Improvements in Apparatus for Filling Bags or other Receptacles with a Given Quantity of Seed or other material.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 30th July, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 1st May, 1893-Accepted, 24th June, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Filling Bags or other Receptacles
with a Given Quantity of Seed or other material.
We, WILLIAM BLAKE, HENRY BLAKE and JOHN ALEXANDER BARTHOLOMEW,
trading as Blake and Mackenzie, of School Lane, Liverpool, in the County of
Lancaster, Seed Pocket Manufacturers, and CHARLES WILLIAM SUMMMERSKILL,
of Swan Buildings, Edmund Street, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object an apparatus for filling bags or other receptacles
with a given or predetermined quantity of seed or other material, whereby the
material can be measured and delivered into the receptacles at one operation.
The plan which we prefer is to form a cylinder having a cavity with an adjustable
bottom, whereby the area of the cavity can be increased or diminished as required
to measure any given quantity. The adjustable bottom fits the sides of the cavity
accurately, this being effected by means of a packing of cork, rubber or other
suitable material. The cylinder is mounted in a pedestal underneath the seed
hopper and is capable of being rotated by means of a handle and underneath the
cylinder is a delivery spout. Suitable incans are provided for easily removing
the cylinder from the pedestal to adjust the size or area of the cavity aforesaid.
The mode of action is as follows:-
The cylinder being placed in proper position, the seed or other material flows
from the hopper into the cavity aforesaid and fills the same. The cylinder is now
rotated whereby the seed in the cavity of the cylinder is discharged through the
delivery spout into a bag or other receptacle placed underneath. The cylinder is
then rotated back to its first position, the cavity refilled with seed and the
operation repeated. Any suitable predetermined quantity of seed can thus be fed
into the bag at each operation.
Suitable packing is provided in the pedestal or on the cylinder whereby any
escape of seed, except through the spout, is prevented.
Dated this 20th day of July 1809
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Patent Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Filling Bags or other Receptacles
with a Given Quantity of Seed or other material.
'
We, WILLIAM BLAKE, HENRY BLAKE and JOHN ALEXANDER BARTHOLOMEW
trading as Blake and Mackenzie, of School Lane, Liverpool, in the County of
Lancaster, Seed Pocket Manufacturers, and CHARLES WILLIAM SUMMERSKILL
of Swan Buildings, Edmund Street, Birmingham in the County of Warwick,
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 :-
This invention has for its object an apparatus for expeditiously measuring a
given or predetermined quantity of seed or other like material, and delivering the
same into bags or other receptacles.
A convenient way of carrying it into effect will be understood from the following
description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which :-
Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly in section, of the complete apparatus ;

page_text: Figure 2, a similar view with some parts broken away and others moved to a
different position;
Figure 3, an isometric view of the pedestal, showing how certain parts, herein-
after described, can be removed;
Figure 4, a plan view of the said parts, removed from the pedestal.
In these-
A, is the pedestal of any suitable shape adapted to stand on a table, counter or
the like; or, if necessary,
it could be provided with clamps and clamped to the
said table, etcetera B is a cylindrical block mounted in the pedestal as shown so
as to be easily removed. This cylindrical block is formed with a cavity b
(preferably circular) having an adjustable bottom C in the form of a plug of any
suitable material, such as cork, rubber, or wood with a lining of cork or rubber, so
as to fit the sides of the cavity accurately.
D is a handle attached to the cylinder B for rotating the same. E is a hopper,
which may either be separate, as shown, or formed in one with the pedestal. F is
a delivery spout. G is a hinged frame which can be raised, as shown in Figure 3,
to allow of the block B being removed for the purpose of adjusting the plug C,
and H a pivoted catch adapted to engage the said frame, and hold the block B
in position. I is a stud or projection on the latter to limit its rotary movement.
The mode of action is as follows:-
Having first determined the quantity of material to be filled into bags or other
receptacles, the depth of the cavity in the block B is regulated by means of the
plug C so as to hold just that quantity. The frame G is then raised, as shown in
Figure 3, and the block B placed in its bearings a on the pedestal and held there
by the said frame which is lowered and secured by catch H as shown in Figure 1.
As soon as the cavity (which, in the position shown in Figure 1, is immediately
underneath the hopper) is full, the block B is rotated by means of the handle D
into the position shown in Figure 2, which causes the cavity to come opposite the
delivery spout and its contents to be emptied down the same. The block B is
then rotated back to its first position, the cavity refilled and the operation repeated.
The movement of the cylindrical block from the filling to the emptying position is
regulated by the stud or projection I coming in contact with the frame of the
pedestal. To prevent the material running elsewhere than into the cavity b, a
leather or other suitable packing c is provided, fitting close against the block B as
shown in Figure 2.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is
1. The improvements in apparatus for the purposes specified which consist in
providing, in such apparatus, a block moving with a handle and having in it a
measuring chamber, which chamber can alternately be brought into a position
to be filled and one to be emptied by the movement of the handle, whereby seed
and other like material can be expeditiously measured and delivered into bags or
other receptacles, substantially as described.
2. The arrangement and combination of parts forming the special apparatus
herein before set forth and shewn in the accompanying drawings for the purpose of
filling bags or other receptacles with a given quantity of seed or other material.
Dated this 29th day of April 1893.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham, and London, Patent Agents.