[Stoves] sausage maker adaptor for manual briquette presses

Paul S. Anderson psanders at ilstu.edu
Wed Nov 9 15:23:01 CST 2011


Richard,

How does the water get out when the pressure is applied?  If there are  
to be holes in the sides of the outer tube, then de-watering occurs  
before going through the small tubes.

Anyone trying this, please post your results ASAP.

Paul
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Quoting Richard Stanley <rstanley at legacyfound.org>:

> For all you pellet, sausage-size-biomass fuel-needing  stovers, we  
> are playing with an adaptor for the conventional batch-fed cylinder  
> press to allow one to make multiple quantities of anything from  
> sausage sizes down to pellets.
>
> The idea is being co-vented  as we speak and its very much  
> 'open-source',  so please , feel free to dive in with design  
> thoughts, all.
> Although in this sketch, I suggest using metal pipes welded  
> together, there is in retrospect, little reason it could not be made  
> out of just a cylindrical block of wood.
>
> In this design you would not be pushing the piston completely  
> through the cylinder (as you do with many of the conventional  
> briquette.presses)  The material would just be coming out  the tubes  
> and breaking off (or, it could be cut off) at a certain length.
> Please be first on the  block to try it out.  If it can work for  
> you,  it will help many  with their many different types of  
> briquette presses,  in the network.
>
> Basi Haya, na aluta Continua,
>
> Richard
> www.legacyfound.org
> Arusha Tanzania
>



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