An Improved Machine for Decorticating Ramie.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Mar., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 10th July, 1891-Accepted, 15th Aug., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Machine for Decorticating Ramie.
I, PIERRE FAURE commonly known as Pierre Paulin Faure of 5 Place du
Champ de Foire, Limoges, France, Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to an improved machine for decorticating ramie.
The machine, which may be mounted on wheels or fixed, is represented in the
accompanying drawings, forming part of this Specification, wherein
Figure 1 is a side elevation and Figure 2 a front elevation of the machine.
Figure 3 is an elementary view of the operative part.
The same letters of reference denote the same parts in all the figures.
X is the beater drum mounted in bearings at the upper part of the machine.
C C are plain or fluted feed rollers. Y₁ is a concave or breast. T feed table from
which the stalks are supplied to the decorticating drum. M is a pulley around
which passes a carrier cord or belt which also passes around another pulley placed
at a distance from the machine for which purpose one of the travelling wheels R is
removed and the other wheel is sunk in the ground so as to enable the machine
frame B to rest thereon. The pulley M is driven by worm gear r. P is the driving
pulley. P¹ P2 P3 P4 are the pulleys of the belts driving the worm shaft and feed
rollers C C which are geared together by pinions e e¹. t are the horse shafts.
The other parts of the machine will be readily understood from the drawings.
The stalks to be decorticated are placed on table T, seized by the rollers C C',
and presented upon the concave Y¹ to the action of the beater drum X whereby the
woody portion is broken, separated from the external portion, and discharged in
the direction a b, Figure 3, while the fibrous tress or strip hangs down as shewn
at c d. At the moment of release from the nip of the feed rollers, the end of the
tress or strip is projected into space so as to fall athwart the carrier band or cord K
which travels at such a speed that the fibrous tresses will be deposited thereon side
by side, as shewn in Figure 2. This automatic delivery belt may be replaced by
an apron by which the strips would be delivered either automatically or
otherwise.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Machine for Decorticating Ramie.
I, PIERRE FAURE commonly known as Pierre Paulin Faure of 5, Place du
Champ de Foire, Limoges, France, 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 :-
My invention relates to an improved machine for decorticating ramie and other
textile plants.
The machine, which may be mounted on wheels or fixed, is represented in the
accompanying drawings, forming part of this Specification, wherein
Figure 1 is a side elevation and Figure 2 a front elevation of the machine.
Figure 3 is an elementary view of the operative part.
The same letters of reference denote the same parts in all the figures.

page_text: X is the beater drum mounted in bearings at the upper part of the machine,
CC are plain. or fluted feed rollers, Y¹ is a concave or breast, T feed table from
which the stalks are supplied to the decorticating drum, M is a pulley around which
passes a carrier cord or belt which also passes around another pulley placed at a
distance from the machine for which purpose one of the travelling wheels R is
removed and the other wheel R¹ is sunk in the ground so as to enable the machine
frame B to rest thereon. The pulley M is driven by worm gear » v. P is the
driving pulley, P1 P2 P3 P4 are the pulleys of the belts driving the worm shaft and
feed rollers CC which are geared together by pinions e, t are the horse shafts.
The other parts of the machine will be readily understood from the drawings.
The stalks to be decorticated are placed on table T, seized by the rollers C C¹
and presented upon the concave Y₁ to the action of the beater drum X whereby the
woody portion is broken, separated from the external portion, and discharged in
the direction ab Figure 3, while the fibrous tress or strip hangs down as shewn
at c d. This novel method of dividing and separating the woody from the fibrous
portion of the stalks constitutes one of the characteristic features of the invention.
At the moment of release from the nip of the feed rollers, the end of the tress or
strip is projected into space so as to fall athwart the carrier band or cord K which
travels at such a speed that the fibrous tresses will be deposited thereon side by
side, as shewn at S'in Figure 2. This automatic delivery belt may be replaced by
an apron by which the strips would be delivered either automatically or otherwise.
The machine may be arranged and combined in various ways while still retaining
the same mode of operation.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is ;-
1st. In a machine for decorticating ramie and other textile plants, the com-
bination of a beater drum, a concave and feed rollers arranged substantially as
described with reference to Figures 1 and 3 whereby to effect the continuous
separation of the woody from the fibrous elements of the stalks, as specified.
2nd. The automatic carrier for the decorticated fibrous tresses movable in a
direction parallel to the axis of the beater drum, substantially as described and
illustrated in Figures 2 and 3.
3rd. The combination and arrangement of parts constituting the improved
machine for decorticating ramie and other textile plants as herein described and
illustrated in Figures 1, 2, and 3.
Doted this 10th dow of Lul… 1001
Dated this 10th
h day of July
1001
P. FAURE.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Patent Agents.