Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Cutting Wood into Sticks or Strips for Lighting Fires.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Dec., 1886.
Complete Left, 9th Sept., 1887
Complete Accepted, 11th Oct., 1887.
Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Cutting Wood into Sticks
or Strips for Lighting Fires.
We, HARRY BRAYLEY WEDLAKE of 138 Seven Sisters Road, Middlesex,
Gentleman, and WILLIAM ORME WEDLAKE of Alderville Road, Fulham, Middlesex,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of our invention is to operate upon wood suitable for fire lighting
purposes by first cutting by means of circular cutters made to travel in the direction
of the grain from one side of the wood to a depth (by their own contact only)
corresponding to that of the sticks suitable for tying in bundle form, the wood being
severed into sticks by guillotine or other knife at right angles to the previous cut but
also in the direction of the grain.
The discs cutters may be made to move and also the guillotine knives but these may
be stationary and the wood be made to move for the operation to be effected.
1000
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said H. B. Wedlake,
and W. O. Wedlake..

page_text: We HARRY BRAYLEY WEDLAKE of 138 Seven Sisters Road, Middlesex Gentleman,
and WILLIAM ORME WEDLAKE of Alderville Road, Fulham Middlesex, Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of our said invention and in what manner the same is to
be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
The object of our invention is to operate upon wood suitable for Fire lighting
purposes by first cutting by means of circular cutters made to travel in the direction
of the grain from one side of the wood to a depth (by their own contact only)
corresponding to that of the sticks suitable for tying in bundle form, the wood being
severed into sticks by a guillotine or other knife at right angles to the previous cut
but also in the direction of the grain but not end on.
The discs cutters may be made to move and also the guillotine knive but these may
be stationary and the wood be made to move for the operation to be effected.
The annexed drawings illustrate how we carry our invention into effect. Figure 1
is a front elevation, Figure 2 a plan and Figure 3 a part sectional transverse view
and side elevation.
A, A, are a series of circular cutters, mounted loosely on an axle common to all of
them so that each cutter has a free motion for rotation to adjust itself to the hardness
or close grain of one part of the wood into which it has to penetrate while moving
across the face of the block which is fed to the guillotine or other knife B immediately
after the discs have passed across the wood and just before the guillotine or other
knife B descends, said knife being actuated by a bowl or block (riding in the curved
slot D of the to and fro travelling plate E in or to the inner face of which the circular
or disc shaped horizontal actioned cutters are mounted, their axle being fixed in said
plate E.
The plate E is shown as having a motion in guides F, F, of the frame G by a rod H
from a fly wheel I but other appliances can be adapted for the purpose.
J is a weighted shoe pressing on the block of wood next the mouth to prevent it
jumping, the feed being intermittent and in proportion to the depth of cut by the
cutters A, A, by the feed rollers K, K', one of which K' is moved by the pauls L, L',
at each kick over of the forked lever M by the fixed holder or stud N on the plate E
and operates alternately on the fork ends P, P, as said plate E travels to and fro.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we claim is.
1. The improved means or apparatus for cutting wood into sticks or strips
for lighting fires as shown on the annexed drawings and as hereinbefore described.
2. In stick wood cutting machines the loosely mounted circular cutters A, A,
working into the wood in the direction of its grain end on and acting in conjunction
with a guillotine or other knife working through the wood in the direction of its grain
not end on but at right angles to the circular cutters A, A, as set forth.
MI
The way of September 2007.
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said H. B. & W. O. Wedlake.