US858125A - Stick-feeder. - Google Patents

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W. H. WALDRON.

STICK FEEDER. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 9. 1907.

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WILLIAM IIUBELI WALDRON, OF NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO JOHN WALDRON COMPANY, OF NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY.

STICK-FEEDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 25, 1907.

Application filed M91011 9,1907. Serial No. 361,451-

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Be it known that I, WILLIAM HUBELI WALnRoN, a citizen of the United States,

and a resident of New Brunswick, in the county of Middlesex and State of New J ersey, have invented a new and Improved Stick-Feeder, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to drying machines, such as used in the manufacture of wall paper and the like, and its object is to provide a new and improved stick feeder arranged for properly spacing the sticks used as supports in hanging up the freshly coated or printed paper for drying or other purposes.

The invention consists of novel features and parts and combinations of the same, which will be more fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claims.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings 1 forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the views.

Figure 1 is a sectional side elevation of the improvement, and Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the same on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

On a suitably constructed frame or standards A is mounted a hopper B for receiving sticks C, adapted td pass singly, one after the other, into the entrance or upper end D of a sinuous guide D, secured to or formed on the sides of the standards A, as plainly illustrated in the drawings. Any desired number of bends may be given to the sinuous guide D, so that the latter contains a large number of sticks, one on top of the other, and traveling downward in the sinuous guide by their own gravity, the sticks being finally discharged at the lower or discharge end D of the guide D into registering notches E of spacing wheels E, secured on a shaft F journaled in suitable bearings on the frame or standards A. The wheels E in rotating deliver the sticks singlyv onto endless carrier chains G provided with lugs or projections G, against which rest the sticks O, as indicated in Fig. 1, and which the carrier chains G deliver consecutively to the drying machines properly spaced apart.

The carrier chains G pass over sprocket wheels II secured on a transverse shaft I journaled in suitable bearings on the main frame A, and on the said shaft I is secured a pulley J connected by a belt with other machinery for imparting a continuous rotary motion to the shaft I and the sprocket wheels H, so that the latter causes the sprocket chains G to travel in the direction of the arrows a. On the shaft I is also secured a gear wheel K in mesh with a larger gear wheel L secured on the shaft F of the spacing wheels E, so that the latter are rotated in unison with the travel given to the carrier chains G, and hence a stick is delivered to the carrier chains for each pair of transversely alined lugs or projections G.

In order to prevent a stick from flying out while held in the notches E of the spacing wheels E, guards N are provided, extending on the delivery sides of the spacing wheels E, as plainly indicated in Fig. 1.

By reference to Fig. 1 it will be seen that only the lowermost stick in the sinuous guide D can pass into a set of registering notches E of the spacing wheels E, and as the latter rotate in the direction of the arrow 6, it is evident that the stick in the top notches E is carried along and downwardly, and the next set of empty notches E in registering with the discharge end D of the guide D is filled with another stick, and so on, and when the stick in a pair of notches E reaches a bottom position, it drops out of the registering notches down onto the carrier chains G, immediately in front of a corresponding pair of lugs G.

By gearing the spacing wheels E in the manner described, small sized spacing wheels can be used relative to the lugs G spaced larger distances apart, as will be readily understood by reference to Fig. 1.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent A stick feeder comprising a frame, a hopper mounted on the frame, an endless carrier having spaced lugs below the hopper and spaced apart therefrom, a sinuous guide leading from the hopper and terminating above the carrier, rotatable spacing wheels having notches for receiving the sticks arranged at the lower end of said sinuous guide for receiving the sticks therefrom and depositing them on the carrier, and guards partially inclosing the spacing Wheels and means in connection With the carrier for rotating said spacing Wheels.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

WILLIAM HUBELI WALDRON. Witnesses E. A. WALDRON, W. E. VAN DEVENTER.

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