IMPROVEMENTS IN THRASHING AND OTHER MACHINERY WHERE CORN OR GRAIN IS REQUIRED TO BE RAISED FROM ONE LEVEL: TO ANOTHER
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Charles Ransome, of Ipswich, in the County
of Suffolk, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THRASHING AND OTHER
MACHINERY WHERE CORN OR GRAIN IS REQUIRED TO BE RAISED FROM ONE LEVEL:
TO ANOTHER."
Sealed the 25th September 1862, and dated the 31st March 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Charles Ransome
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
31st March 1862.
I, ROBERT CHARLES RANSOME, of Ipswich, in the County of Suffolk, do
hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THRASHING
AND OTHER MACHINERY WHERE CORN OR GRAIN IS REQUIRED TO BE RAISED FROM
ONE LEVEL TO ANOTHER," to be as follows:->
This Invention has for its object improvements in thrashing and other
machinery where corn or grain is required to be raised from one level to
another. For these purposes a revolving wheel or surface is employed on
the periphery or at a distance from the central axis of which are applied
propellers, buckets, or paddle boards which work within a chamber which
it is preferred should be of a cylindrical form and of an internal diameter
and dimensions somewhat larger than the diameter of the wheel or revolving
surface with the propellers, paddle boards, or buckets thereon, so that such

page_text: propellers, paddle boards, or buckets may work freely within such case,
without however allowing the grains to get away between the propellers and
the case, till 'the grains come to the proper outlet in the case. It is pre-
ferred that the revolving wheel or surface should be on a horizontal axis,
but this is not essential. The wheel or rotating surface is caused to revolve
at a high velocity by which the corn or grain is carried round within the
I case so that the grains attain a high velocity by the time they arrive opposite
the outlet from which they pass out of the case. At the outlet there is an
inclined pipe or passage which rises to the position up to which it is desired
that the corn or grain should be raised in thrashing or other machinery.
When the corn or grain is to be riddled or dressed then it is preferred that
the inclined pipe or passage through which the grains pass, should terminate
with an incline in order to deflect off the grains to the sieves or riddles of
the machinery.
In some machines in place of the corn or grain being fed in at or near
the lower part of the case, it is fed in at or near the central axis and passes
into radial or by preference curved channels leading from the centre to the
outer circumference or periphery so that the grains as they move, from the
centre outward will obtain a higher and a higher velocity till they arrive at
the outlet where the inclined pipe or passage is situated and through which
the grains will pass up to the position where they are to be delivered. In
these machines provision may when desired be made for causing them to
act as horners or rubbers. by applying to them undulating or irregular
surfaces.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed a
by the said Robert Charles Ransome in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 30th September 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
CHARLES RANSOME, of Ipswich, in the County of Suffolk, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters 3
Patent, bearing date the Thirty-first day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fifth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Robert Charles Ransome, Her special licence that I, the said
Robert Charles Ransome, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or

page_text: such others as I, the said Robert Charles Ransome, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend; within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man,
an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THRASHING AND OTHER MACHINERY WHERE
CORN OR GRAIN IS REQUIRED TO BE RAISED FROM ONE LEVEL TO ANOTHER," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Robert Charles Ransome,' ny
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their,
or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of the. said Invention, and in what manner the same was to
be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent.
?
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Robert Charles Ransome, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by tho
following statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in thrashing and other
machinery where corn or grain is required to be raised from one level to
another. For these purposes a revolving wheel or surface is employed on
the periphery or at a distance from the central axis of which are applied pro-
pellers, buckets or paddle boards which work within a' chamber which it is
preferred should be of a cylindrical form and of an internal diameter and
dimensions somewhat larger than the diameter of the wheel or revolving
surface with the propellers, paddle boards, or buckets thereon so that such
propellers, paddle boards, or buckets may work freely within such case without
however allowing the grains to get away between the propellers and the
case till the grains. come to the proper outlet in the case. It is preferred
that the revolving wheel or surface should be on a horizontal axis, but this
is not essential.. The wheel or rotating surface is caused to revolve at a
high velocity by which the corn or grain is carried round within the case
so that the grains attain a high velocity by the time they arrive opposite the
outlet from which they pass out of the case. At the outlet there is an
inclined pipe or passage which rises to the position up to which it is desired
that the corn or grain should be raised in thrashing or other machinery.
When the corn or grain is to be riddled. or dressed then it is preferred that
the inclined pipe or passage through which the grains pass should terminate

