Improvements in Pneumatic Machines for Dressing Hops, Vines, Coffee Plants, and the like, with either Liquid or Solid Substances.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Jan., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 25th Nov., 1889-Accepted, 11th Jan., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Pneumatic Machines for Dressing Hops, Vines,
Coffee Plants, and the like, with either Liquid or Solid
Substances.
1 GEORGE FREDERICK STRAWSON of Newbury in the County of Berks Chemical
Manure Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to machines for dressing Hops Vines and the like and is an
improvement on a previous invention for which Letters Patent were applied for on
3rd February numbered 1615.
The object of this invention is to dress one, or, when required, both sides of the
leaves at the same operation with suitable liquid or powdered substances.
According to this invention I provide the apparatus with delivery nozzles having
oblique branches inclined upwards downwards and outwards so as to prevent the
liquid jets from touching and destroying one another.
I affix to the Machine or nozzle as is most convenient a suitable device such as a
valve or its equivalent by means of which the spray may be delivered from the
inclined branches in an upward or downward direction or in both directions
simultaneously at the will of the operator in charge of the machine, the said device
closing the inclined branches to the air blast or stream of liquid or both as desired.
Other branches as in my previous invention distribute the spray horizontally. I also
make the delivery nozzles capable of sliding towards or away from the centre of the
machine by means of suitable levers or their equivalent so that the whole apparatus is
when contracted to its narrowest dimensions no wider than the extreme width of the
wheels and axles measured from outside to outside of the wheels thus enabling it to
pass through gates or narrow rows of Vines without damage to the nozzles or the
vines.
To enable the machine to deliver solid or powdered substances I remove the nozzles
above described and replace the same with a suitable deflector by means of which the
substance to be distributed may be deflected sideways or spread in a fan-like shape at
various elevations.
Dated this 25th day of January 1889.
ERNEST SALAMAN,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Pneumatic Machines for Dressing Hops, Vines,
Coffee Plants, and the like, with either Liquid or Solid
Substances.
I, GEORGE FREDERICK STRAWSON of Newbury in the County of Berks Chemical
Manure 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 :-
This invention relates to machines for dressing Hops Vines and the like and is an
improvement on a previous invention for which Letters Patent were applied for on
3rd February 1888. numbered 1615.
The object of this invention is to dress one or when required both sides of the leaves
at the same time with suitable liquid or powdered substances.

page_text: According to this invention I provide the apparatus with delivery nozzles having
oblique branches inclined upwards downwards and outwards so as to prevent the liquid
jets from touching and destroying one another.
I affix to the Machine or nozzle as is most convenient a suitable device such as a
valve or its equivalent by means of which the spray may be delivered from the
inclined branches in an upward or downward direction or in both directions
simultaneously, at the will of the operator in charge of the machine the said device
closing the inclined branches to the air blast or stream of liquid or both as desired.
Other branches as in my previous invention distribute the spray horizontally. I also
make the delivery nozzles capable of sliding towards or away from the centre of the
machine by means of suitable levers or their equivalent so that the whole apparatus is
when contracted to its narrowest dimensions no wider than the extreme width of the
wheels, thus enabling it to pass through gates or narrow rows of Vines without
damage to the nozzles. And in order that my invention may be fully understood I.
will explain the same with reference to the accompanying sheet of drawings in which
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a machine embodying my invention. Fig. 2. is a back
elevation of same. Fig. 3. is a section through a delivery nozzle or spreader bereafter
referred to.
The same letters denote the same parts in all the figures; a is the tank provided with
cocks c―communicating by means of the pipes d. d. with the spreaders e. e. these
spreaders are connected by telescopic pipes f. f. to the T shaped pipe g¹ connected
with the air outlet of the Fan h.
The spreader shewn in section at Fig. 3, will serve to illustrate the construction of
spreaders for distributing liquids. A is a casing fitted with jets B. C. D inside the
casing are pipes E. F. G with branches 1. 2. 3. reaching nearly to the end of the
jets B. C. D.
H, is a pipe for connecting the fan h the pipes E. F. G being in communication
with the tank a by means of the pipes d, d, cocks 4. 5. 6 being provided to enable the
liquid to be delivered from the jets B. C. D simultaneously or otherwise.
The liquid runs from the tank and out at the branches 1, 2, 3, and is there caught
by the annular air currents issuing from the jets B, C, D, and dispersed therefrom in
the form of a very fine spray or dew.
The Fan or blower . is driven from the travelling wheels ii by means of gearing
as shewn or other suitable means such as friction gear. As shewn in the drawing i,
is a spur wheel attached to the wheeli; is a pinion gearing with the same and keyed
to a shaft l, which shaft has keyed thereto the spur wheel m, gearing with the pinion n
on the shaft o. this shaft also carries the belt pulley p which drives the fan by means
of the belt g. rare brackets carrying the shaft o. In order to allow the machine
to pass between the rows of plants or Vines I make the width from outside to outside
of the wheels ii as small as possible and I also make the pipes ff, to slide on the
pipe g to allow of the width of the machine over the spreaders being altered to suit
the crops under treatment.
When the spreaders are as near together as possible their extreme width is less
than the width over the wheels thus avoiding injury to the spreaders when passing
through gates or narrow rows of Vines this adjustment of the spreaders is effected
by means of the levers S. pivoted at or other suitable means the pipes d, d being
sufficiently flexible to allow of this adjustment.
To enable the machine to deliver powdered substances I remove the nozzles above
described and replace the same with a suitable deflector or deflectors by means of
which the substance to be delivered may be deflected sideways or spread in a fanlike
shape at various elevations.
The apparatus I prefer for this purpose being a delivery board fitted with an
attachment like the mouldboard of a plough or the improved delivery board for which
I applied for Letters Patent on the 28th day of January 1889 numbered 1516. I
also provide the machine with shafts K. for animal draught.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained 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 combination of the fan or blower with the delivery nozzles or spreaders e, e,
and tank a substantially as and for the purpose specified.
II. The combination with the spreaders e, e of the telescopic or sliding tubes
and substantially as and for the purpose specified.
g.
III. The improved pneumatic machine for dressing hops, Vines and the like with
liquid or solid substances substantially as described and shewn.
Dated this 25th day of November 1889.
ERNEST
SALAMAN,
65 & 66, Chancery Lane, London, Agent for Applicant.