An Improvement in Disintegrating Machines.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Oct., 1897--Accepted, 9th Apr., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Disintegrating Machines.
I, GOLDSBURY HARDEN POND, Gentleman, of the Town of Ashburnham, in the
State of Massachusetts, United States of America, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particu-
larly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:
In the accompanying drawings
Fig. 1 is an end elevation of my invention, partly in section;
Fig. 2 is a vertical section on the line a-b;
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Fig. 3 is a view of one of the heads of the oscillating adjustable casing; and
Fig. 4 is a plan view.
In the several views, A indicates the base of the machine, with upright pede-
stals in the journal boxings of which rotates the shaft 2 secured to which is
the closed cylinder 1 with its cylindrical surface corrugated or roughened. Like-
wise secured to the shaft 2 is the worm gear 9 meshing the worm 8 secured to a
shaft 81 journalled in the pillow blocks C secured to the base A.
Secured to the shaft 8 is the power pulley H. Eccentrically surrounding the
cylinder 1 is a casing comprising a series of adjustable segments 3 with roughened
inner surfaces, and having bolts 5 passing through apertures of the heads 31, and
through slots in the adjustable segments 3.
An opening F is provided between two of the segments by which material may
be fed from the platform F¹ or removed. The heads 31 are provided with pro-
jecting bosses 10 loosely sleeved on the shaft 2. Secured beneath the casing is
a curved plate 12 with depending lug 14 having the horizontal groove 13 engag-
ing the rectangular link or yoke 15 the other end of which passes over a block 20
secured to the base A, and rests in the groove 24 of the plate 23 between which
and the block 20 is a compensating cushion 21 of rubber. Toggle levers 16
and 16 are joined respectively to the lug 14 and the block 20 by ball and socket
joints, and joined in the same way to the block 17 connected by a coupling rod 8ª
to the wrist pin 18 of the crank 19 secured to the shaft 81.
Fibrous
The operation of the machine may now be readily understood.
material being introduced at F, is rolled and squeezed between the cylinder 1
and the casing, as the former rotates, and the intermittent movement of the casing
will cause a breaking of the mass of fibre. As the casing may be set concentric
or eccentric with the cylinder, or partly concentric and partly eccentric thereto,
a great variation may be made in the action of disintegration to suit the many
materials to be operated upon.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
1. In a disintegrating machine, in combination with a rotatable cylinder, a
casing segmentally adjustable thereto, means for rotating the cylinder and means

page_text: 2. In a disintegrating machine, in combination with a rotatable cylinder, means
for rotating the same, the segmental casing surrounding said cylinder, each seg-
ment being adjustable in its relation thereto, means for adjusting said segments,
and means for actuating the casing for the purpose and in the manner described.
Dated the First day of October 1897.
GOLDSBURY HARDEN POND.