USRE7E - Improvement in the machine for separating wild peas or other round seeds from grain - Google Patents

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. Y 2 Sheets-Sheet 1. L. BUTLER.

Machine for Separating Round Seed from Grain.

Reissued MarchB. I839.

(.09. CLASSIFYING, SEPARAHNG, 1 EXamifleiy AND ASSURTING souns. UOSS RCIJUILC 7 2 Sheets-Sheet 2. L. BUTLER.

Machine for Separating Round Seed from Grain.

No. 7. Reissued March '8. 1839.

duce the same effect bygiving it a proper in unning from the neck of the shoe to the out- BEST AVAILABLE COPY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LESTER BUTLER, OF COBLESKILL, NEV YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN THE MACHINE FOR SEPARATING WILD PEAS OR OTHER ROUND SEEDS FROM GRAIN.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent X0. 225, dated June 1?, 1:1 Ill-issue No. 7, (Inlwl I March 8,1839.

f0 aZZ whom it may concern: on to the end opposite where it is let on, and Be it known that I, LESTER BUTLER, of there by the revolution of the plane be dis Oobleskill, in the county of Schoharie and charged. State of New York, have invented a new and In order that others may be enabled to make Improved Mode of Separating \Vild Peas or and use my invention, I will proceed to cleother Round Seeds from Grain, of which I do scribe the construction and operation of the hereby declare the following to be a full and I one I have in use, corresponding with the exact description, reference being had to the model. annexed drawings. In the first place I prepare a frame, S, 'Figs. The nature of my invention consists ofare- 2 and 4, six feet in length, two and a half in volving inclined plane, A, Figure 1, conwidth, and four feet in height, within the timstructed with suificient inclination to project bers or frame-work, which should be made of all round seeds over the inclined plane to the any suitable materials, size at least two by lower side or place, where the same are disthree inches. It has four posts-two at either charged or separated from the grain by a sin- I end, one near the top and the other near the gle revolution of the inclined plane, the grain bottom of the posts; also, on either side, two at the same time beingcarried to the place I pieces are framed in near the center of the where it is discharged into a receiver pre- I posts, and the other on the top of the same pared for that purpose. This inclined plane I across the frame. At the center I place two may be constructedin the form of a wheel, as pieces, ac-one above and one belowofsn-lfiherein described, or by an inclined plane, A, I cient strength to support the wheel. On the constructed of cloth, leather, or any other suitcenter of these insert boxes b b,of any suitable able material, passing around two or more material.

rollers, B B, similar in form to those used as In order to form receivers, D 0, Figs. 4 and feeders for carding or thrashing machines, and inclined to the right, left, or endwise, as a re volving inclined plane in any shape will pro- 6, for the grain and round seeds separately, I place one end of the bottom for the right-hand receiver on the lower timber at the right of the frame, elevating the other to the lower clination,which is about onefootto four,which I cross-timber, in which the box is inserted, may be varied to suit the builder or user, and I and extend it far enough past the center to reas to size the larger or more surface it has in ceive whatever may be discharged through the all cases the faster it will'clean. If inclined eye of the wheel. The bottom for the left reendwise, I generally place the hopper O and ceiver I place on the lower timber at the left shoe D about one-fourth the length of the maof the frame, one end fastened to the timber in chine from the upper end, the outlet of the the center with the bottom of the right reshoebeingnearly the whole width of the plane. ceiver C, which forms an inclination from the This may be kept in motion by a rod, E, I center to the ends of about one foot and four inches. In addition to this I fit in boards at 9 of one of the timbers in which the rollers the sides and ends with slides for the purpose run, and from thence along the said timber to of drawing ofi the grain. I prepare a shaft, a rag or notched wheel, F, which,when in mo- H, of, say, six inches in diameter, with a tion, will cause a vibration or jar of the shoe, gudgeon in one end to run in the upper box. and thus scatter the grain upon the plane, In the other I place a point or pivot to run on when all round seeds will immediately roll to the'lower box. Through this shaft I frame or the lowest part of the plane, where they are lock four or more arms, F, of sufiicient length discharged, while the grain or seeds that are to form a circle'equal to the size of the wheel not round will remain upon the plane until Asuppose six feet. At the extremity of discharged by the revolution thereof. If the these arms place fellies, which form the outer inclination be to the right or left, the machine periphery of the wheel. This rim I raise by may be fed in any of the usual forms of grain means of blocks G, about four inches above the feeders, at or near one end and at the upper level of the arm at the shaft. About two feet side. The round seeds in this case will roll and three inches round the shaft I put a secoif at the lower side, while the grain will pass ond set of fellies on a level with the arms,

. work by a wire.

BEST AVAILABLE COPY I which produces the required inclination or dip of the wheel, the surface of which,whether of the naked boards or covered with tin or sheet iron, should have a smooth hard surface. This wheel has a horizontal motion from left to right. On the left are two pieces, I I, of timber of suitable dimensions, forming a square to receive the hopper J, the outlet of which is placed in a shoe, K, similar to those used for the like purpose in flouring-mills. This shoe is suspended from the upper frame- On the opposite end of the machine I place ashaft, L, horizontally across the top, running in boxes of wood or metal. On the center of this shaft is a pulley, N, of three inches in diameter, around which a rope, Y, or strap passes to a pulley, O, of one foot diameter, on the upper end of the upright shaft H; also, another pulley, P, on this same shaft, about seven inches to the right of the small one, of about one foot diameter. On one end of this shaft is a crank, Q, at which place, should themachirie be propelled by water, it would be proper to put a pulley to run by cord or strap.- At the left endof the machine, nearly under the hopper,. I place a frame, R, for the brushes B, composed of two pieces, which lead from the upper timber at the left end of the machine to the eye of the wheel, where these should be framed in uprights, fastening'them to one of the timbers forming. the square sustaining .the hopper. These timbers are placed aboutsei en inches apart, in which I place three rollers, Tone at the outside, one at the inside, and the third, U, about six inches from the greatest circumference of the wheel. This last roller has in the end nearest the hopper'and shoe small irons which, when in motion, come in contact with the neck of the shoe and cause the grain to desend from the hopper ontothe height of the inclined plane. Around these rollers I place a strap of leather, V, on which I fasten strips of sheeps pelt,which serves as a brush,

for the purpose of removing the grain from The principle of separating round seeds from grain by means of a revolving inclined plane, in the manner substantially as herein described.

LESTER BUTLER. Witnesses; f 1

TrroMAsiSM1Trr,

Geo. W. Pon'rnm Jr.

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