US77075A - Improvement in feathebreenoyatob - Google Patents

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MOOREHEAID & ELLIOTT.

Feather Renovator.

Patented April 21; 1868.

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JAMES C. MOOREIZIEAD A-ND WILLIAM ELLIOTT, OF NEW MADRID,

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I Letters Patent a. 77,075, dated Apt; 21, 1868;

IMPROVEMENT IN FEATHER-RENQVATOR.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that we, JAMES C. MOOREHEAD and WILLIAM W. ELLIorT,'of the city and county of New Madrid, and State of Missouri, have invented a new and improved Feather'Renovator; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference bc'ing had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is an end View, a portion ofthe wall having been broken away.

.Figure 2 is an axial section of the cylinder.

Figure 3 is a cross-section of thesame.

' Figure 4 is a cross-section of the steam-boiler.

In this invention two boilers are employed,.one containing pure water,.-and the other containing certain chemicals in solution. The steam from these boilers is'carried in separate pipes to the cylinder, where the jets are united and discharged among the feathers. The latter are beaten and shaken, while under the action of the steam, until thoroughly cleansed. I 4 l In the drawings, A represents a sheet-iron stove, about eighteen inches in width, twenty-one in height,and twenty-four in length, and provided with two transverse rods, a a, seven inches fromthc top, to support-the steamsboile r, B. I l

The latter is about seventeen inches in diameter and twenty-four in height, and is divided into two parts,- band 6', by a transverse partition, four and ahalf inches from its upper end. Several flues, U 0, pass through the part-b, beihg open at botheuds, and allowing the smoke, heat, &c., to pass from the fire in the stove to the chamber 6, and thence to the open air, through the smoke-flue E.

Dis a cylindrical tin boiler, about eight inches in diameter and nine in height, which sits in the top of the boiler B, as seen in fig-:1, receiving heat from the hot air, 850., passing through the chamber 6. The lower' boiler is for the purpose of generating steam from pure water, and the upper oneis for the purpose of generating steam from a solution of chemicals. Both boilers are provided with feed-pipes, ff, and with steam-pipes, G G, through which the steam from each is carried to the feathers. v

I is a horizontal cylinder, about eight feet long and twenty-eight inches in diameter, its periphery being composed of staves or slats of wood, it, slightly separated, so that the dirt and steam campass out between them. The cylinder is hung upon a tubular reyolving axleo'r shaft, J, with which both steam-pipesconnectms shown at g. Two or more bent pipes, K K, extend from near one end of the shaft, within the cylinder, out towards the perimeter of the latter, then back to the opposite end of the cylinder to which they are attached, as shown at is k. Each of these pipes isperforated alongits outer side, as seen at m m, and is provided with a series of slide-valves, o 0, connected by a rod, 11, the-end of which passes through one end of the cylinder, and forms a handle by ivhich the valves can be adjusted, some to admit any required amount of steam to the featherst The ends of these pipes are closed, but are provided with stop-cocks, r r, to permit the condensed steam to escape. p

The method of operating this machine is as follows: We till the steam-boiler .B with the proper quantity of water, then place in the chemical-boiler D two gallons of pure water, one-fourth ounce chloride of lime, onefourth ounce nitrate of potassa, one-fourth ounce cream of tartar, the latter having'been dissolved in one pint of warm water. We bring the liquids in both vessels to a boil, and commingle their steam in the shaft'J, asabovc' dcsc'ribed,'the valves 0 o being closed. We then empty the feathers into the cy linder,-by"means of a door, P, in the perimeter of the latter, set the cylinder in motion, and open the valves 0 o, letting on the steam, which moistens the feathers while the cylinder revolves When they have been subjected to this action twenty-five minutes, we close the'valves o 0, and keep the'cylinder in motion about half an hour, which thoroughly dries the feathers, when they are removed from the cylinder, and are found to be'thoroughly cleansed and renovated.

Having thus described our inventicmwhat we claim as'new, and desire to-securo by Letters Patent, is

1. In a maehine for renovating feathers, we claim'the combination efithe' water-boiler B with the chemical- .boiler-D and the pipes G G, for the purpose of generating, conveying, and uniting the two kinds of steam, preparatory to subjecting the feathers to their joint action. I

2. The cylinder I, when constructed of slats i z z, slightly separated, in the manner and for the purpose set forth.

3. The coznbination, within a revolving cylinder, of the tubularshaft J with the pipes K K, the latter being provided with valves 0 o a, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

4. The combination of the boilerstD D, pipes G G, eylinderl, shaft J, pipes K K, valves 0 0 o, and stopcoeks 1- r, subs antially as and for the purpose set forth- 5. We claim the method of purifying and renovating feathers, substantially as herein described.

The above specification of our invention signed by us, this 22d day of February, 1868.

' JAMES C. MOOREHEAD,

WILLIAM W. ELLIOTT.

Witnesses:

RIcnD H. HATCHER, B. F. BOYCE.

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