Improvements in or connected with Planing Machines for Converting Ordinary Shavings into Wood Wool.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd May, 1893-Accepted, 10th June, 1893
Improvements in or connected with Planing Machines for Converting
Ordinary Shavings into Wood Wool.
I, JOHANN ANTHON, of Flensburg, Schleswig Holstein, in the German Empire,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of my said 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 my invention is to fit planing machines with appliances, by which
the ordinary shavings are converted into wood wool, while the process of planing
is proceeding.
My invention consists in fitting a number of sharp cutters, or blades having
cutting edges, for making a number of shallow cuts or scores in the boards, just
before the boards, in travelling reach the smoothing planes. The operation of this
arrangement is such that the shavings become divided, longitudinally, into a number
very fine fibres, suitable for use as wood wool.
of
And in order that my said invention may be particularly described and ascer-
tained, reference is hereby made to the accompanying drawings, in which similar
letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.
Fig. 1 is a sectional elevation of a planing machine, with a board in position.
Fig. 2 is a plan of the machine with the board and rollers removed.
Figs. 3, 4, 5 & 6 are details and modifications of my invention.
a is the bed plate of the planing machine. bb are the feed rollers, driving the
board c in the direction of the arrow. ddd are the smoothing planes. e e are the
pressure rollers. Between the feed rollers bb and the planes d d, a tool fis
inserted having a number of sharp lancet edges in a vertical position. The tool f
is secured in the frame g, attached to a bracket or other support formed in one
with the bed of the machine the position of the toolf being adjusted by means of
set and binding screws so as to cut into the board (as the latter travels towards the
planes) just sufficiently deep to split up the surface previously to the same being
cut away by the planes d d.
The tool may be formed in one piece, or it may consist of a number of thin
blades clamped together, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, or it may be formed of a
number of circular plates, clamped together and sharpened round their edges, as
shown at f in Figs. 5 and 6 or the circular tool f' may be formed in one piece, as
preferred.
In Fig. 1 the adjustment of the tool is effected by the vertical screw m', the
frame g being held in position by screws m passing through slots in the bracket o.
2.
In Fig. 3 the frame g is shown pivoted at n, the toolf being raised and lowered by
means of the screw m, passing through the bracket o.
In Figs. 5 and 6 the tool 1 (whether solid or laminated) is threaded upon an
axle ; and this axle is attached to two bell-crank levers k pivoted at n, and
arranged so as to be regulated by the set screw m, as shown.
Other equivalent.methods of mounting and regulating the tools fand ƒ¨¹ may be
adopted.
The tools are made sufficiently long to score or cut into the widest boards to
be operated upon.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
1. In planing machines as aforesaid, the combination therewith of a tool for f¹
arranged so as to cut or score the board on its way to the smoothing planes, for the

page_text: purpose of converting ordinary shavings into wood wool, substantially as herein-
before described and illustrated by the drawings.
2. The improvements in or connected with, planing machines, for converting
ordinary shavings into wood wool, substantially as hereinbefore described and
illustrated by the drawings.
D1 M... 1000
GEO.
DOWNING,
8, Quality Court, London, W.C., Agent..