A REVOLVING FEED APPARATUS AS APPLIED TO SINGEING PIGS, TO FACILITATE THE INTRODUCTION OF THE CAR- CASSES INTO THE SINGEING APPARATUS
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Abraham Denny and Edward Maynard Denny, both
of Waterford, Ireland, for the Invention of "A REVOLVING FEED APPARATUS
AS APPLIED TO SINGEING PIGS, TO FACILITATE THE INTRODUCTION OF THE CAR-
CASSES INTO THE SINGEING APPARATUS."
Sealed the 17th October 1860, and dated the 20th April 1860..
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Abraham Denny and
Edward Maynard Denny at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,*
with their Petition, on the 20th April 1860.
We, ABRAHAM DENNY and EDWARD MAYNARD DENNY, both of Waterford,.
Ireland, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A REVOLVING
FEED APPARATUS AS APPLIED TO SINGEING PIGS, TO FACILITATE THE INTRODUCTION
OF THE CARCASSES INTO THE SINGEING APPARATUS," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of an apparatus for facilitating the labor of intro-
ducing pigs to be singed into a pig-singeing stove or heated chamber.
The accompanying Drawing represents an elevation of the apparatus in
which A is an upright post with four pairs of rails fixed thereto. Upon these,
rails B, B, run wheeled waggons, to which the pig to be singed is suspended.
The upright post turns upon pivots C and D, or by any other suitablo
arrangement.

page_text: To introduce the pig into the stove, the apparatus is made to revolve until
one of the set of rails upon which is a waggon with a pig suspended, comes
opposite to similar rails in the stove, when it is secured by a latch, the waggon
is then pushed into the stove. On its withdrawal, the waggon is again pushed
on to the revolving apparatus, which is again made to revolve until the next!
set of rails similarly provided is in position, and the same operation is
repeated.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Abraham Denny and Edward Maynard Denny in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 20th October 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ABRAHAM
DENNY and EDWARD MAYNARD DENNY, both of Waterford, Ireland, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-third year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said Abraham Denny and Edward Maynard Denny, Her special licence
that we, the said Abraham Denny and Edward Maynard Denny our exe-
cutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Abraham
Denny and Edward Maynard Denny, our 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
"A REVOLVING FEED APPARATUS AS APPLIED TO SINGEING PIGS, TO FACILITATE THE
INTRODUCTION OF THE CARCASSES INTO THE SINGEING APPARATUS," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that we, the said Abraham Denny and Edward Maynard
Denny, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our,
or their; or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascer-
tain 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 we, the said Abraham Denny and Edward May-
nard Denny, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what.

page_text: manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
This Invention consists of an apparatus for facilitating the labor of intro-
ducing pigs to be singed into a pig-singeing stove or heated chamber.
The accompanying Drawing represents an elevation of the apparatus, in
which A is an upright post with four pairs of rails fixed thereto. Upon these
rails B, B, run wheeled waggons to which the pig to be singed is suspended.
The upright post turns upon pivots C and D, or by any other suitable
arrangement.
To introduce the pig into the stove, the apparatus is made to revolve until
one of the set of rails, upon which is a waggon with a pig suspended, comes
opposite to similar rails in the stove, when it is secured by a latch, the waggon
is then pushed into the stove. On its withdrawal, the waggon is again pushed
on to the revolving apparatus, which is again made to revolve until the
next set of rails similarly provided is in position, and the same opereation is
repeated.
And that the Invention may be more fully understood, we will proceed to
describe the manner of carrying the same into practical effect.
Each set of rails has a waggon placed thereon. The level of the rails may
be adjusted or regulated by means of the tension rods E, F, E, F, which have
screws cut on the extremities, entering into the double nuts G, G. On turning
these nuts G, G, to the right or left, the rods are brought nearer or thrust
further apart accordingly. As each rail is held by tension rods similar to
those above described, each rail may be adjusted separately without inter-
fering with the rest. The lower rods E, E, hold or maintain the rails by
means of a chair or support H made of plate iron, which is bolted firmly to
the rails.
Figs. 2 and 3 represent end elevations of the waggon, and to the cross
bars K, L, of which the chains, rods, or ropes to which the pig is suspended,
are attached in any suitable manner. The rails B, B, may be made of
wrought-iron or other suitable material, and are fixed to the upright post A
by means of bolts or screws. A latch N is placed against the upright post A,
which, when allowed to drop as shewn in the Drawing, secures the waggon
and keeps it in position. A latch P may also be placed on the stove in which
the pigs are singed, and so arranged as to maintain each set of rails of the
revolving feed apparatus in a line with similar ones provided in the stove, as
they are successively brought before them.
Having now described and ascertained the nature of the Invention, and
the manner of carrying the same into practical effect, we would have it under-

page_text: stood that we do not bind ourselves to the precise details as herein-before
described, as the same may be varied without departing from the principle
of our said Invention; but what we claim is, a revolving feed apparatus for
facilitating the introduction of the carcasses of dead pigs into a stove or heated
chamber for singeing the said pigs, constructed substantially as herein-before
described.
In witness whereof, we, the said Abraham Denny and Edward Maynard
Denny, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Seventeenth day of
October, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
sixty
Witness,
ABRAHAM DENNY.
(L.S.)
EDWARD MAYNARD DENNY. (L.S.)