AN IMPROVED MACHINE OR MACHINES FOR CUTTING, SLICING, OR OTHERWISE DIVIDING HAY, STRAW, TURNIPS, AND OTHER VEGETABLES
Year: 1846

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
GILLETT, of Brailes, of the firm of Ward, Colbourne, and Gillett, of Stratford-
on-Avon and Brailes, in the County of Warwick, Agricultural Implement
Makers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Lettors Patent, under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Eighteenth day of April, in the ninth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said John Gillett, my exors, admors, and assigns, Her especial licence, full
power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said John Gillett, my exors,
adiñors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John Gillett, my exors,
adiñiors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time
to time and at all times during the term of years therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise and vend, within England, Wales, and
the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "AN IMPROVED MACHINE OR
MACHINES FOR CUTTING, SLICING, OR OTHERWISE DIVIDING HAY, STRAW, TURNIPS,
AND OTHER VEGETABLES;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso,
that I, the said John Gillett, shall cause a particular description of the nature
of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
by an instrument under my hand and seal, to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same,
reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at largo appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Gillett, hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and in

page_text: what manner the same is to be performed, are fully described in and by the
present Specification thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto
annexed (that is to sny):-
Figure 1 of the said Drawings is a side elevation; Figure 2, a plan; and
Figure 3, a front elevation of my said invented machine, as adapted to the
cutting of hay, straw, and other like vegetable substances; Figure 4 is a sec-
tional elevation of the revolving parts of the machine. A is the general frame-
work; E, a sliding frame which carries the knife or cutter e; E', working
beam which is centred on one end of a curved bracket F (the other end of
which carries tho parallel motion links 22), and connected by a rod D to a
crank C, which works in the upper part of the frame P, and by a rod 6 to tho
knife frame; a plan of the under side of the beam is given separately in Figure 5,
a section of it through the middle joint in Figure 6, and another section of it at
the point E, in Figure 7. B is a double cam attached to the shaft of the crank
C; H, H, 'are the feeding rollers, end views of which are given separately in
Figure 7, and n the space between them. The axes of these rollers work in
the cheeks m, m, of the frame; N', N', are spur wheels for connecting tho
under roller with the upper; M, box or trough for delivering tho bay or other
article to be cut; and O, a mouthpiece with a double bench for the knife to
work through; S, a vertical side shaft supported from the framework by the two
brackets r,; J' is a mitre wheel, affixed to the top of the shaft S which takes
into another mitre wheel J, which is driven by the cam wheel W. K is a bevil
wheel with a double set of teeth aflixed to the inner end of the axis of the upper
roller H; J, J, are two bevil wheels which revolve loosely on the shaft S, the
one (J) being brought into gear with the wheel K when the machine is required
to cut the material into large pieces, and the other J³, being brought into gear
when the machine is required to cut small; V is a pin by which the wheel
J, is made fast to the shaft when required, which pin is shifted to the orifice
V when the other wheel is to be secured; Y is the fly wheel, and Z bandlo
by which it is turned. The action of the machine is as follows:-The inate-
rial to be cut being laid in the box or trough M, and pushed forward into the
space n, between the rollers H, II, the handle Z is turned in the direction of
the arrow; this causes the crank C to revolve, and. by the intervention of the
connecting rod D, the beam E' vibrates up and down, and raises and depresses
the knifo e, which being double-edged makes two cuts for every turn of the
handle. The following is tho mode in which the double feed is arranged:-
The cam B is provided with two teeth t, t, placed diametrically opposite to
each other, and these teeth interlock alternately with the spaces or notches in
the periphery of the cam wheel W, and move the latter one space round at a

page_text: time. The revolution of the cam wheel W, and of the mitre wheel J thereon,
give motion to the shaft S, through the medium of the mitre wheel J', at its
upper end, whereby the motion is transferred to the upper feeding roller.
The lower roller is caused to revolve by the spur wheel N, on its axes taking
into the wheel N 1, on the outer end of the axis of the upper roller. Thus as
the knife e, alternately rises and falls, the straw or other material is projected
forward beneath its under and over its upper edge, which edges as they pass
the faces of the mouthpiece O, sever the chaff of the required lengths. For
cutting turnips I employ a machine of the description represented in the
Drawings marked Figure 8 to 14, both inclusive. Figure 8 is a front cleva-
tion of the machine; Figure 9, a side elevation; Figure 10, a transverse
section; Figure 11, a longitudinal section on the line a, a, of Figure 12, and
Figure 13, a plan; A is a framo of wood or iron; B is a hopper for holding
the turnips or other article to be cut; C, a hollow steel cylinder which is
punched all over with holes a, a, of the shape shewn of the full size in
Figure 14, after which the projecting points b, b, are pressed outwards, so as
to present a multitude of triangular dividing points on the outer surface of
the cylinder; D is a curved guide plate, by which the turnips or other mate-
rials as fed from the hopper B are conducted forward and pressed against the
cylinder C; E, fly wheel driven by the handle H, by which motion is given to
the cutting cylinder C.
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And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I do not lay claim as
regards either of the machines before described, to any of the parts of which
the same consist, individually and separately considered, except as is herein-
after excepted; but that what I claim is as follows:-
First, I claim in respect of the machine for cutting hay and other like
articles before described, the peculiar arrangement and combination of parts
whereby the double feeding and double cutting action is produced, and the
machine may be so adjusted as to cut the materials either large or small as
may be desired. And also the working beam E¹, and paralled motion Q, Q, as
applied to machines of this description.
And, second, I claim in regard to the machine for cutting turnips and other
like articles before described, the employment of a cylinder with projecting
triangular dividers formed and produced in the manner before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Gillett, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and forty-six.
JOHN (L.S.) GILLETT.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Sixteenth day of October, in
tho
year
of our Lord 1846, the aforesaid John Gillett came before our said
Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Seventeenth day of October, in the year of our Lord One