Improvements in or connected with Sugar Cane Mills.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Dec., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 27th Aug., 1896-Accepted, 10th Oct., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Sugar Cane Mills.
1, JOHN MCNEIL, of the Colonial Iron Works, Helen Street, Govan, in the
County of Lanark, North Britain, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows, that is to say :-
My said invention relates to sugar cane mills of the common three-roller type
constructed originally for being driven by means of cattle; and it has for its object
the application of certain gearing and other parts to or in connection with such
mills to enable them to be driven by any simple construction of motor worked by
steam or other fluid.
In carrying out my invention I employ a quick-speed motor of comparatively
small size and cost; and I combine with such motor and with the sugar mill
as originally constructed a train of gearing for reducing the speed and increasing
the force.
In a case in which it may not be convenient to place the motor close to the
sugar mill, I fix a pulley on the crank shaft of the motor, and transmit the motion
therefrom by a belt to a pulley on a shaft carried by frame pieces which are bolted
to the original housings or frames of the sugar mill. The same frame pieces carry
a second shaft driven by pinion and spurwheel from the first or pulley shaft, and
which has on it a pinion gearing with a large spurwheel on the shaft of the upper
or middle roller of the mill.
In cases in which the motor can be placed close to the mill, the motor, having
either a horizontal, vertical, or inclined cylinder or pair of cylinders, is made with
a framing constructed to also carry the shafts of the gearing. The gearing may
consist of the crank shaft which by a pinion and spurwheel drives a second shaft
having on it a pinion gearing with the large spurwheel of the mill. Or the large
spurwheel may be on a third shaft carried by the motor framing, and connected by
a coupling to the shaft of the mill roller.
Dated this Sixth day of December 1895
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Sugar Cane Mills.
1, JOHN MCNEIL, of the Colonial Iron Works, Helen Street, Govan, in the
County of Lanark, North Britain, 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, that is to say :-
My said invention relates to sugar cane mills of the common three-roller type
constructed originally for being driven by means of cattle; and it has for its object
the application of certain gearing and other parts to or in connection with such
mills to enable them to be driven by any simple construction of motor worked by
steam or other fluid.

page_text: In carrying out my invention I employ a quick-speed motor of comparatively
small size and cost; and I combine with such motor and with the sugar mill as
originally constructed a train of gearing for reducing the speed and increasing the
force.
According to one modification I fix a pulley on the motor crank shaft and
I transmit motion therefrom by a belt on a shaft carried by frame pieces on
the mill housings. These frame pieces carry a second shaft driven by pinion and
spurwheel from the first or pulley shaft, and having on it a pinion gearing with a
large spurwheel on the shaft of the upper or mid roller of the mill.
According to a second modification the motor crank shaft has on it a pinion
which gears with a spurwheel on a second shaft having on it a pinion gearing with
the large spurwheel of the mill. Or according to a third modification the large
spurwheel may be on a third shaft carried by the motor or other framing and
connected by a coupling to the shaft of the mill roller.
And in order that my said invention and the manner of performing the same
may be properly understood I hereunto append three sheets of explanatory
drawings, to be hereinafter referred to, and showing three modifications of
apparatus as made according to my invention.
Figures, 1, and 2, on Sheet, 1, of the drawings are respectively a plan and a side
elevation of the first modification.
Figures, 3, and 4, on Sheet 2, are similar views of the second modification, and
Figure, 5, on Sheet, 3, is a plan of the third modification.
In these drawings the same reference letters are used to mark the same or like
parts wherever they are repeated.
In a case in which it may be inconvenient to place the motor, A, close to the
sugar mill, B, 1 fix, as shown in Figures, 1, and 2, a pulley, C, on the crank
shaft, D, of the motor and transmit the motion therefrom by a belt, E, to a
pulley, F, on a shaft, G, carried by frame pieces, H, which are bolted to the
original housings or frames, J, of the sugar mill. The same frame pieces, H,
carry a second shaft, K, driven by a pinion, L, and a spurwheel, M, from the first
or pulley shaft, G, and which has on it a pinion, N, gearing with a large spur-
wheel, P, on the shaft, Q, of the upper or middle roller of the mill.
In cases in which the motor, A, can be placed close to the mill, as shown in
Figures, 3, and, 5, the motor, A, having either a vertical, a horizontal or inclined
cylinder or cylinders, is made with a framing, R, constructed to also carry the
shafts, D, and K, of the gearing. The gearing may consist of the crank shaft, D,
which by a pinion, L, and a spurwheel, M, drives a second shaft, K, having on it a
pinion, N, gearing as shown in Figures, 3, and 4, with the large spurwheel, P, on
the mid-roller shaft, Q, of the mill. Or according to the modification shown in
Figure, 5, the large spurwheel, P, may be on a third shaft, S, carried by a separate
framing, T, and connected by a coupling, V, to the shaft, Q, of the mill roller.
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 :-
The combination and arrangement of parts constituting the improvements
applicable to sugar cane mills, and comprising a quick-speed motor connected by
speed-reducing gearing to the mill, substantially in any of the modes herein before
described and shown in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this Twenty-sixth day of August 1896.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.