US247832A

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Publication number: US247832A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1881-10-04
Anticipated expiration: 1898-10-04

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W. LORENZ.

MACHINE FOR PRESSING WADS OP WAX FOR USE IN FIRE ARMS.

No. 247,832. Patented 0G. 4; 1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT 'FFICE.

MACHINE FOR PRESSING WADS OF WAX FOR USE iN FlRE-ARMS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 247,832, dated October 4, 1881.

Application filed April 25, 1881.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILHELM LORENZ, engineer and manufacturer, residing and doing business in Oarlsruhe city, in the Grand Duchy of Baden, German Empire, have invented a Machine for Pressing Wads of Wax for Use in Fire-Arms, of which the following is a specification.

The accompanying drawings form a part of this specification, and represent what I consider the best manner of carrying out the invention.

Figure 1 is a side elevation. Fig.2 is an en View. Fig.3 is a section corresponding to Fig. 1, but with the vibrating parts in their extreme left position. Fig. 4is a plan view. Fig. 5 is a vertical section.

Similarletters ot'reference indicate like parts in all the figures.

V is the upright, which is enlarged into a supporting trains-work at the top, where the various moving parts and stationary parts find bearings and supports.

X is a main shaft,sustained in the boxesV'. On its end it bears the band-wheel B. By means of cams on this shaftthe entire mechanism about to be described is operated.

a is the press-cylinder, in which the wads of The wax is fed up in long ropes through the feed-tube A, and is cut oif and placed in the press-cylinder in the manner hereinafter to be described.

On the shaftXare the disksGH, with eccentric grooves in their circumference. In these grooves short arms of the levers d f work. The lever d has the short arm 6, which rocks a shaft, 0, to which is attached the knife B, for cutting off the lengths of wax as it is fed up through the tube A, and the knock-off arm F, which removes the wad from the end of the die after it has been pressed in the cylinder to. The lever f has a short arm, 5/, which rocks a shaft, 0, to which is attached the lever O,

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stamps opened. But when the cams J J overcem the action of the spring the stamps are brought together and press the wax in the cylinder a.

On top of the framing a water-pot, N, is suspended, which drips water upon the tools to prevent the wax sticking to them.

By this machine wads are made of wax wire, (by which I mean continuous lengths of firm but sufliciently-plastie material,\vhich may be beeswax or analogous material,) which is led to the same through the tube A in a continuous forward movement. At an appropriate moment the knife B cuts off a disk of a certain thickness, which is then elevated by the lever O to the center of the axis of the top and bottom stamps. The thickness of the disk to be cut is regulated by a slower or faster shoving forward of the wax wire. The elevated wax disk is now taken up by the top stamp,D,and pushed into the press-cylinder a, to the orifice of which the bottom stamp, E, has moved to prevent the disk from falling down. The top and bottom stamps move now with equal speed up to the center of the press-cylinder, where the pressing of the wad occurs, and the superfluous wax is, led away by a side channel. The bottom stamp, E, moves now quickly backward, while the top stamp, D, follows slowly and knocks out the finished wad. At this moment a lever, F, moves downward and knocks off the wad, in case the same should stick to one or the other stamp. The fallen or knocked-off wads fall through the channel b, Fig. 2, into a collecting-box, P. The cutting off of the disks is done contemporary with the knocking off of the wads, owing to the arrangement that the knife B and leverF are placed on the same shaft, 0, which is moved by the eccentric disk G and the levers d and e. After-this the eccentric disk H and the levers f and 9 cause the lifting-up of the previously-cnt-off disk, and then the stamps D and E are put in motion, as above described, by the eccentrics J and J, acting by means of the rods It and upon the levers Q and L, which swing around the points q and 0'. The rollers K serve to reduce the friction, and the same, with the rods i and h, are pressed continuously against the eccentrics by means of the spring M.

The water-box N serves by drops to moisten the tools. The waste-water flows away through the pipe 0 into the box V.

The machine is started by the loose pulley R, by means of the coupling Sand the hand-lever T. The whole is placed on the pillar U,leaving from all sides free access to the machine.

I claim as my invention- 1. In a machine for forming wads of wax, the combination ofthepress-cylinder (o and thehorizontally-moving stamps E D, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination of the knife B and lever C with the cylinder (0 and stamps D E, substantially as set forth.

3. In a wax-wad-forming machine, the combination of the cams J J, arms 2' h, pivoted levers L Q, and stamps E D, substantially as set forth.

4. The combination of the cams J J, armsi h, pivoted leversLQ, spring-rod M, and stamps E D, substantially as set forth.

5. The combination of thecam-grooved disks G H, connecting-levers, and rocking centers, with the knife B, knock-off lever F, and lei-er G, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand at Berlin, Prussia, this 1st day of February,1881,in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

. WILHELM LORENZ.

Witnesses O. GRONERT, BERTHOLD ROI.