LEETHAM, of Hungate, York, Miller, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
Our invention relates to an apparatus, known as centrifugal whizzers by which
moisture is expelled from wet wheat or other grain. In these apparatus the grain
is carried rapidly round while it is made to travel along within a perforated
casing.
Our invention relates to the perforations of the casing in such a manner as more

page_text: effectually to cause ejection of the moisture, and to prevent any of that which is
ejected from returning.
For this purpose, instead of making the holes or slits, as they are usually made
at right angles to the surface of the plate through which they pass, we make them
as shewn in the accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1 is an elevation and Fig. 2 is a sectional plan of part of a casing per-
forated according to our invention.
The slits are inclined outwards in the direction in which the grain is travelling
as indicated by the arrow and we shape the edges of the holes or slits so as to assist
the ejection of the water and to prevent the expelled moisture from re-entering
any of the holes or slits whilst avoiding check to the travel of the grain. The slits,
instead of being vertical as shewn in Fig. 1 may be inclined, and instead of
being arranged one immediately above another, the one row may have its slits
over the unperforated parts of the row below.
Also as shewn in Fig. 3 which is a part vertical section outside the casing when
it is vertical we may fix at intervals inclined rings a which serve as drips catching
the moisture as it runs down the surface and directing it outwards away from
the parts of the casing below the rings.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
Casings for centrifugal whizzers having slits in which the openings are arranged
in an oblique direction, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
101071 3 Lakh low at alanok LYU
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicants.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicants.