Improvements in Apparatus for Bagging Hops.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 15th May, 1897
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Complete Specification Left, 14th Mars, 1898-Accepted, 16th Apr.,, 1898.
PROVIDIUNAL DIMUIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Bagging Hops.
I, ALFRED HETHERINGTON, of Alton, in the County of Hants, Engineer, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
:-
In bagging hops, the hops are, usually, shovelled into the interior of a ring,
from which the bag is suspended; the hops being afterwards packed tightly down
by a piston.
The shovelling is apt to break the hops, which is objectionable and considerably
diminishes their value. My invention relates to means of delivering the hops
into the bags without risking their fracture by shovelling. For this purpose, at
one side of the ring I hinge a number of radiating plates or approximately tri-
angular shape, these plates lying flat on the floor or nearly so around half the cir-
cumference of the ring of the bagging machine. The edges of the plates overlap
each other, and their outer wider ends are' connected by radiating cords or the
like to a pull passing over an overhead pulley." The hops being rolled on to these
plates off the canvas on which they are carried, the plates are all simultaneously
pulled up so that they form a half conical funnel the hops running off from them
into the bag. Instead of plates, as above described, a semicircular sheet of canvas
or like fabric may have its circumference attached to a half-ring the ends of
which are hinged to a partition at each side of the bagging ring, and the hops
are delivered on the canvas. This on having its circumference pulled up, also
forms a half conical funnel delivering the hops into the bag.
In either case,
I fix a vertical partition on each side and at the back of the
bagging ring to prevent the hops from being scattered around the ring.
Dated this 15th day of May 1897.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.
I, ALFRED HETHERINGTON, of Alton, in the County of Hants, Engineer, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to
o be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
In bagging hops, the hops are usually shovelled into the interior of a ring,
from which the bag is suspended, the hops being afterwards packed tightly down

page_text: The shovelling is apt to break the hops, which is objectionable and considerably
diminishes their value.
My invention relates to means of delivering the hops into the bags without
risking their fracture by shovelling.
For this purpose I employ apparatus which I shall describe referring to the
accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1 is a front view, and Fig. 2 is a plan, Figs. 3 and 4 are sections shewing
the apparatus in its two conditions. At one side of the ring A I hinge a number
of radiating plates B of approximately triangular shape, these plates lying nearly
Hat on the floor around half the circumference of the ring A of the bagging
machine. The edges of the plates B overlap each other, and their outer wider
ends are connected by radiating cords C or the like to a pull passing over an over-
head pulley D. The hops being rolled on to these plates B when they are down
as in Fig. 3, off the canvas on which the hops are carried, the plates are all simul-
taneously pulled up as shewn in Fig. 4 so that they form a half conical funnel the
hops running off from them into the bag through the ring A.
In order to prevent the hops from pouring over at the sides or the back of the
ring I fix at each side of the ring a partition E along which the last of the plates B
is guided, and I fix at the back of the ring a semi-cylindrical partition F.
Instead of plates, as above described, a semi-circular sheet of canvas or like
fabric may have its circumference attached to a half ring made in sections, the
ends of which are hinged to the partitions at the sides of the bagging ring, and
the hops are delivered on the canvas while it lies on the floor. This, on having
its circumference pulled up, also forms a half conical funnel delivering the hops
into the bag.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is:-
Apparatus for bagging hops, constructed and operating substantially as described
with reference to the accompanying drawings.
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ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.