IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS USED IN PREPARING SEEDS FOR CRUSHING IN THE MANUFACTURE OF OIL AND COMPOSITION CAKES.”
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Cyrus Eskrett and William Henry Searle, both of Hull,
in the County of York, Manufacturers of Envelopes for Seed Crushing, for an
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS USED IN PREPARING SEEDS
FOR CRUSHING IN THE MANUFACTURE OF OIL AND COMPOSITION CAKES.”
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Cyrus Eskrett and William
Henry Searle at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 29th
December 1880.
CYRUS ESKRETT and WILLIAM HENRY SEARLE, both of Hull, in the County of
York, Manufacturers of Envelopes for Seed Crushing. "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS USED IN PREPARING SEEDS FOR CRUSHING IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF OIL AND COMPOSITION CAKES."
This Invention relates to improvements in machines used for preparing the seed
for the main or finishing press, and is designed to obviate the creasing and injury
to the cloths in which the seed is enclosed within the wrapper or envelope.
For purpose aforesaid we employ a board or compression plate fitting the inside
of the frame, and swung, hinged, or suspended in such position that when the
cloth and seed are in position the board or plate referred to is brought down and
pressed upon the seed, consolidating the latter preparatory to folding over the
sides of the cloth. The bagging or overhanging of the cloth along the edges of the
cake and envelope or wrapper is thus divided, and the cloths are rendered far
more durable, because not liable to be fractured and torn along the edges as here-
tofore on further consolidating the seed by the press.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Cyrus Eskrett and William Henry Searle in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 28th June 1881.
WILLIAM HENRY SEARLE and CYRUS ESKRETT, both of Hull, in the County of
York, Manufacturers of Envelopes for Seed-crushing. "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS USED IN PREPARING SEEDS FOR CRUSHING IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF OIL AND COMPOSITION CAKES."
This Invention relates to improvements in machines used for preparing the seed
for the main or finishing press, and is designed to obviate the creasing and injury
to the cloths in which the seed is enclosed within the wrapper or envelope.
For purpose aforesaid we employ a board or compressor plate fitting the inside
of the frame, and swing, hinged, or suspended in such position that when the
cloth and seed are in position the board or plate referred to is brought down and
pressed upon the seed, consolidating the latter preparitory to folding over the sides
of the cloth. The bagging or overhanging of the cloth along the edges of the cake
and envelope or wrapper is thus avoided, and the cloths are rendered far more
durable, because not liable to be fractured and torn along the edges as heretofore,
on further consolidating the seed by the press.
Such being the nature and object of this our said Invention we will now proceed
to describe the same in detail, and in order that the same may be fully understood
we have hereunto annexed a Sheet of Drawings illustrating the application of our
Invention to an ordinary "swinging frame or model in which the seed is prepared
for the press.
"
Fig. 1 is a side elevation, shewing envelope or wrapper frame and compressor
or condensor plate in position for being lowered upon the seed; Fig. 2 is a plan
view of the same with condensor plate down or upon the seed on the lower half of
the envelope or wrapper.
At A is the table top of the molding machine, as ordinary; B is the lower half
of the envelope; C, the upper half; at E is the swinging frame, hinged at F, as
ordinary; G is the condensor or compressor plate; H, a handle, by which the said
plate when hinged, as at J, is lowered upon and raised from the seed contained in
the frame E, delivered thereto by the strickling box K, but it will be understood
that the said plate G may in lieu of being hinged, as shewn, be suspended above or
otherwise conveniently placed for use in relation to the frame E.
The operation is as follows:-One half of the wrapper or envelope B is placed
upon the table A, its other half C resting against the support M. The cloth is now
spread over the part B, and the frame E is lowered and the strickling box K and
seed passed over and fills the frame E in the ordinary way. The condensor or
compressor plate G is now lowered, and the operator forces the latter upon the
seed, consolidating the seed in part or so much that when the frame is turned up
the overhanging edges of the cloth are folded upon the seed without the " bagging
or slack edges as heretofore, as the pressure of the plate G causes the edges of
the seed to retain the shape of the frame E. The part C of the envelope is
then lowered, and the operating of moulding or preparing for the press is
completed.
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Having thus fully described the nature and particulars of this our said Invention,
together with the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed, we

page_text: would have it understood that we do not claim separately any of the parts herein
referred to, but what we do claim is,-
The application and use in combination of the compressor plate G and swinging
frame E, for purpose herein described and illustrated.
In witness thereof, I, the said William Henry Searle, for and on behalf of
*myself and the Cyrus Eskrett, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this
Twenty fifth day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and eighty one.