and Treating the Parings or Cuttings from the same.
Year: 1885

page_text: and Treating the Parings or Cuttings from the same.
We, JAMES DOWNS and JOHN CAMPBELL THOMPSON, both of Old Foundry, Hull
in the County of York, Engineers, do hereby declare the nature of our invention
for "IMPROVED MACHINERY FOR PARING OIL-CAKES AND SIMILAR SUBSTANCES AND
TREATING THE PARINGS OR CUTTINGS FROM THE SAME to be as follows:-
"
Oil-cakes when removed from the press are trimmed or pared by hand or
machine power, the parings being crushed over again and so worked up into cake.
For this purpose they require to be reduced to meal, which is at present done by a
set of edge stones or other similar contrivance, this meal being then placed in the
kettle or heater, from which this process is supplied with seed.
According to our present invention we effect the paring or cutting of the oil-
cakes or similar substances and the crushing or pulverising of the parings or
trimmings in one and the same machine, by combining with the paring machine,
as at present constructed, apparatus for crushing or pulverising the parings arranged
as follows.
We fix or form on the delivery end of the trough that receives the parings a
cylindrical casing communicating with the trough by an aperture at the upper
part of one end of the casing, so that the parings delivered into the trough from
the cutting machine, are fed by the screw or worm of the trough into the said end
of the casing. In the said casing is a shaft, driven at a quick speed from the main
shaft of the machine and having upon it a number of radial cutting blades, that
revolve in contact with a series of fixed blades projecting from each side of the
casing, which has lateral projections in which the said blades are secured in a
removeable manner, the two sets of blades being arranged and operating in a similar
manner to those in sausage machines of known construction, so that the parings
introduced from the trough as above described are acted upon by the cutters so as
to become effectually pulverised, being at the same time fed forward towards a
delivery aperture at the other end of the casing.
The beforementioned screw or worm in the trough may be arranged to assist the
crushing apparatus by reducing the parings in size to a certain extent before
entering the pulverizer; for this purpose the screw blade is made to work against

page_text: a series of knives fixed to bosses in the trough. The shaft of the worm or screw
receives its motion at a reduced' speed by means of gearing from the shaft of the
pulverizer.
In some cases we pass the crushed material as it comes from the pulverizer into
the crushing rolls together with fresh seed, for the purpose of further reducing and
mixing them.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.
Improved Machinery for Paring Oil-cakes and similar substances
and Treating the Parings or Cuttings from the same.
We, JAMES DOWNS, and JOHN CAMPBELL THOMPSON, both of Old Foundry, Hull
in the County of York, Engineer, 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 :-
Oil-cakes when removed from the press are trimmed or pared by hand or
machine power, the parings being crushed over again and so worked up into cakes.
For this purpose they require to be reduced to meal, which is at present done by a
set of edge stones or other similar contrivance, this meal being then placed in the
kettle or heater, from which this press is supplied with seed.
According to our present invention we effect the paring or cutting of the oil-cakes
or similar substances and the crushing or pulverising of the parings or trimmings
in one and the same machine, by combining with the paring machine, as at
present constructed, apparatus for crushing or pulverising the parings arranged as
shewn by the accompanying drawings. Fig. 1 is a longitudinal section and Figs. 2
and 3 are respectively side and end views of apparatus according to our invention
applied at the delivery end of the trough that receives the parings. Figs. 4 and 5
are front views of the fixed and revolving cutters respectively.
We fix or form on the delivery end of the trough A that receives the parings a
cylindrical casing B communicating with the trough by an aperture C at the upper
part of one end of the casing so that the parings delivered into the trough A from
the cutting machine, are fed by the screw or worm D of the trough into the
Casing B. In this casing is a shaft E driven at a quick speed from the main shaft
of the machine and having upon it a number of radial cutting blades F, that
revolve in contact with a series of fixed blades G projecting from each side of the
casing, which has lateral projections in which the said blades are secured in a
removable manner, the two sets of blades being arranged and operating in a similar

page_text: manner to those in sausage machines of known construction so that the parings
introduced from the trough A as above described are acted upon by the cutters so
as to become effectually pulverised, being at the same time fed forwards towards
a delivery aperture H at the other end of the casing.
The interior periphery of the casing B being formed with projections corre
sponding with the positions occupied by the fixed blades G, the revolving cutters F
are guided in the hollows between these projections. The blades G are inserted
through slits in the sides of the casing B as shewn in Fig. 2 and their concave
ends bear against the shaft E. They are held in position by cover plates K. bolted
on the casing.
In some cases we pass the crushed material as it comes from the pulverizer into
the crushing rolls together with fresh seed, for the purpose of further reducing and
mixing them.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is
In combination with a machine for paring oil cakes and similar substances, &
casing fitted with stationary blades between which cutters revolve, substantially as
and for the purpose herein set forth.