US982324A

US982324A - Machine for manufacturing featherbone blade.

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Publication number: US982324A
Application number: US34150506A
Authority: US
Inventors: William Webster
Original assignee: WARREN FEATHERBONE CO
Current assignee: WARREN FEATHERBONE CO
Priority date: 1906-10-31
Filing date: 1906-10-31
Publication date: 1911-01-24
Anticipated expiration: 1928-01-24

Description

I W. WEBSTER.

MACHINE FOR MANUFACTURING FEATHERBONE BLADE.

- APPLICATION FILED OCT. 31, 1906.

Patented Jan. 24, 1911.

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WILLIAM WEBSTER, OF LONDON, ONTARIO, CANADA, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGN- MENTS, TO WAR-BEN FEATHERBONE COMPANY OF MICHIGAN, OF THREE OAKS, MICHIGAN, A CORPORATION OF MICHIGAN.

MACHINE FOR MANUFACTURING FEATHERBONE BLADE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Papented Jan. 24, 1911.

Application filed October 31, 1906. Serial No. 341,505.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, lVILLIAM lVEBsTnR, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at the city of London, Province of Ontario, Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Manufacturing Featherbone Blade, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved machine for manufacturing featherbone blade automatically from quills without reducing the quills to fiber, it being merely necessary to feed the quills into the machine when they will be taken up and acted upon automatically and delivered onto a spool or reel in the form of flat blades.

This invention is related to the invention of my U. S. Patent No. 836,821, of Nov. 20, 1906.

The object of this invention is to provide a machine which will automatically manufacture flat blades from quills without fibering the quill substance.

Further objects, and objects relating to structural details, will definitely appear from the detailed description to follow.

A structure embodying the features of my invention is fully described in the following specification.

The invention is clearly defined and pointed out in the claims.

A structure embodying the features of my invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification, in which,

Figure 1 is a plan view of the front por tion of my improved machine, showing the manner of splitting, depithing and advancing the portions of the split quills into the proper relation for forming and retaining them in a blade. Fig. 2 is a detail sectional elevation on the irregular line 22 of Fig. 1, showing details of construction. 3 is a detail sectional plan of the rear half of my machine, where the portions of the quills are bound and secured together in the form of a blade and showing its connection to the fore part, which appears in Fig. 1. Fig. a is a detail plan View, partly in section, of the feeding device, showing the chute 15 beyond the depither where the strips of the quill are delivered in the proper overlapping relation. Fig. 5is a detail sectional view on the irregular line 55 of Fig. l, showing the sloping character of the upper wall of the chute guide 15. Fig. 6 is a sectional view on line 66 of Fig. 1, showing the relation assumed by the quill strips 83. Fig. 7 is a detail cross sectional view on line 77 of Fig. 4, showing the manner in which the strips 33 take a position exactly back of each other to be delivered forwardly between the feed rolls and be made into the blade.

In the drawing, the sectional views are taken looking in the direction of the little arrows at the ends of the section lines, and similar reference numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

Considering the numbered parts of the drawing, all of the 'parts of my improved machine are supported on the bed or base 1; see Figs. 1 and 2. These parts consist of a quill feeding device, which is made up of a pair of feed rolls 7 and 9, which embrace the quills and drive them forward. These rolls are supported on the vertical shafts 6 and 8 respectively, which are driven by suitable means not here illustrated.

