US821811A - Beet-washing machine. - Google Patents

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No. 821,811. v PATENTED MAY 29, 1906.

A. MAGUIN.

BEET WASHING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.4, 1904.

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BEET WASHING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAB. 4, 1904.

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No. 821,811. PATENTED MAY 29, 1906. A. MAGUIN.

BEET WASHING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR-4.190%.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented m 29,1906.

Application filed March 4,1904. Serial n. 196,706.

'To all whom it may concern.- Be it known that I, ALFRED MAGUIN, a citizen of the Republic of France, residing at Charmes, France, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Beet-Washing than that of water; second, that if the sugarspecific gravity are subjected to the I of an upwardly-moving column of l suitable casing.

5 p. the sugar-beet. -B etween and '3 is a screen 2, throu discharged into dotted lines the several gears forming lines.

which for the purposes term, respectively; the

beet and the usual accompanying bodiessuch as stones, iron, &c.-having a greater action sufficient volume to float the beets,jbut not to overcome the gravital action'of the bodies of greater specific ravityaccompanying the beets, then an .e 'cient separationof the beets from: such accompanying bodies may be reflected The accompanying drawings will'serve to illustrate my invention, and in which Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical central section of the device.

3 is a cross-section on the Fi line 3 3 of Fi 1 looking g from the right and showing 11111 t e driving connection between the shafts. Fig. 4 is a side eleyation of amodification with certain of the interior arts indicated in dotted Fig 5 is ap an view of the machine shown in -i 4, and Fig. 6 is a cross-section on line 6 6, o

7 Referring to t ,e drawings, which show two different constructions through which my invention may be carried dicate four .ohambers, contained. within a chambers 1 an is agrating 1, the bars of which are sufliciently'sepa'rated to permit the assage of stones, ,nails,-&c., but not that of the chambers 2 the cham flow to the of description I Wlll receiving-chamber r 2 may chamber-3. 'Betwe'en water of ranged. :The shaft 14 is ada Fig. 2 is a plan view.

intd effect, 1 2 3 4 in-' Interposed between the follows: A sufficient amount of water 'is introduced into the casing to completel fill h which the water chambers 1 and and the "discharging-chamber, is a partition 5, cut away at'its upper side, as indicated at 6, Fig. 3, and between the chambers 3 and 4 there is a partition 7, inthe up or portion of which is arranged a tube 8. In this tube is situated an Architated by means of a belt-pulley 11 or other convenient means. in a direction to propel water from chamber 3 to chamber 4- and upward through chamber 1 to chamber 2.

horizontal y-disposed jmedean screw 9, mounted on a shaft 10, journaled in the base of the machine and ro- 12 12 are manholes in-the base of the casing, through which stones, dirt, or other accumulated materials may be removed. I

Connected to the discharge-chamber 2 is a washing-chamber 13, tion corresponds to that of the ordinary cy'- lindrical washing-machine. The bottom of which in constructhis chamber is shown as situated on the.

same level as that of the bottom of thechambers 1 and 2. A shaft 14 extends through and located in the chambers 2 and 13 are a series of radial beater-arms 15, spirally ar- I ted to be rotated at a low rate of speed y means of a gear-wheel 16,-meshing with gear 16*, driven by a pinion 17 on shaftlo or y other convenient means.

above.

. In the apparatus chambers 1 2' 3 4 are parallel 'to the planes occupied by the shafts. 14 10. In; the modian intermediate the chambers 1 2, and 13, and on this shaft I described" (mu-s. :trated in Figs. 1, 2, and 3) theplanes in which the circulating fluid travels through the,

fication shown in Fi s. 4, .5, 6 the iElaneiof the circulation is at rig. t angles to sa shafts. In suchconstruction the cirulation of the water through the chambers 1 2 3 4 is effected by means of two Archimedean screws of opposite pitch 19 19*, located in a tube 8*, the screwsbeing so arranged as to draw water through the opposite ends 18 18 of the tube (best shown in Fig. 4) and to discharge it at themiddle of the tube through an opening 20 into the chamber 4.

