IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR CUTTING CORKS
Year: 1870

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Edward Gedge at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
18th June 1870.-A communication from abroad by Louis Dollone,
of Toulon, in the Empire of France.
I, WILLIAM EDWARD GEDGE, of the Firm of John Gedge and Son,
of No. 11, Wellington Street, Strand, in the County of Middlesex,
Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR CUTTING CORKS," a communication to
me from abroad by Louis Dollone, of Toulon, in the Empire of France,
to be as follows:-
The improvements, the subject of this Invention, relate, firstly, to
a principal machine, represented on the annexed Sheet of Drawing in
horizontal projection and in longitudinal and cross section.
This machine rests on a cast-iron bed, indicated on the Drawing by
the No. 1 carrying a rack and the two cast-iron slide bars or rails Nos. 2
and 3, one of which is flanged and the other pointed.

page_text: Nos. 4 and 5 indicate cast-iron wheels gearing with the rack and fixed
on the plate No. 8.
Nos. 6 and 7 represent friction rollers or small wheels of cast or
wrought iron fixed at the four angles of the plate No. 8, two being flat
and two grooved.
No. 8 indicates the cast-iron plate running on the slide bars or rails,
and on which are fixed the wheels 4 and 5, setting in motion the two
shafts 9 and 10, at the ends of which are toothed bevel pinions com-
municating motion to the shafts Nos. 11 and 12, on which are set other
bevel and cylindrical pinions, having at their ends the two shifting pieces
intended to fix the cork.
No. 13 indicates a spring with handle serving to uip the square piece
of cork, which is to be turned by advancing the upper shaft No. 12,
then to put the cylindrical pinions 14 and 15 in gear, and to push back
the carriage with plate No. 8 running on the slide bars and racks.
No. 16 represents the iron rod acting as guide, and by means of two
brass or copper slides at the two ends fixing the carriage or plate No. 8
so that it may travel without deviation. A flat rail and flanged catch
may be substituted in lieu of the preceding.
No. 17 is a cast-iron cutter head fixed by screws on the plate No. 1,
and in which is set the blade for cutting the square of cork which is
turned.
Nos. 18, 19, and 20 indicate shifting pieces for making corks of various
lengths, which may be replaced by others of different dimensions or
diameters; they are set facing each other on the ends of the shafts
Nos. 11 and 12.
This
No. 22 represents the part of the plate 8 fixed by three screws.
part of the plate upon which is fixed the toothed gearing serves to
regulate at will the various lengths of corks, and by fitting thereto
a piece smaller than that which faces it and advancing it level with the
cutter, any desired cone may be given to the cork.
On the shafts Nos. 11 and 12 at their outer ends, as well as on the
supporting puppets, may be fitted the small supplementary apparatus
No. 23, specially intended for making the small corks used for
pharmaceutical and homeopathic phials.

page_text: Lastly. No. 24 represents an accessory apparatus for regularly cutting
the squares of cork to the required size.
The accompanying Drawings are to a scale of one-fourth the actual
size.
This machinery may be worked by manual power.