US1060465A - Bean and pea huller. - Google Patents

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J. D. LEATHBRY.

BEAN AND PEA HELLER.

APILIOATIO! rum) no. 11, 1912 1,060,465. Patented Apr. 29, 1913.

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'MIIM "MIA"! GO-IWAIHIMTONI D- C J. D. LEATHERY.

BEAN AND PEA HELLER. Arrmuul'ol mum mm. 11. 1912.

Patented Apr. 29, 1913.

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' in rear of the hulling mechanism.

JOHN LEATHER-Y, 0L5 HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANLi-t.

Application filed December 11. 1912,

*To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN D. LnAri nnr, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at Harrisburg, in the county of Dauphin and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Bean and Pea Hullers of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved bean and pea huller of a hand-operated type and constructed particularly for household use.

The main obj eet of the present invention is the provision of expert or bean huller in which the peas or beans may be continuously fed in bulk and are properly and effectively hulled, the pods and refuse being delivered in one direction and the peas and in another.

A "further object of the invention is the provision of hulling mechanism which is so constructed as to insure a proper hulling of the pea or bean without regard to the position in which the 511111815 ted to the mechanism and without liability of crushing or breaking the peas or beans.

The invention in its preferred form of details will be described in the following specification, reference being had to the ac coinpanying drawing, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the inn proved huller. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section of the same. Fig. 8 is a transverse vertical section of the same taken Fl Al 3 is a front elevation. Fig. 5 is an enlarged perspective view of the ,hulling rollers.

Referring particularly to the accompanyingdrawings, the improved huller is made up of two sections. an upper section 1 and a lower section The sections are hingedly connected at one end; as at 3, and provided at the opposite end with spring adjusting means including a spring member at having a ringat one end to engage a hook 5 carried by the upper section 1 and connected at theoppositeend to a fitted bolt 5 passing through an eye (3 on the opposing member and engaged by a wing nut 7 below the eye.-

By this means the forward ends of the sections are held together in a more or less yieldalole manner, the pressure of the yielding connection being adjustable, as will be obvious. The upper section ,includes side boards 8 arranged in spaced parallel relation and when the sections are assembled in Specification of Letters Patent.

'01 the upper beards.

BEAN AND PEA HULLEB.

atenteo Apia? Serial l-Tc. 736,161.

operative posit-ions the lower edges of the side boards 8 overlie and restupon the upper edges of the side boards 9 of the lower 5 etion, said latter side boards being spaced apart in correspondence with the spacing in the lower edges of the upper side hoard near its free or forward end are former? slotted ways 10 opening through said low edge and en tending vertically for or shortdistance. Similar slo" 'ed ways ll are arranged in the upper edge or" the side boards of the lower section, the slots 10 and 11 registering with each other when the respective sect-ions are in operative relation. In the slots 10 of the upper section is mounted. the shaft 12 of the upper hulling roller 13 while a shaft ll of the lower hulling roller 15 is mounted in the slots 11 on the lower section. this 1 cans the hailing rollers r e permitted a limited vertical play i 4 h rein" to each other the slots at the. same time ail'ording a simple and ea y means for insertin f the respecire hullin, rollers in place and removing them when desired.

The hailing rollers re struction a prefer-a l outline nun the corner ti; rounded and twisted so that ed e or ot peculiar conrectangular sents sinuous line longitudinallr of the roller. The upper roller sly termed i it were t isted in, one ion troni one end :hile the is formed if in retell opposite direc tion from the same incl.

Mounted upon shaft Iii t L, 'lv through the lower ion a p a t" low and rearward with. respe t the huling rollers a drive l7 dcd with an operating handle l8 and size to mesh with a gear 19 secured -e shaft of the lower hullii g roller, 3 ear 19 in turn meshing with a gear 9C .iired upon the shaft ot the upper hullirg roller.

v in the proper direction the face of the opposing roll.

pending arms roller tits a left hand (broaden the shaft. its long, however, as the gears are driven gears will operate, but on reverse movement the cats will simply unscrew from the shafts without ef feet on the hulling rollers.

The hulling rollers are peculiarly arranged and the gears initially disposedso as to maintain this arrangement during the operation of the hulling rollers. arrangement the square or flat surface of either roll is always in cooperation with an edge of the other roll. This'is more clearly shown in a detail forms a very essential invention, as by it an will cooperate only with edge of either roll a fiat or plain sur- Mounted in the section 2 below and in advance of the guide roller 2]., a second guide roller 22being arranged in rear of and approximately in the same horizontal plane as the lower hulling roll.

