IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR TREATING COTTON SEEDS
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henri Adrien Bonneville, of the British and
Foreign Patent Offices, 18, Rue de la Chaussée d'Antin, Paris,
France, and 6, Piccadilly, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR TREATING
COTTON SEEDS." -A communication from François Antoine Edmond
Guironnet de Massas, residing at Alexandria, Egypte, Civil
Engineer.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henri Adrien Bonneville
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 21st May 1872.
I, HENRI ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent
Offices, 18, Rue de la Chaussée d'Antin, Paris, France, and 6, Piccadilly,
in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR
TREATING COTTON SEEDS," that is a communication from François Antoine
Edmond Guironnet de Massas, a person resident at Alexandria, Egypte,
Civil Engineer.

page_text: The Invention communicated to me relates to certain improvements
in machinery for separating cotton seeds from each other when com-
pressed in bales or otherwise, and also for separating cotton or fibrous
material from the seed, and cleansing the seed from the cotton fibre and
down adhering thereto, which are prejudicial to the production of oil
and oil cakes therefrom.
These improvements consist, first, in the arrangement for feeding the
apparatus in which the cotton seeds are treated by means of an
archimedean screw fitted with a fly, and placed in each recipient con-
taining the seed which communicate with each apparatus. The
apparatus in which the seed is thus carried forward consists in a
stationary cylindrical casing fitted inside the upper part with sheets
or plates of iron formed with a very rough rasping or grating surface,
and at the lower part with perforated sheet iron, and in which one or
several brushes rotate on a central axis fitted with a fly. Thus the
seed is subjected to friction and pressed by the brushes against the
rasping or grating surfaces of the sheet iron, and then fall down through
the perforations; then the seed passes through another stationary
cylindrical casing, the inner sides of which are fitted with rasping, or
grating sheet of steel, and in which a solid cylinder rotate formed with
three disks covered with an india-rubber band, upon which a rasping
or grating surface of sheet iron rests fitted with two adjusting screws,
by means of which india-rubber being pressed the sheet iron approaches
or recedes from the inner surface of the casing.
These apparatus are combined with gearing by means of which the
said apparatus can be inclined, while the frame on which they are
placed retains the same position relative to the driving strap.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Henri Adrien Bonneville in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 20th November 1872.
· TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRI
ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent Offices, 18, Rue
de la Chaussée d'Antin, Paris, France, and 6, Piccadilly, in the County
of Middlesex, Patent Agent, send greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-fifth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, Her special licence
that I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and
no others, from time to time and 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY FOR TREATING COTTON SEEDS," communicated to me by François
Antoine Edmond Guironnet de Massas, a person resident at Alexandria,
Egypt, Civil Engineer, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Henri Adrien Bonneville, 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 Henri Adrien Bonneville, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-―
The Invention communicated to me relates to certain improvements
in machinery for separating cotton seeds from each other when com-
pressed in bales or otherwise, and also for separating cotton or fibrous
material from the seed, and cleaning the seed from the cotton fibre and
down adhering thereto, which are prejudicial to the production of oil
and oil cakes therefrom.
These improvements consist, first, in the arrangement for feeding
the apparatus in which the cotton seeds are treated by means of an
archimedean screw fitted with a fly, and placed in each recipient con-
taining the seed which communicate with each apparatus. The
apparatus in which the seed is thus carried forward consists in a
stationary cylindrical casing fitted inside the upper part with sheets