The quills are placed in a stack between upright pins 33 and 3-8 which are on the auxiliary plate, which plate is supported by suitable means on the block or bed 1. The quills are delivered by the feed rolls 7 and 9 to a pair of feed rolls 1010 which deliver them against a splitting knife 11. This splitting knife. 11 divides the quills into halves, delivering the back half or portion to the left hand side and the belly portion of the quill to the righthand side, where these halves or parts are embraced-by knurled rolls 12-12 and delivered in close proximity to the rotary depithing cutters 1813. These clepithing cutters out off the pith from the parts of the quill and then one half is delivered to the righthand guide chute 15 and the other half is delivered through the elongated curved guide 15. Thence it is seized by a pair of rollers 16 and delivered to the guide 17. The longer course of this portion of the quill through the guides causes the same to lap onto that portion that was delivered directly so that the joint is broken between the backs and the bellies of the quills, when they are delivered to the feed rolls 18. However, it is desirable still further to overlap and add to the quill substance of the blade and that is accomplished by providing the screw feed, consisting of right and left hand screws, above the rollers 7 and 9, which positively carries the quills down and delivers them forward one above the other and in an offset relation. The quills advance successively about three inches behind each other, one above the other, as they enter the feed rollsand pass against the splitting knife. The guides 15 are quite open, as will be seen in Fig. 4, and the top walls thereof taper downwardly, and the points of the quill deliver against rather an abrupt curve, so that, as the quill advances around this curve, its natural elasticity separates it from the wall of the guide somewhat, so that the quill strip just back of it has an opportunity to enter, point first, when its straight end protrudes between the curved portion of the quill and the wall of the guide at that point, and as the upper wall or roof of the guide, so to speak, slopes downwardly, the last quill to enter is carried down back of the next one in the machine, the relation of the quill pieces 3333 for the successive posit-ions, being clearly indicated in Fig. 6. In this illustration the quill is just entering the space back of the quill just in advance of it, and in Fig. 7 the quill strips have come to the same elevation and overlap each other. The quills thus overlapped, with joints broken between the successive quills and between the back and bellies, are advanced in fiat form by the rollers 18 through the guide chute 19. As they pass from the guide chute 19, they are taken up by the rolls 21 and delivered to the .winding mechanism, which has a fixed core 23 with a rectangular slot therethrough to accommodate the blade.

A spool 27 is carrled on a revolving sleeve 26, which revolving sleeve also carries a flier arm 28 to deliver the wrapping thread around the blade. This guide arm is counterbalanced by the weight 25 and the whole is driven by the grooved pulley 24L. Feed rolls 30 compress the blade and deliver it from this winder to a sewing machine 31, which puts one or more rows of longitudinal stitches through the same, when the blade is wound upon the reel 32. These last-named devices are supported on the vertical plate 20, by

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22, 22, 22, 22, so that the sewing machine reciprocates its needle in a horizontal rather than in a vertical position.

I have illustrated my improved featherbone blade machine in detail and believe the parts are necessary and advantageous.-

Modifications of the details will, no doubt, suggest themselves to persons familiar with. the art to which my invention pertains. I have shown the same feed device that I have shown in conjunction with other machines, for which I am filing applications concurrent herewith, but would remark that the feed device could be modified or changed, although the matter of having the quills and their backs. and bellies overlap is very desirable and is effectively accomplished by the improved feed device which I here show.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a machine for manufacturing featherbone blade from quills, the combination of a suitable feed device which supports the quills in stacks and feeds them successively in overlapping relation; feed rolls for advancing the quills forwardly; a splitting knife for dividing them into halves; feed rolls for gripping the halves; rotary depithing cutters beyond said feed rolls for removing the pith; abruptly curved chutes for receiving said quills successively, said chutes having downwardly sloping tops or roofs whereby the point of the last quill strip entering the chute will descend back of the next preceding quill strip, one of said chutes being quills successively in overlapping relation;

feed rolls' for advancing the quills forwardly; a splitting knife for dividing them into halves; feed rolls for gripping the halves; rotary depithing cutters beyond said feed rolls for removing the pith; abruptly curved chutes for receiving said quills successively, said chutes having downwardly sloping tops or roofs whereby the point of the last quill strip entering the chute will descend back of the next preceding quill strip, one of said chutes being longer and recurved to carry the backs and bellies of the quills into overlapping relation; feed rolls for advancing the strips thus overlapped; a winder with a fixed core having a rectangular passage to receive the said strips; a sewing machine arranged to stitch through the blade after it is wound, all co-acting substantially as described and for the purpose specified.

