MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR TREAT TREATING AND DRESSING RICE
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Isidore Charles Clöet, of Ghent, in the Kingdom of
Belgium, and of the Office for Patents, 77, Chancery Lane, in the County
of Middlesex, for the Invention of "MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR TREAT-
Sealed the 1st January 1858, and dated the 12th September 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Isidore Charles Clöet at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
12th September 1857.
I, ISIDORE CHARLES CLOET, of Ghent, in the Kingdom of Belgium, and of
the Office for Patents, 77, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "MACHINERY OR APPA-
RATUS FOR TREATING AND DRESSING RICE," to be as follows (that is to say):-
My Invention, which has reference to machinery or apparatus for more
effectually cleansing and otherwise dressing rice, so as to render it of greater
value for commercial and other purposes than hitherto, consists,-
Firstly, in the construction and employment of two or more cylindrical
vessels or chambers arranged in couples, provided with a communicating shaft
actuated by cranks or otherwise, so as to impart a reciprocating motion to a
horizontal stirrer or toothed frame upon which the rice rests for the purpose
of being subjected to trituration, a vertical stirrer being employed at the same.
time, by which a double triturating action is produced; a self-acting feeding
apparatus being made use of for the purpose of supplying the apparatus and
discharging the contents thereof.
Secondly, of a conical apparatus with an inner cone furnished with revolving

page_text: curvilinear-formed brushes arranged obliquely on the periphery thereof, for the
purpose of dusting the rice.
And, thirdly, of an apparatus for steaming the rice for the purpose of
improving the condition and appearance thereof, and rendering it better for
being kept or preserved, consisting of a hopper or vessel furnished with a
perforated outlet pipe through which steam is caused to pass, and the flow of
the same regulated according to the quantity of rice passed through and
discharged from the same.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Isidore Charles Clöet in the Great Seal Patent Office, on
the 12th March 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ISIDORE
CHARLES CLOET, of Ghent, in the Kingdom of Belgium, and of the Office for
Patents, 77; Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twenty-first-year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Isidore Charles Cloet, Her special licence that I, the said Isidore Charles
Cloet, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Isidore Charles Cloet, my 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 "MACHINERY OR
APPARATUS FOR TREATING AND DRESSING RICE," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Isidore Charles Cloet, my executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under my or their or one of 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 I, the said Isidore Charles Cloet, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, and the Drawings therein referred to (that is to say):-

page_text: My Invention which has reference to machinery or apparatus for more
effectually cleansing and otherwise dressing rice for the purpose of detaching
the husk and other impurities, so as to improve the quality thereof, and render
it of greater value for commercial and other purposes than hitherto, consists,―
Firstly, in the construction and employment of two or more cylindrical
vessels or chambers arranged side by side, provided with a communicating shaft
in such manner as to be actuated simultaneously by cranks or otherwise, and
impart a reciprocating motion to a horizontal stirrer or toothed frame upon
which the rice rests for the purpose of being subjected to trituration, a vertical
stirrer or pestle being employed at the same time by which a double triturat-
ing action is produced, and a self-acting feeding apparatus made use of for the
purpose of supplying the apparatus and discharging the contents thereof, which
is subsequently passed through a brush machine, as heretofore, for which
purpose I prefer a conical apparatus, furnished internally with curvilinear-
formed brushes.
.
And secondly, of an apparatus for steaming or glazing the rice, consisting of
a hopper or vessel fitted with a perforated outlet pipe through which steam is
caused to pass, and the flow of the same regulated according to the quantity of
rice passed through and discharged from the apparatus, the rice being thus
rendered better for being kept or preserved, and the condition and appearance
thereof greatly improved.
But in order that my said Invention may be more fully understood and
readily carried into effect, I now proceed to describe it by the aid of the
accompanying Drawings, reference being had to the letters and figures thereon
marked (that is to say :-
Fig. 1, Sheet 1, represents a vertical front view of my improved machinery
or apparatus for pounding rice; Fig. 2, a side elevation. Fig. 3, Sheet 2, a
detached view of one of the pounders, showing the mode of working the
valves; Fig. 4, a side view of the apparatus, showing a transverse vertical
section of one of the pounders, and the other with a portion of the outer case
or cylinder removed for the purpose of bringing the pounding and triturating
action of the apparatus in connection with the rice more thoroughly to view...
Fig. 5, a top or plan view of one of the pounders with the lid or cover removed;
Fig. 6, a horizontal section taken through the dotted line in Fig. 4. Fig. 7, a
top or plan view of the metallic triturating chamber or mortar. Fig. 8, Sheet 3,
a top or plan view of the apparatus; Fig. 9, a detached front view of a portion
of one of the pounders, showing the mode of working the discharge valve in
connection with a horizontal screw chamber for conveying the rice to the
apparatus for lifting or removing the same; Fig. 10, a side view of the same;

