Improvements in and relating to Machines for Washing and Peeling Potatoes or other Vegetables.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 9th June, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 6th Apr., 1895-Accepted, 11th May, 1895
PROVIDIUNAL DE BULLION
Improvements in and relating to Machines for Washing and Peeling
Potatoes or other Vegetables.
I JAMES NUTTALL of Castle Works, Dane Street Rochdale, in the County of
Lancaster Cooking Range Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
My improvements relate to rotary machines operated by hand or other motive
power, used for washing and peeling potatoes or other vegetables but more
particularly potatoes which machines are used by persons or cooks of chipped
potatoes and for other analogous purposes.
The object of my invention is to adapt the present machines and to provide an
apparatus so that the operation of washing and peeling may be operated with ease
by the operator. According to the present system it is found in practice that
when a large quantity of potatoes are required to be dealt with as in the case of a
medium size machine or one of large size it is found that much power is required
to operate the said machine, and in the case of hand power oftentimes the inertia
of the machine when supplied with potatoes approximates to the power of the
operator thus proving a laborious task and is at times immoveable in consequence
of the power being directly applied to the shaft or spindle of the barrel. I
purpose by a simple contrivance to obviate these defects by means of gearing and
according to my arrangement the rotary barrel may be lifted out of the trough
and the gearing disengaged when the trough or barrel is required to be emptied of
their contents and may be again placed in engagement when required for the
purposes of washing and peeling. According to my present construction I provide
at any suitable part of the framework of the machine a fixed stud upon which I
mount a driving wheel provided with a tooth or spur wheel which latter gears into
a corresponding tooth wheel provided on the shaft or spindle of the barrel of the
machine.
The barrel being mounted on or carried by ordinary L shaped levers at the
extremities of its spindle as now arranged which levers are provided to raise or
lift the barrel from the washing or scouring trough as is well known consequently
the said tooth wheel is thus capable of being lifted with the barrel or to move in
an angular direction with relation to the motion or driving tooth wheel on the fixed
stud aforesaid also this tooth wheel on the barrel is capable of being placed in or
out of gear with the toothed driving wheel accordingly as the lever is suitably
actuated. I am thus enabled by this means herein before described to facilitate
the work of washing and peeling potatoes at the same time to admit of immediate
disengagement and re-engagement as may be required to remove the contents from
the barrel or trough or to recommence operations and this I accomplish by simple
and effective means.
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page_text: Improvements in and relating to Machines for Washing and Peeling
Potatoes or other Vegetables.
I JAMES NUTTALL of Castle Works Dane Street Rochdale in the County of
Lancaster Cooking Range Manufacturer 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 :-
My improvements relate to rotary actuated machines which machines are or
may be operated by manual or other motive power such machines being used for
washing and peeling potatoes generally in large quantities and used by cookers of
chipped potatoes or other analogous purposes.
The object of my invention is to adapt the present machines or to provide an
apparatus arranged so that the operation of washing and peeling or treating the
potatoes may be effected by the operator with ease or with less difficulty or labour
than hitherto.
It is found in practice that when a large quantity of potatoes are to be dealt
with in such machines much power is necessary in order to rotate the barrel with
its contents or to work the machine oftentimes such being a very laborious task.
I purpose by means of a simple contrivance to obviate this by the aid of
gearing or toothed wheels and according to my arrangement the rotary barrel may
be lifted out of the washing trough as in the present machines but according to
my arrangement capable of being disengaged from the actuating or driving
gearing when it is required to remove the contents of the barrel and which may
again be put into immediate engagement with the said gearing.
According to my construction I provide at any suitable part of the framework
of the machine a fixed stud upon which I mount a driving wheel provided with a
tooth or spur wheel or if desired the said stud may be situate in a slot and
capable of adjustment therein so as to admit of wheels of various diameters, which
driving wheel gears with a corresponding tooth wheel provided on the barrel shaft
or may be an intermediate wheel or gearing wheels intercepting the said driving
wheel and the wheel on the said barrel shaft..
