US249805A - Wood-planing machine - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

A. W. STOSSMEISTER.

WOOD PLANING MAGHINE.

No. 249,805. Patented'Nov. 22.1881.

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ALBERT WV. STOSSMEISTER, NEWPORT, KENTUCKY.

WOOD-PLANING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 249,805, dated November 22, 1881 Application filed September 3, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT W. Sross- MEISTER, a citizen of the United States, residingatNewport,county ofOampbell,Kentucky, have invented new and useful Improvements in Wood-Working Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to combined woodworking machines, having reference to a combination of planing and molding machines in the same structure, its object being to increase the efficiency and usefulness of such machines.

In Letters Patent No. 229,199, granted to me June 22, 1880, I described a molding machine possessing certain advantages; and my present invention, besides improving the construction and usefulness of said machine, independently considered, combines the whole in one structure with a planer, whereby a greater variety of work may be done with convenience and dispatch.

My invention is embodied in mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved machine. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 4 is a partial plan section, showing the mode of constructing the outer table with the means of vertical adjustment and Fig. 5, a partial vertical longitudinal section of the outer table, showing its relation to the cutter when in its most elevated position.

Referring now to the lettered portions of the drawings, A designates the main frame or support of the machine, which is constructed substantially in the ordinary manner for a planingmachine adapted to rest upon and be secured to the floor. B is the planer-table. O is the supplemental table for molding; D, the cutter-shaft; E E E the roller-shafts, and F a bracket supporting an independent shaft carrying a band-pulley and gears for driving the rollers.

The cutter-shaft D and roller shafts E are journaled in the sides of the frame A in the usual manner, to permit a slight vertical adjustment. The roller-shafts E and E are arranged parallel to and equidistant from the cutter-shaft D, one on each side, and are extended beyond the cutter shaft and beyond their journals at one side of the frame,and are provided at their extremities with spur-gears g 9 meshing with an intermediate gear, g upon an independent shaft, 0, having its bearings at one end upon the bracket F, and at the other in a tie plate or bar,f, extending between and embracing at its ends the roller-shafts E E Power being given to the independent shaft 6 through a band-pulley, h, centered upon it, is transmitted by its spur-wheel g to the spur-gears g upon the roller-shafts E and E respectively. The cutter shaft is independently driven by means of a band pulley, i, at its corresponding extremity. The usual feed-rollers,jj, are carried upon the roller-shafts E E above themain table B. The third rollersha-ft, E is driven by chain-belting from the shaft E and carries no separate roll. cutter-shaft is extended beyond the mainframe at the end opposite that which carries its driving-pulley, and in addition to its main cutter,

d, located over the main table B, between the journal-bearings, carries a second cutter, 01 at the extremity over thesupplemental table 0,

for moldings and similar work. Two of the roller-shafts, E and E, are also extended over the auxiliary table, to act in connection with the cutter (1 The main table B is provided with means of vertical adjustment, (shown in Fig. 2,) consisting of two vertical screw-shafts, 1) b actuated by bevel-gears at their lower extremities, mesh- The ing with corresponding gears upon a horizontal shaft, b controlled by a hand wheel, I). The main table is used for planing only and remains always below the cutters.

The supplemental table consists of two main portions, the smaller having an independent vertical adjustment upon the larger, and the latter being vertically adjustable upon the main frame. The larger or main portion consists of a bracket'frame, 0, held to the side of theframe A of the machine by means of vertical T-ribs upon the vertical side of the bracket moving in corresponding guides t upon the frame A. The vertical movement of the bracket 0 is effected by a screw-standard, 8, depending from the lower part of its vertical side through the eye of a lug, it, upon the frame A, and a handwheel, 8, with a screw-threaded center-bore turning on the standard above the lug. The

bracket 0 is intended to have a considerable range of vertical adjustment, so as to bring its table proper either above or below the cutter d, as may be desired, and to accommodate this movement rectangular slots Z are opened downward from the upper edge of the vertical side of the bracket, which allow the bracket to pass upward beyond the shafts D e a.

From the part c supporting-arms c c 0 extend outward between the rectangular slots 1, supporting an outer guideway, 0 in which and a corresponding groove at the upper edge a horizontal slab, m, constituting the auxiliary table proper, is arranged to move. The purpose of this construction is to enable the slab m to be withdrawn in order to elevate the table 0 above the rolls from its lower position. When in its highest position the upper side of the slab m occupies the position in relation to the cutter d shown in Fig. 5. The slab m is arranged wholly at one side of the cutter J and, in the position last referred to, is wholly above the shafts 0 6 The minor tablenconsists,substantially, of a bracket-shelf moving in vertical guides upon the part c. The construction of the guides and means for vertical adjustment are the same as already described for the part 0. When the table O is used below the cutter, the two parts at and n are aligned in the same plane; but when they are used above the cutter the table n is adjusted sufficiently above the table m to accommodate theloss of material remor'ed ator to dress the ends of work of various kindssuch as picture-frames and cabinet-work generally-by adjusting the table n to a proper elevation.

Having described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A wood-working machine comprising in its structure a planing-machinetable, B, a vertically-adjustable supplemental table, 0, located at one side thereof, and provided with a secondary vertically-adjustable table, n, a removable slab, m, and the vertical slots 1 at its portion adjacent to the planing-table, and the cut ter and roller shat'ts 1), E and E, extended laterally over the slots in the supplemental ta ble, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. The vertically-adjustable supplemental table 0, located at one side of a planing-machine table, B, and frame A, and provided with the vertical slots l and a removable slab, m, in combination with the extensions of the cutter and roller shafts extending laterally from the planing-table over the slotsin the supplemental table, substantially as and for the purposes described.

3. The supplemental table 0, for molding, comprising the bracket-frame 0, arranged to have a vertical movement, the horizontal slab m, constituting the auxiliary table, and the ininor tablen,consisting,substarrtiallymfa bracket-shelfarranged to m ovein vertical guides upon .thebracket-fralne c, substantially as described.

In testimony whereofI have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALBERT \V. STOSSMEISTER.

Witnesses:

L. M. HOSEA, J. A. Rn'rnnnronn.

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