Improvements connected with Tea Rolling Machinery.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Oct., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 31st July, 1894-Accepted, 1st Sept., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements connected with Tea Rolling Machinery.
I, LAWRENCE HERBERT SUTTON, of Brant Broughton, near Newark, in the
County of Lincolnshire, Engineer of The Jokai Assam Tea Company, Limited,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:→
The invention relates to improvements connected with tea rolling machinery.
For the purpose of this invention, the hopper into which the tea is fed has a
revolving motion by spur gearing in addition to that of the table on which the
hopper has its movement, the two by their differences of diameters causing the tea
leaf to partake of a better twist than usual, and have a harder and more
compact roll.
The hopper has ribs on interior wall to check the tea leaf, and to cause each leaf
to be equally acted on.
Above the table and within the hopper is a weighted head piece to press on the
tea and to revolve or not, the pressure being regulated by a screw when desired.
The table is provided with flap doors for the ready removal of the prepared
tea leaf.
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H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Lawrence Herbert Sutton.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements connected with Tea Rolling Machinery.
I, LAWRENCE HERBERT SUTTON, of Brant Broughton, near Newark, in the
County of Lincoln, Engineer of The Jokai Assam Tea Company Limited, 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:-
The invention relates to improvements connected with tea rolling machinery.
For the purpose of this invention, the hopper into which the tea is fed has a
revolving motion by spur gearing in addition to that of the table on which the
hopper has its movement, the two by their differences of diameter and operation
from the same shaft causing the tea leaf to partake of a better twist than usual
and have a harder and more compact roll.
The hopper has ribs on interior wall to check the tea leaf and to cause each
leaf to be equally acted on.
Above the table and within the hopper is a weighted head piece to press on the
tea and to revolve or not the pressure being regulated by a screw when desired.
The table is provided with flap doors for the ready removal of the prepared
tea leaf.
My invention will be clearly understood by reference to the annexed drawings.
Figure 1 is a vertical section.
Figure 2 a plan.
A is the base, and B a vertical shaft at the side thereof, this having two spur
takla and honnan at the orme ratio of sneed or

page_text: at different speeds. The hopper F is ribbed on the inner cylindrical part at G,
said ribs serving to arrest the tea in its travel also help to guide the tea and assist
in rolling the mass over as well as to act as guides to a head piece H which also
has ribs or recesses I and is capable of bearing on the tea that is within the hopper
and upon the table.
The head piece H is shown supported by its hand wheel J on a saddle K which
saddle can however be swung round on one end pivot L by the handle M, so that
the head piece H is freed therefrom to bear upon the tea and to rotate with the
hopper F by the engagement of the ribs G.
If the ribs are dispensed with, the head piece can be lowered gradually on to
the tea by the screw and hand wheel, so as not to revolve, this being determined by
arms N which can come into contact with the saddle. This arrangement enables
tea of different qualities to be treated in or by the same machine.
The table E has jointed fall down flap doors P, P, operable by a sleeve Q and
a hand lever R.
It will be observed that the table E and the hopper F can be rotated in the same
or in contrary directions by the arrangement of the bevil gear.
The table and the hopper are revolved in the same horizontal plane, the centres
being arranged eccentrically with each other.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
1. In a tea rolling machine, the combination of table and hopper revolving
horizontally and eccentrically to each other as and for the purpose set forth and as
shown in the drawings.
2. In a tea rolling machine the head piece capable of being freed for vertical
fall and for rotating with the hopper, as described.
3. In a tea rolling machine the head piece without ribs or recesses for vertical
fall without rotation by contact of arms with saddle, as described.
The 31st day of July 1894
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Lawrence Herbert Sutton.