US789555A - Car-loader. - Google Patents

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515759555. PATENTED MAY 9,-1905. M. c. LILLY.

GAR LOADER.

APPLICATION FILED 00w. 3., 1904.

Patented May 9, 1905.

MARCINE C. LILLY, ()F MAROA, ILLINOIS.

CAR' -LOADER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 789,555, dated May 9, 1905.

Application filed October 3, 1904. Serial No. 227,050.

To all 1071 0117, it vii/(Ly concern:

Be it known that I, IVIABCINE (J. LILLY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Maroa, in the county of Macon and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Loaders; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to a novel construction in a device for loading grain on cars, the object being to provide a simple and ellicient device of this character in which the grain is fed to the shovels at a point adjacent the deliveryspout, so as to be subjected to the action of said shovels as little as possible; and it consists in the features of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying d 'awings, illustrating my invention, Figure 1 is a view in elevation of the delivery side of a grain -loader constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section of same on the line 2 2 of Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of same on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1.

In loading grain from elevators into cars it is desirable that the same should be beaten or subjected to the action of shovels as little as possible to avoid breaking of the berries as far as possible. It is also desirable that such grain should be loaded at the least'possible expense for power and preferably be equally distributed at both ends of the car.

To these and other ends my device comprises a casing A, consisting of a horizontally-disposed cylinder having a tangential spout B at its lower end. Passing centrally through said casing is a shaft C, which is journaled adjacent one end in a bearing D in one of the side walls of said casing and at its other end in a bearing E, supported upon a standard F, bolted to said casing A. Mounted on said shaft C within said casing A are two frames G, each having three arms, on the free ends of which plates or shovels H are mounted. ()ne of the side walls of said casing A is provided with a large central opening through which a cylindrical drum J, cast integral with one of said arms Ur, projects, said drum being adapted to be revolved with said arms at relatively high speed. The outer end of said drum is closed by means of a disk or ring K, which is mounted upon the standard If, said disk having a large opening L, through which communication with the hopper M is established, the latter being adapted to receive the grain from an elevatorspout or other source of supply. Secured to said ring K is a deflecting-plate N, the lower edge of which is concentric with and lies in light contact with the inner face of said drum J, the inner end of said deflecting-plate being almost flush with the inner edge of said drum. The said deflecting-plate N is located above the lowermost point of the disk or ring K and so that a radius of same extending at an angle of substantially forty-live degrees to the vertical would intersect said plane substantially midway between its ends.

The grain entering my device through the opening L would obviously fall on the inner face of said drum J and by centrifugal force would be carried around by said drum against the inner face of said deflecting-plate N, and thereby be thrown into the path of the shovels H immediately in front of the mouth of the delivery-spout B, so that the shovels come in contact with said grain only to give same a final impetus into the spout.

As the grain is thoroughly agitated during its passage through the machine, the dust and dirt contained is freed, and to exhaust the same I provide perforations O in the peripheral wall of the casing adjacent the deliveryspout thereof, my device being thus also effective as a grain-cleaner.

I. claim as my invention 1. In a car-loader, the combination with a casing having inlet and delivery spouts, of a plurality of revoluble shovels in said casing, a revoluble drum in said casing disposed in the path of and adapted to receive incoming grain and revolve same by centrifugal force, and a deflecting-plate disposed in the path of the grain carried by said drum to discharge the sameinto the path of the shovels adjacent the delivery-spout.

2. In a car-loader, the combination with the casing and the revoluble shovels therein, of a IOO drum rotatable with said shovels and concentric with tllQEtXiS of rotation and projecting through an opening in one wall of said casing, a feed-spout communicating with said casing and delivering into said drum, and a deflecting-plate projecting into said drum and disposed in the path of the grain carried thereby, substantially as and for the purpose described.

3. In a car-loader, the combination with the casing and the shovels revolubly mounted therein, of a concentric drum rigid with said shovels and projecting through an opening in one wall of said casing, a feed-spout communicating with said drum, and a deflecting-plate projecting into the drum in the path of grain carried thereby, substantially as described.

4. A car-loader, comprising in combination a substantially cylindrical casing having a tangentially-disposed delivery-spout, a plurality of shovels revolubly mounted in said casing, a concentric drum rigid with said shovels and projecting through an opening in one side of said casing, a disk disposed in the outer end portion of said drum and rigidly mounted on said casing, a receiving-spout carried by said disk and communicating with the interior of said casing through an opening in said disk, and a deflecting-plate carried by said disk and projecting into said drum and disposed adjacent the inner face thereof in the path of grain carried by said drum, substantially as described.

5. In a car-loader, the combination with a casing having inlet and delivery spouts and provided with perforations for the passage of dust, of a plurality of revoluble shovels in said casing, a revoluble drum disposed in the path of the incoming grain and adapted to revolve the same by centrifugal force, and a defleeting-plate disposed in the path or the grain carried by said drum to discharge the same into the path of the shovels and adjacent the delivery-spout.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' MARCINE C. LILLY. Witnesses:

RUDOLPH IVM. Lorz, F. SoHLoTFELD.

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