AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR CUTTING OR SLICING WHEAT AND OTHER GRAIN
Year: 1885

page_text: I FERDINAND LANGE of Keil in the German Empire Engineer do hereby declare
the nature of my said invention for "AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR CUTTING OR
SLICING WHEAT AND OTHER GRAIN" to be as follows:-
This invention relates to certain improvements in apparatus for cutting or
reducing grain to particles or slices that may be further treated by grinding or
rolling in the process of making flour.
The special apparatus according to this invention consists of a vertical rotating
shaft mounted in an adjustable foot-step with screw elevator and hand wheel for
raising and lowering the said shaft in its bearings.
Said shaft carries upon the upper end thereof a disc with adjustable cutters set
therein against inclined beds thereof and projecting therethrough to the upper
surface of the said disc which said disc and cutters are arranged immediately below
the perforated bottom of a grain receiving vessel borne upon the framing of the
machine, said perforations in the bottom of the said receiving vessel being of size
to allow of the grain in upright position passing into said perforations and
projecting therethrough to expose the extremities of said grain to the cutting
action of the knives of the under rotating disc, openings being provided in said
cutter disc for carrying away the sheared off portions or slices of the so cut grain.
The upper end of the rotating shaft which carries the cutter disc is passed
through the perforated bottom of the grain receiving vessel and has mounted
thereon a series of arms carrying rakes or spreaders for facilitating the distribution
of the corn into the perforations of the bottom of the grain receiving vessel.
In operation the shaft will be elevated or lowered by its screw bearings to bring
the cutters nearer to or further from the perforated bottom through which the
grain protrudes to present same to the cutting action and so to regulate the cutting
of the grain into finer or coarser slices.
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The grain is then brought or fed into the grain receiving vessel and the shaft
carrying the cutter disc and rakes will be driven by strap and pulley or gearing as
convenient and the cutting operation will go on continuously.
This construction provides for positively regulating and varying the thickness of
the slices.

page_text: I FERDINAND LANGE of Kiel in the German Empire 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 :-
This invention relates to certain improvements in apparatus for cutting or
reducing grain to particles or slices that may be further treated by grinding or
rolling in the process of making flour.
The accompanying sheet of drawings illustrates the invention. Fig. 1 of the
drawings is a front view of the machine; Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation and Fig. 3
is a plan view of Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is a plan of the cutter disc and Fig. 5 is on
enlarged scale a section of the grain receiver with perforated bottom plate, and 1
cutter disc in action.
The special apparatus according to this invention consists of a rotating shaft a
mounted in an adjustable footstep 6 with screw elevator and hand wheel w for
raising and lowering the said shaft in its bearings.
This shaft a carries upon the upper end thereof a disc m with adjustable cutters c
set therein against inclined beds thereof and projecting therethrough to the upper
surface of the said disc m, which said disc and cutters are arranged immediately
below the perforated bottom r of a grain receiving vessel P borne upon the framing
of the machine, said perforations e in the bottom of the said receiving vessel being
of size to allow of the grain in upright position passing into said perforations and
projecting therethrough to expose the extremities of said grain to the cutting
action of the knives c of the under rotating disc, openings i being provided in said
cutter disc for carrying away the sheared off portions or slices of the so cut grain.
The upper end of the rotating shaft a which carries the cutter disc is passed
through the perforated bottom of the grain receiving vessel P and has imounted
thereon a series of arms k carrying rakes or spreaders d for facilitating the
distribution of the corn into the perforations of the bottom of the grain receiving
vessel.
In operation, the shaft a will be elevated or lowered by its screw bearings to
bring the cutters nearer to, or farther from the perforated bottom r through which
the grain protrudes to present same to the cutting action and so to regulate the
cutting of the grain into finer or coarser slices.
The grain is then brought or fed into the grain receiving vessel. P and the shaft
carrying the cutter disc and rakes will be driven by strap and pulley or gearing as
convenient and the cutting operation go on continuously.
This construction provides for positively regulating and varying the thickness of
the slices.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is :-
In machines for cutting and slicing wheat and other grain, the combination of a
vertical adjustable shaft a, carrying at its upper part a cutter disc, with a vessel P
for receiving the grain, said vessel being furnished with perforations at its bottom
to allow the grain to pass through in upright position aided thereto by a rake
attached to the upper end of shaft a passed through the bottom of the receiving
vessel as herein set forth and shown by the drawings.
Dated this 10th f
A 1000
WALTER A. BARLOW,
Applicant's Agent.