US293343A

US293343A - Rattan

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Publication number: US293343A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1884-02-12
Anticipated expiration: 1901-02-12

Description

(NoModL) H". A. MEYER.

MACHINE FOR WORKING RATTAN.

No; 293,343. Patented Feb. 12, 1884.

, Application filed lilay 12,1853. (No model.) Patented in Germany June 6, 1882; in Belgium July 5, 1882,

Hungary October 19, 188-3.

' UN T D A PATENT @rricE.

HEINRICH ADOLPH MEYER, oE' HAMBURG, PRUSSIA, cnnrmnr.

MACHINE FoR WORKlN G RATTAN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters, Patent No. 293,343, dated February 12, 1884.

To all? whom it may ea/warn.-

Be it known that I, .HEINRIOH ADoLPH MEYER, of Hamburg, in theKingdom of Prussia, Germany, have invented certain new and,

Figure 1 represents a side view, Fig. ,2 a

cross-section, and Figs. 3, 4, 5,and6 details, of the machine, as will be hereinafter eX- plained. Figs? and 8 are transverse sectional views of the rattan.

fed into and through the machine by rotating feeding-disks C G with hollowed out or grooved peripheries. These rotating disks act in conjunction with stationary pressers c e, to feed the rattan forward.

Direct-1y near each presser e a cutter, s, is placed, that enters the surface or skin of the cane and cuts off a strip of size and shape required ready for use for chair-seats or other purposes. Each knife or cutter is furnished with a double cutting-edge, as shown in Figs. 6, 6, and 6", to separate two strips at same time, and it is kept in a holder or chuck, D, Figs. 3 and at, which allows the strips cut off by the knife to escape through an opening, F, of the chuck. The chuck D is attached to a corresponding presser, e, and can, for the purpose of adjusting its knife 8 sidewise or in the direction of the axes of the feedingdisks 0, be turned on bolt 0 by means of an adjusting-screw, i, the: end of which is ballshaped, as shown in Figs. 3 and 5, and is placed in a recess of the top end of the holder D. After this adjustment of the'knife the holder D is secured by a set-screw, 2. (See Figs. 4. and 5.) The thickness of the strip cut off from the cane-rattan is regulated by a screw, h, which allows of lifting or lowering the pressure-foot e of presser e. Presser e is, by means of springs m m, forced against No. 58,390 and in Austriacane A, and moves up and down according W strips '0, o, o", and 1;, (see Fig. 7 will be cut off at same time, after which the cane or rattan is turned ninety degrees and again passed through the machine, after which four more strips are cut off, leaving the core or pith, as shown in full lines by Fig. 8 of the drawings. be'rounded off on machines not forming part of this invention, and only a very small loss of material results from this.

For enabling the knife or cutter to enter into the hard surface or skin of the cane the latter is, by means of small rollerst t, bent down to the circumference of the feedingrollers O. The small rollers 25 are forced against the rattan by means of adjustable springs P, as is illustrated by the drawings, in one of the rollers t.

By the passage of the rattan tating feeding-disks G G theknives or cutters are enabled to dotheir work more easily, as the strip or strips will take a rectilinear direction as they are cut off and delivered,while the body of the rattan will be deflected away from the back of the cutters and caused to follow the curvature of the said feeding-disks.

\Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination 0 fthe rotary disk C,having a grooved periphery, the chuck D and its cutter s, the presser e and springs mm, for impelling it toward said disk, the bolt 0, whereby said chuck is pivoted in said presser, and

the screw z, for swinging the chuck D on said.

bolt 0, and thus effecting the lateral adjustinent of the cutters relatively to said grooved disk, substantially as herein described.

2. The combination,with the disk. 0, chuck D, cutter s, and presser '0, all arranged and operating substantially as herein described, of

around the ro- This polygon-shaped cane or pith can the movable 13res ser f00t e, and the screw 7:, the cutter s, and resser-foot e, and springs whereby it may be adjusted in the presser e 1?, all substantially as herein described. relatively to the cutter s, as set forth.

3. The combination of the disk 0, chuck D, HEINRICH ADOLPH MEYER" cutter s, presser e, springs m m, movable presslVitnesses: er-fcot e, rollers t t, for holding the rattan AD. B. EGOLF,

against said disk in rear of and in advance of OASPAR VVALKE.