Recovery of the Seeds thereof.
Year: 1887

page_text: Recovery of the Seeds thereof.
I, SAMUEL KIDNER, of Bickley Farm, Milverton, in the county of Somerset,
farmer, 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:-
In the improved machine for stamping flax; in which this invention consists, the
seeds are beaten out from the flax by means of wooden mallets or hammer blocks
attached to the lower ends of rods which blocks are operated to rise and fall vertically
over and upon a platform or table on to which the flax to be treated is fed. Each
stamping block is raised by means of a separate cam lever or tappet carried upon a
shaft extending across the frame of the machine. Each lever in rotating with the
shaft upon which it is carried is brought to bear against the top of a link formed in
one piece with the rod to which the stamping block to be raised thereby is attached.
To reduce friction a loose roller may be placed on a spindle or in bearings towards
the upper end of each link. As the rotation of the shaft continues the stamping
blocks are raised by the cam levers and when the limit of upward travel of each
stamping block respectively is reached the cam lever by which the block is raised
passes out of contact with the link or the roller aforesaid and the stamping block
descends by gravitation upon the flax. In this manner the seeds are beaten out of the
flax. The platform or table on which the flax is beaten or stamped is, under one
arrangement, made up of a series of wooden blocks bolted or otherwise secured to
beams placed longitudinally at each side of the said blocks. Between the blocks are
spaces through which the flax seed descends into a trough or other receptacle placed
below to receive it. To assist in the discharge of the seeds through the apertures
between the blocks of the platform the flax when being fed on to the platform is
moved or shaken sideways and the seed is thereby swept towards the apertures.
The rods of the stamping blocks are guided in suitable brackets and at the top pass
through a beam extending above the platform.
Referring to the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings, Fig.
represents a side elevation of a machine for stamping or beating the seeds out of flax
thereon

page_text: constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 represents a transverse section
on the line, Fig. 1.
To the lower ends of the rods a are bolted or otherwise attached the stamping
mallets or blocks of wood or other suitably yielding material. The rods a are
passed through brackets or sockets c secured to the bar d extending across the
machine and bolted at the ends to the uprights e of the frame. Above the bar d the
rods a are furnished with open links a' which, in the machine illustrated, are provided
towards the upper ends with antifriction rollers f. Above the links a¹ the rods a are
extended through the apertures formed for their reception in the beam g.
Arranged upon the shaft carried in bearings on the uprights e are the cam levers i
which, as the shaft / rotates, which may be effected by hand or mechanically, operato
to raise the blocks b, in any desired order according as they are set upon the shaft, by
contact with the rollers f of the links a¹ of the rods a. When the levers have passed
out of the links a', which takes place when the respective stamping block has been
raised to the full height, the latter falls upon the flax fed on to the platform below.
This platform in the machine illustrated is made up of a series of blocks of wood or
other suitable material bolted to longitudinal beams mat cach side. Between the
blocks m and between the end blocks and the uprights e arc spaces or apertures
through which the seed beaten out from the flax falls into the trough n placed below
to receive it. As the flax is fed by attendants to the platform, motion is by them
imparted to it laterally or sideways and thereby the seed is swept or moved to the
apertures between the blocks. The platform may be otherwise constructed.
The recovery of seeds from flax is by the use of the machine in which this inven-
tion consists effected more expeditiously and with less injury to the fibre of the flax
than by the methods hitherto generally adopted.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
An improved machine for stamping or beating flax for the recovery of the seeds
thereof, consisting of a series of mallets or stamping blocks such as b attached to rods
such as a and operated to rise in a suitable frame through the medium of cam levers
such as i, carried upon a rotating shaft such as h, and acting upon links such as a¹
formed in or attached to the rods a (or operated by equivalent means) the said mallets
or stamping blocks descending by gravitation upon the flax and stamping or beating
it upon a platform or table having apertures or perforations therein for the passage
therethrough of the seed to a suitable collecting vessel below, substantially as
hereinbefore described and shown in the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings.
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W. LLOYD WISE,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.
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VAJAN
W. LLOYD WISE,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.