Improvements in Machinery for Cutting or Slicing Sugar Cane or analogous Saccharine Plants.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 27th May, 1892-Accepted, 2nd July, 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery for Cutting or Slicing Sugar Cane or
analogous Saccharine Plants.
I, WILLIAM RENNY WATSON, of The Mirrlees Watson & Yaryan Company
Limited, of 45 Scotland Street, Glasgow, in the Counties of Lanark and Renfrew,
North Britain, Engineers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement :-
My invention relates to improvements in machinery for cutting or slicing sugar
canes or analogous saccharine plants preparatory to the process of extraction of the
juice by diffusion, and has for its object the saving of labour and improved cutting
or slicing of the canes.
My invention consists of two discs or cones revolving towards one another and so
close together that they almost touch. These discs or cones are fitted with the
usual cutting or slicing knives, and the canes are fed to these cutting or slicing
knives by means of rollers driven at a suitable speed from the shafting that drives
the cutting discs or other suitable moving shaft or motor.
In order that my invention may be properly understood and readily carried into
effect I will now proceed to describe the drawings hereunto annexed, which repre-
sent the machines.
Figure 1 is a plan of the machine with two revolving discs.
Figure 2 is an elevation of Figure 1.
Figure 3 is an end view of Figure 1 showing the discs.
Figure 4 is a plan of the machine with two revolving cones.
Figure 5 is an elevation of Figure 4.
Figure 6 is an end view showing face of one cone and side of the other.
A, A are the revolving cutting discs or cones fitted with the usual cutting or
slicing knives B B driven by the pulleys or pulley C C. D, D, Figures 4 and 6
are a pair of bevel wheels driving the one cone from the shaft of the other. E, E,
and FF are two sets of plain or fluted rollers, feeding the canes forward to the
cutting knives carried by the discs or cones A, A; these rollers being actuated in
a suitable manner from any driving shaft or suitable motor. G, G are cane
carriers conveying the canes forward to the feed rollers E, E.
In carrying out my invention I may incline the discs or cones A, A to one
another or to the horizontal line, and also make the cones of any angle different
from that shown. I may also use only one set of feed rollers F, F, or use two or
more sets of feed rollers."
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The general arrangement and combination of mechanism constituting the cane
cutters as hereinbefore described and shown on the annexed sheets of drawings.
2. The combination of two discs or cones fitted with cutting or slicing knives
revolving in such a manner that the layers of canes will be cut from both sides in
the same direction.
3. The regulation of the feed of canes to these discs or cones, or one disc or
cone, by means of rollers actuated from any revolving shaft or motor.
Dated this 26th day of May 1892.
BOTTOMLEY & LIDDLE,
154, St. Vincent Strect, Glasgow, Applicant's Agents.