US Patent: 3,120,173
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| Process and Conveyor Device for Feeding Sugar Cane in a Mill Train
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Patentee:
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| Peel René Payet (exact or similar names) - Combuston, Reunion |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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| Applied: |
May 03, 1960 |
| Granted: |
Feb. 04, 1964 |
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Joel Havens
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Description: |
| Claims priority application in France, 18 Jul., 1960.
Abstract:
The purpose of the invention is to produce a process enabling sugar cane to be conveyed at the required speed in a mill train. Another purpose of the invention is to produce a device enabling very high conveying speeds to be obtained and a regular feed 'to the three-roller crushing mills. Another purpose of the invention is automatically to rid the sugar cane of the tramp iron that may be found therein.
Claim:
Apparatus comprising a conveyor having a discharge end and adapted to carry chopped sugar cane i the direction of said end, a mill including a feed roll and a plurality of roller crushers, said feed roll being tangential to one roller crusher and spaced from the second thereby forming an intake for receiving said chopped cane positioned at ,a level below said end, means for engaging said choppedsugar cane in said end and projecting it from said end in a first direction angularly above the direction of said intake, said means comprising a rotor and blades and deflection means positioned in the path of said first direction for deflecting said sugar cane in a second substantially downward direction towards said intake whereby said chopped cane is rammed into said intake. |
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