IMPROVEMENTS IN THE BEATERS USED IN SCUTCHERS OR OTHER SIMILAR MACHINES
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
I WILLIAM RICHARDSON of the firm of Messrs Platt Brothers and Company,
Limited of Hartford Works Oldham in the County of Lancaster Engineer do
hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN THE BEATERS
USED IN SCUTCHERS OR OTHER SIMILAR MACHINES to be as follows:-
.
My invention relates to the beaters of scutchers or other similar machines and
consists in attaching to each blade or bar of the said beaters a plate or strip of
steel or other suitable material which plate or strip of steel or other suitable
material I place in a groove or recess formed along the blade or bar aforesaid―The
said plate or strip I secure to the blade or bar above mentioned by riveting. or
other suitable means-The leading edge of the aforesaid plate or strip of steel or
other suitable material I form with serrations or teeth.
When the serrations or teeth of the above named plate or strip become worn or
injured such serrations or teeth may be sharpened or a fresh plate or strip may be
substituted for that above referred to without alteration in or injury to the beater
before named.
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page_text: I WILLIAM RICHARDSON of the firm of Messieurs Platt Brothers and Company
Limited of Hartford Works, Oldham in the County of Lancaster Engineer do
hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN THE BEATERS
USED IN SCUTCHERS OR OTHER SIMILAR MACHINES 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 the beaters of scutchers or other similar machines and
consists in attaching to each blade or bar of the said beaters a plate or strip of
steel or other suitable material which plate or strip of steel or other suitable
material I place in a groove or recess formed along the blade or bar aforesaid.
.
In order that my invention may be fully understood and carried into effect I
will now proceed to describe the same by reference to the drawing hereunto
annexed in which drawing Fig 1 is an end view of and Fig 2 a front view of a
portion of a beater of a scutcher or other similar machine constructed according to
one portion of my invention. At a, b, c, are the blades or bars secured as usual to
the arms d, e, f respectively As the blades or bars a, b, c, are similar in
construction I will for convenience confine my description to one only of such
'blades or bars a, b, c. The beater aforesaid revolves in the direction of the
arrow A. Along the leading edge of the blade or bar a I form a groove or recess
by planing or other convenient means in which groove or recess I place a plate or
strip g of steel or other suitable material. The plate or strip g of steel or other
suitable material I secure to the blade or bar a by means of rivets h or in any
other suitable and convenient manner. When the front or leading edge gt becomes
worn or injured by use the plate or strip g may be sharpened or a fresh plate or
strip may be substituted for the plate or strip g without alteration in or injury to
the blade or bar a. By placing the plate or strip g of steel or other suitable
material in the recess formed along the blade or bar a, the said plate or strip g is
firmly retained in position upon the blade or bar a.
In some cases I propose to form the plate or strip of metal secured to the blade
or bar of the beater with serrations or teeth as shown in Figs 3, 4, 5 Fig 3 being a
cross section of one of the blades or bars of a beater Fig 4 a front view of a portion
thereof and Fig 5 a view of Fig 3 when looking in the direction of the arrow B.
At k is the blade or bar of the beater in which blade or bar k is formed a groove-
within such groove-I place the plate or strip of steel or other suitable material l
which plate or strip of steel, or other suitable material I form with serrations or
teeth m pointing in the direction of the arrow C which is the direction in which
the beater revolves. The plate or strip of steel or other suitable material I secure
to the blade or bar k of the beater by means of rivets n, one only of which is
shown, or by any other convenient and suitable means. When the serrations or
teeth m, become worn or injured such serrations or teeth m, may be sharpened or
a fresh plate or strip of steel or other suitable material may be substituted for the
one above referred to without alteration in or injury to the beater before named.
The serrations or teeth m, may be formed in or upon the plate or strip l, of steel or
other suitable material by any suitable and convenient means.
Fig 6 is a cross section and Fig 7 a view looking in the direction of the arrow D
of Fig 6, of one of the blades or bars of a beater provided with a strip or plate of
steel or other suitable material, in a manner similar to that previously described in
reference to Figs 3 4. 5 but having serrations or teeth o of finer pitch than those
previously shown,

page_text: By means of the arrangements hereinbefore described I am enabled to keep the
leading edges of the blades or bars of beaters of scutchers or other similar machines
in a better condition for acting upon the material operated upon by the beaters
aforesaid than has hitherto been possible.
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
Attaching a plate or strip of steel or other suitable material to the bars or blades
of beaters used in scutchers or other similar machines substantially in the manner
and for the purposes hereinbefore described and shown in reference to and in and
by the drawing hereunto annexed.