Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Oct., 1886.
Complete Left, 26th Aug:, 1887
Complete Accepted, 4th Oct., 1887.
I, JAMES NUTTALL of 15 Lord Street 'Bury in the County of Lancaster, Cashier do
hereby declare the nature of my Invention to be as follows:-
The object of my Invention is to provide a machine for cutting rags ropes and other
materials into pieces of any desired size in a rapid and efficient manner.
According to my Invention I arrange a knife or cutter acting as a Guillotine
worked by a cam or crank or in other convenient manner or a revolving or other
suitably operated knife or cutter situated parallel to or at an angle with the feed box
or feeding device of another or ordinary Guillotine or revolving or other form of
knife or cutter the materials being carried to the first knife or cutter by means of a
moving apron or in other suitable manner and they being cut by this knife or cutter
into lengths which drop into a hopper or onto a guide which may be arranged to
work automatically from side to side of the feed box or feeding device so that as the.
said hopper moves from one side to the other side the said hopper drops the lengths of
material side by side upon the travelling feed apron or equivalent device which conducts
it to the second knife or cutter which divides the material in the other direction.
When the hopper or guide reaches the opposite side of the feed box or its equivalent
it is rapidly returned to its original position ready to receive the next series of lengths
of material which it drops at the tail end of the first lengths which have in the mean-
time travelled onwards their own length. The successive lengths follow in rotation in
the same manner during the working of the machine.

page_text: When it is desired to deposit the materials so that they are presented to the second
knife or cutter at an angle this can be accomplished by employing a hopper or guide
angled from the mouthpiece to the delivery end or by placing the first knife or cutter
at an angle. The materials after being deposited upon the second travelling apron or
feeding device are by it conveyed to the second knife or cutter which cuts the materials
into pieces of the desired size as hereinbefore described with regard to the first
arrangement.
Dated thin oth
1
1000
J. HENRY JOHNSON,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, W.C.,
Agent for James Nuttall.

page_text: Improvements in Machines for Cutting Rags, Ropes, and other
Materials.
I, JAMES NUTTALL of 15 Lord Street Bury in the County of Lancaster Cashier 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 state-
ment that is to say :-
The object of my Invention is to provide a machine or combination of machines for
cutting rags ropes and other materials into pieces of any desired size in a rapid and
efficient manner. I will describe my Invention with reference to the accompanying
Drawings.
Figure 1 of the drawings is a side elevation. Figure 2 a plan and Figure 3 an end
elevation of a machine or combination of machines constructed and arranged according
to my Invention. The rags or other materials to be cut are placed upon the feeding
table or trough A from which they are fed by the roller B up to a cutting device by
which they are cut into lengths or strips transversely to the direction of feed. The
material is fed forward intermittently to the required distance by the roller B which
derives its motion from the shaft C by means of gearing wheels D and a crank pin on
a disc E which crank pin is connected by the rod F to one end of a lever G mounted
loosely on the axle of the roller B. The opposite end of the lever G carries a pawl H
in gear with a ratchet wheel I fast on the axle of the roller B so that by the rotation
of the crank disc E the lever G is oscillated so as to impart through the said pawl and
the ratchet wheel 1 a partial rotation to the roller B to a, greater or less extent
according to the distance at which the connecting rod F is fixed on the disc E from
its centre and which distance may be adjusted as required according to the breadth of
material to be cut. The same effect may of course be obtained by adjusting the place
of connection of the rod F with the lever G.
The cutting device as shewn in the drawing consists of a fixed blade K and a ver-
tically reciprocating blade or guillotine L working in guides M and operated from a
crank on the shaft C by the connecting rod N. Instead of the reciprocating blade L
a rotating or other suitable cutting device actuated by gearing from the shaft C may
be employed. The strips of material severed by this cutting device fall onto or into
a guide or hopper O arranged to work automatically step by step from side to side of
the feed apron or equivalent feeding device P so that as the said hopper moves from
one side to the other side of the said apron the lengths of material are laid side by side
upon the said travelling feed apron or equivalent device P which conducts it to a
second cutting device by which the strips of material are cut in the other direction.
The intermittent or step by step motion may be given to the hopper O by any suitable
means I have shewn an arrangement for this purpose consisting of a disc Q with a
cam groove therein and fast on the axle of the roller B and acting on one end of a bar
or rod R by a stud thereon engaging in the cam groove the opposite end of the said
rod R being connected by a stud and slot connection to an arm S fixed on the axis on
which the hopper O turns. The cam groove in the disc Q is arranged with reference
to the motions of the blade L of the cutting device so as to impart to the hopper a

page_text: forward step by step motion one to each cutting motion of the said blade so as to
deposit the strips of material side by side onto the feeding apron P. When the
hopper or guide reaches the opposite side of the apron P it is rapidly returned to its
original position by its own weight assisted if required by a spring or its equivalent
ready to receive the next series of strips which it drops at the tail end of the first
strips (as shewn in Figure 4) which have in the meantime travelled onward their own
length and the succeeding strips follow in rotation in the same manner during the
working of the machine. The strips of material thus deposited upon the apron or
feeding device P are conducted by the said feeding device beneath a roller P² to the
second cutting device which may consist of an arrangement similar to that herein-
before described or as shewn in the drawings, it may consist of a stationary blade T
and a rotating drum U having any desired number of cutters (as at V) arranged on
the periphery which cutters as the drum rotates act in concert with the stationary
blade T to divide transversely the strips of material fed thereto by the roller W into
the desired size.
When it is desired to deposit the strips on the feeding apron P so as to present them
to the second cutting device at an angle this may be accomplished by arranging the
delivery end of the hopper at the desired angle to the receiving mouth of the said
hopper or by arranging the first cutting device at an angle to the feeding apron P
upon which the strips will be deposited at the required angle (for example as shewn
in Figure 5).
If it be desired that there shall be but one line of cut material or strips fed to the
second cutters the hopper O may be replaced by a stationary hopper or guide and the
band P may then be fed on the length of a strip at each cutting operation or at an
interval of every two or other number of cuttings if two or more strips are to lie one
on the other.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is
1st. In machinery or apparatus for cutting rags and other materials the combina-
tion with cutting devices for dividing the material in one direction, of a hopper or
receiver arranged to receive the strips or lengths of material from one cutting device
and automatically deposit the said strips side by side or in a predetermined order on a
feeding device by which they are conducted to a second cutting device which divides
the material in another direction substantially as herein before described with reference
to the accompanying drawings.
2nd. In machines for cutting rags ropes or other materials the combination with
the cutting instrument of a hopper or receiver and means for moving the same
synchronously with the movements of the cutting device so that the cut pieces of
material are deposited side by side or in a predetermined order substantially as herein-
before described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
3rd. A machine or combination of machines for cutting rags ropes or other
materials consisting of sets of cutters and feeding and actuating devices the said sets
of cutters being arranged relatively to each other so that the one set cuts the
material in one direction and the material thus cut is fed to the other set of cutters
which divides it in the other direction substantially as hereinbefore described.
4th. The general combination and arrangement of parts constituting a machine
for cutting rags or other materials into any desired size substantially as hereinbefore
described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 24th day of August 1887.