US1084376A

US1084376A - Log-transferring device.

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Publication number: US1084376A
Application number: US7?614513A
Authority: US
Inventors: Frank P Sykes
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Publication date: 1914-01-13
Anticipated expiration: 1931-01-13

Description

F. P. SYKES.

LOG TRANSFERRING DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED AUG. 22, 1913.

Patented Jan. 13, 19141.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. is, i914...

Application filed August22,1913. Serial No.7B6,145. I

v-ention' known as chutes. w

An object-of the invention is to provide a trough like chute in which guiding means are provided associated with elements for retaining the guiding means in position,

, novel meansbeing'also associated with the engage the sides of the log as unequal move elements for holding the guiding means in dilferent positions of adjustment whereby the capacity of the chute or its size may be changed to SlllblJaIblCLllttl requirements.

For thepurpose of preventing undue lateral movement of logs when travelin in the chute, it is desirable to have the o ute in ,proportion to the sizes of the logs orap-' proximately so that are to travel in the trough. Of course, a great deal oflatitude can be allowed but better results ,are attainable if the guiding members of the chute ment or jumping of the log is'preveiited, whereas when the logs are so small that they do not contact both sides of the guiding members, their travel is uneven and intime, damage to the chuteresults.

By reason of that fact that means are 'pro vided for increasing or diminishing the distance between the guiding member to the chute or the sides thereof and that the same elements are employed for spacing the sides apartor for holding them in more closely spaced relation, the objects of. the invention are attained by a simple and comparatively inexpensive mechanism which will prove ethcient and satisfactory in use.

lVith the foregoing and other objects in vjeugthe invention consists in the details of construction and in the arrangement and combination of parts to be hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

In describing the invention in detail, reference will be had to. the accompanying drawings forming part of this, specification wherein like characters denote corresponding parts in the several views, and in which Figure 1 illustrates a view in perspective of a chute embodying the invention in which the sides are spaced apart to the full capacity of the supporting members; Fig. 2

illustrates an end view thereof; Fig. 3 illustrates a perspective view showing the parts in a different position of adjustment as compared with the showing in Fig. 1; and Fig. 4 illustrates an end view of the chute as shown in Fig. 3'.

V In these drawings 5 denotes the bases, one of which is provided at each end of the chute or ata point between sections of a chute and each of said bases is provided with abutments 6 secured to the bases by the fastenings 7 which may be of any appropriate type and the said abutments have apertures 8 for the reception of a rod 9 which extend transversely of the chute.

The guiding members lO'forming the sides 'of the chute comprise long beams having their inner faces 11 beveled so that they form a trough like way for the passage of the logs and as a means for aiding in the support of the logs passing down the chute there is an intermediate beam 12 interposed between the guiding means so that the logissupported-at the bottom by the menu:

ber 12. 7

As shown-in Fig. 1, the guiding members and the intermediate beam are spaced apart by the spacing strips 13 thereby holding the guiding means against the abutments' 6 which produces a chute of the maximum width of which the device is capableof adjustment in the present embodiment of the invention, The spacing strips 13 are supported by the base and therefore are prevented from moving by reason of the fact that the rod-9 which is secured to the abutments passes through apertures 14 of the spacing blocks at the ends of the guiding members and the intermediate beam and it is the purpose of the inventor.to have the parts so proportioned that the ends of the guiding members and intermediate beam abut or rest on therod 9 so that longitudinal displacement of the guiding means and intermediate beam will be prevented.

While it is believed that. the guiding members and intermediate beam will be retained that one of the spacing strips is shown rempved from between the intermediate beam and one of the guiding members and is inserted between the said guiding member and one of the abutments, otherwise the parts are in the'relation heretofore described. It

' is obvious that the guiding member may be further brought together by removing the one that isshown between the guidingmemher and intermediate beam and inserting it between the abutment and the guiding memher in the same manner as the one illustrated in Fig. 3 is positioned. It is also noted that one of the essential points of the invention is that it can readily be laid across an even surface through the woods'making both vertical and horizontalcurves on account of the short sections and only having one hearing at the end of each section.

I claim 1. In a log chute, a base, abutments spaced apart and secured to the base, guiding members spaced apart on the base, an intermediate beam on thebase between the guiding me1nbers,,spacing blocks interposed between the saidelements, a rod carried by the abutments'and on which the spacing blocks are secured, said rod engaging the ends of the guiding members andintermediate beam.

2. In a log chute, a base, abutments thereon, guiding members supported by the base, an intermediate beam on the base between the guiding members, blocks interposed between the aforesaid eleme nts, said spacing blocks resting on the bases, and a rod secured to the abutments and on which the'spacing blocks are mounted.

In testimony whereof, I hereunto afiix my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

FRANK P. SYKES.

Witnesses:

J. Fosrne WlLoox, JAMES S. Conn.