US354909A - Double-pointed tack-sorting machine - Google Patents

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(No Model.)

J. P. IN-GWILL, DOUBLE POINTED TACK SORTING MACHINE. No. 354,909.

Patented Dec. 28, 1886 llllllllfmi ,2 a v z n J l LID I D 6 Mixes 56 K510875507.-

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN F. KINGWILL, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

DOUBLE-PO INTED TACK-SORTING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 354,909, dated December 28, 1886.

' Application filed April 26, 1886, Serial No. 200,184. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that-l, JOHN F. KINGWILL, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Ghimachine which shall automatically accom-' plish the above result, requiring only to be supplied with a sufficient quantity of tacks.

This object I attain by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 is a section of my device secured on a driving-frame of atack-machine. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan section of same.

Like parts are indicated by the same letter in all the figures.

A A are the vertical frame-pieces; B B and O, the cross pieces; E, an upper elevated inc'lined tack-chute; F F, the sidepieces of an oppositely-inclined sorting frame or riddle; G, a cross-head in the riddle supported on the rodG. H is the riddle-box; I I I, tacks shown in various positions; J, the taek-drivinghead of a tack-machine, shown in these drawings only to illustrate the use to which my device may be put.

K is a counter-shaft driven in the usual manner and carrying a crank wheel, L.

The bottom of the sorting 'frame or riddle is formed of the ways or guides or bars M M, having parallel upper ends, M M. N N are continuations of these ways. The ways and continuations thereof are arranged so as to form a frame of closely-set parallel narrow bars, which gradually increase in diameter, diverge, and finally curve at the lower ends, so as to properly deliver the tacks.

O is a door in the side of the riddle-box. P is a spring which engages the rod G, and R is a lug on the rod S, which is jointed at T and secured to the crank-wheel L. As the rod reciprocates, the spring and lug operate to agitate the cross-head in the riddle, and

thus also agitate the tacks which may be lying on the bars in the same.

The operation of my machine is sufficiently illustrated. The tacks are taken from the riddlebox and put into the chute, where they fall on the parallel ends of the riddle-bars. Here they are agitated as described, and they gradually straddle the bars in a tangled and mixed condition. The bars are placed so near together that but a small portion of the tacks will fall to the bottom of the box below. The tacks which have straddled the bars are gradually worked downward along the bars by their agitation until they reach the point where the bars begin to diverge. Here they are separated from each other and somewhat relieved from their tangled condition. All tacks which may have been riding on'top of the bars are dropped between them to the bottom of the box below. 'As the tacks pass down onto the enlarged ends of the ways or bars they are straightened up until they reach the point where the width of the bars is nearly equal to the space between the sides of the tacks, where they will be found to be thoroughly straightened up and arranged in continuous even rows of tacks on the bars. They may then be delivered into a driving-machine, as suggested and partly illustrated, or they may be strung or boxed in regular order for shipment.

3. In a tack-sorting machine, a riddle con- I sisting of thin parallel and diverging inclined bars.

4. In a tack-sorting machine, a riddle consisting ofaseries of thin inclined parallel and diverging bars which gradually increase in diameter.

5. In a tack-sorting machine, a riddle consisting of a series of inclined ways which gradually diverge and increase in diameter toward their lower ends.

Witnesses: JOHN F. KINGWILL.

FRANCIS W. P:ARKER, CHAS. S. BURTON,

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