US325780A - Sieve for sifting flour - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

. -E.L.BARBER.

SIEV'E FOR SIFTING FLOUR, MEAL, m.

No. 325,780. Patented Sept. 8, 1885.

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EDWIN L. BABBEB, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SIEVE FORSIFTING FLOUR, MEAL, 840.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 325,780, dated September 8, 1885.

Application filed June 8, 1885. (No model.) 7

T 0 all whom it may concern.- 7

Be it known that I, EDWIN L. BARBER, a citizen of the United States, residing in Ohicago, in the State of Illinois, have made'cer tain new and useful Improvements in Sieves for Sifting Flour, Meal, &c., of which the fol lowing is a specification.

The object of this invention is to construct a simple and efiicient sieve, as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

Figure 1 is an elevation of the sieve with a portion cut away to show the interior parts. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the stern of the agitator placed on the outside of the body of the sieve.

A is the body, B the handle,and G the screen.

D is the agitator placed in the bottom of the sieve and over the screen. Attached to the agitator is the stem E, extending to the top of body A, then bent outwardly over the top of the body, and terminating in aproperhandle, F. The agitator is made of wire of the proper size and in elliptic form in outline.

The stem E is fastened in any suitable manner to the body of the sieve so as to allow the agitator to vibrate.

By holding the sieve-handle in one hand and moving the handle F to the right and left the agitator D moves in the same direction, thus causing the flour or other substance that may be in the sieve to be readily and quickly sifted. v

The shape of the agitator corresponds to the shape of the interior of the body of the sieve; hence as it moves over the screen no part of the screen within the range of the agitator. escapes being swept over.

In this construction of the sieve I hold it in one hand, and with the other hand the agitator is vibrated over: the screen, and thus the act of sitting is accomplished without moving the body of the sieve.

I claim As an article of manufacture, a sieve composed of a body provided with a handle, a flat screen, an agitator, a stern joined to the agitator at its periphery and extending up to the top of the body, then bent outwardly, and terminating in a hand-piece, all constructed substantially as described.

EDWIN L. BARBER.

Witnesses:

J. A. CoWLEs, S. M. DAVIES.

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