US236621A - Machine for cutting wood feathers - Google Patents

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J W P`E.TTE1\TGILL Machine for Cutting Wood Feathers. No. 236,621. Patentedlan. 11,1881.

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MACHINE FOR CUTTING WOOD FEATHERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 236,621, dated January 11, 1881.

Application filed Juno 23, 1880.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, J on W. PETTENGILL, of the city of Rockford, in the county of \/Vin nebago and State of Illinois. have invented a new and useful Improvement in Machines for Cutting Wood Feathers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object the production of a suitable wood filling for beds and pillows, and capable of use for the various purposes in upholstery, carpet-linings, and other like purposes, and useful as a packing material; and it consists in a machine embracing certain details of construction and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a plan view of one form of a machine on which to produce my improved wood feathers. Of this machine, Fig. 2 is a front elevation, and Fig. 3 an end elevation. Fig. 4 is a horizontal section of the cutter. Fig. 5 is an isometrical representation of a billet or bolt of wood, of sector form, split from a section of a log cut to proper length from which to produce feathers. Fig. 6 is also an isometrical representation of a billet split from a section out from a log. Fig. 7 is an isomet-rical representation of a core of a billet from which feathers have been cut. Fig. 8 is an isometrical representation of a feather cut from a billet.

In thetigures,Arepresentslengthwise beams, into which are framed transverse beams E, producing a frame rectangular in plan, which is supported on standard C, framed into their end portions, producing a supporting-frame. On this frame is mounted a suitable bracketframe, consisting of a bed-plate, c, and standards b, on which is mounted a transverse shaft or mandrel, c, supported to revolve thereonin suitable bearings. This mandrel is fitted with a face-plate, cl, substantially the same as faceplates in use on turning-lathes, and is mounted thereon by screw-threaded connection with the mandrel in the same manner. On this faceplate is mounted, and securely fitted thereto, a face-wheel, D, in the outward portion of which are placed cutters e, on radial lines, which cutters extend outward nearly to the periphery of the wheel. These cutters are of plane-bit form, and are placed obliquely to the axis and face of the Wheel, substantially in the same manner (No model.)

as plane-bits are placed in their stocks, and are provided with capsf, and are held in position and made adjustable by means ot' a clamping screw-bolt, g, which is passed through the cap and bit into the wheel, the cap serving to enlarge the bearing ot' the bolt to give greater firmness to the bit.

E represents a cone of pulleys mounted on the mandrel between its supports, to engage a like cone of pulleys to connect the wheel with the prime mover, to impart motion to the wheel carrying the cutters.

AtF is represented a roller having its ends journaled in the lower portion of the front standards. In this roller F is titled a standard, G, capable of an outward-swinging movelnent. The upper end of this standard G is provided with an axial hole, iitted to receive .a pivot-stud of the cap portion h, as represented in dotted lilies, to permit the cap to oscillate on the standard. At i is represented a hand-lever, which is connected to the pivoted cap l1. by a hinge-joint, k, to permit of a rocking movement of the hand-lever on the snpport. This connection ofthe hand-lever with the standard permits ofa vertical and horizontal movement of the lever thereon, and, in connection with the standard,is capable of abackand-forth movement to and from the wheel. The inner end of this hand-lever is provided with a transverse hole adapted to receive a spindle, l, freely. This spindle l consists of a round metallic bar fitted with a handle, m, and having its free end pointed in a suitable manner to be driven into the end of the blocks or billets of wood from which to cnt the feathers.

At n is represented a billet of wood, into which the spindlel in the hand-levert' has been driven, which, with the cap h, hinged to the lever, are placed in position on the standard.

These parts, thus connected, are clearly shown. y

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with an angle foot-plate, 19, by means of which' it is tted in position on the frame by suitable bolts. This guard-plate, from its fastening, rises parallel with the face-wheel, and is in position to receive the feathershavings as cut from the billets, and the wheel, passing over the feather-shavin gs as theyleave the cutters, delivers them, comparatively, a straight feather-shaving.

In the manufacture of my improved feathers with the machine herein described, having the several parts constructed and arranged substantially as set forth, and the face-wheel, carrying the cutters in motion, revolvingr in the direction indicated by the arrow, the operator takes hold of the handle of the spindle with his right hand, and by means of the spindlehandle he is enabled to turn the billet fitted to the spindle to the right or left, back and forth, in an oscillatory manner; or he can change its position to present any side of the billet to the cutters in the face-wheel in such a manner as to continually present a different portion of the billet to the cutters, or can cause it to ro tate in contact therewith, and by means of the hand-lever, with his left hand, can press the billet against the face of the wheel, raise or lower it to properly engage thc cutters, and

can move it horizontally to rpresent it in itswhcle length, or any part thereof', to the cut- Jters. By these means I am enabled to produce wood feathers cut lengthwise with the grain ot the wood, and of the form represented at H, having its center portions of greater thickness than its edges. The feathers, however, will not all be of this regular form represented in the drawings, but all will have thin edges and fuller center portions, substantially as represented and as herein described.

At I is represented a billet, on the end of which is represented sectional views otl some of the cuts produced in the manufacture of my improved feathers. These continued, the billet will be reduced to a small core, substantially such as represented at K.

At L is represented a billet in which transverse saw-cuts, as at s, are produced. This billet, when exposed to the cutting operation, as hereinbeibre described, will produce feathers of a length equal to the distance between the transverse cuts, and these cuts can be varied to any practical extent within the limits of the billets, to produce feathers varying in length, and the thickness of the feathers can be varied to any practical extent by the adjustment of t-hc cutters.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that in the production of feathers by my improved machine the cut by which they are produced is a drawing cut, and the cutters or bits, revolving in a vertical plane, begin their cutting action endwise of the wood billet, this disposition of cutters and wood operating to produce a bright and elastic feather.

The wood feathers produced by the machine herein described are adapted to a great variety of upholstering, packing, and other purposes where a light, cheap, and elastic filling material is required.

1. The combination, with a face-wheel provided with cutters, a hand-lever, anda spindle supportedA by said hand-lever, of a rotary cap fitted on the free end ot' an oscillating standard and a hinge connecting the cap and said hand-lever, substantially as set forth.

The combination, with a vertical rotary, face-wheel provided with radial cutters and a spindlelocated in fron t ofthe cutter-wheel, ofan uprightfender-plate secured to thc main frame in rear of the face-wheel and in line with lthe lower portion thereof, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination, with a face-wheel provided with cutters, a spindle, and a hand-lever in vwhich the spindle is supported, of a cap to which the hand-lever is hinged to move in a vertical plane, a standard to which the cap is pivoted, and a rotaryshaft to which said standard is secured, substantially as set forth.

4t. The combination, with a face-wheel provided with cutters, of a spindle secured to an oscillating standard, which latter is attached to a transverse rotary shaft the ends of which are journaled in the machine-frame. l

5. The combination, with a spindle, a handlever supportingit, ot' an oscillating standard and a hinge upon the upper leaf' of which the hand-lever is mounted, the lower leaf being secured to the free end of said standard.

6. Thecombination, with a spindle, a handlever supporting it, of an oscillating standard and pivotal connection between the lever and standard, said pivotal device being adapted to serve as a fulcrum on which the hand-lever is moved in a vertical plane at right angles to the plane in which the wheel revolves.

JOB W. PETTENGILL.

Witnesses:

W. H. PHOENIX, A. O. BEHEL.

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