Scientific American Supplement, No. 613, October 1, 1887Various
Science
Scientific American Supplement, No. 613, October 1, 1887
Various
Science -- Periodicals
Figs. 15 and 16 (I) give sectional views of a brake for hanging
machines. Figs. 19, 20, and 21 give two sections and a view of a brake
which can be used on both hanging and standing machines. A very simple
form of brake is shown in Figs. 24, 26, and 27 (A), a mere block
pressing on the rim of the basket.
OIL AND FAT.--A machine in most respects like a whizzer is used for the
"extraction of oil and fat and oily and fatty matters from woolen yarns
and fabrics, and such other fibrous material or mixtures of materials
as are from their nature affected in color or quality when hydrocarbons
are used for the purpose of extracting such oily or fatty matters, and
are subsequently removed from the material under treatment by the slow
process of admitting steam, or using other means of raising the
temperature to the respective boiling points of such hydrocarbons, and
so driving them off by evaporation." In the centrifugal method
carbon-bisulphide, or some other volatile agent, is admitted and is
driven through the material by centrifugal force, when the necessary
reactions take place, and is allowed to escape in the form of
hydrocarbons. A machine differing only in slight particulars from the
above is used for cleansing wool.
LOOSE FIBER.--Another application is the drying of loose fiber. Two
distinctive points deserve to be noticed in the centrifugal used for
this purpose. An endless chain or belt provided with blades moves the
material vertically in the basket, and discharges it over the edge.
During its upward course the material is subjected to a shower of water
to wash it.
OIL FROM METAL CHIPS.--Very material savings are made in many factories
by collecting the metal chips and turnings, coated and mixed with oil,
which fall from the various machines, and extracting the oil
centrifugally. The separator consists of a chip holder, having an
imperforate shell flaring upward and outward from the spindle (in fixed
bearings) to which it is attached. When filled, a cover is placed upon
it and keyed to the spindle. Between the cover and holder there is a
small annular opening through which oil, but not chips, can escape.
Fig. 29 (Pat. 225,949--C.F. Roper) is designed (like the greater part
of the drawings inserted) to show relative position of parts merely,
and not relative _size_. This style of machine can be used for sugar
separating (Pat. 345,994--F.P. Sherman) and many other purposes, to
which, however, there are other styles more especially adapted.
[Illustration: Fig. 29.]
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