page_text: Fig. 11, a top or plan view with the upper part of the screw chamber removed.
Fig. 12, a side elevation of the eccentric rods or levers, for actuating the feed
and regulating valves; Fig. 13, a front elevation of the same. Fig. 14,
Sheet 4, a sectional side elevation of my apparatus for steaming or glazing the
rice; Fig. 15, a top or plan view thereof; Fig. 16, a vertical side view, partly
in section, of a rectangular chamber or hopper for containing the rice, and
supplying the same to the steaming apparatus; Fig. 17, a horizontal section
of the same. Fig. 18, Sheet 5, a front view of a spout and hopper for dis-
charging the rice from the steaming apparatus; Fig. 19, a sectional side view
thereof; Fig. 20, a top or plan view. Fig. 21, a horizontal section taken
through the dotted line 1, 1, in Fig. 19; Fig. 22, a corresponding view taken
through the dotted line 2, 2; Fig. 28, an underneath view of the hopper.
Fig. 24, a side view of a pair of scales forming the base of the apparatus upon
which the sack rests for the purpose of being filled from the discharge hopper,
and the rice weighed in the usual manner. In each Figure the same letters
of reference denote similar corresponding parts.
A, A, metallic triturating chamber or mortar; B, B, cylindrical case or
jacket formed of wood or otherwise mounted vertically upon and secured to the
triturating chamber or mortar through the medium of the flanges C, C, as
represented; D, D, metallic hoops for binding and securing the staves of
which the cylindrical jackets are formed; E, E, lid or cover; F, F, regulating
chamber or hopper formed in the upper portion of the cylindrical case or
jacket, in which the rice first enters for supplying the apparatus; G, G, shoot
or spout for conducting the rice from a loft, or otherwise into the chamber or
hopper aforesaid; H, H, valve for admitting and stopping the supply of rice
to the hopper I, I, alternating sun valve for regulating the supply to be
operated upon in the triturating chamber; J, J, trunnion centre, upon which
the same turns in connection with the bottom of the hopper; K, K, cross
head or bearing stay through which the stem or shaft of the pestle works, and
by which it is kept in a vertical position; L, L, stirrer or pestle; M, M,
horizontal triturating stirrer or toothed frame; N, N, projecting teeth or lines
secured to the upper and lower surfaces of the same; 0, 0, rod passing hori-
zontally through the upper portion of the triturating chamber or mortar in
connection with the toothed frame or stirrer, for the purpose of giving motion
to the same direct from the engine; P, P, concentric cutting grooves or
channels formed on the inner surface of the triturating chamber or mortar, for
the purpose of presenting a continuous series of acute angular edges to the
rice under operation; Q, Q, bearings, in which the said horizontal rod slides
for the purpose of communicating a rapid alternating movement to the toothed

