Year: 1886

page_text: · 1, WILLIAM PRESTON MEADOWS of Syston, near Leicester, Ironmonger, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
"
The frames or cages" commonly used in the extraction of honey are usually
formed of wire netting of a suitable mesh but these cages when charged with honey-
combs frequently bulge out and have no rigidity and this is due to the absence of
stays or casing around them.
The object of my invention is therefore to provide a cage which shall allow free and
uninterrupted passage of honey from the comb and which shall at the same time be
rigid so as to retain the comb in the required position. For purposes of illustration I
may take a single cage or frame of the required shape and composed preferably of
wire. I enclose this within a casing of tin or other similar suitable material. I then
solder to the inside of the casing strips of tin or other like material the strips being
preferably vertical and at right angles to the casing the sharp edges of the strips may
be in contact with the cage wire and thus keep it rigid and prevent bulging under
pressure and in no way interfere with the outflow of the honey.
The method above described is effective whereas if iron or other rods were inserted
between the meshes to obtain rigidity they would block up the openings of the cells
and prevent the outflow of honey. The cage and casing are mounted on suitable
framework in the usual way and receive revolving motion within a tank from a vertical
shaft or spindles.
The casing referred to prevents splashing of the honey from the comb against the
inner sides of the tank when the cage and casing revolve.
I bave here described a single cage with casing but 1 may also have two or more
cages or Frames connected and working at the same time and when extracting honey
by means of screw or other pressure I employ the same method for securing
rigidity.
It will be understood that as the strips referred to are preferably say
are fixed-one edge soldered to the casing and the other edge in contact
that a space of the same width is ensured between the casing and
allowing for the escape of the honey to the base of the tank.
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W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents.

page_text: I WILLIAM PRESTON MEADOWS of Syston near Leicester Ironmonger, do hereby
declare, the nature of this Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed
to be particularly ascertained and described in and by the following statement :-
For the extraction of honey from the honey comb, extractors have been used before
the date of this application but such extractors have had certain defects which I now
claim to remove.
My Invention consists first in the use of a fine straining material.
Straining surfaces made of metal wire have been used before the date of my applica-
tion but the wire was either too thick for free passage of honey from the Honey Comb
or if the surface was made of finer wire it bulged or "sagged" outwards by the
pressure of the honey comb.
In this application I claim in the construction of such mesh the use of wire of
smaller guage than has hitherto been used and of perforated metal cat gut string
textile fabrics or other like or suitable material such mesh being supported in position
by the method of construction hereinafter claimed.
To prevent the sagging of the mesh under the pressure of the honey comb during
the passage through it of the honey I fasten the mesh in a casing by any ordinary
method of fastening as seen in the accompanying illustration.
Upon the casing and projecting forwards at right angles to meet the mesh I fix one
or more strips of suitable material of such a width that it touches the mesh.
My object in doing so is that when under the action of the extracting machine the
pressure of the comb and the flow of the honey outwards tends to bend the wire
mesh the latter finds resistance in the edges of the strips or stays and so keeps a flat
surface.
It will be seen that such stays themselves present no surface of obstruction to the flow
of the honey and do not in anyway damage the Comb.
In the above description I have confined myself to a single casing made of a mesh
of flat surface supported by vertical stays but my said Invention can also be applied to
a combination of such casings or to a large casing where the stays can be placed
horizontally or where stays both vertical and horizontal can be used."
My said Invention is also applicable to casings with meshes when such meshes are
of curved or circular form to suit the vessel in which the casing is to be placed.
The casing and wire mesh having been made in the way already described is in the
case of an extractor fitted into a suitable vessel and caused to revolve.
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The honey comb is placed against such mesh when by the Law of centrifugal motion
the honey is forced through the mesh and by reason of the space provided on the out-
side of it by the said stays there is room for it to escape and sink to the bottom of the
containing cistern or tank.

page_text: For such revolving motion or the containing cistern or tank I do not claim any
protection in this my application.
My said Invention can also be applied to any Machine or vessel where pressure is
used for extracting the Honey instead of the Centrifugal force and merely as an
illustration of such a case I mention the Honey press worked by a Screw.
The illustration shews my said Invention fitted with two supporting stays the surface
of the mesh being flat.
Having now particularly ascertained and described the nature of my said Invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is
1. The adaptation in the construction of a mesh for the extraction of Honey o
finer wire than has hitherto been used or of perforated metal catgut, string textile fabrics
or other like or suitable material as herein before described.
2. The construction of supporting stays to such meshes-such meshes and stays
being fastened and fixed in the manner hereinbefore described.
3. The adaptation of such stays and meshes lastly hereinbefore described to extractors
or presses as hereinbefore described.
HARE & Co.,
31, Essex Street, Strand, W.C.,
Agents to the said Applicant.