US43358A - Improvement in machines for cutting matches - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES IPATENT Orricn,

ANTONY VELSCH, 0F CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINES FOR CUTTING MATCHES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 43,358, dated June 2S, 1864.

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANTONY WELscH, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Match-Cutters; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and the letters and figures marked thereon, which form part of this specication.

In said drawings, which are hereunto anneXed, Figure l represents a perspective view ofmyinvention. Fig. 2 is atransverse sectional view of the blocli F, and Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the same through the line C D in Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference in the several iigures denote the same parts of my invention.

The nature of my invention consists in the employment, in combination with a cuttingtool provided with a series of semicircular grooves, of a series of spring-steel cutters, arranged inthe rear of the aforesaid grooves in such a manner that when the match-cutter is moved forward the said grooves cut the upper half of the match-sticks from the wood, while the aforesaid semicircular cutters ot' spring-steel, which are placed immediately behind the grooves and form the opposite arc of the circle, cut the lower half of the matchsticks from the wood, and thus by a single stroke ofthe instrument the sticks are cut of any desired length and number.

My invention also consists in arranging the elastic rear critters, above described, in two rows, one being arranged just at the rear 0f the other alternately, or in any equivalent manner, so that said cutters may have freer play, and so that the cutting is distributed and less obstruction is presented by the wood to the passage ofthe cutters through the s me.

To enable those skilled in the art fully to understand how to construct and use my invention, I will proceed to describe the same with particularity,'reference being made to the aforesaid drawings.

E represents the wooden body of an ordinary benchplane, substantially the only difference being such as is necessary to conform it to the peculiar cutting device constituting my invention.

F represents a block of brass or other suitable metal provided with a longitudinal groove, in which the steel bar I is adjusted and confined by means of the set-screwf.

I I at its lower end is provided with the series of grooves before described, which cut the upper portion ot" the round match-stiel;

' from the wood, which grooves are marked a in the drawings. This bar or cutter I is adiustable up and down in F, so as to adapt it to the required depth or position when in use. The lower end of F is provided with a series of deep narrow channels or sawcuts, into which the cutters c o' are inserted, as shown. F is also provided with two chambers, b and L. The chamber b receives the ends of the steel springs c c', and permits an adjustment (f said springs either by dropping them lower or by raising them higher, as may be desired.

I When adjusted to the desired position, the said springs are readily coniined in place by means of the loose blocks d, arranged between them in the chamber li., and the set-screw c. By arranging the grooves av farther apart the Ispring-cutters c c might be arranged in a single row across the instrument, only in suoli case much ofthe wood would be wasted, whereas by the alternate arrangement of the cutters (shown in Fig. 2) the grooves may be paced contiguous to each other, therebysaving` and avoiding such waste.

` I have shown my invention with only four grooves and cutters, and as arranged to be operated by hand, but there may be a series of any desired number of grooves and corresponding elastic or flexible cutters, and may I be operated by machinery, as is the case with I a planingmachine, or in any suitable manner, either by moving the instrument or by making the machine or cutter stationary and moving the wood upon the cutters.

Having described my improvement in l match-cutters, l will now specify what I claim as new herein and desire to secure by Letters Patent.

1. The combination and arrangement of a series of cutting-grooves, a, with a c0rrespending series of iiexible springcritters, c c', whether said cutters c c' are arranged alternately, as shown, or not, operating substantially as and for the purposes herein described and shown.

2. Arranging the spring-cutters c c alternately in two rows, substantially in the manner and for the purposes specified.

ANTONY WELSCIL Witnesses:

XV. E. MAUS, WM. A. HnNDRrs,

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