Improvements in the Method of and Machinery or Apparatus for Extracting Oil from Seeds and the like, and for Forming Cakes from such or any suitable substance.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Feb., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 30th Oct., 1894-Accepted 1st Dec., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Method of and Machinery or Apparatus for
Extracting Oil from Seeds and the like, and for Forming Cakes
from such or any suitable substance.
I, HERBERT LAMBERT, of Royal Exchange Chambers, Leeds, in the County of
York, Mechanical Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
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My invention has reference to certain improvements in the method of and
machinery or apparatus for extracting oil from seeds and the like, and for forming
cakes from such or any suitable substance.
According to my invention there are a series of presses each having a pressing
chamber, which is removeable, one extra pressing chamber being provided for
each group of presses, a press for filling and emptying of the pressing chambers, a
carriage to carry the pressing chambers to the filler from the presses, a measuring
device or arrangement, and a heating kettle for the seed or the like.
The modus operandi is as follows:-
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The material may be heated in the kettle, passes through the outlet into the
measuring arrangement, which may be made revolving, reciprocating, or in any
other suitable manner.
In a revolving table are a series of openings the size of the required cakes. A
press plate is dropped into one of these openings and the table partly revolved
until the opening with the plate in it is under the outlet from the kettle where it is
filled with material. The said movement brings one of the openings already filled
with material at the outlet under one of the pressing chambers which has been
brought into the filling press. The turning of the table opens a valve, and
admits pressure into the cylinder of the filling press, the ram rises and presses the
measured material into the pressing chamber where it is held by a suitable
arrangement. This is repeated until the pressing chamber is full of material. If
the pressing chamber is one that has already been in use in the finishing press, it
will have the finished cakes in it. These will be pushed out at the top by the ram
of the filling press, as it fills the chambers with new material. The pressure
required on the new material to push the finished cakes will compress the new
material so admitting of a larger number of cakes to be put in each pressing
chamber.
The merit of the invention consists particularly in the filling of the pressing
chamber or chambers from the under side, and the pressing out of the formed cakes
from the top of the chamber at one continuous operation.
Dated this 10th day of February 1894
JOHN E. WALSH,
Royal Exchange Chambers, Boar Lane, Leeds,
Patent Agent to the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Method of and Machinery or Apparatus for
Extracting Oil from Seeds and the like, and for Forming Cakes
from such or any suitable substance.
1, HERBERT LAMBERT, of Royal Exchange Chambers, Leeds, in the County of
York, Mechanical Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My invention has reference to certain improvements in the method of and
machinery or apparatus for extracting oil from seeds and the like, and for forming
cakes from such, or any suitable substances.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1, is a side elevation showing my improvements applied.
Fig. 2, is a plan.
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Figs. 3, and 4 are detail views of catch arrangements, as hereinafter referred to.
According to my invention there are a series of presses each having a pressing
chamber which is removeable, one extra pressing chamber being provided for each
group of presses, a press for the filling and emptying of the pressing chambers, a
carriage to carry the pressing chambers to the filler from the presses, a measuring
device or arrangement, and a heating kettle for the seed, or the like.
The modus operandi is as follows:-
The material, which may be heated in the kettle A, passes through the outlet B
into the measuring arrangement C which may be made revolving, reciprocating, or
in any other suitable manner.
In the drawings annexed a revolving table C is shown and in it are a series of
openings, the size of the required cakes. A press plate is dropped or placed into
one of these openings, and the table then partly revolved until the opening with
the plate in it is under the outlet B from the kettle A, where it is filled with
material.
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The said movement brings one of the openings already filled with material at the
outlet B, under one of the pressing chambers D which has been brought over the
filling press E.
The turning of the table C opens a valve and admits pressure into the cylinder
of the filling press E, the ram F rises and presses the measured material into the
pressing chamber D, where it is held by a suitable arrangement such as a spring
catch, see Fig. 3, or a weighted catch see Fig. 4.
This is repeated till the pressing chamber is full of material.
If the pressing chamber is one that has already been in use in the finishing
press G it will have the finished cakes in it. These will be pushed out at the
top by the ram of the filling press E, as it fills the chambers with new material.
The pressure required to push out the finished cakes, will compress the new
material, so admitting of a larger number of cakes being put in each pressing
chamber.
The merit of the invention consists particularly in the filling of the pressing
chamber or chambers from the under side, and the pushing out of the formed cakes
from the top of the chamber at one continuous operation.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
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1. In a method for extracting oil from seeds and the like, and for forming cakes
from such, or any suitable substance, the filling of the pressing chambers from the

page_text: underside, with the material to be pressed into cakes, and the pressing out of the
formed cakes from the top of such chambers, at one continuous operation, substan-
tially as set forth.
2. In machinery or apparatus for extracting oil from seeds and the like, and for
forming cakes from such, or any suitable substance, the combination of an arrange-
ment C (for measuring the material at the outlet B and passing it to the pressing
chambers D,) a filling press E with ram F, and pressing chambers D arranged
over the said filling press, and operating so that the material to be formed into
cakes is filled into the pressing chambers D from the underside, and pressed out at
the top of the pressing chambers D, at one continuous operation, substantially as
set forth.
Dated this Doch daw of Antahan 1001
JOHN E. WALSH,
Royal Exchange Chambers, Boar Lane, Leeds,
Patent Agent to the Applicant.
JOHN E. WALSH,
Royal Exchange Chambers, Boar Lane, Leeds,
Patent Agent to the Applicant.