Apparatus for Regulating the Feed of Grain to Roller and other Mills.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 7th July, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 4th Apr., 1893-Accepted, 6th May, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Apparatus for Regulating the Feed of Grain to Roller and
other Mills.
I, PATRICK LOUGHRY, of The City Roller Mills, Limerick, Ireland, Miller,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to apparatus for regulating the feed of grain to roller and
cther mills, the apparatus which I employ for this purpose being of the kind used
for measuring grain provided with means of conveniently adjusting the measure.
The measuring apparatus consists of a hollow measuring cylinder which is divided
by partitions into segmental compartments, this cylinder revolving, in a casing
which has at the one side an inlet for the grain supplied and has in its lower part
an outlet for the grain discharged from the successive compartments of the
cylinder.
To the one end of this cylinder on the same axis with it, I apply a solid or
adjusting cylinder which is split into as many segments as there are compartments
in the measuring cylinder, there being cuts made longitudinally into the body of
the adjusting cylinder to receive the partitions of the measuring cylinder.
By means of a lever screw or other suitable gear, I slide the adjusting cylinder
longitudinally along the axis, so that by its segments entering more or less into the
segmental compartments of the measuring cylinder, these compartments are made
shorter or longer as the case may be and therefore of less or greater capacity.
I prefer to connect the adjusting gear with an index pointing to graduations on
a scale so as to indicate the capacity of the measuring cylinder as may be varied,
while revolving, by the longitudinal movement of the adjusting cylinder.
Dated this 7th day of July 1892.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Apparatus for Regulating the Feed of Grain to Roller and
other Mills.
I, PATRICK LOUGHRY, of The City Roller Mills, Limerick, Ireland, Miller,
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 :-
My invention relates to apparatus for regulating the feed of grain to roller and
other mills, the apparatus which I employ for this purpose being of the kind used
for measuring grain provided with means of conveniently adjusting the measure.
The measuring apparatus consists of a hollow measuring cylinder which has its
periphery open to admit and discharge the grain, and is divided by partitions into
segmental compartments. It revolves in a casing which has at the one side an inlet
for the grain supplied and has in its lower part an outlet for the grain discharged
from the successive compartments of the cylinder. To such a measuring cylinder
I apply means of regulating which I shall describe referring to the accompanying
drawings Fig. 1 which is a longitudinal and Fig. 2 which is a transverse section.
To the one end of the cylinder C on the same axis with it, I apply a solid or
adjusting cylinder A which is slotted to form as many segments as there are
compartments in the measuring cylinder, there being cuts a a made longitudinally
into the body of the adjusting cylinder to receive the partitions P of the measuring
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cylinder C. By means of a lever L and screw S or other suitable gear, I slide the
adjusting cylinder A longitudinally along the axis, so that by its segments entering
more or less into the segmental compartments of the measuring cylinder, these
compartments are made shorter or longer as the case may be and therefore of less
or greater capacity.
I prefer to connect the adjusting gear with an index I pointing to graduations on
a scale so as to indicate the capacity of the measuring cylinder as it may be varied
while revolving by the longitudinal movement of the adjusting cylinder.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. For regulating the feed of grain to roller and other mills a longitudinally
slotted solid cylinder which can be introduced to greater or less depth into the
segmentally divided measuring cylinder, substantially as described.
2. In combination with a screw and lever or equivalent means of moving the
adjusting cylinder, an index pointing on a dial to graduations indicating the position
of the adjusting cylinder, substantially as described.
Dated this 20th day of March 1893.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.