US387861A

US387861A - Clement coleridge clawson

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Publication number: US387861A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1888-08-14
Anticipated expiration: 1905-08-14

Description

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C. C. CLAWSON.

MACHINE EUR SHAVING 10E.

No. 887,861. Patented Aug. l14, 1888.

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lUaiiTi STATES 'ATnNT @TriceO CL MENT COLERIDGE OLA'ISON, OF NEVARK, NET JERSEY, ASSIGNOE, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO THE UNITED STATES hlOHINE AND INVINTIONS COMPANY, OF NEW YORK CITY.

SHAVENG ICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent 190.387.861, dated August le, 1888.

Application (iled October Q3, IESS.

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Be it known that l. CLEMENT COLERIDGE (lLAwsoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Shaving Ice, of which the following specification is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to that kind of iceshaving machines which have a rotary disk armed with knives, against which the block or blocks of ice to be reduced is or are pressed.

In the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specilication, Figure I is a vertical longitudinal section of an ice-shaving machine constructed in accordance with the invention; Fig. II, a orosssection on line Il of Fig. I, looking in the direction of the arrow; and Fig. III, a face'view of the knife-disk.

The holder A, in the form of a curved section of pipe, the chamber B, arranged at the end ol' the holder below and transversely to the axis ofthe saine, and the foot C under the holder A are cast together in two longitudinal halves or castings, which are fastened together by cars l and screws 2.

On the holder A are the two guide-plates D, between which the lever E is pivoted. This lever has an enlargement at the inner end, of the saine size as the plates D, and it is provided with the stops 3 and 4, which limit its motion, thc former by contact with the rim of the holder A, the latter by contact with the nprights 5, which carry said plates. One of the plates D and its upright 5 are cast on each half of the ice-liolder A.

The follower Fis attached to the lever E through the curved arm G, both the follower and curved arm being cast in one piece with lo said lever. On the face of the follower F is a rib, 6, which aids in preventing the ice from being carried round in the holder A.

The knife-disk H is mounted on the inner end of the horizontal shaft I, which is turned by the c1anl;wheel 7 and rotates in bearings S, cast ou the top of the chamber' B. The disk has a hub, 9, and is slotted and grooved dianietrically from circumference to circumference, the hub being cut away adjacent to the slot, as shown at 11.0. The knives K are set in Serial No. 217,026. (No model.)

said slot, their edges being turned in opposite directions and the length of each being` equal to the full radius of the disk. They are held in place by screws 1l, passing through slots in the knives and tapped into the metal. ofthe disk H. The chamber B is open at one end for the introduction of the receiver L. This receiver, like a scoop, has no rim at the end opposite the handle; but this is simply to enable the shaved ice' to be emptied ont more 6o readily. Then inserted, its front plate closes the opening in the end of the chamber B, and the reservoir rests upon the rim 12 at the front of the chamber and the inclined rib 13 at the back of the same, so that it is clear of the bottom of the chamber. The rib is made inclined in order that it may not arrest the receiver if in inserting the same the rear edge should strike said rib. At the front of the chamber B is the drainageoutlet I4, with 7o which in use a tube would ordinarily be connected.

In operation the holder A is filled to the desired extent with ice in one or more blocks orlnmps, thelever E being turned back as far as the stop L will permit. The lever is then turned over, the plates D keeping it in the same plane until the follower F presses upon the ice. The wheel 7 is turned by the user with one hand, while with the other applied 8o to the lever E he forces the lump or block ice in the holder against the disk H. The knives K continually remove the ice in shavings, which pass through the slots in the disk H and fall into the receiver L. Then this has received a sufficient supply of shaved ice, it is removed and emptied. Any water which may be formed by the melting of ice in the holder A ows down the adjacent wall of the charnber B and under the receiver L and escapes 9o by the drainageoutlet lei.

It is evident that modifications can be made in details without departing from the spirit of the invention and that parts of the invention can be used separately.

I claim as my invention or discovery- 1. The stationary frame or body of the niachine, composed of, rst, the tubular curved ice-holder; second, the chamber fixed to and forming a continuation of the said ice-holder 10o and arranged beyond the lower end thereof transversely thereto, in part above and in part below the lower edge ofthe said iceholder,and, third, the foot fixed to the said ice-holder and arranged under the same at the side of thclower part of the said chamber, in combination with the removable shaved-ice receiver in the lower part of the said chamber, the vertical knifedisk between the said chamber and the said ice-holder, the follower in the said iceholder, and the specified means for moving the said knife-disk and the said follower,substantially as described.

2. In an ice shaving machine, and in combination with the stationary ice-holder, the rotary knifedisk, and the movable follower, the stationary chamber arranged partly below and partly above the lower edge of the said iccholder beyond itslower end and ixedto the said ice-holder, and the removable shaved-ice receiver set hoiizontally in said chamber, the chamberbeing provided with an opening in one of its upright walls for theinsertion of the sai d receiver, with supports for upholding the same above the bottom of the said chamber, and with a drainageontlet, and the said receiver being provided with a front plate which closes the said opening when the receiver is inserted in said chamber, substantially as described.

3. The combination, with the ice-holder, thc

follower, and the knife-disk, of the chamber provided with an opening in one of its upright walls and arranged at the lower end of the ice-holder on the opposite side of the knifedisk from the said follower, and the scoopshaped receiver in said chamber, this chamber being provided with supports for the curved bottoni of said receiver, which is nearly of equal width with said chamber, so as to be kept upright by the sides of the same, and

whose front plate closes the said opening in the upright wall thereof,substantially as described. 4. The combination, with the rotary disk armed with knives, of the ice-holder in the form of a section of curved pipe, the follower, the lever, and the curved arm between the follower and the lever,substantially as described.

5. The combination, in an ice-shaving machine, with the cutting mechanism, of a curved conduit adapted to receive the ice and direct the same tothe cutters, which stand in a plane substantially at right angles to the mouth of the said conduit, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two witnesses.

CLEMENT COLERIDGE CLAWSON.

Witnesses:

Geo. W. WILKINs, E. A. MEAD.