US416864A - Hair-clipping bench for fur-dressers - Google Patents

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(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1. HSOHROEDER. HAIR OLIPBING BENCH FOR FUR DRESSERS.

No. 416,864. Patented Deo. 10, 1889.

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HAIR GLIPPING BENCH FOR FUR-DRESSERS. No. 416,864. I Patented Dec. 10, 1889.

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HAlR-CLIPPING BENCH FOR FUR-DRESSERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 416,864, dated December 10, 1889.

Application filed March 9, 18891. Serial No. 302,731. (No model.)

My invention has for its object to produce an improved clipping bench or table for the use of fur-dressers in that part of the general work of preparing skins for the furrier by which the short hairs and broken hairs lying below the fur are removed by clipping.

The construction and operation of this device is clearly explained in the following description, in whichthe accompanying drawings, forming part thereof, are referred to.

Figure 1 of the drawings represents the bench or table in front elevation, with the casing partly broken away to expose the inside. Fig. 2 is a View taken from the righthand side of Fig. 1 with the casing partly broken awayat the top. Fig. 3 is a top View,

also partly in section; and Fig. l is a cross-section through the parts at the top, but on a larger scale than the other figures.

This improved bench or table is designed to hold a skin and present successive portions of itsfur sides in such position that the short hairs and broken hairs standing above the *tween the edges of two plates in such man ner that the hairs to be out are projected through the slit and stand above the plates while the fur is kept down and is protected by the plates during the operation of clipping. An endless apron, traveling over the narrow edge of a wedge-shaped bar, forms a means of moving the skin along under the plates immediately inline withthe slit between them, and by drawing in the air through this aperture while the edges of the plates are held at greater or less distance apart the fur along the ridge or top edge of the bar is drawn back below the plates, leaving the hairs standing upright all along the top of the bar. One' side of the case or'box containing these parts is made sufliciently airtight to form an exhaust-chamber, and to this part connection of an exhanst-fan is made .by a pipe in such manner that the air from the outside is drawn in through the aperture between the two plates when they are separated along the edges. One ofthe platesis fixed, but the other; is capable of sliding laterally and can bemoved back; to regulate the width of the suction aperture or slit while the portion of the skin lying over the ridge of the bar is being set for clipping.

A is an endless apron stretched over the wedge-shaped bar B and around a roller 0 under and parallel with the bar in the lower part of the case. I

D D are vertically-sliding boxes that carry the gudgeons 0* O of the roller, and EE are upright supports suitably braced and secured at the lower ends to the roller-boxes to hold the wedge-shaped bar, that is fixed to their upper ends. The boxes are movable in guideslots at d in the sides of the case G G, and coil-springs F F under the boxes serve to press up this frame and hold the wedge-shaped bar up to the fixed plate. f" g H is a cross-bar that is part of a treadleframe, the other members of whieh the side levers H H pivotedat hflnnside the case and working through slots 'i'z'in the front, with a footbar H joining 'tl1e, two levers together outside. Rodsor chains 1 I connect the boxes with the cross-bar H,.and as thus arranged by pressing down the treadleframe the bar B, with the endless apron, will be drawn awayfroin the aperture between the edges of the two plates.

sis; of v K is a ratchet wheel fixedf onjooiie ofithe roller-gudgeons outside, and L isa hand-lever, with a pawl L to engage the notches in the rim of the wheel. The pawl is double and can be shifted from one side to the other of the pivot, so that the same lever will act to turn the roller either forward or backward, according to the position of the pawl. This arrangement is convenient for running the apron back to fix the skin in place, as well I as for moving it forward step by step over the wedge-shaped bar. An adjustable stop L con sisting of a set-screwin a bracket at one side lever can be made by this means to move the wheel K the distance of one, two, or more teeth at a single throw of the lever.

M N are the two plates lying over the bar B, of which the one M is fixed and other N is movable up or away from the fixed plate on pins or studs 10 19, that take through slots 19. Knobs or thumb-pieces n" W are providedon the top of the plate N for pressing it back and drawing it forward in the operation of separating the fur and seizing the standing hairs for clipping.

The space T, inclosed by the casing G immediately under the sliding plate and along that side of the wedge-shaped bar, is separated from the remaining space by the apron and the upright partitions U U, that with the back and sides of the casing form a compartment sufficiently air-tight to exclude the outside air, so that by connecting the space T with an exhaust-fan the air will almost entirely, if not altogether, be drawn in through the narrow aperture between the plate N and the bar B. An inlet V in the side of the case is connected with any suitable suction apparatussuch as a small-sized exhaust-fan-by a pipe W. The front of the case has a removable panel G to give access to the apron for placing or removing a skin.

As thus constructed the bench is employed andworked in the following manner: The skin to be clipped is stretched smoothly on the apron with the fur side out, and is attached across the head or leading end by hooks or pins and at the tail end by elastic tapes I) b, that are provided on the apron for the purpose of stretching the skin smoothly. By

working the hand-lever the apron is run up until a portion of the skin rests over the ridge of the wedge-shaped bar, and when in this positionthe sliding plate N is moved back until the aperture along this plate is of sufiicient width to give the proper amount of suction. The degree of force with which the air is drawn in through this slit is regulated by increasing or diminishing the space between the edges of the fixed and the mova this manner, the sliding plate is closed against the fixed plate and the standing hairs are clamped between the edges. The clipping-shears are then run over the surfaces of the closed plates along the line of the slit to sever the hairs. The operator now sets another portion of the skin-for clipping by slightly depressing the wedge-shaped bar by pressing his foot on the treadle and then turning the apron-roller by means of the hand-lever and taking his foot from the treadle. The sliding plate is then pressed back, and by this movement the slit is opened to let the coarser hairs spring past the edge of the fixed plate and stand upright. The soft hair then separated and held down by the suction along the backside of the bar is covered by the plates, as before described,by drawing the sliding plate forward against the edge of the fixed plate, and the fur is thus protected while the clipping is being done. In this manner the skin is run through from head to tail, and the short or broken hairs are completely and quicklyremoved without injuring the fur.

Having thus fully described my invention, What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The herein-described bench or table for fur-dressers" use, consisting of the case G, having an exhaust-compartment T at one side, the wedge-shaped bar B, apron A, apronroller 0, means for moving said roller to feed the apron, the inclined plate M, fixed on one side of the point of bar B, and the laterally-sliding inclined plate N on the other side of said point, and pipe or conductor W, adapted to connect the exhaust-compartment with an air-exhausting apparatus, for operation as set forth.

2. In a bench or table for fur-dressers use, the combination, with a wedge-shaped bar B, over which the skin is stretched, of the inclined plate M, fixed on one side of the point of bar B, and the laterally-sliding inclined plate N on the opposite side of said point, and means by which the air is exhausted beneath said plate along one side of the wedgeshaped bar, as and for the'purpose set forth.

Intestimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand and seal.

EMIL SOHROEDER. [L. s.]

Witnesses:

J os. E. FORD, CHAS. E. KELLY.

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