page_text: with an incline in order to deflect off the grains to the sieves.or. riddles of
the machinery:
In some machines in place of the corn or grain being fed in, at, or near
the lower part of the case, it is fed in, at, or near the central axis and passes
in to radial or by preference. curved channels leading from the centre to the
outer circumference or periphery so that the grains as they move from
the centre outward will obtain a higher and a higher velocity. till they arrive
at the outlet where the inclined pipe or passage is situated and through
which the grains will pass up to the position where they are to be delivered.
In these machines provision may when desired be made for causing them
to act as horners or rubbers by applying to them rough, undulating, or irregular
surfaces.
:
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION. OF THE DRAWINGS..
Figure 1 shews an external view,; Figure 2 a horizontal section; and
Figure 3 a vertical section of apparatus constructed and combined according
to my Invention.
. a, a, is a wheel on the periphery of which are fixed propellers or paddles b.
In the Drawings four such propellers or paddles b are shown, but the number
of propellers or paddles b may be varied. The wheel a is mounted on the axle c
which turns in suitable bearings not shown in the Drawings. To the axle c
a quick rotatory motion is to be communicated. The sides of the periphery
of the wheel a are enclosed in a case d, d, in such manner. that the peripery
of the wheel closes the case in that direction, hence the outer air is excluded
from entering the case and consequently the apparatus is prevented..creating
a blast of air. e is an opening into. .and near the bottom of the: case.d by
which the corn or grain is allowed to enter the case and to flow against
the periphery of the wheel a, a. When at work the lower part of the
case d near the opening e, as well as the pipe or passage leading thereto
will be filled with grain, hence as the paddles or propellers 6 pass the opening
e in succession they will put the grains in motion; and by the time a paddle
or propeller 6.comes to the outlet g at the upper part of the case the grains
of corn so put in motion will have attained the speed of the propeller or
paddle, and by reason of the grains so put into rotating motion when they
come to the outlet g, being no longer prevented by the case from flying off,
such grains will by the centrifugal force imparted to them fly through the

page_text: outlet g and up the inclined shoot or passage connected therewith. The
inlet passage e is to have a suitable pipe or chamber applied thereto. into
which a constant supply of wheat or other grain is to be kept up. The
outlet g is. to have an inclined pipe or passage applied: thereto to direct the
grains to. the position where the same are to be delivered whether on to a
riddle or otherwise. The paddles or propellers b applied at the periphery
of the wheel a, a, may be enclosed at the sides so as to form. rectangular
buckets or chambers all round the periphery of the wheel, such chambers
or buckets being each closed at the bottom and at the four sides, but open
outwards or at the top. This arrangement is shown at Figures.4, 5, and 6,
in which the same letters of reference are used to indicate the same parts
as those in the previous Figures. And the description above given in refer-
ence thereto will apply to these Figures, the only difference in the construc-
tion of the two apparatus is that the sides of the periphery of the wheel in
Figures 4, 5, and 6, are closed, and there are more propellers or paddles used
than in Figures 1, 2, and 3. Figure 7 shows a side elevation, Figure 8
a transverse section, and Figure 9 a vertical section of an apparatus differing
from the preceding ones, inasmuch as the wheel his formed with radial pro-
pellers or paddles i, i, projecting from the side of a conical surface, and such
wheel is caused to revolve in a case ; which is a hollow cone, by which
means a number of radial channels k, k, are formed between the curved
propeller or paddles i which channels & expand as they proceed from the
centre outwards. It is not essential that the paddles or propellers i, i,
should be curved as they may be straight and radiate direct from the centre
outwards. Neither is it essential that the surface of the wheel where the
propellers or paddles i, i, are applied should be conical as the same may be
flat, the side of the case being made to correspond. is an inlet passage at
the centre of the case to which a proper supply pipe, passage, or chamber
is to be applied so as to keep up a constant supply of grain thereto. 9 is an
outlet passage to which a suitable pipe or passage is to be applied as before
explained. The object of this part of the Invention is to construct and apply
apparatus acting on the corn or grain by centrifugal action, and at the same
time to avoid creating a blast of air by the apparatus. Apparatus such as
is herein described is to be applied to. thrashing machines in place of the
apparatus heretofore used, or like apparatus may be applied in other places
where corn or grain is desired to be raised.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I would have it understood that what I claim is,-

page_text: First, the combined arrangement of apparatus for raising corn or grain
described with reference to Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.
And, second, the combined arrangement of apparatus for raising corn or
grain described with reference to Figures 7, 8, and 9.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Charles Ransome, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of September, in
the rear of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two
ROBERT CHARLES RANSOME. (L.S.)
Witness,
GEORGE ARTHUR BIDDELL,
of Ipswich,
Engineer.