An Adjustable Attachment to Knife-cleaning Machines.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Mar., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 27th June, 1890-Accepted, 2nd Aug., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Adjustable Attachment to Knife-cleaning Machines.
i GEORGE THOMAS Ross, of 83, Beulah Road, Thornton Heath, Surrey, Hardware
Assistunt do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the employment of Attachments to the mouths or openings
of Knife Cleaning Machines, said attachments being pivotted on or within the usual
standards or stays and are of such depths that the full length of each knife handle
bears against the face of the attachment and one accommodates itself to the other as
to the angle due to the drag of the cleansing brushes or pads.
Each attachment has preferably a slot at its lower or inner end for the cutting
edge of the knife to enter, said slot also facilitates the cleaning of the ends or
tips of the blades which generally requiro a little extra cleaning to the body.
1000
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said G. T. Ross.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Adjustable Attachment to Knife-cleaning Machines.
I, GEORGE THOMAS Ross, of 83 Beulah Road, Thornton Heath, Surrey, Hardware
Assistant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :—
This invention relates to the employment of Attachments to the mouths or openings
of Knife Cleaning Machines, said attachments being pivotted on or within the usual
standards or stays and are of such depths that the full length, or nearly so, of each
knife handle bears against the face of the attachment and one accommodates itself to
the other as to the angle due to the drag of the cleaning brushes or pads.
Each attachment has preferably a slot for the cutting edge of the knife to enter,
said slot also facilitates the cloaning of the ends or tips of the blades which generally
require a little extra cleaning to the body.
My invention will be understood by the annexed drawings.
Figure 1 is a part section view of a rotary knife cleaner with the "stay" and my
improved or pivotted rest affixed thereto, and with the knife blade pushed fully home
for the whole of it to be cleaned.
Figure 2 a part elevation of the same with only the tip of the blade inserted.
Figure 3 a face view of the pivotted rest and the rubber, or other slightly yielding
cushion.

page_text: G, transverse slot in back of cushion for reception of pivot pin D.
The drawings show the exact configuration of the pivotted attichinent and its
accessories, as I purpose to manufacture them, but I do not limit myself to the
particular shape, arrangement, or positions of the parts constituting my invention.
For instance, the pivot pin D may be lower, or higher in the attachment C, or in
the stay B, so that the attachment according to the position of its pivot pin may
fall with its upper end towards the front, or over the knife slot in the inachine,
or to fall towards the back. In every case however the attachment is longer than
wide and is mounted vertically in the "stay" for handle of a knife, when the blade
is in the machine, to have a full bearing in or against the cushion, this being composed
of two ribs, between which the handle of the knife can lodge itself, or as in the case
of the knife bladly requiring to be cleaned only at the tip, at Figure 2, the body of
the blade lodges in the slot formed between the two ribs.
I have shown at Figures 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 the cushions or rests of about full length of
the attachment but they may be of any longth, and in some cases a short one at
top and another at bottom of the rockable or oscillatory attachment, as at Figure 7,
may be fitted.
The advantages of a long bearing at every angle to the handles of knives which a
knife may assume while being cleaned in a machine are numerous.
1. The handles are not split.
2. The handles are not torn away from the blades.
3. The blades are not inclined to cocklo or twist.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
:-
1. Pivotting a non-rotitory attachment in, or to. a "stay" of a knife cleaning
machine, as described.
2. Providing the "stays" of knife cleaning machines with oscillating non-revolving-
rests capable of adjustment as to angle duo to the drag of the brushes or pads upon
the knives.
3. Making rests of knife cleaning machines in such a manner that they are
supported on a horizontal axis D and capable of oscillatory motion on said axis, as
described and shown on the drawings.
The 27th day of June 1890,
AGOT Onna
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said G. T. Ross.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said G. T. Ross.