An Improved Automatic Breaker for Coke, Coal, and Anthracite.
Year: 1898

page_text: An Improved Automatic Breaker for Coke, Coal, and Anthracite.
We, CHARLES LÉON AUGE, and ERNEST LOUIS BLUM, both of G, Rue Amiral-
Cecile, Rouen, France, Inventors, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
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The object of the present invention consists in an automatic breaker for coke,
coal, and anthracite, separating the pieces of the various combustibles at will in
accordance with the required sizes.
The apparatus consists of a box or casing surmounted by a hopper for receiving
charges of the large pieces of the combustibles. In this box or casing are placed
horizontally and transversely prisms, of any polygonal section, arranged in several
horizontal series, and the diameter and clearance of which diminishes from series
to series down to that situated the lowest down in the casing. These prisms are
intended to retain, in accordance with their size, the pieces of combustible falling
from the hopper into the casing. The prisms are each fitted with a ratchet wheel
operated by a pawl fixed to a bar which commands a whole horizontal series of
prisms, and each of the above mentioned bars is connected to a rod or stem having
an oscillating movement imparted to it by a cam mounted upon a transmission
shaft supported at the height of the hopper, for the purpose of slowly rotating
all the prisms.
Above each series of prisms and arranged between two prisms, pass steel or other
suitable metal picks having a horizontal to and fro movement imparted to them,
and opposed two by two, with the object of dividing the large pieces of combustibles,
which are located above the said prisms, according to the desired sizes.
These picks are fixed to slide pieces sliding in slides provided upon lateral sup-
ports of the casing, and have motion imparted to them by means of connecting rods,
which in turn receive their movement by means of cranks and connecting rods
from the transmission shaft above mentioned, which is driven from any suitable
source of motive power.
The broken or crushed pieces of combustible having passed between all the
series of prisms fall into a receiver placed beneath the apparatus.
Dated this 29th day of July 1898.
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, London, W., Agent for the Applicants.
An Improved Automatic Breaker for Coke, Coal, and Anthracite.
We, CHARLES LÉON AGE, and ERNEST LOUIS BLUM, both of 6, Rue Amiral-
Cecille, Rouen, France, Inventors, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
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page_text: and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
The subject of the present invention consists in an automatic breaker for coke,
coal, and anthracite, which will admit of the pieces of these different combustibles
being reduced at will in accordance with the required dimensions.
And in order that our invention may be thoroughly understood, we now proceed
to describe the accompanying drawing thereof, reference being had to letters and
figures marked thereon.
Fig. 1, represents a view in front elevation of the apparatus.
Fig. 2, is a view partly in side elevation, partly in vertical section following a
plane perpendicular to that of Fig. 1.
The apparatus is composed of a casing consisting of two walls A, longitudinal,
vertical or inclined, and of two transverse walls. This casing is surmounted by
a hopper B, intended to receive the large pieces of coal and coke to be crushed
or broken. Between the walls A are arranged transversely prisms C having bases
of a triangular, quadrangular, pentagonal, or of any polygonal form, and which
prisms are movable round their respective axes, and are operated by means of
ratchet wheels keyed upon these axes, and receiving motion through ratchets or
pawls themselves moved by stems or rods governed by a cam, which is keyed
upon a transmission shaft mounted close to the hopper. The above mentioned
prisms are placed in several series superposed the one above the other, and are
arranged to diminish in diameter and in distance apart from the top to the bottom
of the apparatus. These prisms C are intended to automatically stop the pieces
of material in accordance with their size.
Steel or other suitable metal picks D, connected with slide pieces arranged to
slide in slides resting upon lateral supports to the casing, penetrate into this latter
and have a to and fro or reciprocating movement imparted to them with the object
of dividing the pieces of coke, coal, or anthracite in order to reduce them to the
desired dimensions. For this purpose the picks D are operated by connecting
rods E commanded by cranks, and connecting rods, receiving their movement from
the hereinbefore mentioned transmission shaft, which latter is driven by any suit-
able description of motor.
The picks D, the section F of which be triangular, quadrangular, or of a
variable section are hollowed out on each lateral face so as to offer longitudinal
ribs.
The broken pieces are received in receptacles placed below the apparatus.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is;-
An automatic breaker for coke, coal, and anthracite, characterized by a casing
surmounted by a charging hopper, in which casing are arranged prismis turning
round their respective axes and intended to automatically arrest the pieces in
accordance with their sizes, these prisms being operated by a system of ratchet
wheels, ratchets or pawls, connecting rods receiving their movement from a cam
mounted upon a transmission shaft, which, by means of suitable cranks and con-
necting rods give a to and fro or reciprocating movement to picks which divide the
pieces of combustibles in order to reduce them in accordance with the dimensions
required, the broken pieces falling into receptacles placed underneath the apparatus,
substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the annexed drawing.
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, London, W., Agent for the Applicants.