US34847A - Improvement in barrel-making machines - Google Patents

Description

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SHERIDAN ROBERTS, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN BARREL-MAKING MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 311,847, dated April 1, 1862.

To @ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SHEEIDAN ROBERTS, of

Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in a Machine for Making Barrels and Kegs; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and complete description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in whichd Figure 1 is a plan view. Fig. 2 is a side view. Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the front end; and Fig. 4 is a transverse section in the direction of the lines m sc, Fig. 1. The detached sections, Figs. 5 and (5, will be referred to in the description.

Like letters refer to like parts in the several views.

The nature of 1n y invention relates to the construction and arrangement of certain mechanical devices for the purpose of cutting from a log continuous sheets or sections of any given width andy thickness for barrels, kegs, dto., as hereinafter described.

This machine is designed to make the body part of the barrels and kegs described in the United States patents granted to me under date of October 16, 1800, February 26, 1861, and May 19, `1861. The primary motion and gearing may be that ordinarily used. The adjustable stock A is pivoted at B B to the sliding sash C, which pivots form the axis in the rear of the knife D and gage E, Figs. 1 and 2. The gage-bar F is connected to the stock by setserews G G, Fig. 1, which pass through a slot in the bar and screw into the stock. From each end of the bar ext-ends a" screw, as seen at H H, which passes through a lug at I I, on each side of which are jamn nuts and screws. The gagebaris moved and set so as to adjust the curved gage J to the log at either or both ends. This gage is connected to the bar F by screws at K K, Fig. 1, or its equivalent, and by means of the setscrews K K the concave face J Fig. 4, may be adjusted to the periphery of the log L.

At each end of the knife attached to the sash C is a block M, as seen in Figs.` 1, 2, and 3. These two blocks and two screws support and hold the knife in place. On the under side of the gage-box F is connected by setscrews or otherwise the guide N, Figs. 4 and 6, and which may be moved to or from the knife D, so as to adapt the space O between upon which sashl the cutting and gaging apparatus is mounted. A

To 'the sash is pivoted the screw R at the lower end. The screw-nut S is constructed with a collar T on the under side, so as to form a circular groove around the body of the nut for the reception of the yoke U, Figs. 1 and 4, which is connected to the stock A by arms or trunnions U U', so as to form an adjustable joint in raising and lowering the sash by the screw and nut R and S, which is the required object in adjusting the knifeD to the side of the log when cutting.

It will be noticed that the edge of the knife is above the center of the log,- and that the face of the gage J is a little in the rear of the knife in proportion to the thickness of the piece cut oif from the log. As the log decreases in size, it is desirable that the same relative position of the knife and gage to the log should be retained until the log is cut up. The gage J touches or bears upon the log in such a way as to prevent the knife D from running into the log upon the principle of an ordinary plane; but as the log decreases in size it will consequently recede from the face of the gage, which leaves the knife liable to run` into the log; but this is prevented by the gage keeping up to the face of the log by means of the screw R. By turning the nutcrank the gage J may be turned to or from the log, according to its diameter. As the sash works upon the axis or pivot P for this object as the knife is being fed up to the log, the screw Ris operated so as to keep the gage to the decreasing periphery of the log.

The knife D is concave, with a curved cutf ting-edge, so as to eut off the pieces from the log in the form of a keg or barrel. The face of the gage J is also concave, so as to correspond to lthe log L in the form of a barrel or keg. By this arrangement the knife is advanced in a right line to the log with the gage, and at the same time it is depressed and inclined to the log as its diameter decreases.

Fig. 5 is a detached section of the apparatus for throwing in and out of gear the feedingscrewr Works; The box a is so connected to the stand b as to slide, as indicated in Fig. 5. In the under side of the stand b are two slots c c. Through the slot cpasses 'the arm d of the lever of d', and the arm e of the lever e passesV through the slot c. The arms cl and e, after passing through each slot, lit into a mortise in the under side of the box a, as is indicated in Fig. 5. to throw the pinions f in and out of gear with the Wheel g. The lever e is upon the same shaft h as the lever i, and the lever d is attached to the sleeve j upon the shaft h. The lever lc is also attached to the sleeve. The levers i yand lo are for the convenience of persons' near that part of the machine, as they Will perform the same functionsl as the levers e and CZ. The spring Zunder the lever e', acting upon the lever, throws the pinion out of gear, and by pressing down the lever e the pinion is put in gear, and as soon as it is in gear the arm d, by the action of the spring m, Figs. 3 and 5, is forced into a mortise orslot in the under side of the boX, as indicated in Fig; 5, and thereby held in gear, and by pressing down the lever d, so as to Withdraw the arm dfroln the slot in the box, the spring Thus the arms Will so move the box as l, then acting upon the lever, causes the arm c to slide back the box, as before stated.

What I claim as my improvement, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is l l. The adjustable stock A, so arranged that the axis or pivot of said stock shall be in the Arear of the knife and gage, in combination With the screw R and nut S, so that in adj usting the knife and gage to the log the knifeedge can be inclined and depressed at the same time as the knife-sash C moves in a right line toward the log, in the manner specified.

2. The gage-bar F,With its adj usting-screws,

sliding stock c, the' adjustable yoke U, and screw R, in combination With Ithe sash C, as set forth. p Y y ,Y 3. The adjustable stock A,pivoted to the sliding sash C in the rear of the knife Dand gage 1J, when operating conjoin'tly, in the Witnesses W. H. BURRIDGE, J. BRAINERD.

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