The operation of my improved device is as the chambers 3 and 4 and partia ly fil the chambers 1, 2, and

13. The shafts 10 and -14" are then set in rotation and through them ire) bodies. The beets after passing over the now fed into the chamber 1 and by reason of 7 their Weight fall upon the grating 1 At the bodies are subjected to the action of a bo water projected upward by the influence of the screw 9 or screws 19 19 through the rating 1. The upward velocity of the b0 y of fluid is made sufficient to lift the beets, whose specific gravity is but slightly greater than water, and float them over the partition 5, but not sufficient to overcome the ravital movement of the stones, nails, an other bodies of greater specific gravity than the beets, which bodies pass through the grating 1 and settle-upon the bottom of the chamber 4, from whence they may be removed through a manhole 12 when a 'sufiicient amount has been accumulated. Thus the beets while floating from chamber 1 to chamber 2 in the moving body of water are effectually separated from "the accompanying artition 5 and being no longer subjecte to the upward action of the body of water fall .upon the screen 2 in chamber 2, the water passing through the screen into the chamber 3. In the chamber 2 and in the chamber 13 the bodies are subjected to the beating and forwardly-propelling action of the beaterarms 15, the beets being tossed and tumbledthrough the water which separates them from mud and clay, as-in any ordinary washingmachine, until the rear end of the chamber 13 .is re'ached, whe n they are discharged from the machine in the usual manner. It will be observed that by reason of the 'disposition of the several'chambers, partitions, and screwor' screws a given volume ofwater is maintained in continuous 'circul a tion, thereby econo'mizing Water, and, further, that the beets during" the'time they are in chamber 1-6. 0., during the time that they ares'eparatingfrom the bodies of greater specific gravity-are not subjected to any a mechanical force which in any. wise'will injure them.

; Having th s described invention, I

elaim' 7 i A beet-washingmachina com rising a senes of connected chambers, inclu g. a ren ceiving, a=discharging-'-,'and a washingcha-m ber, a gratingin the bottom of the receiving.-

jected in an upward. grating, and into the receiving chamber,

chamber, agitatin and propelling means in the washing-cham er, and means for maintaining a body of water in circulation by drawing it from the discharging-chamber and delivering it in an upward direction ghrough the grating into the receiving-chamer. '2. In a beet-washing machine, the combir nation of a series of connected chambers, located on the same level, including areceiving, a discharging, and a washing chamber, a partition cut away at the'top between the receiving and discharging chambers, a g'ratin in the bottom of the receiving-chamber, an

meanswhereby a body's-of water may be drawn from the discharging-chamberfland projected upward, through the grating? nd into the receiving-chamber.

3. In a-beet-washing machine, the combi- I nation of a series of connected chambers, including a receiving, a discharging, a washing and a propelling chamber,-a partition cut "away at the tpp between the receiving and discharging chambers, a'grating in the bottom of the receiving-chamber, a partition having a central open ng dividing the propelling-cham- I ber, and water-propelling means in said propelling chamber, whereby water ma be drawn from the discharging-chamber an proirection, through the 4; In a beet-washing machine, the combination of a series of connected chambers forming a closed fluid-circulating system ineluding are'ceiving and a discharging -cham-,

ber, onapproximately the same level, and having perforatedbottoms, a partition betweenthese chambers cut away at the top, and means for drawing the fluid down through the bottom of thedischarging-chamber and forcing it up throughthe bottom of the receiving-chamber, a fluid-tight extension to said discharge-chamber, and means for gradually forcing the beets in said discharge-chamher into said extensi on.

In'testimonywhereof I aflix my signature in thepresence of two Witnesses.-

ALFBED MAGUIN.

, 'LWitnesses: i

- LLCARPENTIER, ."MUNNENUEL.

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