US18342A - Machine eor shucking and shelling cohht - Google Patents

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No. 18,342. Patented ocr. 6, 1857.

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SANFORD KINGSBERY, OF OARROLLTON, GEORGIA.

MACHINE FOR SHUCKING- AND SHELLING CORN.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 18,342, dated October 6, 185'?.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SANFORD KINGSBERY, of Carrollton, in the count-y of Carroll and State of Georgia, have invented a new and Improved Machine for Shucking and Shelling Corn; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification.

In the said drawings, Figure l, is a top view, and Fig. 2, a side elevation of my improved machine for shucking and shelling corn; and Figs. 3, t, 5, and 6, are representations of detached portions of said machine.

Similar letters indicate like parts in each drawing.

A suitable supporting frame for my improved machine for shucking and shelling corn, is clearly represented in the accompanying drawings; this may be constructed of any suitable material, and in any manner that will give it the proper degree of strength and stability.

lUpon a suitable driving shaft D, which must be placed in a horizontal, or nearly a horizontal position, I secure a strong wheel A, of forty-two inches in diameter or thereabout. One or both sides of said wheel I arm with peculiarly arranged lateral teeth; viz; at the distance of some eight or ten inches from the center of the face of said wheel, commences the innermost of two, three, or four annular rows g, g, of teeth, which gradually increase in length from the innermost to the outermost of said rows; and outside of the said annular rows of teeth g, g, the face of the wheel is armed with alternating fan-shaped series of teeth f, f, which gradually increase in length as they pass outward to the periphery of the wheel.

In practice, I find that a suitable length for the actuating teeth on the face of the wheel A, is to give the inner row of teeth g, the length of half an inch, and the extreme outermost teeth f, the length of one inch and a half, and to have the intermediate teeth gradually increase in length from the former to the latter of the said enumerated teeth. I also find that the machine works well in practice, when the respective series of teeth f, f, ocupy about the same space as the blank surfaces between said series of teeth. I have also discovered that when the entire face of the wheel A, is armed with teeth, the said teeth very soon fill up with shucks and the machine becomes inoperative until its actuating teeth have been cleaned of the said clogging shucks.

At the side of the face of the wheel A, and as near to its shaft as practicable, I secure to the frame of t-he machine, the vertical tapering concave B, whose shape is represented by Figs. l, 5, and G, of the accompanying drawings; the inner surface of said concave being of such a shape that all parts thereof will be equidistant from the extremities of the respective series of teeth f, and g, which project from the face of the wheel A. Two of the said concaves can be used in conjunction with the toothed face of the wheel A; viz; one placed on each side of the shaft of the said wheel. Both sides of the wheel A, may be armed, with teeth, and therefore, four of the vertical tapering concaves may be used in combination with one doubly-armed actuating wheel.

The lower extremity of the tapering concave B, should extend but a very short distance below the shaft of the wheel A. When the lower end of the said concave is allowed to extend much below the axis of the wheel A, the cobs, I find, are broken into small pieces by the double action of the actuating teeth.

The unshucked ears of corn must always be inserted butt-end foremost into the concave B; and when so inserted, if a sufficiently high speed is at the time imparted to the wheel A, the shucks will be at once severed from the ear and pass out at the side of the upper portion of said concave, while the ear will descend and will lose every kernel of its corn before its cob emerges from the lower end of said concave; the shucking operation being accomplished by the outer series of teeth f, f, and the operation of shelling being principally accomplished by the annular rows of teeth g, g.

That I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of the toothed face, or faces, of the wheel A, with the tapering concorn, signed and witnessed this eighth day of August 1857.

SANFORD KINGSBERY.

Witnesses:

GEORGE M. ADAMS, Z. C. ROBBINS.

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