US Patent: 5,464X
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| Breaking hemp and flax
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Patentees:
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| James Y. Watson (exact or similar names) - Blossom, Washington County, NY |
| John Blossom (exact or similar names) - Salem, Washington County, NY |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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| Granted: |
Apr. 21, 1829 |
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Joel Havens
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Description: |
| Most of the patents prior to 1836 were lost in the Dec. 1836 fire. Only about 2,000 of the almost 10,000 documents were recovered. Little is known about this patent. There are no patent drawings available. This patent is in the database for reference only.
"This machine is intended for breaking hemp and flax, either before or after being water rotted. Two hollow cylinders, three feet long and four or five feet in diameter, are placed to revolve horizontally, one above the other, and in opposite directions, Their peripheries are fluted, or reeded, and touch each other within half an inch. Each cylinder is surrounded, for nearly two-thirds of its surface, with rollers of four inches diameter, very nearly touching each other, and approaching the large cylinder within one-fourth of an inch. The rollers are capable of receding by the agency of springs, by which they are borne up. These rollers extend from the top of the upper cylinder, as nearly as possible to its junction with the lower cylinder, which lower cylinder is surrounded by small rollers in like manner, but upon the opposite side.
A feeding apron like that of a carding machine, supplies the upper roller, and a receiving table, or apron, below the lower roller, conducts the material off after it has passed through the rollers.
The machinery must be properly geared, and may be turned by any sufficient power.
The arrangement of the fluted rollers and cylinders, and the steel springs by which the rollers are borne up, form the substance of the claim."
Journal of the Franklin Institute Vol. 5, Aug. 1829 pgs. 114-115 |
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