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the floor of the mill. The shaft 78 is mount-
ed in suitable bearings on a board 8 and is
screw-threaded for an indicator-nut 8S] , which
as the shaft 78 is turned passes over a series
5 of indicating guide-marks 82, which in prac-
tice may be provided with suitable designat-
ing characters.
I will explain the operation of my device
in connection with the manufacture of a
1a stock-feed. Into the hopper 2, which may
be moved along to any convenient point on
the trough 23, is thrown a continuous supply
of one material-e. g., cotton-seed hulls. By
reason of the recessed face 21 of the forward
15 end of the hopper 2 the conveying-screw,
which it is understood is similar to the screw
31 (shown in Fig. 1,) always carries a full load,
which is deposited into the feed end of the
trough 3. The hopper 38 may be used to
^o hold meal of any desired nature. The gate
39 being opened, this meal drops into the
hopper 34, from whence it is fed, by means of
the power-gate 35, into the trough 3. The
cutter 310 may be used to deposit in the
25 trough 3 roughage, as cut sorghum-stalks or
the like. It will be understood that the
screw 31 acts to a considerable extent to mix
the hulls from the hopper 2 and the meal
from the hopper 38. These, with the cut
30 stalks from the cutter 310, are carried
through the conveyer 4 and deposited into
the. trough 5 near its feed end. The trough
5 is run at a considerable speed, so as to thor-
oughly mix the three materials together, and
35 at its discharge end empties into the trough
6, as shown. Into the trough 6, adjacent
its feed end, is fed a supply of liquid food, as
molasses, from the tank 64, the supply being
graduated by the pump 65. The screw con-
40 veyer in the trough 6 acts to moisten the
solid materials and to thoroughly mix them
with each other and with the molasses or
other liquid, discharging them at its outer
end into a spout, (not shown,) from which
45 they may be conveyed to the car or wagon,
as desired.
A special feature of my device is that each
of the materials may be exactly measured
without interrupting the operation of the
50 machine, so that the proportions of the vari-
ous materials in the feed may be adjusted as
desired. This I accomplish by the means
already described, whereby the operator by
turning the handle 79 is enabled to vary con-
55 tinuously and accurately the speed of any of
the shafts by which each of the.screw con-
veyers or the pump is run. In practice the
graduations 82 on the board 8 may be
marked with figures indicating not the speed
Go of revolution of the screw-conveyer shaft, as
24, or of either of the pulleys 71 or 72, but
with characters indicating the number of
pounds, bushels, or other units of the partic-
lar material delivered. To facilitate this
65 exactness of mixture, I have shown the mo-lasses-tank 64 as mounted on a scale 610, by
means of which the weight of a given quan-
tity of molasses in the tank 64 may be ascer-
tained and the amount of its dilution calcu-
lated. 70
It is obvious that the indicator for show-
ing the quantity of any desired material fed
into the mixed mass may be used with any
device in which the effective diameter of the
driving and driven pulleys, or either of them, 75
may be varied, or, more broadly, it may be
used in connection with any variable-speed-
power-transmitting device in which the vari-
ation is either continuous or by very small
increments. 8o
By making the hopper, such, e. g., as that
marked Fig. 1 in the drawings, longitudi-
nally movable along the trough into which it
feeds the operator is enabled to easily fil the
same from any desired point with a mini- 85
mum of labor, while the amount carried by
the screw is unchanged.
It is evident that the particular arrange-
ment of the plant is unimportant and sub-
ject to considerable change, as desired. 90
What I claim is-
1. In a mixing plant, a conveying and
mixing trough, means for continuously feed-
ing a plurality of different materials to said
trough, a. second mixing and conveying 95
trough, means for delivering the mixed con-
tents of said first-named trough to said last-
named trough, means for feeding a liquid
material to said last-named trough, and -in-
dependent means for varying the quantity of moo
each of said materials fed to said troughs.
2. In 'a mixing plant, a conveying and
mixing trough, means for continuously feed-
ing a plurality of different materials to said
trough, a second mixing and conveying 105
trough, means for delivering the mixed con-
tents of said first-named trough to said last-
named trough, means for feeding a liquid
material to said last-named trough, and in-
dependent means including an indicating- i110
gage for varying the quantity of each of said
materials fed to said troughs without inter-
ruption of the feeding and mixing operations.
3. In a mixing plant, a conveyer-trough, a
rotary feed-screw in said trough, and a hop- 115
per movable longitudinally of said trough
and having its forward end formed with a
projection extending downwardly into said
trough and recessed to fit the periphery of
said screw. 12C
4. In combination, a power-transmission
device, means for varying the speed of the
driven portion of said device including a
threaded shaft, and an indicating device com-
prising a second threaded shaft, means con- 125
nesting said shafts for simultaneous move-
ment, manual means for turning said last-
named shaft at will, a nut longitudinally
movable on said last-named shaft, and a
scale on which said nut runs. 130. 2
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Binnings, Charles Elijah. Mixing Plant., patent, March 3, 1906; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth512314/m1/3/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.