IMPROVEMENTS IN FRUIT DRESSING MACHINES
Year: 1884

page_text: 1 JOHN GEORGE HOPKINSON of 25, Parliament Street, Harrogate, in the County
of York, Tea Dealer and Commercial Traveller do hereby declare the nature
of my Invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN FRUIT DRESSING MACHINES to be as
follows:-
The application of a piece or a number of pieces of india rubber or any other
elastic or pliable material, eighteen inches long, one and a half inches wide and
tbree sixteenths of an inch thick, or any other suitable dimensions to the revolving
shafts of fruit dressing machines with sloping cylinders, instead of or in addition
to the existing fibre or bristle brushes in such fruit dressing machines. These
pieces or strips of india rubber are held firmly between two pieces of wood,
metal, or other material and fixed to the revolving shaft of the fruit dressing
machine by bolts, screws, nails, or other fastenings in the same way as bristle or
fibre brushes are usually fixed, or they may be nailed, screwed, bolted, or otherwise
fastened to the existing brushes. The pieces of india rubber may be cut or moulded
similar to a coarse fibre brush or may be used in the piece just as cut from the
sheet. The rubbers are made to revolve against the inside of the sloping wire
cylinder or sieve and thus clean the stalks, sand and dirt from the currants, raisins
or other fruit.
Dated this Second day of January 1884

page_text: I, JOHN GEORGE HOPKINSON of 25 Parliament Street, Harrogate, in the County
of York, Tea Dealer and Commercial Traveller do hereby declare the nature of
my Invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN FRUIT DRESSING MACHINES and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :—
The application of pieces of india rubber or any other elastic or pliable material
eighteen inches long, one and a half inches wide and three sixteenths of an inch
thick or any other suitable dimensions to the revolving shaft of fruit dressing
machines which have sloping cylinders. These pieces of india rubber are to be
used instead of the usual fibre or bristle brushes or they may be used in addition
to the brushes. These pieces of india rubber are held between two pieces of wood
or metal or other material and fixed to the revolving shaft of the fruit dressing
machine by bolts screws or other fastenings or they may be nailed or screwed to
the usual brushes. The pieces of india rubber may be cut or moulded like a coarse
brush or used just as cut from the sheet. The rubbers are made to revolve against
the inside of the sloping wire cylinder and thus clean the stalks, sand, and dirt
from the currants, raisins, or other fruit.
In Figs. 1. 2. 3 A is the rubber, B the wood to which it is attached by bolts
passing through the brackets C and D is the revolving shaft.
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
1 The use of india rubber instead of brushes in all fruit dressing machines
which have sloping cylinders.
2nd The application of any elastic or pliable material instead of brushes to these
fruit dressing machines.
Dad thi. Ninth day of April 1884.