3. In a machine for manufacturing featherbone blade from quills, the combination of a suitable feed device which feeds the quills successively in overlapping relation; feed rolls for advancing the quills forwardly; a splitting knife for dividing them. into halves; feed rolls for gripping the halves; rotary depithing cutters beyond said feed rolls for removing the pith; guiding means to guide the flat quill strips into overlapping relation; feed rolls for advancing the flat strips thus overlapped; a winder with a fixed core having a rectangular passage to receive the said flat strips; a sewing machine arranged to stitch through the blade after it is wound, all co-act-ing substantially as described and for the purpose specified.

l. In a machine for manufacturing featherbone blade from quills, the combination of a suitable feed device which supports the quills in stacks and feeds them successively in overlapping relation; feed rolls for advancing the quills forwardly; a splitting knife for dividing them into halves; feed rolls for gripping the halves; abruptly curved chutes for receiving said fiat quill strips successively, said chutes having downwardly sloping tops or roofs whereby the point of the last quill strip entering the chute will descend back of the next preceding quill strip, one of said chutes being longer and recurved to carry the backs and bellies of the quills into overlapping relation; feed rolls for advancing the flat strips thus overlapped; a winder with a fixed core having a rectangular passage to receive the said strips; a sewing machine arranged to stitch through the blade after it is wouno, all co-acting substantially as described and for the purpose specified.

5. In a machine for manufacturing 'l'eatlr erbone blade from quills, the combination of a suitable feed device which feeds the quills successively in overlapping relation; feed rolls for advancing the quills forwardly; a splitting knife for dividing them into halves; feed rolls for gripping the halves; abruptly curved chutes for receiving said quills successively, said chutes having downwardly sloping tops or roofs whereby the point of the last quill strip entering the chute will descend back of the next preceding quill strip, one of said chutes being longer and recurved to carry the backs and bellies of the quills into overlapping relation; feed rolls for advancing the strips thus overlapped; a winder with a fixed core having a rectangular passage to receive the said. strips; and a sewing ma chine arranged to stitch through the blade after it is wound, all co-acting substantially as described and for the purpose specilied.

6. In a machine for manufacturing featherbone blade from quills, the combination of a suitable feed device which feeds the quills successively in overlapping relation;

feed rolls for advancing the quills forwardly; a splitting knife for dividing them into halves; feed rolls for gripping the halves; guiding means to guide the Hat quill strips into overlapping relation; feed rolls for advancing the strips thus overlapped; a winder with a fixed core having a rectangular passage to receive the said strips; and a sewing machine arranged to stitch through the blade after it is wound, all coacting substantially as described and for the purpose specified.

7. In a machine for the manufacture of featherbone blade from quills, the combination of suitable devices for splitting the quills into strips; guiding means to guide the quill strips into overlapping relation; :1 winder with a fixed core having a rectangular passage arranged to automatically receive the said strips and wind a wrapping thread thereon and form them into a blade; and a sewing machine arranged to stitch through the blade after it is wound, coacting for the purpose specified.

8. In a machine for the manufacture of featherbone blade from quills the combination of suitable devices for splitting the quills into strips; guiding means to guide the flat strips into overlapping relation; a winder arranged to automatically receive the said strips and wind a wrapping thread thereon and form them into a blade; and a sewing machine arranged to stitch through the blade after it is wound, co-acting for the purpose specified.

9. In a machine for the manufacture of featherbone blade, the combination of suitable devices for splitting the quills into strips; guiding means to guide the flat quill strips into overlapping relation; and a winder arranged to automatically receive the said strips and wind a wrapping thread thereon and form them into a blade, c0- acting for the purpose specified.

10. In a machine for the manufacture of featherbone blade from quills, the combination of guiding means to guide flat quill strips into overlapping relation; a winder with a fixed core having a rectangular passage arranged to automatically receive the said strips and wind a wrapping thread thereon and form them into a blade; and a sewing machine arranged to stitch through the blade after it is wound, co-acting for the purpose specified.

11. In a machine for the manufacture of featherbone blade from quills, the combination of guiding means to guide flat quill, strips into overlapping relation; a winder arranged to automatically receive the said strips and wind a wrapping thread thereon and form them into a blade; and a sewing machine arranged to stitch through the blade after it is wound, co-acting for the purpose specified.

12. In a machine for the manufacture of In Witness W11er "t, I have hereunto set featherbone blade from qu111s,the combmamy hand and seal 1n the presence of two 10 111011 of guldlng means to gulde flat qulll wltnesses.

stri as into overla ing relation' and a I 5 Win der arranged t autolnaticallg receive VILLIAM VVEBSTER' the said strips and Wind a Wrapping thread Vitnesses: thereon and form them into a blade, 00- R. G. FISHER, acting for the purpose specified. D. CONSTABLE.