Improvements in and connected with Machines for Cutting Straw and the like into Chaff, and for similar Operations.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Jan., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 8th Oct., 1395-Accepted, 16th Nov., 1805
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Machines for Cutting Straw
and the like into Chaff, and for similar Operations.
I JAMES MARSHALL, of the Firm of Marshall, Sons & Co. Ld. of Britannia
Works, Gainsborough in the County of Lincoln, Engineers, do hereby declare the
nature of my invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to machines for cutting straw, or other like matter, into
short lengths, called chaff, and for like operations, the cut straw, or material,
being delivered into bags, or receptacles, or to any desired place from the
machine.
According to my invention the elevator by which the chaff, or the like, is
delivered to the outlet from the machine, is inside the machine framework or
carried thereby in a line with the separating shoes ;-and the fan which is employed
for delivering the chaff, or the like, through a spout or passage, to any required
distance from the machine, is also situated within, or is carried by, the frame,
preferably in front of the elevator, the chaff being delivered into it by the elevator
when the passage or shoot is in place to connect the outlet from the elevator
delivery box with the fan casing, the said passage, or shoot, being connected to
the outlet by any suitable means, which will allow of its being readily removed.
In a machine thus arranged the ordinary mechanism such as the feeding and
cutting devices, and separating shoes, together with the elevator and fan, arranged
as described, are contained by one framework and no parts require to be detached
when the machine is moved from place to place.
The aforesaid fan may be driven by a band from the rotating parts of the
machine, and, when the chaff, or the like, is not to be delivered to a distance the
fan is thrown out of action, and the passage or shoot, leading from the outlet of
the elevator to the fan, can be removed, and bags or other receptacles, be placed at
the outlet, which may be duplex and provided with a valve as usual so that the
chaff or the like can be diverted through the openings alternately by the said
valve so that whilst one bag or receptacle is being filled another can be removed
and a fresh one put in place.
Dated this 8th day of January 1895.
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Machines for Cutting Straw
and the like into Chaff, and for similar Operations.
I JAMES MARSHALL of the Firm of Marshall Sons & Co. Limited of
Britannia Works Gainsborough in the County of Lincoln Engineers 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 invention relates to machines for cutting straw, or other like matter, into
short lengths, called chaff, and for like operations, the cut straw, or material, being

page_text: delivered from the machine into bags, or receptacles, or to a distance from the
machine.
According to my invention the elevator by which the chaff, or the like, is
delivered to the outlet from the machine is inside the machine framework, and
carried thereby in a line with the separating shoes; and the fan, which is
employed for delivering the chaff, or the like, through a spout, or passage, to a
distance from the machine, is also situated within, and is carriel by the frame,
preferably in front of the elevator, the chaff being delivered into it by the
elevator when the passage, or shoot, is in place to connect the outlet froin the
elevator delivery box with the fan casing, the said passage, or shoot, being
connected to the outlet by any suitable means which will allow of its being readily
removed.
In a machine thus arranged the ordinary mechanism, such as the feeding and
cutting devices, and separating shoes, together with the elevator, and fan, arranged
as described are contained by one framework and ne parts require to be detached
when the machine is moved from place to place.
The aforesaid fan may be driven by a band from the rotating parts of the
machine, and when the chaff or the like, is not to be delivered to a distance, the
fan is thrown out of action, and the passage, or shoot, leading from the outlet of
the elevator to the fan, can be removed, and bags or other receptacles be placed
at the outlet which may be duplex and provided with a valve as usual so that the
chaff, or the like can be diverted through the openings alternately by the said
valve so that while one bag or receptacle is being filled another can be removed
and a fresh cne put in place.
The accompanying drawing shews in side elevation in Fig. 1, and elevation in
Fig. 2, & plan in Fig. 3 an arrangement according to my invention. The elevator A
which receives the chaff from the sifting shoe B is placed within and carried by
the framework of the feeding and cutting mechanism and separating shoes of the
machine in a line with the said shoe and the fan F for delivering the chaff to a
distance through the spout K is permanently fixed to the said framework and is so
arranged that neither the elevator nor the fan require to be disturbed when the
machine is moved from place to place.
By means of the said elevator the chaff is delivered into the spout D and from
thence through the spout G into bags or into the fan F and thence by the outlet
spout K to a distance if desired.
When the chaff is required to be delivered into bags the fan belt is taken off
and a portion of the spout J is removed so that two bags can be used one being
removed whilst the other is filling, the spouts E and G being opened and closed
alternately by the flap H.
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 :-
The combination with a machine for cutting chaff or the like of an elevator
fixed permanently inside to the framework of the machine in a line with the sifting
shoe and a fan also fixed permanently inside to the framework of the machine no
part or parts requiring to be disturbed when the machine is moved from place to
place the delivery arrangement being such that the chaff can be passed either into
bags or direct into the fan and therefrom as required.
Dated this 8th day of October 1895
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.