US Patent: 5,465X
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| Machine for Making Cider
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Patentee:
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| Moses B. Bliss (exact or similar names) - Pittston, Kennebeck County, ME |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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Apr. 21, 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. Only the patent drawing is available. This patent is in the database for reference only.
“This improvement consists in combining in one moveable and entire machine, the process of reducing apples to pummage, and of extracting the liquor, by means of a newly constructed vertical wheel for grinding, its combination with other wheels, and the application of these wheels, rack and pinions, for pressing; known by the name of the 6 Moveable cider mill and press.
The wheel has an axis fastened in its centre, on which it revolves; its periphery is smooth, and its surfaces straight from the centre: on both surfaces are fixed a convenient number of teeth, of steel or iron, projecting horizontally, a proper length to operate on the apples. Over this wheel is a hopper (to retain and conduct the apples) decreasing at right angles with the axis as it descends towards the wheel; on both sides of the wheel, directly over the axis, is a partition, so as to admit the apples to come in contact with either quarter of each side of the wheel. The hopper, together with the wheel, may be placed on the frame of the machine, over a box into which the pummage falls for pressing.
The wheel is to be put in motion by means of a small pulley fixed to its shaft, and a band extending to a horizontal band wheel. perpendicular shaft of this wheel is a pinion which mashes into a cog wheel; and a pinion on the shaft of the cog wheel engages with a rack upon the piston. The rack must be disengaged from the pinion by removing a key from behind the piston, when the machine is in operation for grinding, as the piston head forms one end of the box, and must remain stationary when grinding: The power is applied to the shaft of the cog wheel, when a motion is required for grinding, and to the shaft of the band wheel when the pressing is performed; this is done by removing a sweep from one shaft to the other. After the pummage is sufficiently pressed, the bulkhead of the box is removed, and the piston extended to the front of the box, to free it of the pummage. The machine rests on two pair of wheels; one pair being smaller than the other, and adapted to turning, like the forward wheels of a wagon. It may be drawn by cattle by means of a tongue fixed to the axle of the smaller wheels. This mode of obtaining power and motion, and the manner of moving the machine, has nothing peculiar in it.
A particular description of the frame for supporting the machinery, the dimensions of the wheels, &c., and their positions, is deemed unnecessary, because they may be varied according to circumstances.”
Journal of the Franklin Institute Vol. 5, Aug. 1829 pgs. 134-135
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