US163085A - Improvement in presses for cider - Google Patents

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H. KRUMSIBK.

Press for Cider, 8w.

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UNITED STATES 2 FFIC.

IMPROVEMENT IN PRESSES FOR CIDER, &c.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 163,085, dated May 11, 1875; application filed October 31, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY KRUMSICK, of Nashville, Washington county, Illinois, have invented a new and Improved Press, of which the following is a specification Figure 1 represents a vertical longitudinal section of my improved press on the line 0 c, Fig. 2; and Fig. 2 is a horizontal section of the same on the line a: m, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Elastic blocks have been hitherto interposed between the screw and follower of a press, for the purpose of supplementing the pressure of the screw by expansion of the blocks but they have been so arranged that there was lack of steadiness and directness of pressure; hence increase of friction and aconsequent loss of power, and liability of breaking the thread in operating the screw to force the follower down.

To remedy this and other defects of the former plan, I arrange elastic blocks between two parallel cross-bars of the press-frame, one of which is fixed, and the other ertically adjustable, its ends being tenoned and fitted in elongated mortisesin the uprights of the frame, as hereinafter described.

In the drawing, A represents the frame of an y wine, cider, tobacco, or other press; B, the follower; O, the screw, working in the socket D, the lateral cross-bar, in which of the same;

the upper screw end acts, and which slides by means of narrower end pieces a in grooves b of the side beams of frame A. Between the sliding cross-bar D and the strong stationary cross-bar D, at the top of frame A, are interposed powerful rubber, car, or other springs E, which get depressed by the turning of the screw and lowering of the follower on the material to be pressed, so that they keep up the pressure thereon after the screw has been turned sufficiently.

By the arrangement above described the blocks or springsE are held securelyin place, and require no attention in the operation of the press. The bar D is also prevented turning or changing its position, except Vertically, and the action on the head of the screw is equable and uniform, so that the best or full effect is obtained from the force applied in turning it.

Having thus described myinvention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent In a press, the arrangement of the springs E, fixed and movable cross-bars D D, and the uprights A A, having elongated mortises b b, all as shown and describet HENRY KRUMSIOK. Witnesses:

FRIEDRICH KORF, CHRISTIAN ScHRo'rH.

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