US69489A - Improvement in grain and seed-cleaner - Google Patents

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J. SATTISON.

Grain and Seed Cleaner.

Patented Oct. I, 1867.

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JACOB SATTISON, OF llllLEY TOWNSHIP, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO- HIMSELF AND AMBROSE FRAYER, OF RIPLEY, OHIO.

Letters Patent No. (59,489, dated October 1, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN GRAIN AND SEED-CLEANER.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

7 Be it known that I, JACOB SATTISGN, of Ripley township, in the county oflIuron, and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Grain and Seed-Cleaner; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and complete description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a side view of the cleaner.

Figure 2 is a top view.

Figures 3 and 4: are detachedsections.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in the views.

A, fig. 1, is the ease of the mill, in which is hung a bolting-cylinder, 13, a detached view of which is shown in. fig. 3. This bolt consists of an open framework, covered with wire netting O, fig. 3. It will be observed that one end of the bolt is smaller in diameter than the other, the purpose of which will hereafter be shown. E, fig. 2, is a shell, enclosing a fan, which is constructed in the ordinary way, and driven by a belt, F, passing from the wheel G to the pulley H on the end of the fan-shaft. The bolt-shaft is also provided with a pulley, I, and motion communicates to the same by a belt, J, all of which is operated by the crank K. L is a hopper, into which the grain is thrown. M, the [shake-sieves frames, at the inner lower end of which is attached a conductor, LT, fig. 1, communicating with and discharging into the side conductor 0, attached to the inside of the door P. The conductor 0 is provided with a protruding lip, Q, which, on the door being shut, enters the opening in the end of the bolt, as shown in fig. The relative position of the conductor Nis also shown in this figure.

The practical use of this machine is for cleaning grain of foul stall, (as coclcle and clover-seed, chess, and

other seeds, and dirt,) that is found in the grain after itcomes from the thresher, and which is accomplished in the following manner: The thrashed grain is thrown into the hopper L, from which'it falls down upon the sieves M. As the grain falls upon the sieve, the chafi' and lighter sluil' are blown out at the end by the draught of wind from the fan, which is conveyed over the bolt to the sieves. The grain and heavier portions pass down into the conductor T thence into the conductor 0, through which into the belt, which, as the bolt revolves, and being higher at that end for the reason of its being of le s diameter, carries the grain along through it, and discharges it on the outside of the machine through the spent-1t, while the small seed and screenings pass through the bolt and Fall into a screen-box immediately under it, and which box is removed by drawing it out at the front end of the mill. By the use of this machine the grain is very thoroughly cleaned, it being fanned and bolted so that no worthless material is found in the grain after being run through it.

For cleaning grass-seeds, Lko, the coarse wire netting O is removed, and a finer grade, 1), substituted therefor. The seed is then thrown into the hopper, and run through in the same way as was the grain, the fine grass-seed falling through the sieve into the screen-box bei'ore mentioned, and the coarser material passing out at the side, as did the grain.

It will be obvious that any kind of seeds, however fine, can be cleaned equally well by this machine simply by the introduction of netting or gauze, through which the fine seed falls into the screen-box, and the coarser material being discharged from the end of the same to the outside.

What I claim as my improvement, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The belt ll, in combination with the shake-sieves M, conductors N and 0, when arranged and operated conjointly with a fan or blower, in the manner and for the purpose substantially as set forth.

JACOB SATTIS Witnesses:

W. H. Bunnloci-z, J. HOLMES.

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