IMPROVED METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR CUTTING UP AND FOR TRIMMING THE ENDS OF OIL AND OTHER CAKES OF COMPRESSED SEEDS.” TRIMMING THE ENDS OF OIL AND OTHER CAKES OF COMPRESSED SEEDS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Appleby, of Kingston-upon-Hull, in the
County of York, Foreman at Mr. Henry Hodge's Oil Mills, High
Street, Kingston-upon-Hull, in the same County, for the Invention
of "IMPROVED METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR CUTTING UP AND FOR
TRIMMING THE ENDS OF OIL AND OTHER CAKES OF COMPRESSED SEEDS.”
TRIMMING THE ENDS OF OIL AND OTHER CAKES OF COMPRESSED SEEDS.”
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Appleby at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
22nd October 1874.
I, THOMAS APPLEBY, of Kingston-upon-Hull, in the County of York,
Foreman at Mr. Henry Hodge's Oil Mills, High Street, Kingston-upon-
Hull, in the same County, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVED METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR CUTTING UP AND FOR
TRIMMING THE ENDS OF OIL AND OTHER CAKES OF COMPRESSED SEEDS," to be as
follows:-

page_text: pressed seeds, whereby the cutting is more expeditious, with less waste,
and the cut more clean, without ragged edges and corners than at
present.
My Invention 'consists in arranging under a suitable frame a shaft
or spindle in bearings that it may rotate therein. One end of this
shaft projects beyond the side of the frame, and has a fast and a loose
pulley thereon, so that either of them can be driven by a belt from an
overhead or an underneath rigger, according to the position of the strap;
or instead of a fast and loose pulley being upon the shaft, a fast onc
only need be fitted.
The frame has a perfectly plain and level top, and a long slot in the
top permits, say, one-third of the diameter of a circular saw upon the
shaft or spindle to stand above the level, so that oil or other cake of
compressed. seed can be pushed against the saw to be cut up or trimmed
by it as desired. The projecting portion of the saw is covered by a
shield, and the dust or refuse from the cake is pocketed, so to speak,
within the shield, from whence it falls to broad apertures at the ends of
the slot into one or more receptacles beneath.
The shield forms part of a gauge, whose distance from the saw is
adjustable by set screws; consequently the cutting up or trimming of
the cakes can be accomplished with great regularity and cleanliness, and
with an expedition not hitherto practised.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Thomas Appleby in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 22nd April 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
APPLEBY, of Kingston-upon-Hull, in the County of York, Foreman at
Mr. Henry Hodge's Oil Mills, High Street, Kingston-upon-Hull, in the
same County, send greeting.
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WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters 3
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of October, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give

page_text: and grant unto me, the said Thomas Appleby, Her special licence
that I, the said Thomas Appleby, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Thomas Appleby, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
3 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 Ircland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVED METHOD OF
AND APPARATUS FOR CUTTING UP AND FOR TRIMMING THE ENDS OF OIL AND OTHER
CAKES OF COMPRESSED SEEDS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Thomas Appleby, 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 Thomas Appleby, 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 statement thereof, that is to say :—
This Invention relates to an improved method of and apparatus for
cutting up and for trimming the ends of oil and other cakes of com-
pressed seeds, whereby the cutting is more expeditious, with less waste,
and the cut more clean, and without ragged edges and corners than at
present.
My Invention consists, as represented in the accompanying Drawings,
in arranging under a suitable frame A a shaft or spindle B in bearings C
that it may rotate therein. One end of this shaft B projects beyond the
side of the frame A, and has a fast D and a loose pulley E thereon, so
that either of them can be driven by a belt F from an overhead or an
underneath rigger, according to the position of the strap; or instead of
a fast and loose pulley being upon the shaft, a fast one only need be
fitted.
The frame has a perfectly plain and level top G, and a long slot in the
top permits, say, one-third of the diameter of a circular saw H upon the
shaft or spindle B to stand above the level, so that oil or other cake of
compressed seed can be pushed against the saw to be cut up or for the

page_text: ends to be trimmed by it as desired. The projecting portion of the saw
is covered by a shield I, and the dust or refuse from the cake is pocketed,
so to speak, within the shield, from whence it falls to broad apertures at
the ends of the slot into one or more receptacles J, J, beneath.
The shield forms part of a guage, whose distance from the saw is
adjustable by set screws; consequently the cutting up or trimming of
the cakes can be accomplished with great regularity and cleanliness, and
with an expedition not hitherto practiced.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim the
apparatus herein-before described and shown in the accompanying
Drawings, as and for the purposes set forth.
In witness whercof, I, the said Thomas Appleby, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of April, One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-five.