MACHINE FOR SLICING SUGAR-CANE
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
I, ADOLPHUS STROMBERG, managing director of the "Sudenburger Maschinen-
fabrik und Eisengiesserei Actien-Gesellschaft" at Magdeburg, residing at Magde-
"IMPROVED
burg, Prussia, do hereby declare the nature of said invention for an
MACHINE FOR SLICING SUGAR-CANE," to be as follows:-
The subject-matter of this invention is an improved machine for cutting sugar-
cane into slices, adapted to extract therefrom the sacharine juice by diffusion, or
which are subjected, instead of the undivided cane, to the action of a roller-mill for
the purpose of obtaining a greater yield of juice.
The machine consiste substantially of a horizontal rotating disk having slits, to
the edges of which cutters are fixed, and of inclined hoppers arranged above the
disk, and through which the cane is conducted to the latter by its own weight, and
so as to be presented slantwise to the cutters.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
I, ADOLPHUS STROMBERG, Managing Director of the Sudenburger Maschinen-
fabrik und Eisengiesserie Actien-Gesellschaft at Magdeburg residing at Magdeburg,
Prussia, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for an "IMPROVED MACHINE
FOR SCLICING SUGAR-CANE," and in what manner the same is to be carried out in
practice, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
My invention consists in an improved machine for cutting sugar-cane into slices,
adapted to extract therefrom the saccharine juice by diffusion, or which are sub-
jected, instead of the undivided cane, to the action of a roller-mill for the purpose
of obtaining a greater yield of juice.
The machine is shown on the annexed sheet of drawings by Fig: 1 in vertical
section, by Fig: 2 in elevation as seen from the left hand side of Fig: 1, and by
Fig 3 in plan. Fig: 4 is a part in detail. The main operating part of the
machine is the disk b, keyed on a vertical shaft c, rotating in bearings of a frame a,
the said shaft being driven either from above or from below by means of suitable
gearing. The disk b is provided with slits, to the edges of which the cutters e are
fixed. Preferably, however, the cutters are not attached to the body of the disk
itself, but to frames d, Figs: 3 and 4, inserted into the same, and arranged to be
easily removed therefrom.
Above the disk b and close to it, there is a stationary plate or cover f, having
two or more openings, to which are fitted the inclined hoppers g, serving to conduct
the cane to the cutters. The cane presses by its own weight against the disk f,
and is then divided slantwise by the cutters. The slices issue from the machine
by the chute h.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated
to me by my correspondent, I declare that what I claim is
A machine for slicing sugar-cane, comprising a horizontal rotating disk b, one or
more cutters e fixed thereto, and one or more inclined hoppers g, through which
the cane is conducted slantwise to the disk, all combined substantially as and for
the purpose specified.
Dated this Eleventh dew of June 1885