New or Improved Apparatus for Separating Bundles or Bunches of Bristles or other Material.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 13th May, 1895-Accepted, 15th June, 1895
COMPLETE
SPECIFICATION.
New or Improved Apparatus for Separating Bundles or Bunches of
Bristles or other Material.
We LEOPOLD FELDMANN and ANTON JANSSEN, both of Bonn on the Rhine
in the Empire of Germany, 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 :-
The object of this invention is to facilitate the dividing of bristles, hairs, fibres
or the like into separate bunches or bundles principally foi broom or brush making
purposes and the apparatus is so constructed that a piesser arm is introduced to
divide or separate the bristles or the like and press the separated bundle against a
sliding plate which has an adjustable bed so as to be adapted to receive bunches
of different thickuess, and a jaw for taking away the separated bunch from the
remaining quantity.
Figs and 2 represent this apparatus in sectional side and front elevation
respectively, Figs. 3 and 4 being detail views on a larger scale.
The hopper or reservoir B which is to receive the cut bristles or the like,
hereinafter referred to as bristles, is supported on the oblique plate I nud its side
walls or plates T¹, T' are so constructed that they may be adjusted to or from
each other according to the length of the bristles. The latter are intended to lie
against the curved part of the plate E and the opposite plate to plate E is cut out
in a slope to thus render the reservoir more accessible, said plate terminating
towards its upper end in a narrow covering board D. A slit I made in the front
wall is adapted for the entering of the presser arm A. The mouth 0 of the
reservoir is formed at its lower end between the front wall and the plate E. The
sliding plate V fitted on to the guide block P which at the same time supports
the adjustable abutment or bed U is adapted to pass aloug beneath the mouth O.
When the guide block receives its reciprocal movement from the lever arm M
which however acts upon it not duectly, but by the intervention of a bell crauk
lever with a limited movement, the presser aim A is actuated from the latter
by means of the levers H, H' and the looped or slotted plate R, the lever aim H*
causing the engagement and disengagement of the pointed end of the arm A with
the bristles
In order to always have the bristlo material uniformly packed in the bottom of
the hopper or reservoir, a rammer S which receives a periodical movement from
the guide block P is scited near the mouth of the reservoir and passes
through the rear wall E to the reservoir. Said raminer is supported in an
angular loop W on the bottom plate I of the reservoir B and is driven against the
bustles by the spring F.
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The bell crank lever I which is pivotally keyed on to the sliding plate V,
has for its object, on forward movement of the guide block, to press with its
front part K against and stop the bristles caught by the catcher G. Lest it should
execute the necessary movement sooner than intended, it is provided with a small
roller Z which lies against the guard plate Q (Fig. 2) and as soon as it slides from
under this plate the arm K will be free to operate. The backward movement of
the latter is limited by the pin .
The mode of operating the apparatus is as follows:-
Upon movement of the lever M to the right (Fig. 1) the arm K of the lever H³
vresses against the win thereby fixing this lever and causing the carrying along

page_text: of the guide block P and plate V. This movement causes the lever atm H' to
force the presser arm A with its point among the bristles so as to separate a
desired quantity of them. The guide block then having been moved sufficiently
backward so as to allow the abutment U to arrive underneath the mouth O of the
reservoir, the bolt Z1 which is attached to the right hand end of the guide block,
and is adapted to freely slide in the two loops of the rammer S and of the arm R
respectively, now carries back the rammer S and the arm R. The bristles in the
reservoir may then slide downwardly and the presser arm A presses the bunch of
bristles that it has separated against the abutment. U as shown in Fig. 3 At the
forward movement of the guide block P and plate V the respective bunch of
bristles is held downward till the icceiver G has caught hold of it, as illustrated
in Fig 4; the presser arm A is then lifted and the rammer S actuated by the
spring F re-enters the reservoir, Up to that moment the roller Z slides along the
plate Q and holds down the arm K of the lever H'; it now leaves the plate Q and
the arin K is firmly pressed against the separated bristle bunch within the
receiver G. Finally the nose N of the guide block P displaces the lover arm H*
until the end of the presser arm A 18 pulled out from among the bristles
Having now particularly described and ascertamed the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is
1. An apparatus for dividing bristles, hairs, fibres on the like into bundles,
compusing a bristle reservoir B in which the looso material is pushed forward
periodically by a rammer S, then divided into bunches and pressed against the
inouth O of the reservoir by a presser arm A, said bunches being brought against
a vertically adjustable abutment by which arrangement bundles or bunches of
different thickness may be separated, and by means of a catcher removed from
the remaining material.
2. An apparatus as described, the reservoir of which consists of two adjustable
side plates T, Ts, thus enabling the working of bristles of different lengths, of a
plate E bent towards the mouth O and of a narrow plate D to render the reservoir
more accessible.
3. An apparatus as described, in which the guide block may be connected to the
ammer S by means of a looped or slotted plate to be periodically removed from
the bristle reservoir to allow of the material sliding downward therein; and in
which the presser aim A may be connected by means of the slotted plate R, and
the levers H and 11 to be introduced into the reservoir and there pressed
downward.
4. An apparatus as described in which the movement of the oscillatory lever M
18 transferred to the guide block P by means of a bell crank lever 11 with limited
movement, the arm K of which is adapted to press against the separated bristle
bunch in the receiver G thereby assuring the iemoval of that bunch from under
the bristle reservoir.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C., Agents to Applicants.