Improvements in Machines or Apparatus for Cutting or Chopping Meat or like Substances.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Jan., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 8th Oct., 1890-Accepted, 8th Nov., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines or Apparatus for Cutting or Chopping
Meat or like Substances.
I HOWARD WESLEY BERRY of 50 Lime Street in the City of London Merchant
do hereby declare the nature of this invention (which has been communicated to me
from abroad by John Owen Lucas of 103 Cecil Street Fitzroy Melbourne in the
Colony of Victoria Engineer) to be as follows:-
This invention relates to cutting or chopping machines wherein knives revolve in
a casing and the main object of the present invention is to obviate the hitherto existing
necessity for removing the band by which the knife shaft is driven from its pulley
before the frame supporting the knives and their driving shaft can be raised.
According to this invention the frame or platform which carries the knives and their
actuating shaft is pivoted or centered so that the frame and the parts carried by it
turn on or around the main driving shaft of the machine so that the pulley on the
knife shaft always remains at the same distance from the pulley on the main driving
shaft in whatever position the knife carrying frame or platform may be.
Therefore
the knives and their shaft can be moved clear of the casing without removing the
belt from the pulley on the knife shaft. For securing or holding the knife
carrying frame or platform in its working position a locking lever may be centered
to the main frame it having a handle and a projecting portion engaging with an incline
on the underside of the knife carrying frame or on the lever usually attached to the
frame for raising it.
Dated this 10th day of Januar 1800
J. H. JOHNSON & Co.,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines or Apparatus for Cutting or Chopping
Meat or like Substances.
I, HOWARD WESLEY BERRY of 50 Lime Street in the City of London Merchant
do hereby declare the nature of this invention (which has been communicated to
me from abroad by John Owen Lucas of 103 Cecil Street, Fitzroy Melbourne in the
Colony of Victoria Engineer) 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 cutting or chopping machines wherein knives revolve in a
casing and the main object of the present invention is to obviate the hitherto existing
necessity for removing the strap or band, by which the knife shaft is driven, from
its pulley before the frame supporting the knives and their driving shaft can be
raised.
I will describe the invention with reference to the accompanying drawings which
represent in views at right angles to each other a machine constructed according to
this invention. A is the main frame of the machine and B the frame or platform
which carries the knives, and their actuating shaft C.
Mounted in bearings D on the frame A is the main driving shaft E which may be
driven from any suitable prime mover by a strap passing round the fast and loose
pullies F. On the opposite end of this shaft E is keyed a pulley G for transmitting
motion by a strap or band H and pulley I to the cutter shaft C.
The frame B carrying the cutters is centered at K so as to be capable of being
turned on or around the main driving shaft E into the position shewn by dotted lines
in Figure 1 so as to provide means for access to the trough or vessel L' in which the

page_text: material is operated on by the cutters / without removing the strap or band H from
the pulley I as by mounting the frame B on the shaft E as shewn the shaft C always
remains at the same distance from the pulley F on the main driving shaft E into
whatever position the knife carrying frame or platform B may be moved. For
securing or holding the knife frame or platform B in its working position a locking
lever or button as at P may be employed engaging with the rim on the trough L and
a stud p on the main frame as shewn or any other suitable device may be employed
for holding the parts securely in position.
To the frame or platform B is hinged the hood or cover M of the cutters by raising
which hood the material to be cut may be fed into the trough L-N is a spout
through which the material when sufficiently operated on by the cutters may be
discharged by sliding outwards the valve n.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In machines for cutting or chopping meat and like substances (in which the
cutter or cutters is or are carried on a shaft driven from a shaft parallel thereto)
mounting the frame carrying the cutter shaft on the driving shaft so that the cutter
or cutters may be raised and lowered out of and into operating position without
removing the driving strap or band from the pulleys substantially as herein before
described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
2. The general combination and arrangement of parts constituting the improved
machine for cutting or chopping meat or other like substances substantially as herein-
before described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
ليم
J. H. JOHNSON & Co.,
Agents.