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UNITED STATESPATENT OFFICE.
JOHN T. HUSTON, OF HENDERSON, TEXAS.,.
PEANUT-SHELLING MACHINE.Specification of Letters Patent.
Patented July 14,1914.
Application filed December 1, 1913. Serial No. 804,005.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, JOHN T. HUsTON, a
citizen of the United States, residing at
Henderson, in the county of Rusk, State of
5 Texas, have invented certain new and use-
ful Improvements in Peanut - Shelling Ma-
chines; and I do hereby declare the follow-
ing to be a full, clear, and exact description.
of the invention, such as will enable others
10 skilled in the art to which it appertains to
make and use the same.
This invention relates to improvements
in peanut shelling machines.
One object of the invention is to provide
15 a machine of this character which can be
readily adjusted for different sizes and
grades of nuts.
Another object is to provide a device of
this character in which the tension between
20 the cylinder and concave can be quickly and
easily regulated.
Other objects and advantages will be ap-
parent from the following description, when
taken in connection with the accompanying
25 drawings.
In the drawings: Figure 1 is a side ele-
vation of my improved peanut shelling ma-
chine. Fig. 2 is a top plan view thereof.
Fig. 3 is a vertical longitudinal sectional
30 view on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is
a plan view of the blank which forms the
concave.
Referring particularly to the accompany-
ing drawings, 10 represents a suitable hous-
35 ing in which is journaled a transverse shaft
11, and fixed on this shaft is the shelling
cylinder 12. The outer face of this cylin-
der carries a plurality of longitudinal cor-
rugations 13. The cylinder may be made of
40 any suitable material, as wood, iron or the
like. These corrugations may be formed in-
tegrally with the cylinder or secured there-
on in any suitable manner. Pivotally
mounted on the upper portion of the hous-
45 ing, above the cylinder is a downwardly in-
clined feed board 14, this board resting on
a transverse supporting strip 15, which strip
is secured at its ends to the side walls of the
housing, above the cylinder. Pivotally
50 mounted in the upper portion of the hous-
ing but at the opposite end to that at which
the board 14 is pivoted, is a downwardly
and inwardly inclined feed board 16. Ex-
tending transversely under the board 16 is
55 a bearing strip 17 which is engaged by the
lower end of an adjusting screw 18 thread-ed through a suitable block 19 carried by
the board 16. Arranged transversely on the
lower side of the inner end of the board 16
is a strip 20 which carries a pair of screw 60
bolts 21 the heads of which project above
the board 16 for a purpose which will ap-
pear hereinafter. Secured to the end wall
of the housing, below the pivot of the board
14 is a transverse strip 22, this strip also car- 65
rying a pair of screw bolts 23, the heads
of which project inwardly from the inner
face of said strip.
A concave 24, formed of any suitable ma-
terial, but preferably heavy sheet metal has 70
one of its ends bent at an angle to the body
of the plate as indicated at 25, and provided
with a pair of openings 26, this portion 25
resting on the lower end of the board 16,
and receiving the bolts 21 through the open- 75
ings 26 thereof. The plate 24 is bowed un-
der, and spaced concentrically from the' cyl-
inder, and has in its other end the key-hole
slots 27 which are engaged over the head-
ed ends of the bolts 23. Thus the concave is 80
disposed in proper spaced relation around
the lower portion of the cylinder and sup-
ported at its opposite ends. By rotating the
screw 18, the end 25 of the concave can be
raised and lowered to move the concave to- 85
ward and away from the cylinder to regu-
late the space therebetween for different
sized nuts.
In the end wall of the casing below the
strip 22 is formed a discharge opening 28 go
for the shells and chaff of the nuts, and in-
clining downwardly from the lower side of
this opening and terminating below a nut
discharging opening in the opposite end of
the housing is a baffle or slide 30. Mounted 95
in the housing above the opening 29 is a
fan casing 31, this casing having a revolving
fan 32 arranged therein and mounted on a
transverse shaft 33. At the lower side of
the inner portion of the casing 31 is an air loo
discharge spout 34, this spout discharging
upwardly against the slide 30 and in the
direction of the opening 28 for blowing the
shells and chaff out of the housing. Secured
to the inner portion. of the housing 31 and 105
extending inwardly toward the slide 30 is a
baffle 35 so arranged as to deflect the shells
and kernels onto the slide 30 across the cur-
rent of air issuing from the spout 34. The
shells will be blown through the opening 28, 110
while the kernels will roll down the slide 30
out of the opening 29 where they will be1,103,291.
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Huston, John T. Peanut-Shelling Machine., patent, July 14, 1914; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth858911/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.