23 arranged adjacent its rear end, one of 7 length than the other and formed with any desired form ofclamping means 24 whereby the huller as a whole may be secured toa table or other fixture. arms 28 is a tension roll which is connected by threaded rods 26 with eyes 27 carried by the arms 23, the rods beyond the eyes being provided with nuts A canvas belt 29 ofrough texture and endless form passes between the hulling rollers, over the lower one, around the guide roller 21, around the'tension roller the guide roller 22. By. ad-

Supported in the and over justing the tension. roller through the medium of the nuts 28 in coiiperation with the threaded bolts 26 the tension of the belt may be changed. as desired, in an obvious manner.

Secured in the section 1 is a bottom 30 inclining downwardly and forwardly to ward the hulling rollers, said bottom togetherwith the sides of the section formin a feed hopper. A deflecting board 31 is secured between the side boards of the upper section of the clining downwardly and forwardly to a position just above the upper hulling roll. The forward edge of the bottom ing board 3i serves to insure a bottom feeding of the peas or beans keeping baclr In this b figure of the drawings andpart of the present lower hulling roller is a- The lower section has de-' said arms being of greater 25, the spindle of ous edges.

huller, said board in- 30 ter-. initiates approximately at a point, above the upper mass, the bottom feeding being materially aided. by the canvas belt 29. In passing through between thehulling rollers the pods are compressed with the effect to v expel the peas or beans from the rear ends thereof, such .peas or beans finding their way between the forward edge of the bottom board 30 of the hopper and the canvasbelt and elt be into i any receptacle which may placed beneath the roller 25 on the table'or other support.

falling by gravity'down the canvas;

By the peculiar formation of the hulling rollers a more certain'hulling operation is efi'ected with less damage to the peas or beans, as byihaving the edge of one roller.

cotiperate with the flat face of the other it is impossible for a pea or bean hull no matcontaining peas or beans,

and the peculiar twist given the operating v ter how small to pass between the rolls when t vely express thepeas or'beans no matter whether they are presented lengthwise or crosswise to the rolls. It is impossible with this construction to crush or break a peaor bean, as the expressed pea or bean shoved away from between the rollers by is at once,

the fiat surface and cannot be drawn in be tween the rolls.

What-is claimed is '1. A ing mechanism comprising coiiperating, hulling rolls of rectangular outllne in section and longitudinally twisted to present sinu- 2. A ing niec ing rolls of rectangular outline in section and longitudinally twisted to presentfsinuous edges,] and means for operating the rolls topresent the fla't surface-of one to ea or bean huller including a-hullthe sinuous edge of the other.

3. A pea or bean huller includin a hulling mechanism comprising coiiperatmg hulling rolls of rectangularoutline in section and longitudinally twisted to present sinuous edges, means for operating the .rolls g to present the fiat surface of one to the sinu ous edge of the other,

and an endless belt passing between the rolls.

4. A 1 it or bean huller includin a hullingimechmism comprising cotiperatmg hulling rolls of rectangular and longitudinally twisted to present siiiu passing. between the the guide rollers.

5. A pea or beanhuller includin a hull ing mechanism comprising cooperating hulling rolls" of rectangular outline in section and longitudinally twisted to present shal the ous edges,.means for .operating the rolls to pea or bean huller including'a hull outline. in section anism comprising coiip'erat'ing hull-L present thejfiat surface of one to the sinuous ed of the other, guide rollers arranged beyon the hulling rolls, an endless belt passing between the hulling rolls and over the guide rollers, and a hopper arranged above and in rear of the hulhng rolls.

6. A pen. or bean roller including hingedly connected sections,- a tension means for permitting a yielding contact or the sections, a hulhng roll carried by one section, a cooperating hulling roll carried by the sec tlons, said hulling rolls being provided with intermeshing pin10ns, a drive gear mounted on one section and meshing with one of the pinions, a guide roller carried by oneof the sections, a second guide roller carried by said section, an endless belt passing ovei' said guide rollers and over one of the hulling rolls, and a hopper arranged in the other section.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN D. LEATHERY. Witnesses:

M. B. ODQNNELL, W. H. CROWELL.

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