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WESLEY MALICK, OF TIDIOUTE, PENNSYLVANIA.
Lette/rs Patent No. 84,562, dated December 1, 1868.
IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINES FOR PINTING- HOOKS, STAPLES, atc.
To all 'whom t may concewt Be it known that I, WESLEY MALICK, of Tidoute, in the county of- Warren, and State of Pennsylvania,
' have invented a new and improved and useful Machine for Pointing Staples, Hooks, and other Irons.; and I do hereby declare the following to be a'full and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and the letters of reference marked thereon, the
vsame being a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective, Figure 2 is a top view of my invention.
Figure 3 is a vieur of a staple previous to being pointed, and
Figure 4 shows a staple after the same has been pointed by my invention.
Figure 5 is a view of my invention in another form, and-intended for hand-use, or to be operated by an eccentric, cam, or crank-and-pitinan movement.
The way in which I construct a machine is as follows:
I rst construct the frame M M, in which I hang the rollers I)l and D?, on one end of which I have loogged gears O.
The roller l)2 is driven by the belt or pulley-wheel E, and on the roller D is a balance-wheel, C. The roller D has its jonrnalshung in the sliding boxes L L, which work in the slots Q Q.
These sliding boxes L L are gauged by the set-screws N N. The reason of this will be more fully set forth hereafter, in the description of the operation of my machine. v
The rollers .D and D2 are unade of cast or wroughtiron, or of steel, or any metal of sulicient hardness. The frame is made of any material desired.
Sunk into the roller I)x is a female die, H, and represented in fig. 2 as being staple or U-shaped. This may be of any shape to correspond with the shape of the iron which it is desired to point. i
In the roller Dz-is sunk a mortise, in which is fastened a male die, I. This die is removable, and dies of different shape and size may be substituted. This male die l2 is placed in such a position that, when the rollers are revolved, the male die I? will t in the female die H.
The male die, it will be seen by referring to figs. 2 and 5, is so constructed as to make the roller D2, so to speak, eccentric at the
points 1 and 2, in figs. 2 and 5.
The female die, it will be seen, is cut deeper at the bow-end, and gradually diminishes in depth to the points. A
Now, it will be seen that, if a staple is placed with its bow-end o n the rollers, at the point-S, as they revolve in the direction indicated by the arrows in iig. 2, the bow of the staple will drop into the bow of the female die, and as they revolve, the eccentres or inclines of the male die will close in upon the ends of the staple, and, as they come inthe shallow part of Placed over the rollers, and supported by the frame F, is a hopper, A, through which the unm'shed staples are fed.
This hopper is' made of two pieces of iron, fashioned as indicated in iig. 1, and fastened together by the bolts Tand its counterpart on the opposite side, and not seen in the drawing, thereby forming a joint, by which means the throat of the hopper may be varied in size, so as to allow the different-sized staples to pass through, and so as to hold the staples or irons in position to be taken in at the proper time. The counterpart of the bolt T is a set-screw bolt.
In the frame F is a slant, G, running the whole length of the same, the object of which is to place the hopper at any point on the rollers, and secure it there by the set-screw, for it is intended to have several differentsized dies on the rollers for different-sized staples.
Seen on the rollers are the small dies I I. These are both female dies. It will be seen that .they are corrugated or notched.- They are for making small staples, which are not clinched when. driven.
The corrugations ornotches in the dies give the staples, when pressed in them, a beard, so they will hold in the wood.
Fig. 5, as I have before stated, shows my machine in another form, being designed to be worked by hand, by a pitman and crank, by eccentrics, or by cams.
The way in which I operate my machine is as follows The power is applied to the belt o1- pulley-wheel, (and this may, of course, be a gearwheel,) so asto revolve the rollers in the directions indicated by the arrows in lig. 2. place them in the hopper, so the` `bow-end shall pass through the throat of the hopper first, and rest on the rollers at the point S. They are .then drawn in Abetween the dies, as described, and fall upon the floor underneath the machine, pointed and ready for use.
After the machine has been run a short time, the rollers become heated and expand, and to obviate any difficulty from this, I'then loosen the set-screws N N.
The machine may be so constructed as to grab the staples at the points, instead of the bow-end, if so desired.
What I claim as my invention, and desireto secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is as follows, to wit:
The frames M Maud F, the sliding boxes L L, and the set-screws N N, in combination 'with the wheels E and C, the rollers Dl and D2, the adjustable hopper A, and the male and female dies H and P, when the same are constructed and arrangedas described, and in the aforesaid combination.
Witnesses:
.BENN B. EVANS, O. loDD PERLEY,
WESLEY MALIOK.
I then heat the unfinished staples, and