Year: 1888

page_text: A communication from LOUIS PAUL AND CO., of Radebeul, near Dresden, m
Empire of Germany, Manufacturers.
I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 323 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex; M.I.M.E.
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:-
The present invention relates to an improved husking machine for grain, the walls
of which are of wire gauze of square section, against which the grain is thrown by
centrifugal force. To this end two series of horizontal discs are mounted on contiguous
vertical shafts in the interior of the machine. Each of these discs is provided on each
side with two wings and underneath each disc a bottom plate is arranged, the edge of
which is lined with felt fitting close against the wire gauze and thus effectually closing
each of the superposed compartments. On the sides of the series of compartments
which stand opposite each other the compartments are open so that the grain may pass
from one compartment of one of the series to the corresponding one of the other the
compartments being arranged in such a manner that the bottoms of one series stand
opposite the middle of the compartments of the other.
In the accompanying drawings :
Figs. 1, 2 and 3 represent a front elevation, vertical section and horizontal section
respectively of the machine.
Fig. 4 is a plan of the top and
Fig. 5 a plan of the bottom of the disc.
In the frame a against the uprights a¹ the walls b of wire gauze of square section
are stretched and pressed by means of screws against the bottom plates fif the edges
of which are lined with felt. Two vertical shafts c with pulleys d of different
diameters are mounted in the frame a and on these shafts are mounted the discs e¹ e
and the bottom plates fif³. These are mounted in such a manner that the two series
break joint with each other. The grain introduced into the machine through the

page_text: hopper h falls onto the top disc e¹ the upper wings g₁ of which will throw it against
the walls of wire gauze ; the grain will then fall onto the botttom plate f¹ whence it
will be thrown by means of the lower wings of the disc e' through the opening i on
the top disc of the second series. From here the grain is thrown in the same
manner onto the second disc e¹ of the first series and so on until it reaches the bottom
compartment whence it is passed out of the machine.
The husks and the dust pass through the meshes of the wire gauze which are large
enough for this purpose.
The employment of the above described wire gauze 6 instead of perforated or slotted
metal sheets as used up to the present time is of great importance, as it presents
a large surface of sharp corners and edges which easily split the husks without
injuring the grain.
The husking and cleaning is very rational and amounts to 60%, a capacity
which has not been reached yet by any machine of the constructions known up to
the present time.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me
by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is :-
A machine for husking grain having rotating superposed wings arranged in tiers in
which the centrifugal force is used for conducting the grain from one wing to the
next one by distributing the wings on two vertical shafts i.e. in two series the
wings of one standing opposite the intervals of the other substantially as described.
Dated this 18th day of December 1888.