A NEW OR IMPROVED, COMBINED MINOING MACHINE AND GAS-MOTOR ENGINE
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Aug., 1887
Complete Left, 29th May, 1888
Complete Accepted, 13th July, 1888
Engine.
We GEORGE MOGHEE and PETER BURT, both of Henrietta Street, Glasgow, in the
County of Lanark, Scotland, Engineers, do hereby declare the nature of our invention
for A NEW OR IMPROVED, COMBINED MINOING MACHINE AND GAS-MOTOR ENGINE, to
be as follows :-
:-
This Invention relates to a Mincing Machine combined with and driven by a
Gas-motor Engine.
The Machine comprises framing or side Standards which are made hollow and serve
as Tanks for holding the circulating cooling water, or exhaust silencing chamber.
A Gas, or it may be a combustible vapour-motor Engine, fixed to framing, actuates a
shaft with fly wheel which drives a belt working on a set of fast and loose pulleys.
Said shaft has also a wheel gearing with another driving a belt round and actuating
the vertical revolving wooden mincing block, which may be revolved independently
by hand by slackening said belt. The mincing block revolves on a vertical spindle
fitted in a curved bar which rests on lugs or projections on framing, all so as to
allow for raising block; otherwise the Machine may be of ordinary construction.
Dated this 27th day of August 1887
DAVID MASON, C.E.,
Glasgow,
Patent Agent.

page_text: We, GEORGE MCGHEE and PETER BURT both of Henrietta Street, Glasgow, in the
County of Lanark, Scotland, Engineers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what mannor the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :—
Our said Invention relates to a Mincing Machine combined with and driven by a
Gas-motor Engine, the whole being self-contained.
And in order that our Invention may be properly understood we have appended
two sheets of explanatory Drawings to be herein after referred to, and representing
an ordinary form of Mincing Machine and a convenient form of Gas Engine combined
together according to our Invention.
On sheet 1 of the Drawings Figure 1 is a back elevation, Fig. 2 a side elevation
and Fig. 3 a plan of the Machine with Engine combined. On sheet 2 Figs. 5 and 6
are respectively a side and end elevation of a lower part of one side frame of the
Machine without Engine, Fig. 4 being a plan of both sides on the line . y. Figs. 1
and 5 with part Engine, all constructed according to our Invention. Fig. 7 is a
sectional plan at level of top of mincing block. The same reference letters or
numerals are used to mark the same or like parts in all the Figures.
b
9
According to our Invention the lower part of the framing or side standards a of tho
Machine are constructed hollow and communicate together by pipes and are fixed to
a sole plate call as shown by Figs. 4, 5, and 6 thus partly serving as tanks for
holding the water used for cooling the cylinders of a Gas Engine which are encased
in the jacket d fixed to the frame a by nuts e. The water circulates through the
opening into the 1st frame a and through the upper pipe to the other frame a
from whence it returns again by the lower pipe band then by opening g into the
jacket d; the openings f. g being made to correspond with openings in cylinder
jacket. Opposite the Engine cylinders part of the frame a by the partitions is also
formed into an exhaust box i and air box j. The Engine exhausts through the port
box i and outlet port or pipe and draws air through pipe or port j' box j and port or
pipe. The hollow part of frame a is thus made to conveniently comprise the water
tank and exhaust and air chambers for use with a gas engine; tho hollow parts of
frames a being formed with a closed top. One frame a as shown is provided with two
extra journals p and otherwise formed for use with the Gas Engine invented by
George McGhee (which we prefer to use) and described in the British Patent
Specification No. 14578 Novr. 11th 1886 to which reference may be had for
description thereof. The said journals may be dispensed with and outside of
frame made to suit other forms of Gas Engine, our main objects being to utilise
the framing as aforesaid and drive the main shaft direct as hereinafter described.

page_text: On one end of main driving shaft of Machine is connected direct the driving
crank of the Gas Engine, and on the opposite end of the knife reciprocating shaft
of Machine is fitted a set of fast and loose pulleys l, on or off which a belt driven by
the fly wheel is shifted by the form m. By this arrangement the mincing knife
may be stopped working while the Engine continues working and the mincing block
also continues revolving, (as hereinafter described) which is a desirable object not
heretofore effected in such Machines; the main and knife reciprocating shafts of
similarly constructed Machines being heretofore generally geared or driven together
simultaneously. The mincing block is revolved by a belt n working horizontally
round it and the horizontal pulley o having flanges round it to prevent belt shifting
downwards, and connected with and driven by the usual pinion and worm wheel off
main shaft. The block may be revolved by hand when Engine is stopped; the belt
slipping on pulley. In lieu of said belt and pulley the said pinion shaft may be
provided with a friction roller or rollers bearing against and revolving the block.
The three unmarked Figures on Sheet 2 of Drawings represent a side and sectional
elevation of bottom part of mincing block and supporting bar, and also a plan of
bar; but since Drawings were made being advised to disclaim same we consequently
hereby do disclaim same and therefore make no further reference thereto, as also the
other parts of the Machine, which are of ordinary well known construction and
operation.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed
1st. A combined Mincing Machine and Gas Engine in one, constructed and
arranged as herein before described.
2nd. In a combined Mincing Machine and Gas Engine, the construction and
combination of the hollow frames a, as and for the purposes herein before described
& shown.
3rd. In a combined Mincing Machine and Gas Engine, fitting the knife recipro-
cating shaft with a set of fast and loose pulleys provided with a shifting fork, as and
for the purpose described.
4th. The particular combination in the particular manner, of the block, driving
belt n and pulley o as and for the purposes described and shown at Figs. 1 and 7.
Datad this 90th day of Mov 1889
DAVID MASON,
Glasgow,
Patent Agent.