IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY APPLICABLE FOR MAKING PEAT BEDDING
Year: 1884

page_text: I PHILIP HENRY BRACHER, of 77, High Street, Wincanton, in the county of
Somerset, Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of any said invention for
IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY APPLICABLE FOR MAKING PEAT BEDDING," to be
as follows:-
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This invention has for its object a machine to tear up peat for bedding for horses
and the like. It consists in a hopper in which the peat is placed. Below this is a
chamber having one or more, preferably two, shafts or spindles passing through it.
Upon these shafts are threaded a series of metallic beads or bosses having curved
or bent teeth or chisels radiating from the beads. These teeth on the two shafts
clear each other, and cut the peat as they descend close against the sides of the
hopper or each other. If there bo two or more shafts with cutters keyed or
threaded on them they can be geared together so as to each cut against the side of
the hopper or they can be so arranged on their shafts and geared that the teeth of
one shall meet the teeth of the other, and that the teeth on the one shall be geared
to go much faster than the teeth on the other, and so drag the peat through the
ascending teeth of the other.
The drawing shows a section of a simple arrangement, but I do not bind myself
to this as regards details merely appending it to this specification as an example to
explain the principles of my invention. In this case the teeth cut against the sido
of the hopper, and the hopper sides are plain, but I sometimes arrange them also
with stationary teeth or blades to moro effectually cut up the peat in passing.
I prefer however, as in the drawing to bring the teeth in the form of blades or bars
right across the hopper between each set of teeth, as set forth at A.
In the drawings Fig. 1 is a plan, Fig. 2 a section. In these A A are stationary
bars preferably sharp at the top between cach pair of revolving blades. B B
revolving blades. CC spindles for same, which can be square except at the
journals to more effectually hold the revolving blade bosses and prevent thein
slipping on the shaft, they can however be round and the bossos koyed on. D D
gear wheels connecting same. E hopper.

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I PHILIP HENRY BRACHER of 77 High Street, Wincanton in the county of
Somerset, manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of my said invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY APPLICABLE FOR MAKING PEAT BEDDING and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :—
This invention has for its principlo object a machine to tear up peat for bedding
for horses and the like.
It is best described by aid of the accompanying drawings of a machine made in
accordance with my invention. In these Fig 1 is a plan. Figs 2 and 3 vertical
sections taken at right angles with each other.
A is a hopper in which the peat is placed. Through the chamber forming the
lower part or bottom of this hopper, one or more preferably two, shafts or
spindles B pass. Upon these shafts are threaded and keyed a series of metallic
beads or bosses C having curved or bent teeth or chisels D radiating from the beads
or as in the drawing I forin the teeth as studs and firmly screw them into the
square shaft, or otherwise fix them in the shaft itself without beads. The tooth on
the beads of the two shafts clear each other, and cut the peat as they descend_close
against the sides of the hopper or against each other, preferably the latter, as shown
in the drawings. If there be two or more shafts with cutters keyed or threaded
on then, they can be geared together with an intermediato wheel so that the teeth
on the one shall go much faster than the teeth on the other, and both travelling in
the direction of rotation, and thus the one drag the peat through the ascending
teeth of the other, but I prefer it with two nearly equal wheels geared to work
against each other as shown. Continuing the description of the drawings, E E are
the two gear wheels on axes B B causing these to work together. It is better that
theso wheels shall be nearly equal, but one of them to have one tooth more than
the other. This causes the cutters to wear more evenly. F fly wheel on one of
the shafts B which projects beyond the other. G crank handle for turning it. H
framework. I. Pulley for driving it by belt if desired.
The drawing shows a section of a simple arrangement, but I do not bind myself
to this as regards details, increly appending it to this specification as an example to
explain the principles of my invention. It differs in some details from the
illustration described in the provisional specification, as I have improved on the
details since filing the latter, but the plan therein shown, in which the teeth cut
against the side of the hopper, and the hopper sides are plain, or arranged with
stationary teeth or blades to more effectually cut up the peat in passing, will work
effectually but not quite so regularly or satisfactorily as the present illustrated
modification.
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
The improved apparatus applicable for peat bedding, in which one or more
revolving shafts armed with curved or bent blades or chisels, substantially as

page_text: described, rotate below a feeding hopper or its equivalent, said blades or chisels
passing between other stationary or revolving blades or their equivalent, thereby
breaking or tearing the poat up into a loose fibrous mass substantially as
described.