US171230A

US171230A - Improvement in shingle-planers

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Publication number: US171230A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1875-12-21
Anticipated expiration: 1892-12-21

Description

W. A. KIT'IS.

SHINGLE PLANER.

Patented Dec. 21,1875.

.Nu. 171,Z30.

N. PETERS, PHO

the city of Oswego, in the State of New York, Planers, for planing sawed shingles; and I do clear, and exact description of the same, refthe upper side of the shingle. Instead of the i the slot in the head H, in any ordinary manoswEeo, nEw YORK.

MPR VEMENT IN SHlNGLE-PLA'NERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 171,230, dated December 21, 1875; application filed April 7,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLARD A. KITTS, of

haveinvented an Improvement in Shingle hereby declare thatthe following is a full,

erence being bad to the annexed drawing, in

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of the whole machine; Fig. 2, a detached view of the adjustable knife-head; Fig. 3, a per spective View of part of the carrying'apparatus. v

A is the frame or bed-piece, of suitable form for thepurpose. B is the carrier, consisting of a belt or endless chain, shafts, and pulleys, substantially as shown. In the bed-piece A isa stationary knife, a, arranged with proper slots and openings to shave the under side of the shingle. Immediately above this is the knife 11, provided also with proper slots and openings in the adjustable head H, to shave knife b, a revolving cutter may be placed in her. I The head H consists of two cross-pieces, c and c,-and upon the cross-piece c the knife is secured by screws, or their equivalents. The head H also has two end pieces, 6 and f, withwhich the cross-pieces are properly connected. Each of the end pieces has supportin grpieces g andh, respectively, resting on the bed-piece, and extending below the bottom of the end pieces, and raising the knife-head H the shingle. It also has two journals, j j,

which rest in sockets w x, and enable the head H to rock and lift.

The spiral spring S, which is arranged substantially as shown in the drawings, or an ordinary weight, may be hung at the proper point, so as to cause theupper knife to pass upon the top of the shingle, and adjust it to the inequalities in size. I

The carrier is provided with a dog, a, which pushes the shingle G from the butt between the knives. At each end of the dog a there is a shoe, W, which operates to lift thehead H, so that the dog a will pass between the knives without coming in contact with them.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States,

In a shingle-planer, the combinationof the endless belt or chain carrier B, provided with the lifting shoes or cams, and cross-bar n W, the stationary knife a on the frame A, and

the downwardly-pressed and self-adjusting knife-head H, bearing the knife I), all. arranged and operating substantially as herein specified.

WILLARD A. KITTS.

PATENT OFFIGE,