page_text: frame stirrer; R, R, discharge valve, situated in the lower portion of the
triturating chamber, immediately beneath the vertical pestle or stirrer, through
which the rice when sufficiently acted upon is liberated; S, S, rod, for actu-
ating the valve; T, T, fixed stay or guide, for securing a vertical downward
movement of the same; U, U, outlet pipe or passage, through which the rice
is conveyed to the screw chamber V, V, for being removed; W, W, longi-
tudinal screw, for passing the rice from the pounders to the rising apparatus
or lift; X, X, adjusting standard lever, for giving motion to the discharge
valve through, the medium of the counterbalance rod; Y, toothed rack and
segment movement, Y', and segment shaft Y2; Z, Z, speed wheel or motion
pulley; Z', shaft, on which the same is keyed; Z³, pendant bearings secured
to the flooring above; a and a¹, mitre wheel and pinion, receiving motion from
the shaft of the speed pulley, and communicating the same to the vertical
spindle or shaft b, b; c, c, endless worm or screw, firmly keyed to the shaft
b, b, for transmitting rotatory motion to the lappet or cam shaft d, d, com-
municating with and actuating the valves through the medium of the screw
wheel e, e, as shewn; ff, cams or tappets mounted upon the shaft d, d, so as
to revolve in connection with it, and give an alternating motion to the valves,
through the medium of the stud or pin movement g, g, secured to the rack
rod h, h, lower rack rod h³, connecting link lever motion i, i, counter-
balance rod Y, and adjusting standard lever X; j and j, reacting balance
weights and wheels, for returning the sun valve to its former position; k, k,
vertical pillars or columns, supporting the shaft l, l, upon which the re-
acting balance wheels are mounted; m, m, bracket standards secured to
the same, forming the bearings in which the shaft m¹ of the connecting
link lever motion works; n, n, friction rollers, for directing and maintaining
the racks against the pinion o, on the shaft of the reacting wheel j¹, and the
segment Y¹; p, p, motion shaft, mounted horizontally in suitable standard
bearings q, q, in which the same revolves; 1, r, fast and loose pulley, for giving
motion to the same through the medium of steam machinery or other motive
power; s, s, fly wheel; t, t, single-throw crank, keyed to the shaft p; u, u,
vertical slot motion slide, to which the horizontal rod O is secured in such
manner as to communicate a reciprocating motion thereto, through the rotatory
action of the crank; v, v, slot or grove, in which the same works; w, w, bed
or frame, in which the same is formed; x, x, plynth or base plate of the engine;
y, y, nuts and bolts; z, z, plynth or foundation, upon which the apparatus is
mounted or secured; 2³, the rice. A, a, hopper or vessel, through which the
rice passes for the purpose of being steamed or glazed; B, a, cone of wire
gauze or other suitable perforated material placed concentrically within the said

page_text: hopper, so as to admit of the rice in its descent being dispersed over its
surface, and readily acted upon by the steam which flows in small jets from
the perforated outlet pipe C, a; D, a, steam pipe; E, a, pipe, for discharging
the condensed steam; F, a, brackets, for supporting the perforated cone;
G, a, escape pipe, for the discharge of the waste steam; H, a, funnel, tube, or
pipe, through which the rice descends to the lower discharging or valve hopper
I, a; J, a, upper chamber or hopper supplied with rice, for the purpose of
feeding the steaming or glazing apparatus, furnished with a shelving base or
bottom K, a, for directing the rice to the feed pipe L, a; M, a, wall of the
mill, or otherwise; N, a, valve, for discharging the rice when finished from
the lower hopper to the bag O, a, or other receptacle; P, a, fixed side grooves, in
which the valve works; Q, a, brackets or wall stays for supporting the lower
hopper; R, a, base plate and scales, upon which the bag rests, and the contents
thereof are weighed.
As the treatment or mode of dressing rice, during the several processes to
which it has hitherto been subjected, for the purpose of removing the outer
shells or pellicles, is too well known to require further explanation, it may be
only necessary for me to observe that, in operating upon the rice by my machi-
nery, I cause the rice to be submitted to a double triturating action, through the
medium of the vertical and horizontal stirrers, as aforesaid, for the purpose of
facilitating the removal of the husks, shells, or pellicles, and the surface of the
said rice subsequently exposed to the action of stean, sufficiently only to cause
the surface to be dressed or glazed, for the purpose of preserving the same, and
giving it a more saleable appearance than hitherto. It may be also necessary
to remark, that the rice, after passing the shelling stone, pounders, and other-
wise in connection with my improved mill, patented by me, June 30th 1857,
is placed in the chamber or receiving hopper J, a, Fig. 16, formed in the
upper story or head of the mill, from which it passes, as aforesaid, into the
steaming chamber A, a, contained in an intermediate story, and from thence,
after passing slowly through the same, and being acted upon by the steam,
descends into the valve hopper I, a, Fig. 18, in the lower story of the mill,
from which it is removed in a finished state, as above described.
Having now fully described and ascertained the nature of this my said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed and carried
into effect, I would have it clearly understood that I do not intend to confine
myself to the precise details, herein-before described, as the same might be
varied without departing from the general principle of this my said Invention,
but that which I do claim as new, and of my said Invention is, the general
construction and employment of the self-acting double triturating apparatus

page_text: or pounders, together with the process of steaming and discharging the rice in
the manner and for the purposes herein-before set forth and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Isidore Charles Cloet, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Eighth day of March, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
ISIDORE CHARLES CLOET, Ingr. (L.S.)