IMPROVE- MENTS IN MACHINERY FOR WASHING POTATOES AND OTHER VEGETABLES
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Francis Richmond, Henry Chandler, and James
Gadsby Richmond, all of Salford, in the County of Lancaster, Agri-
cultural Implement Makers, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Francis Richmond, Henry
Chandler, and James Gadsby Richmond at the Office of the Commis-
sioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 18th March 1863.
We, FRANCIS RICHMOND, HENRY CHANDLER, and JAMES GADSBY RICH-
MOND, all of Salford, in the County of Lancaster, Agricultural Implement
Makers, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MACHINERY FOR WASHING POTATOES AND OTHER VEGETABLES," to be as
follows:-
Our Invention consists in an improved mode of constructing the cylinders
or drums in which potatoes or other vegetables are washed; the cylinder or
drum is formed with a cast-iron or other frame furnished with trunnions sup-
ported in bearings fixed to the ends of the trough containing water as usual;
one half of the cylinder or drum is loose, and it is provided with handles by
which it is easily removed from the frame in which it fits, and the other half
is hinged to the frame, the two halves being connected together and to the
frame by a spring catch or otherwise. The circumference and ends of the
cylinder or drum (or the circumference only) are made with strips or bars of

page_text: galvanized iron or other suitable material. By this means the loose part of
the cylinder or drum is easily taken out to remove the potatoes or other
vegetables when washed, and to replace a fresh supply to be washed, and in
some cases the machinery may be supplied with two loose portions to save
time in removing the washed and supplying the unwashed vegetables.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Francis Richmond, Henry Chandler, and James Gadsby
Richmond in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 17th September
1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, FRANCIS
RICHMOND, HENRY CHANDLER, and JAMES GADSBY RICHMOND, all of Salford, in
the County of Lancaster, Agricultural Implement Makers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters.
Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of March, 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 us,
the said Francis Richmond, Henry Chandler, and James Gadsby Richmond,
Her special license that we, the said Francis Richmond, Henry Chandler,
and James Gadsby Richmond, our executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as we, the said Francis Richmond, Henry Chandler, and
James Gadsby Richmond, our executors, administrators, and 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 MACHINERY FOR WASHING POTATOES AND OTHER VEGETABLES," upon
the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Francis Richmond, Henry
Chandler, and James Gadsby Richmond, our executors or administrators, by
an instrument in writing under our, or their, or one of our or their hands
and seals, should particularly 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 we, the said Francis Richmond, Henry Chandler,
and James Gadsby Richmond, do hereby declare the nature of our said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be par-

page_text: ticularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement (that
is to say):-
Our Invention consists in an improved mode of constructing the cylinders
or drums in which potatoes or other vegetables are washed; the cylinder or
drum is formed with a cast-iron or other frame furnished with trunnions sup-
ported in bearings fixed to the ends of the trough containing water as usual; one
half of the cylinder or drum is loose, and it is provided with handles by which
it is easily removed from the frame in which it fits, and the other half is
hinged to the frame, the two halves being connected together and to the frame
by a spring catch or otherwise. The circumference and ends of the cylinder
or drum (or the circumference only) are made with strips or bars of
galvanized iron or other suitable material. By this means the loose part of
the cylinder or drum is easily taken out to remove the potatoes or other
vegetables when washed, and to replace a fresh supply to be washed, and in
some cases the machinery may be supplied with two loose portions to save
time in removing the washed and supplying the unwashed vegetables.
And in order that our Invention may be fully understood, we will proceed
to describe the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, reference being had to the
figures and letters marked thereon.
Fig. 1 is an elevation in transverse section of our improved machinery for
washing potatoes and other vegetables; Fig. 2 is a side elevation partly in
section; and Fig. 3, a plan of the same with the lid of the cylinder removed.
a, a, are the standards, and 6 the trough, which are made as usual; c is a
cast-iron frame, the trunnions of which revolve in bearings provided for them
in the standards a; d is the lower half of the cylinder or drum which fits on
projections cast in the swing frame c; this half of the cylinder or drum has
handles e, e, by which it can easily be lifted out of the swing frame; f is the
upper half of the cylinder or drum, which is hinged to snugs cast on the swing
frame, and when the cylinder or drum is closed, as shewn in Figs. 1 and 2,
the two halves are held together by a split pin, as shewn in Fig. 3, or in any
other convenient manner. The circumference and part of the ends of the
cylinder or drum are made of strips of galvanized iron rivetted to end plates, as
shewn in the Drawings, or otherwise. When the potatoes or other vegetables
are in the cylinder or drum, it is turned round in the trough containing the
water by the handle c';, when the vegetables are sufficiently cleansed the lid f
is opened, as shewn in dotted lines in Fig. 2; the lower half d of the cylinder
or drum is then lifted out of the swing frame c by the handles e, and another
one with a fresh supply of vegetables to be washed is put in its place, or, if
there is only one loose half to the machine, the same half is put back into tho

page_text: swing frame after the clean vegetables have been removed and a fresh supply
has been put in. By this means the operation of washing vegetables can be
greatly accelerated and labor economized.
Having thus stated the nature of our Invention, and described the manner
of performing the same, we declare that we claim as our improvements in
machinery for washing potatoes and other vegetables the making of the drum
or cylinder in two halves, one of which is capable of being removed from the
machine for the purpose described; and we also claim the constructing the
drums or cylinders of machines for washing vegetables of strips or bars of
galvanized iron, as shewn and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Chandler, have hereto set my hand
and seal, this Sixteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
HENRY CHANDLER. (L.S.)