US62799A - Charles j - Google Patents

Description

C. J. ADDY.

Tobacco Cutter.

No. 62,799. Patented March t2, 1867.

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T0 ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THESE vPRESENTS SHALL COME:-

Be it known that I, CHARLES J. ADDY, of Roxbury, in thevcounty of Norfolk, and State of Massachusetts, have invented an improved' Tobacco-Cutter, and do hereby declare the4 same to be fully described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of whichv Figure 1 isa top view.

Figure 2, a side elevation.

Figure 3, a longitudinal section; and

Figure' 4, an end elevation of it.

The purpose of my invention is to enable a sheet of tobacco, however it may vary in thickness, to be cut upv intov smaller portions. 'The machine is also useful for cutting several strips or pieces into smaller ones' at one operation. v v

In the drawings, A 'denotes a table or bed-plate, from the top of which two standards, e e, project vertically, and serve to support a horizontal shaft, d, having a lever, B, aii'xed to one of its extremities, and carrying a knife, a, arranged in a'vertical plane against the end' of the table, or the outer extremities of `two parallel guides, Z Z, erected on the said table. Between the said guides Il is va feeder, C, which is a bar of metalaf-Xed atrig-ht angles to one end of a long rack, lc, which rests against anguille, o, and engages with a pinion, z', fixed to thelower surface of a ratchet, h, which is arranged over the rack k and the table in manner-as represented.

With the teeth of the said ratchet, which roiec't from its u er surface and close to its ieri 'her a drawawl l P i PP l P y: P 7

g, engages, such pawl being hinged or jointed to an arm j', projectiing` from the sha-ftd. .The pawlis.bifureated to receive the arm, the prongs gg, of the bifurcation, being each bent at va right angle or there-abouts with the rest of the pawl. I'lwo or more holes, yy, are made through each portion so bent, and also through the arm, the same being sor 'that a pin, 71, may be passed at different distaiiceslfroin the axisof the shaft through the said arm 'and ben't parts. The said bends of the prongs, together with their holes and the holes of the arm, are for the purpose 0f enabling the feed or degree of movement ofthe feeder be varied more or less, circumstances may require, for the further the joint pinp is arranged from the axis of the shaft, thegrea-ter will be each motion of the draw pawl, provided the motions of the knife-lever are constantl or alike. Astud, c, projecting from the lever B, in manner as shown in figs. 1 and 4, by contact with the table during the upward movement of' the said lever, serves to arrest suoli movement. v In like manner another stud, r, ext-ending from the lever, as shown in tig. l, by contact with the table during a downward movement of the lever, will operate to arrest such latter mov-ement. A presser, D, composed of a series of springs, 'n n a n, aixed to a cross-bar, m, joined'at its ends to two bent arms E E, is arranged with respectto the knife and the feeder in manner vas exhibited in the drawings. Thesaid two arms are placed against the outer sides of the guides ZZ, and are connected to such `nidos by Ljoin t-pins m m, which go through the arms and are screwed into the guides, the same being se ns te enable the pressel to be moved up and down in order to arrange itsl springs nearer to or further from the n) er surface of the bed as nia be desirable. In order to fix the )resser at different elevaf tions, relatively to the bed-plate,l a series of holes',` s s, is made in one or each of theguides, they being arranged so as to enable either of them to receive a pin, t, passed through one of the arms E E. The journals a u of the ratchet-shaft n are duly supported within the table, and a bracket, "w, affixed thereto.4 Furthermore, a stopv or hook, .'v, projecting from the outer end of the rack c, serves to arrest the forward movement of the feeder at' the proper time.

In operating with the above-described machine, the tobacco is to be laid ,en the table and between the guides l Z, and in advance of the feeder. Next the handieoi'the knifedever B i? to be 'laid hold of, and such lever should be raised `and depressed. The act of elevating the lever will cause the feeding mechanism to advance thetobacco underneath the springs of the presser andthe cutting edge of the knife, when it willremain stationary until the knife may have beenforced downward and been caused to ont through it. During the descent ofthe knife the draw-pawl will slide over the yteeth of the ratchet So as tobe again read.)r to movehe ratchet during the next elevatioirof the knife-lever. v

In the said machine, I claim 'es of my invention, the following, viz:

I claim the Acombimton of the adjusting arms E E and setting pin t'and'holes es, orgtlrie equivalent thereof, with the presser D, combined with a knife, a, Vand feeder'C,.arrangedI te operate sstantalllyvasvspeciied I I also claim the above-*described arrangement ofphe rack k, the pinina', ratchet h, and draW-pdwlg, .With the presser D,'the feeder C, the knife a, or knife-lever B, and its shaf: d.

And in -coinbinati'on with the knife-lever B,'shaft CZ, arm f, drawjpaw g, ratchet h, the pinion z', rack lc, and the feederC, I claim the mechanism for Varying'thefeed as described, such mechanism consisting of the bent prongs g g, of the draw-pawl, with the pin p, andthe holes y y arranged in the prongs, and the said arm.4

f, as specified. 4

,l CHAS. J. ADDY..

Witnesses:

,R, H. EDDY,

F. P. HALE, Jr.

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