The barrel is mounted on the frame of the machine or carried and actuated by
the ordinary shaped levers provided at the extremities of the barrel or shaft as
at present arranged the function of which levers is to lift the barrel in an angular
direction from the washing trough as is well known, consequently when the barrel
is thus lifted the gear wheel on the barrel shaft is also moved with relation to the
driving wheel and is capable of being placed in and out of engagement with the
said wheel or any gear or intermediate or carrier wheel accordingly as the levers
are suitably actuated.
Fig. 1. is an elevation shewing my invention applied to an ordinary washing and
peeling machine to be operated by mauual power which figure shows the barrel
raised out of the washing trough.
Fig. 2. is a modification of Fig. 1. differentiating therefrom only in the gearing
or number of wheels employed.
Fig. 3. is another modification of Fig. 1 shewing another arrangement of gearing
but the barrel is here shewn in working position within the washing trough and is
adapted to be operated or worked by other than manual power.
Fig. 4. is a plan of the gearing employed and shewn in Fig. 3.
A is the ordinary perforated washing and peeling barrel. B. is the washing
trough, and C is the shaped lever one of which is employed at or near each
extremity of the barrel shaft D.

page_text: The driving or first motion tooth or gear wheel E. is mounted on the stud F.
which in Figs. 1 2 and 3 are capable of adjustment within the slots F¹ which
wheel E gears with a corresponding tooth wheel G. on the stud H. which stud in
Fig. 3 is capable of adjustment in the slot H¹ by means of the screw threaded
nut H2, Fig. 4., the tooth wheel I. in Figs. 2 and 3. gears with a corresponding
tooth wheel J. provided on the barrel shaft D as shewn in Fig. 3. and as arranged
in Fig. 2, but in the latter case when the barrel A is situate within the trough B.
but in Fig. 1. obviously the wheel J. will directly gear with the driving wheel E.
on the stud F. as in this arrangement two gear wheels only are shewn.
When it is desired to remove the contents from the barrel the same is raised
from the position Fig. 3. to the position as shewn in Fig. 2., the levers C. being
moved about the fixed stud K. moving or carrying the barrel in the angular
direction with relation to the point at K-as indicated by the dotted line the
lid L. is then opened to the position as shewn in Fig. 2. the contents passing from
thence into the box or receptacle M. and when refilled with vegetables or potatoes
to be treated the barrel is lowered to the position as shewn in Fig. 3. the wheel J.
then gearing in the case of Fig. 1. with the driving wheel E. direct, but in the
case of Fig. 2. with the intermediate or carrier wheel I as in Fig. 3.
It will be obvious that many other arrangements of gearing may be illustrated
without departing from the principle of my invention but I have herein indicated
and illustrated a sufficient number of modifications setting forth the essential part
of my invention, that is, the employment of a gear wheel J. on the barrel shaft D.
which wheel is capable of being alternately placed in and out of gear with a
driving wheel or wheels for the purposes herein described.
I am thus enabled by my invention as herein before described to facilitate and
expedite the operation of washing and peeling potatoes.
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. In a potatoe washing and peeling machine in combination a lever actuated or
operated washing and peeling barrel A. and a gear or tooth wheel J. which wheel
on the barrel shaft is capable of being placed in or out of engagement or gear
with a driving wheel or wheels for the purpose of rotating the barrel as herein
fully set forth and illustrated.
2. In combination the driving gear or tooth wheel E. gearing direct or by means
of intermediate wheels with a gear wheel J. on the barrel shaft D. as herein fully
set forth and illustrated.
3. In combination the lever C. wheel J. on shaft D. as and for the purposes
herein fully set forth.
4. The wheel J. on the lever actuated shaft for the purpose herein fully set
forth.
Dated this 4th day of April 1895.
JAMES NUTTALL.