Improvements in or relating to Machines for Husking or Decorticating Grain and the like.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Oct., 1893-Accepted, 4th Nov., 1893
COMPLETE DIEUITICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Machines for Husking or
Decorticating Grain and the like.
I, EMIL RUDOLPH MÜLLER, of 24 Skiljauskaja Strasse Kiew in the Empire
of Russia, Manufacturer 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 refers to rasping-devices as used in machines for shelling grain or
leguminous plants, and my improvements in such devices relate to the construction
of a plate, consisting of a texture of figured or fashioned wires, so shaped and so
arranged that the surface of one or both sides of the plate forms a large rasp,
adapted to be employed as a substitute for the rasp-sheets used hitherto for the
same purpose.
In order to make my invention more clear, I refer to the accompanying drawing,
in which similar letters denote similar parts throughout the several views, and in
which:
Fig. 1 shows a part of my new rasp-plate in front view
Fig. 2 is a section taken on line 8-9 of Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is a section taken on line 10-11 of Fig. 1,
Fig. 4 shows a part of my new rasp-plate in back view
Fig. 5 is a section, taken on line 12-13 of Fig. 4,
Fig. 6 shows a part of a modified form of my new rasp-plate, and
Fig. 7 is a section, taken on line 14-15 of Fig. 6.
I compose my rasp-plate of steel-wires connected with each other like warp and
weft in a tissue, and I employ for the weft a wire of triangular section, cut into
pieces a a¹ of suitable length, each piece being bent like a wave-line, as shown in
Fig. 2. The wires a a' are bent prior to their connection with the warp-wires b,
the latter being, and remaining, perfectly straight, and it is to be seen herefrom,
that there is a difference between a common web and that manufactured by me.
The bent weft-wires may be connected with the warp-wires in two ways, as
illustrated in Figs. 1 and 6, or 3 and 7 respectively. In Figs. 1 and 3 the upper
sharp edges of the wires a and a' are all on the same side, so that the back-view of
the plate has the appearance shown in Figs. 4 and 5. This plate, thus, forms a
rasp but on one side, but I may use both sides of the plate as a rasp, if I arrange
the wires a a' as represented in Figs. 6 and 7. The wires a a' are alternating
here, that is to say, the working edge of one wire is directed to one side of the
plate and the working edges of the two neighbouring wires are directed to the
other side of the plate; thus, this plate may be turned and used again when
the side used first is worn.
It will be clear without further explanation, that a rasp constructed according to
my invention is far stronger and may be much longer used for shelling grain and
leguminous plants than the thin older rasp-sheets above mentioned.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A rasp-plate, consisting of a texture composed of crossed wires, the weft-wires
being provided with a sharp outer edge, for the purpose as described.
2. A rasp-plate, consisting of a texture composed of crossed wires, the weft
wires being undulated and provided with a sharp outer edge, for the purpose as
described.
3. A rasp‐plate, consisting of a texture composed of crossed wires, the weft

page_text: wires being undulated and provided with a sharp outer edge, the edges of the
weft-wires being alternately directed to both sides of the plate, for the purpose as
described.
4. A rasp-plate, consisting of a texture composed of crossed steel-wires, the wire
for the weft having triangular section and the pieces of this wire being undulated,
for the purpose as described.
5. A rasp-plate, consisting of a texture composed of crossed steel-wires, the
wire, for the weft having triangular section and the warp-wires being fashioned,
the weft-wires being undulated and the warp-wires remaining straight, for the
purpose as described.
Deted this 2nd das of Octoban 1902
EMIL RUDOLPH MÜLLER,
By Geo. Thos. Hyde,
4, Moorfields, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.