IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PULPING, STRIPPING, AND SLICING EDIBLE ROOTS FOR CATTLE
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Whitaker, of Leigh, in the County of Lancaster,
Agricultural Implement Maker, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PULPING, STRIPPING, AND SLICING EDIBLE
ROOTS FOR CATTLE."
Sealed the 5th May 1863, and dated the 10th November 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Whitaker at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 10th
November 1862.
I, JOHN WHITAKER, of Leigh, in the County of Lancaster, Agricultural
Implement Maker, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PULPING, STRIPPING, AND
SLICING EDIBLE ROOTS FOR CATTLE," to be as follows:-.
Instead of employing two separate machines for pulping and slicing or
stripping or changing several parts of the same machine, I perform both
operations in one machine, and use a hinged guide to lead the roots or matters
to the pulper or slicer. At each side of the frame there is a fly wheel, one
mounted with the knife for slicing or stripping, and the other the knives for
pulping, and in the interior of the hopper there is a hinged guide or plate
which can be turned on either side so as to guide the roots or matters to the
slicer on one side, or to the pulping knives on the other side, by which means

page_text: the two operations can be performed at different times in the same machine.,
The rim of each fly wheel turns in a groove formed by beads on the frame to
enable the slicer and pulper to be quite close to its work, and thereby cut the
last piece. The sides of the frame are curved and sloped to allow the cut
matters to be delivered with perfect ease.
These improvements will be better understood by referring to the Figures
and letters on the accompanying outline drawing in which Fig. 1 is an eleva-
tion of the interior of the upper part of my combined pulping and slicing or
stripping machine; Fig. 2 a plan of the same, and Fig. 3 a section of one
side of the casing and one of the fly wheels.
a represents the hopper; b, the hinged guide; c, one of the fly wheels; and d,
the beads or projections in which the rim of the fly wheel works. The guide b
is hinged above the slicing or pulping knives so that the roots or other matters
may be guided to either side as may be required, and be operated upon
without reversing the motion of the machine.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Whitaker in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
9th May 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
WHITAKER, of Leigh, in the County of Lancaster, Agricultural Implement
Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said John Whitaker, Her special license, that I, the said John
Whitaker, my executors administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said John Whitaker, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at 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 OR APPARATUS FOR PULPING, STRIPPING, AND
SLICING EDIBLE ROOTS FOR CATTLE," upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said John Whitaker, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-

page_text: ticularly 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 John Whitaker, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following state-
ment (that is to say) :-
Instead of employing two separate machines for pulping, slicing, and stripping
or changing several parts of the same machine, I perform all the operations in
one machine, and use a hinged guide or plate to lead the roots to either side
as may be required. I fix to the driving shaft at each side of the machine
a plain wheel, one mounted with one or more knives for slicing, and the other
with the knives or tools for pulping. The stripping knives or tools are fixed
upon separate plates which when required are screwed to the slicing wheel,
there being slots in the wheel to allow the tools to pass through the interior.
The hinged guide or plate is placed in the centre of the hopper, and can be
turned on either side so as to guide the roots to the pulpers on one of the wheels,
or to the slicing knives or strippers on the other wheel, by which means the
three operations of pulping, slicing, and stripping can be performed at different
times in the same machine. The rims of the wheels turn in grooves formed
by beads in the sides of the hopper in order to enable the knives or tools to
be quite close to their work, and thereby slice, strip, or pulp the last piece, and
the sides of the hopper are curved and sloped to allow the matters to be
delivered from the machine with perfect ease.
These improvements will be clearly understood by referring to the figures
and letters on the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, in which Figs. 1 and 2
are side side and end views, with part of the hopper removed of my improved
machinery or apparatus for pulping, stripping, and slicing roots, and Fig. 3
a detached view of the wheel with the slicers and strippers, and Fig. 4 a de-
tached view of the wheel with the pulpers.
a represents the framework of the machine; b, the bed or table; c, the driving
shaft; d, the plain wheel to which the slicers, pulpers, and strippers are attached,
and e the hinged guide or plate for leading the roots to the slicing or stripping
knives on one side or to the pulping knives on the other side. The pulpers
are on one wheel, and the knives for slicing on the other wheel, and when
stripping is required to be performed, the plates f, Fig. 3, with the strippers
in them are fixed to the wheel, but when slicing is to be performed the strippers
are removed. Thus by fixing on the driving shaft two wheels mounted with

page_text: the neceesary cutters or tools and using the hinged guide to lead the roots to
one side or the other, the several operations of pulping, stripping and slicing
edible roots can be performed in one machine.
Having now described my Invention, I desire it to be understood that I
claim,―
First, the employment of two plain wheels on one driving shaft for holding
the pulping, slicing, and stripping knives.
And, secondly, a hinged guide or plate for leading the roots to the side
required, as all such improvements are herein described and illustrated in the
accompanying Sheet of Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Whitaker, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
Witness,
E. J. HUGHES,
Patent Agent,
Manchester.
JOHN WHITAKER. (L.S.)