page_text: or plates of iron formed with a very rough rasping or grating surface,
and at the lower part with perforated sheet iron, and in which one
or several brushes rotate on a central axis fitted with a fly. Thus
the seed subjected to friction and pressed by the brushes against the
rasping or grating surface of the sheet iron, and then fall down through
the perforations; then the seed passes through an another stationary
cylindrical casing, the inner sides of which are fitted with rasping or
grating sheets of steel, and in which a solid cylinder rotates formed
with three disks covered with an india-rubber band, upon which a
rasping or grating surface of sheet iron rests fitted with two adjusting
screws, by means of which india-rubber being pressed the sheet iron
approaches or recedes from the inner surface of the casing.
These apparatus are combined with gearing by means of which the
said apparatus can be inclined, while the frame on which they are
placed retains the same position relative to the driving strap.
Accessory parts, such as moving tables and fans, may be combined
with the machinery.
In order that the Invention may be fully understood, I shall now
proceed to describe the same more particularly, and for that purpose
refer to the accompanying Drawings, in which Fig. I. is a longitudinal
section of the first apparatus, and Fig. II. a transversal section of
several apparatus of the second kind.
In Fig. I., A is a recipient provided inside with a sliding door B
to regulate the quantity of seed introduced into the cylinder; C, helix
or spiral forming part of the central shaft D, used for introducing the
seed into the apparatus; E, E, E, upper part of the apparatus com-
posed of rasping sheet iron or other rough material adapted to the
production of a considerable amount of friction; F, F, F, lower part
composed entirely of perforated sheet iron or zinc, or partly of rasping
sheet iron and partly of perforated zinc; G, G, G, arms or cross pieces
forming part of the shaft D, D, and on which may be fixed brushes
or a leather band, according to the nature of the seed treated; H, H, H,
pinion fixed on the shaft D, D, and worked by a toothed wheel fixed
on a transversal shaft bearing on the two sides of the apparatus, the
pulleys which give this movement forming part of the transversal
shaft.

page_text: The helix or spiral C brings the seeds forward into the apparatus
where they are carried round by the movement of the brushes, and
projected against the rasping or grating interior surface of the casing
The cotton adhering to the seeds is thus removed, and the
latter are discharged through the perforations of the sheet iron. Any
seeds not sufficiently cleaned are retained in the apparatus, and undergo
a second treatment in order to effect their complete purification.
or cover.
Fig. II. represents the complete working system; A, A, are cup
chains carrying the seeds from the recipient to the passage H, H,
where they are in contact with an archimedean screw communicating
with each apparatus. C, C, C, passage carrying the seeds into the
cylinder D, the inner surface of which is covered with rasping sheet
iron or other suitable grating material. Said cylinder is fixed to the
framework of the apparatus; E, E, inner cylinder formed of wooden
or iron disks on which a sheet of iron or other material presenting
a rasping or grating surface is fixed, thus closing the cylinder, which
turns on its shaft. This sheet or plate of iron or other suitable
material is provided with a gutta percha band, which bears on the
disks, and by means of adjusting screws the rasping or grating surface
or circumference of the plate may be increased in order to leave more
or less space between the two cylinders.
The seeds carried by the cups into the passage are moved forward
by the archimedean screw into the feeding tube, and from thence pass
into the apparatus where they are submitted to the violent action of
the centrifugal force developed, which not only produces considerable
friction between the seeds themselves, but also on the rasping or grating
surface of the casing against which they are thrown.
The inner cylinder E is represented provided with brushes applied
to its surface, as in some cases they may be substituted for rasping
sheet iron. The Drawing shows the manner in which the brushes are
arranged.
The improved cleaning apparatus are used as above described in con-
nection with accessory appliances, such as shaking tables, ventilators,
or fans, and other necessary arrangements.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be carried into operation, what I claim and desire
to secure by Royal Letters Patent is,―

page_text: 1stly. The winged screw employed for the introduction of the seed
into the cleaning apparatus, as above described and represented in the
accompanying Drawings.
2dly. The improved apparatus for treating cotton seed, consisting of
a combination of cross bars provided with brushes or leather bands
and revolving within a stationary cylinder provided at its upper inner
part with a rasping or grating sheet iron or other suitable material;
the lower part of the said cylinder being formed of perforated sheet
iron or zinc; the whole substantially as herein-before described and
represented, Fig. I. of the accompanying Drawings.
3dly. The improved apparatus for treating cotton seed, consisting of
the combination of a cylinder formed of disks covered by india-rubber
bands and of sheets or plates of suitable material presenting a rasping
or grating surface arranged thereon, and made to revolve within an
outer stationary cylinder, as herein-before described with reference to
Fig. II. of the accompanying Drawings.
4thly. The gearing arrangement which allows an extremely slanting
position to be given to the apparatus without interfering with the per-
pendicular transmission necessary to keep the driving band on the
pulley, as above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of November,
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
in the year
two
of our