US342805A - Hop-press - Google Patents

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ALBERT MEYER, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

HOP-PRESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 342,805, dated June 1, 1886.

Application filed November 9, 1885. SerinlNo.192,30'l. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, ALBERT h/IEYER, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Machines for Pressing Hops, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of a baling-chamber dividedinto cells,and operated hya hydraulic press attached to the lower end of the chamher, which carries the chamber and cells upward against a series of fixed heaters connected to the frame of the machine.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a front elevation ofniy hop-pressing machine, partly in section. Fig. 2 is a plan of the balingchamber. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the baling-chamber, with one doordropped. Fig. 4 is a vertical section of the fixed heaters. Fig. 5 shows a package complete.

A is an iron frame upon which my press is The baling chamber B of my press is divided up transversely into cells B, each cell having the capacity to contain the number of pounds ofloose hops desired.

The press is operated by hydraulic power connected to the bottom of the machine at O, as shown,which gradually forces the chamber upward along the four posts D of the frame in the ways E.

The heaters F are suspended upon hangers and wheels G at the top of the frame, and opboards I are then put in the bottom of each cell, and the hops weighed in asmall scale, and poured into the cells until a sufficient number of pounds are received in each cell, when the follower frame or heaters are moved alongthe track into a vertical line with the cells, and the baling -chamber gradually carried up against the pressers or heaters. each heater entering one of the cells of the baling-chambers, and presses the hops in its cell down against the floor of the machine, and when sufficient pressure has been brought to bear upon the contents of the cells the balingchamber is lowered away from the heaters or pressers, and baling-boards placed upon the top of the pressed hopsin the cells, indicating oneor more pounds, as the case may be. fresh lot of hops is now weighed and poured into the cells upon the top of the bindingboards, and so on until the cells are filled up with the compressed bales and binding-hoards, as represented at J and J, Fig. 1, when the doors K, at each side of the baling chamber, are let down, and clamps L placed upon both ends of the baled product, which forms a package, as shown at Fig. 5, having four layers of hops, and five binding boards or pads held by the two end clamps, L.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a baling-press for hops, the balingchamher divided into a series of cells operated by hydraulic power, and adapted to he forced upward against a series of heaters upon a stationary follower of the same dimensions as that of the cells, substantially in the manner as herein set forth and specified.

2. In a machine for pressing and baling hops, the combination of a halingchamber provided with hinged side doors and transverse cells or compartments adapted to be forced upward against a series of stationary heaters or pressers, substantiallyin-the manner as herein set forth and specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand and seal.

ALBERT MEYER. [L. s.] Witnesses:

O. W. M. SMITH, CHAS. E. KELLY.

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