US101008A - Improved bed-plate for rag or paper-engines - Google Patents

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ANTHONY HANKEY, OF LEIOESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGN OR TO HIM- v SELFl AND GEORGE A. OORSER, OE SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent No. 101,008, dated Marc7t22, 1870.

IMPROVED BED-PLATE FOR RAG OR PAPER-ENGINES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part o! the Eame- To all 'whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANTHONY HANKnY, of Leicester, vcounty oi' Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and usef'nl Ilnproven'ients in Bed-Plates for Rag-Engines for Working Paper Stock; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, andl exact description of the same, reference being had to the accon'ipanying drznving'ibrming part of this` specification, which represents a top or plan view of my improved bed-plate. To enable those skilled in the art Vto which my invention belongs to make and use the same, I will proceed to describe it more in detail.

The nature of my inventioneonsists* First, in the combination of two series of cuttingplates ot' elbow form, one-halt` of which are arranged in a reverse position to the other half, as will be hereafter explained.

Second, a bed-plate for rag or paper-mill engines, made in the peculiar manner hereafter explained.

In the drawinga a represent a series of steel cutting-plates, bent in elbow-form, and arranged between the out-er holding-plate A and the central plate B, with/ pieces of fibrous material 1 1 between them, as fully indicated in the drawing. y

Upon the opposite side of the central plate B, and

. between that and the back holding-plate C, is arranged another series of cutting-plates, b, bent in clbowform, land having pieces of fibrous material 2 2 inserted between the plates, as indicated in the drawing, the whole being held securely together by means By making the front, central, and back plates in curved form the stock is worked toward the center of the plate, thus insuring the complete cutting and separation oi' the fibers ofthe stock.

Having described my improvements in bed-plates for rag-engines for working paper stock,-

What I claim therein as new, and of my invention,

1. lhe combination of the series of bent plates a with the series of bent plates b, arranged in relation to each other, as shownl and described, and for' the purposes stated.

2. The combination, with the series of' plates v(t and b, of the central plate B, substantall y as and for the purposes set forth.

3. A bed-platefor rag or paper-engines, constructed substantially as shown and described.

ANTHONY HANKEY.

Witnesses:

Gao. H. MILLER, ALBERT E..PEInoE.

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