Improvements in Machines for Cleaning Intestines.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 28th June. 1887.
Specification Accepted, 2nd Sept., 1887.
[Communicated from abroad by Sigmund OppenheIMER, of the City and State
of New York, United States of America.]
Improvements in Machines for Cleaning Intestines.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine Lake and Co., Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, 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 a machine primarily designed to be used in cleaning beef-
intestines in order to prepare them for various commercial uses.
The machine may
also be used for cleaning tripe and some other animal products.
The said invention consists in the construction and combination of parts as herein-
after set forth.
In the accompanying drawings
Figure 1 is a plan.
Figure 2 is a side elevation.
Figure 3 is a view shewing the devices for driving the reel from the main shaft.
Figure 4 is an end view.
Figure 5 is an end view of the reel.
Figure 6 is a vertical section of the reel.
Figure 7 is a view shewing one of the excentric levers used for holding the sliding
frame in place.
Figure 8 is a plan of the main frame, somewhat reduced in size.
Figure 9 is a vertical section of one of the brushes.
Figure 10 is a section on line c, a figure 1.
Figure 11 is an end view of a portion of a machine shewing a modification of this
invention.
A represents the main frame of the machine.
B is a portion of the main frame somewhat elevated above the other parts as
hown.

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puney on the spart.
T is a belt which drives the shaft. E.
U is a belt which is crossed, and drives the shaft E'.
V is a chain on the sprocket wheels O, P.
The operation of the machine is as follows
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One end of each intestine which is to be cleaned is to be passed in between the
brushes, which can be readily done from their outer ends, there being an opening
between the arms, CC as shewn in figures 8 and 10. The intestine is to be carried
up by the operator to the reel N, where one end may be passed to one of the holding
devices on one of the bars o, and the machine being in notion the movement of the
reel will gradually draw the intestine between the two brushes, which being in rapid
motion, will thoroughly clean the intestines. When the reel is full the machine is to
be stopped, the hub p can be moved in or out a little on the shaft M, and the
parts, being hinged, as aforesaid, the reel will partially collapse, and then the
clean intestines on the reel can be easily removed. The parts of the reel can then be
returned to their former position ready for use again. The driving pulley L may
have about eighty revolutions per minute, which will give about two revolutions per
minute to the reel and about sixteen hundred revolutions per minute to the bruslies.
The shaft is driven by the chain V, which runs upon the sprocket wheels OP.
The distance of the brushes from each other can be adjusted by moving the bar D
which can be done by loosening the excentric leverse, and then turning the screw f
A screw for moving the bar H is not shewn but one may be provided if desired.
In the modification shewn in figure 11, one brush is placed higher than the other,
and two rollers are provided one A opposite to one brush, and the other B' opposite
to the other brush. The rollers and brushes are supported in bearings on suitable
standards. The housings over the brushes and rollers and the roller J (figures 1 and 10)
are not shewn but they may be employed.
The operation of this modified form of apparatus is substantially the same as that
of the apparatus hereinbefore described. The intestine to be cleaned is passed in
between the rollers and brushes and carried to the reel as before.
The rollers serve the purpose of backing or bearing surfaces to keep the intestine
in contact with the brushes.
The direction in which the brushes and rollers revolve is indicated by the arrows.
It may be stated that the cleaning of beef intestines consists chiefly in removing
the mucous lining of the intestines. This machine and devices is not limited to the
single use of cleaning beef-intestines.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by my
foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is:
First. In a machine for cleaning intestines, the combination of a pair of rotary
brushes, one of which is adjustable to and from the other, and brush-supports, open
at one end to facilitate the insertion of intestines between said brushes, substantially
as described.
Second. The combination of the arms C C, having ways b, b, the bars D, H, and
the rotary brushes, said brushes being mounted on shafts supported in bearings on the
bars D H and one of said bars being adjustable to vary the distance between the
brushes, substantially as described.
Third. The combination, with two rotary brushes and brush-supports, open at one
end to facilitate the insertion of intestines between said brushes, of a collapsible reel
for receiving the cleaned intestines from the brushes, substantially as described.
Fourth. The combination with the rotary brushes of the shaft M, and a collapsible
reel mounted on said shaft and composed of the head n, the bars o pivotted in said
shaft and provided with devices for holding one end of the intestines, the sliding
hub and rods, pivotally connected with said bars and hub, substantially as
described.

page_text: Fifth. The combination of the frame A, having raised portion B and arms CC,
the bars D H, one or both adjustable on said arms, the brush-shafts E E', journalled
in bearings on said bars, and carrying brushes, and pulleys c, e the shaft M, carrying
a collapsible reel, the driving shaft K, having sprocket wheel O, the shaft having
sprocket wheel P and pulley S, the chain V, belts T, U, and gearing for connecting
the shafts K, M, substantially as described.
Sixth. The improved brush constructed substantially as described with reference to
figure 9 of the accompanying drawings.
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ترقيم
1000
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.