US465840A

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Publication number: US465840A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1891-12-29
Anticipated expiration: 1908-12-29

Description

(No Model.)

A. DEWES 8v R. P.4FRIST.

WASHER GUTTER.

No. 465,840. `Pajzated Deo. 29, 1891.

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ABEDNEGO DEVES, OF BROOKLYN, NENV YORK, AND ROBERT P. FRIST, OF VILMINGTON, DELAVARE, ASSIGNORS TO THE DELAVARE HARD FIBRE COMPANY, OF VILMINGTON, DELAVARE.

WASHER-CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 465,840, dated December 29, 1891.

Application filed June 25, 1891. Serial Nc. 397,501. (No model.)

To all whoml it may concern: moval and replacement of the clearer and Be it known that we, ABEDNEGO DEWES, a clearer-rods. These heads also work in opensubject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing ings in the bottom of the punch communicatin Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of ing with the transverse slot above mentioned,

5 New York, and ROBERT PORTER FRIsT, a citiand are provided with square shoulders which 5 5 zen of the United States, residing in Wilabut against the cutter-plate to limit the outniington, county of Newcastle, State of Delaward movement of the clearer, but when ware, have jointly invented certain new and pressed inward by the cutting `of a washer useful Improvements in lVasher-Cutters, of project into this slot so as to be acted upon 1o which the following is a specification. by a stationary clearer-bar F, passing there- 6c Our invention more especially relates to through and suspended by links F from a washer-cutters of the classadapted to form iXed portion G of the frame. ring-washers. Its objects are to obtain acom- The operation will readily be understood pact, simple, effective, rapidly-working, and from the foregoing description.

15 quickly-clearing cutter, which ends we attain Fig. 2 shows the normal relation of the 65 by certain novel organizations of instrumenparts at the beginning of each stroke. This talities hereinafter specified. figure shows the cutters and punches raised The accompanying drawings show so much so that the heads or stops e rest against the only of our improved apparatus as is necesclearer-bar F. The follower or plunger then 2o sary to illustrate the subjectmatter claimed., descends and the parts assume the relation 7e Unless otherwise indicated, its parts are of shown in Figs. 1 and 3, both cutters having usual approved construction. passed through the material from which the Figure l represents an elevation, partly in washer is to be cut, thus forming the ringsection, on the line 1 1 of Fig. 3,1ooking to washer H and its central plug h. The fol- 2 5 the right, with the cutters depressed to form lower then rises again, the stopsevabut against 75 a washer; Fig. 2, a similar view with the cut* the clearerbar F, and the ring-washer H ters retracted and the washer discharged. is ejected. Each central plug or scrap h is Fig. 3 is an elevation, partly in section, on inturn pushedinwardbyits successorthrough the line 3 3 of Fig. 1, looking to the right; the center cutter D and discharged through 43o Fig. 4, a horizontal cross-section on the line the slot a and discharge-opening a. 3o 4 4, looking downward; and Fig. 5 a face Underour improved organization, itwill be view of the cutters. observed, the cutters and clearers are the only A reciprocating plunger A is shown as pron movable parts. Both are positively actuated, vided at bottom with a transverse slot c, with thus dispensing with springs, and the relation 3 5 which a iiaring discharge-opening a commuof the cutterand clearer is likewise positively 85 nicates. A cutter-plate B, secured to the bot- `controlled by the stops. tom of the plunger by screw-bolts b, is re- The cutters and clearers both reciprocate cessed and screw-threaded to receive acircular relatively to the frame, and the clearer has a cutter C, screwed therein. A central cutter or differential movement relative to the cutters. 4o punch D likewise screws into a central open- The cutter-plate being removable permits of 9o ing through this plate. Clearing-rods E E the ready substitution of cutters of varying are secured at bottom to an annular clearer sizes. E2, moving endwise in thespace between the Having thus described the construction, orcutters C D. This center punch, by the way, ganization, and operation of our improved 45 tapers slightly inward at its lower end, so as ring-washer cutter, what we claim therein as 95 to prevent friction on the clearer when disnew and as of our own joint invention is charging the washer. l. The combination, substantially as here= The clearing-rods E E extend up through inbefore 'set forth, of a reciprocating plunger guide-holes in the plate D and carry heads e provided with atransverseslot,concentric cuta 50 screwed thereon to admit of the ready reters carried by the plunger below the transloo verse slot, an annular clearer between the cutters, the clearer-rods projecting through openings in the cutter into the transverse slot of the plunger, and a fixed bar in said slot which engages with the clearer-rods, the organization being such that the ring-washeris cut on the forward movement of the cutters and discharged on the backward movement.

2. The combination, substantially as hereinbefore set forth, of a reciprocating plunger provided with atransverse slot, concentric cutters carried by the plunger below the transverse slot, an annular clearer between the cutters, rods connected to the annular clearer projecting into the transverse slot and provided with removable heads, and a fixed bar in the transverse slot adapted to engage with the heads ot' the rods on the backward movement of the plunger.

3. The combination, substantially as hereinbefore set forth, of a reciprocating plunger provided with a transverse slot and having a discharge-opening connected therewith, a tubular central cutter connected with plunger and communicating with the transverse slot and discharge-opening therein, a concentric cutter also carried by the plunger, an annular clearer interposed between the cutters, rods secured to the annular clearer the and projecting through vertical openings. in the cutter and extending into the transverse slot of the plunger, and a bar suspended from a stationary part of the press and extending through the slot, the organization being such that the ring-washer is cut on the forward movement of the plunger and discharged on its backward movement, while the central scrap is forced inward by the succeeding one and is discharged through the slot and discharge-opening in the plunger.

4. The combination, substantially as hereinbefore set forth, ot' a reciprocating plunger provided with a transverse slot, a cutterplate removably secured to the face of the plunger, concentric cutters secured to said plate, an annular clearer interposed between the cutters, clearer-rods traversing guideopenings in the cutter, the cuttereplate and the plunger, and a fixed stop or bar against which the rods abut.

In testimony whereof wev have hereunto subscribed our names.

ABEDNEGO DEWES. ROBERT P. FRIST. Witnesses:

FRANK S. OBER, EDWARD C. DAVIDSON.