US62558A - Improved appabatus foe defecating soeghum juice and othee liquids - Google Patents

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, DAIEL B. NEAL, of MountGilead, in the county of Morrow, and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Defecator; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and clear description threof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The nature of this iuvention consists inthe combination of several shallow trays or troughs, the bottoms of which are to be slightly elevated at the discharge end while in use. These troughs may be placed in aframe, one above another, and arranged with their elevated ends alternately in opposite directions, or they may be placed continuously, one in advancc of another, with the elevated ends all in one direction, but in either case they willhe arranged so that fluid fed into one will find its exit, at the elevated end of each tray, into the one next 'in advance ofit. The fluid will enter the deep end of each tray or trough, when'it will stand at the height of three or four inehes, and then as it flows toward the other end the sediment will settle and adhere to the inclincd bottom, which will oppose considcrable frictional resistance to its passage, and the clear liquid will flow ofi' at the elevat'ed end, and be conducted into a suitable receiver. When the trays are to be emptied and cleansed it will be necessary to lower the high end very slowly and easily, in order to save the fluid that may be in the deep end of the tray, without disturbing the sedimentary deposit. This is accomplished by a series of. windlasses and eords or ropes as will be hereinafter explained.

To enable those skilled in the art to make and' use my improved defecator, I wi prooeed to describ its Construction and operation. v

Figure 1 oi' the drawings is a perspective elevation of the apparatis.

Figure 2 is aseotional elevation of the same.

A isa general supporting frame, of vertical posts connected together by the beams ai. On these teams there are a series of trays or shallow troughs, B, one end of each of which is closed and the other open. The sides 'of these trays are some three or four inches higher at the back 'or closed end than at the open end; Of course this formation of sides is not indispensable, but only presents the most economioal Construction. C and C' are wndlasses, that have their bearings in the tops of theposts A; They are turned by means of the levers c, and are connected with the open ends of the trays by means 'of'the cords or 'opes c 0 When this apparatus is to be used, the' open ends of the tronghs are to be raised up by means of the windlasses, so that they will be, say three or four inohes higher than the closed end, which is to be allowed to remain on the beam a. The liquid that is to be purified is then to befed in a slow, continuous stream, into the deep' or closed end of the topmost tray, and it will then flow over the inclined bottom toward the open end, from which it will be diseharged into the deep end of the next lower tray, and so on through the whole series. The number of these trays to be used in a single apparatus is entirely indefinite, and will be tlependent entirely upon the character -of the fluid to be 'cleansed, and other contingent circumstances. From four to six will, however, be the proper number to connect together usually. As the fluid flows over the inclined bottoms of the trays, the sedimentary deposits will, by gravitation and frietion combined, he compelled to adhe'e thereto, and the clcaner and lighter liquid will flow smoothly oil' at the top of each tray. There should be some kind of conductors, b, to lead the fluid from cne tray into the next so that the fluid may not be agitated, and the sediment thereby stirred up. These con ductors may be simply pieces of musliu, or they may be more elaborately constructed. There may or there may not be tran'svorse peces or ribs b' placed in the bottoms of the trays 01' troughs to impede the progress of the heavy particles and retain them in the trays. When the deposit in the trays is to be, removed the windlasses are to be turned down very slowly and gradually so as to draw oli the clear liquid from the deep ends of the' trays, and allow none but the heavy particles to remain, and these may then be scraped out and thrown away. The rcservoir D, from which the fluid is to be fed into the trays, should have a vertical partition, d, which will divide the said reservoir into two chambers, zl and d Orifices in the bottom part of the partit-lon will allow fluid to pass from one ehamber into the other. Both of these chambers should be filled with some filtering material, such as straw, which may be weighted down with Stones. The fresh liquid will then be i'ed into the chamberd fromwhich it will pass downward through the filtering material, under the partition d, and then up through the filtering material in d, from near the top of which chamber it will find an exit through a strainer at (2 and threugh'the conductor ol enter the topmost tray or trough B. ;After passingthrough the trays the clear fluid con be discharged into :L suitable reservoir, E, at the bottom. Although this defecato' may be used to clear any fluid of sedimenta'y deposit, it is especially vaiuable-in removing the glutinous, mueilaginous matter-from sorghum juice previous to the boiling of that liquid, and when the liquid is so freed from such foreign matter, it may be redlced to the consistency of suger without danger of burning.

Having described my improved defecator, what I eiaiin, is-- 1. A series of trays or shuliow troughs B, arranged with one end of each tray or trough deeper than the other, and otherwise constructed so that fluid fedinto the deeper endet' the topmost t'ough wiii find :n exit at the shaliow end, and so on through the' whole series.

2. I claim the Construction and eombination of the tmys B, and the windiesses C c and C'c', substmtialiy as described.

3. I claim the reservoir D; when constructed as herein described, and combined with the treys B.

' DANIEL B. NEAL.

Witnesses:

GEO. P. HERTHEL, Jr., M. RANDOLPH.

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