US Patent: 5,602X
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| Machine for Breaking Hemp and Flax
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Patentee:
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| J. L. F. Roumage (exact or similar names) - New York, NY |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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Aug. 06, 1829 |
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Joel Havens
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| 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.
“For a Machine for Breaking Flax, Hemp, and every kind of Textile Plant, rotted, or unrotted; J. L. F. Roumage, New York, August 6.
We have here another machine for breaking flax, &c. in which the fluted rollers surround, in part, the circumference of a large cog wheel, which causes them to revolve by the gearing of its teeth into the leaves of their pinions; resembling, in this particular, that described by Mr. Tibbitts, (No. 1,) and that of Barnum and Stevenson, p. 252.
A large iron cog wheel, 6 feet in diameter, and having 256 teeth, is made to run vertically, its axis being supported by a strong frame of timber. Two semicircular segments of cast-iron are fastened to the wooden frame; these segments receive 33 pair of fluted rollers, one pair of which are of cast-iron, and the others of hard wood. The gudgeons of these rollers run in boxes, fixed in slots, cast in the segments. The lower roller of each pair has a pinion of 11 leaves on one of its gudgeons, to gear into the large cog wheel. The outer roller of each pair is driven by the motion of the inner. The segments are, of course, of such a size as to admit the cog wheel to stand within one of them, so that it may drive all the pinions. The upper roller of each pair is pressed down upon the lower roller, by means of a steel spring in the form of the letter C; one end of the spring resting upon the box of the upper roller, and the other against the end of the slot in which the box is contained. The larger wheel may be driven in any convenient way.. It is proposed to use feeding and receiving aprons, although, it is observed, the feeding and receiving may be done by hand.
There is no claim to any part of the machine.”
Journal of the Franklin Institute Vol. 8, Nov. 1829 pg. 330
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