IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF MACHINERY FOR RENDERING PEAT AND PEAT-MOSS SUITABLE HARASS
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Deadman Cox of New Charlton in the County
of Kent Operative Chemist for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
CONSTRUCTION OF MACHINERY FOR RENDERING PEAT AND PEAT-MOSS SUITABLE
HARASS
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Deadman Cox at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 1st July 1882.
SAMUEL DEADMAN Cox of New Charlton in the County of Kent Operative
Chemist. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF MACHINERY FOR RENDERING
PEAT AND PEAT-MOSS SUITABLE FOR LITTER FOR HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS."
I do not claim the right to use peat or peat-moss for the manufacture of litter as
it has already been publicly used for that purpose but what I claim for my
Invention is the construction of machinery for utilizing peat and peat moss (and
which I prefer to be properly dried and to be of that class or kind which is known
as sphagnum) for litter-My machinery consists of rotary beaters properly set and
adjusted to which the peat or peat-moss is fed by ordinary mechanical con-
trivances and the machinery then moves the peat or peat-moss which has been
so treated forward to ordinary mechanism to cut or divide it into the required
lengths and it is then passed through suitable screens or sieves worked in the
required motion and the peat or peat moss thus treated is fit for use as litter.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Samuel Deadman Cox in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
30th December 1882.
SAMUEL DEADMAN Cox of New Charlton in the County of Kent Operative
Chemist. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF MACHINERY FOR RENDERING {
PEAT AND PEAT MOSS SUITABLE FOR LITTER FOR HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS.
My Invention consists in the construction of machinery for utilizing peat and
peat moss and which I prefer to be dried and to be of that class or kind which is
known as sphagnum-The general combination and arrangement of the machinery
is shown in the Drawings which accompany this Specification and by the letters of
reference therein the power is transmitted from a portable or other engine on to the
driving pulley A¹ on machine shaft T and from thence by means of the gearing
wheels B and C to the cutter shaft S which carries a number of steel knives E
enclosed in casing P and fitted with hinged door R so arranged that it can_be
lifted up and access to the knives obtained for cleaning and other purposes - The 1
knives E revolving in the case take hold of the peat fed down in Hopper I and
carry them on to the fixed steel knives F (one of which projects between each of
the revolving knives E, where the peat is cut into the required size and being
still carried forward by the knives E fall into the shoot G and from thence into
the revolving screen H where the dust is screened from the peat cut into small
blocks which falls into sacks hooked to the machine trolley as shewn.
The machine is fitted with fly-wheel D and loose belt pulley A and is carried by
strong iron standards M and the whole with screen and bearing for same is
mounted on wood trolley K with travelling wheels L L and handle for pulling
about The screen is driven from driving shaft T. by bevil wheels N and the
hopper is fitted with slide W to regulate the quantity of peat fed into the hopper I.
Having described the nature of my Invention and in what manner the same
may be performed I wish it to be understood that I do not claim any of the parts
taken separately but that what. I claim-as-my Invention-is-the-general combination™
and arrangement substantially as herein before described.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty-
ninth day of December One thousand eight hundred and eighty two.