US286637A - Bebkabd bice - Google Patents

Description

B. RICE.

BEER CHIP.

(No Model.)

No. 286,637. Patented Got. 16, 1883.

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BY WM m WITNESSES: AWVJQQM ATTORNEY n. PETERS Phuurlilhnquphm. Washinglnn. n. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT Fries.

BERNARD RICE, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

BEER-CHIP...

SPEGIFIGATION forming part of "Letters Patent No. 286,637, dated October 16, 1883.

Application filed July 2, 1883. (No model.)

called, for clarifying the beer, which is per-- forated for the purpose of increasing its superficies and allowing a-circulation of liquid,

. the holes extending in parallel rows with those of the other, one row alternating with those of the other, so as to least weaken the article; also, in producing a roughened splintery edge on the veneer by breaking or splintering the same.

Heretofore beer-chips have been cut to a certain width by means of saws, knives, or shears, which gives the chip a comparatively smooth, edge,to which no particles in the beer will adhere, confining the clarifying functions to be performed solely through the surfaces of the chip. Should, as sometimes happens, two chips lie one upon the other, (which is never the case with the edges of a chip,) the surfaces of such chips, and consequently the chip itself, will be inoperative and useless as a clarifier in the vat. In order to meet this deficiency and increase the clarifying properties of the chip in general,l make the edges of the chip splintery. as shown in Fig. 2. Amore minute description of forming such splintery edges in the chip is given hereinafter. It will be seen and admitted that to the splintery edges of a chip impurities in the beer will readily ad here and be retained until cleansed and removed by the action of the water in the re= by subjecting the wood or veneer to the action of a pair of cutting-rolls, such as are described in Letters Patent No. 280,952, and

, presence of two witnesses.

granted to B. Rice, July 10, 1883. The wood or veneer is passed through the said-cuttingrolls, is wedged between the male and female cutters, which breaks or slits the veneer into chips, producing the desired splintery edges on the chips.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows a chip in plan view. Fig. 2 shows a chip with roughened edges. Fig. 3 shows an apparatus adapted to be used in the manufacture of the chip. 1

The letterA designates the body of the chip, which may be cut to any usual or suitable shape, and b are its holes or perforations. It will be readily perceived that by these perforations the superficies of the chip are materially increased, while a circulation of the liquid in which the chip is used is allowed to take place, whereby the chip is kept freely 7o suspended in the liquid, and is not liable to adhere to the other or remaining chips. Said holes I) are arranged in parallel rows-in this example extending longitudinally to the chip and those of one row alternate with those of 7 the other, whereby the weakening effect of the holes is reduced to a minimum. For'the purpose of producing the holes b,dies O D, Fig. 3,

or any other suitable apparatus, may be used,

and, if desired, the holes, may be depressed in the chip Without going entirely through it, as indicated in Fig. 2.

I claim 1. As an improved article of manufacture, a beer-chip perforated, substantially as shown 8 5 and described, for the purpose set forth.

2. A beer-chip perforated with holes, with those of one row alternating with those of the other, as shown and described,for the purpose specified.

3. A beer chip having broken splintery edges, as shown and described, for the purpose set forth.

' 4. A beer-chip having its body perforated and the edges roughened, as shown and described, for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in BERNARD RICE.

Witnesses:

Framers CLARE BOWEN,

lvloonn V. LAHY.

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