In- PROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND ARRANGEMENT OF MACHINERY AND BAR MANAGER OF OTT
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alexander Samuelson, of 28, Cornhill, in the City of
London, Engineer and Iron Ship Builder, for the Invention of "In-
PROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND ARRANGEMENT OF MACHINERY AND
BAR
MANAGER OF OTT "
Sealed the 9th October 1863, and dated the 16th April 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexander Samuelson
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
16th April 1863.
I, ALEXANDER SAMUELSON, of 28, Cornhill, in the City of London, Engineer
and Iron Ship Builder, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND ARRANGEMENT OP MACHINERY AND
APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF OIL," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in the construction of machinery and apparatus for
the manufacture of oil, and is particularly intended for use in the colonies and
in foreign countries, in such a manner as that all the shafting required, in
place of being attached to the building containing the mills, is attached to or
form parts of an independent framing forming part of the machinery, so that
no separate fitting or attachment is required for such shafting, and the same
is quite independent of the buildings, the advantages attained being that the
fitting or fixing abroad by skilled workmen is dispensed with, and the whole of
the machinery being compact is easy of export and removal.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Alexander Samuelson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
16th October 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALEXANDER
SAMUELSON, of 28, Cornhill, in the City of London, Engineer and Steam Ship
Builder, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-sixth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Alexander Samuelson, Her special license that I, the said Alexander
Samuelson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Alexander Samuelson, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE ARRANGEMENT OF MACHINERY AND APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE
OF OIL," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Alexander
Samuelson, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my
hand and seal, or under the hand and seal of one of them, should par-
ticularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the
Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Alexander Samuelson, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, reference being had to the accompanying Drawings, and to the
letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say:-
My said Invention relates to a peculiar arrangement of machinery and
apparatus for the manufacture of oil, and particularly intended for use in the
colonies and in foreign countries, and consists in so arranging and disposing
the various parts as that all the shafting required, in place of being attached
to the building containing the mills, is attached to or forms part of an inde-
pendent framing forming part of the machinery itself, so that no separate
fitting or attachment is required for such shafting, and the same is quite
independent of the buildings, the advantages attained being that the fitting or

page_text: fixing abroad by skilled workmen is dispensed with, and the whole of the
machinery being compact is easy of export and removal.
And in order that my said Invention may be fully understood I shall now
proceed more particularly to describe the same, and for that purpose I shall
refer to the several Figures on the Sheet of Drawings hereunto annexed, the
same letters of reference indicating corresponding parts in both Figures
Figure 1 of the Drawings represents a side elevation of a complete set of
apparatus for manufacturing linseed oil, the driving gear being arranged and
supported in accordance with this Invention, so that the entire machinery and
apparatus is self-contained and supported without the necessity for fittings or
fixtures to the walls of the building.
Figure 2 is a corresponding plan of Figure 1.
A is the main shaft which actuates the entire apparatus; it is driven
direct by a steam engine B, a crank C being formed on the end of the
main shaft, to which the connecting rod D of the steam engine is coupled.
The shaft A works in the several plummer blocks or bearings E, E, carried by
the standards or supports F, G, and H. The end bearing over the presses I, I,
is carried by the standard or support F, which is bolted to the heads of the
presses. The two intermediate bearings aro bolted to an entablature G sup-
ported vertical cast-iron columns K, K, resting on the foundation, and the
end bearing over the steam engine is carried by a short entablature H sup-
ported by a pair of cast-iron columns L bolted down on to the engine-bed
plate M.
N is a small bevel wheel which grives the governor or regulator O
of the engine; P is a large fly wheel keyed on to the main driving shaft, and
Qis a bevel pinion, also keyed on to the main shaft and gearing into a large
horizontal bevel wheel R, the vertical shaft S of which drives the largo
grinding stones T. The seed-crushing rollers U are driven by a strap V passing.
over a pulley W keyed on the main shaft, and over a second pulley X fast on
a short shaft supported on bearings in the separate framing Y, which also
carries the crushing rolls. The meal is beated in the two heaters Z, Z; and
the agitator shafts a, a, are actuated from the main driving shaft A by means
of a spur wheel 6, keyed on to that shaft, gearing into two other spur wheels
c, c, fast on the ends of two short shafts working in bearings c³, c³, bolted to
the main entablature G. These short shafts carry each a bevel wheel d
gearing into a corresponding bevel wheel c on the vertical shafts a of the
agitators; ff. are two sets of pumps for working the two pairs of presses I, I,
and each set of pumps being worked by the single connecting rod 9 coupled at
the lower end to the pump levers and connected to an adjustable crank pin h
in the disc i, which is keyed on to the extreme end of the main shaft. It will

page_text: thus be seen that the whole of the shafting and driving gear is carried by
special supports or standards which are entirely independant of the walls of
the building.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be used or carried into
effect, I would observe in conclusion that what I consider to be novel and
original, and therefore claim as the Invention secured to me by the herein.
before in part recited Letters Patent, is, the supporting or carrying of the
shafting and driving gear of oil mills upon special standards or supports
which form part of the machinery itself, and are entirely independant of the
walls of the building containing the mill, substantially as herein-before
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alexander Samuelson, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of October, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-three.
ALEXANDER SAMUELSON. (L.B.)
ALEXANDER SAMUELSON. (L.S.)