A New or Improved Machine for Cutting Up Turnips or other Roots or Matters.
Year: 1894

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Machine for Cutting Up Turnips or other Roots
or Matters.
1, GEORGE SANDOVER of Woolston in the Parish of West Alvington in the
County of Devon Farmer 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 consists in a machine for use in cutting up turnips, mangolds or
other roots or any such matters as the machine may be capable of and useful for
operating upon.
In the annexed drawing,
Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the whole machine
Fig. 2 is a side or end elevation thereof.
Fig. 3 is a front view of the cutter disk
Fig. 4 is a rear view thereof.
Fig. 5 is an edge view thereof.
Fig. 6 is a section on an enlarged scale on the line 6 6 of Fig. 4.
Fig. 7 is a side view and Fig. 8 a back view of one of the knives.
On a suitable stand or frame A is mounted a casing B of convenient form and
material to contain a rotary disk C which divides the space within the casing so
that that part on the one side of the disk is separated from the part of the space at
the other side of the disk. In the wall of the casing B on the face side of the
disk C is an opening D in front of which is a hopper E leading to said opening.
At the bottom of the case is an outlet for the pieces into which the cutter disk will
have divided the roots or other matters fed thereto by the hopper E.
The base of the hopper E is in two parts E' and E2 so fixed and guided as to
move up and down alternately so as to throw or move the roots or objects thereon
into the orifice D. On the shaft F by which the cutter disk C is revolved through
handle G are two cams or tappets E' E' which act in conjunction with the
frames E3 E fixed respectively to the parts E³ E2 so as to give the aforesaid
movement to said parts.
The cutter disk C is shown more particularly on a larger scale in Figs. 3 to 5.
It is a flat disk with depressions C₁ C' preferably two in number and disposed
spirally from the centre of the disk towards the edge, the one being diametrically
opposed to the other. The leading edges of these two depressions are cut away at
the angle in a serrated form as shown at C2 Fig. 3 and in Fig. 6 and at the back
of the disk at the same place is formed a flange C³ formed step fashion. To each
such step of the flange C³ is secured by a bolt and nut C a knife C³ in the form
of an as shown in Fig. 7 and of the width of the step. This knife projects
forwardly of the disk and its upper returned part meets the corresponding serrated
edge of the disk C at the depression C². Thus the knives complete the continuity of
the surface of the disk C and depression C² in any direction radial from the centre
of the disk, but they do not complete such continuity tangentially owing to their
step like disposition whereby, each being advanced in succession a step nearer to
the centre of the disk, there are left a series of openings as C Fig. 6 between the
leading edges of each knife, the back of the flange edge at C' and the trailing
edge of the knife next in front towards the centre of the disk. Each of these
substantially rectangular openings is in a plane radial or substantially so from the
axial line of the disk, and two of its edges are sharp thus cutting a piece out of or
from each turnip or part thereof or of any other matter that it meets in the
revolution of the disk.

page_text: 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. In a cutter for the purpose described the feed hopper with bottom E¹ E' in
two parts separately movable and adapted to be operated substantially as
-described.
2. The combination with a casing of a cutter disk dividing the space therein the
said disk having orifices as C formed of or with cutting edges.
3. A disk C having depressions C¹ and knives C³ arranged therein substantially
as set forth.
4. In a cutter for the purpose specified the combination of hopper E with two-
part feed bottom E' E' adapted to be operated as described, and disk C with
depressions C¹ and knives C³ arranged therewith, the whole substantially as set
.forth.
Dashi 0th a 1004
R. HADDAN,
Herbert Haddan & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, Agent for Applicant.