US Patent: 349,503
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| Machine for Breaking and Cutting Cane
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Patentee:
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| Thomas F. Krajewski (exact or similar names) - New York, NY |
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Patent Dates:
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Sep. 21, 1886 |
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Joel Havens
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Description: |
| Blaisdell Machinery Co. became United States & Cuban Allied Works Engineering Corp. in 1918.
Abstract:
The object of this machine is to prepare any kind of cane and other substances, more especially sugar-cane, so us to facilitate its crushing or pressing and the extraction of juice. Sugarcane is generally crushed by two or more smooth-faced rollers, which receive cane in the same condition as it is gathered in the field. It is impossible to space the cane so evenly throughout the length of the rollers that uniform thickness of it will enter between them; hence, generally, there will be a great quantity of cane at certain points and very little or possibly none at all at other points. Plus some portions of the cane will receive less pressure than others, and consequently much available juice is left in the cane. Rollers as ordinarily constructed have to break the cane as well as to express the juice, and hence it requires great power to do the work. This waste of power can be saved by the employment of a separate mechanism appropriate for she work of breaking or cutting the cane. I employ a separate mechanism for breaking or cutting the cane, so that it can be delivered to the mill in more uniform thickness throughout the length of the rollers, so as to reduce the work of the latter to pressing the cane. The pressing-rollers can then be placed nearer to- ;ether than ordinarily, and greater pressure exerted on the cane, resulting in a yielding of ai greater percentage of juice.
Claim:
The combination of rollers provided externally with more or less sharp teeth having a zigzag trend in the direction of the length of the rollers, said teeth intermeshing but not coming in contact with each other", and when intermeshed being equidistant from each other, said rollers being geared together in order to maintain their relative positions toward each other. |
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