An Improvement in Machines for Making Wooden Tooth-picks
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 7th May, 1895-Accepted, 8th June, 1895
COMPIETE SPECIFICATION
An Improvement in Machines for Making Wooden Tooth-picks
I, JOHN CHARLES REMONT SCAMMAN of Decuing, in the County of Cumber-
lind and State of Maine, United State- of America Machinist, 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
My invention relates to an improvement in machines for making wooden tooth-
picks and it cousists in a tube which is open at both ends, for receiving and
delivering the picks as they are cut from the blanks, and which is cuivel from
vertical to horizontal plane, and is flaring gi idually from its top to its lower end,
ind with which may be combined an endless belt arranged ju t below the end of
the tube and upon which the tooth-picks are delivered from the tube and carried
away, as will be more fully described hereinafter
The object of my invention is to provide an attachment for that class of machines
in which the picks are cut from a blank by a series of reciprocating movements that
ue timed to the feed of the blank, and which attachment receives the picks is
they fall, and delivers them in their proper position, to the operator, who removes
them in laige bunches fiom an endless belt, which moves the picks slowly from the
end of this attachment
In the accompanying diawing my attachment is shown, partly in sections, and in
connection with a well known type of machines for cutting wooden tooth-picks fiom
a blank
c represents a receiving tube, which is placed just below and in front of
the table, and wh ch has its upper end either provided with a suitable die or cutter b
for severing the picks from the blank or strip of wood a, or has its end placed just
below such a die or cutter o as to receive the picks as rapidly as they are cut, and
which die is the shape of the tooth-pich The upper end of this tube is much
smaller than its lower end, but considerably luger than the opening in the knife
The horizontal length of the tube is sufficient to allow the picks to fall freely, but
never to reverse their ends, nor to become displiced in any manner
From just
below the throat of this tube it is cut ved gradually in a horizontal line and increases
in size to its lower end, so as to prevent the picks from clogging, sticking or
packing therein, and so that the picks will be fed from their own gravity down
upon the horizontal part, and to the endless bult d, ar anged just below and also
against the lower end of the tube
The large flaring end of the tube allows the
picks in then lower end to be freely removed in batches, whenever desired, by hand
or an implement of any kind As the endless belt d advances, its motion being
properly timed with the motion of the cutting knife, the picks are taken upon the
belt, from the lower end of the tube and ate carried away to any desired point
The strip or blank of wood from which the picks are cut is such as is well known
in the art of uniting the soles to the uppers of boots and shoes by wooden pegs
The forward motion of the strip is so timed that it moves a distance equal to the
width of a pick in the time required for the rise and fall of the knife The vertical
fall of the pick being gradually chan_ed by the curve of the tube c into a
horizontal motion, the picks are brought together without permitting any
disarrangement, and may be removed in bunches from the large end of the tube, or
from the belt d which acts to suficiently clear the end of the tube to prevent
clogging The cutting machine shown is only a type of that class well known
in the art of cutting wooden tooth-picks and hence there is no need to describe

page_text: it here or show it more fully in the drawing as it forms no part of this
invention
Having now particularly descubed 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 As an attachment for a tooth-pick machine, receiving tube for the picks,
having a narrow throat and an enlarged lower end, and curved gradually from the
vertical to the horizontal, thus keeping together the splints without permitting
their disarrangement, and which serves to deliver the picks in bulk, substantially
as shown
2 In a tooth-pick machine, a receiving tube for the picks, having a narrow
throat and an enlarged lower end, and curved gradually from the vertical to the
horizontal, thus keeping together the splints without permitting their disarrange-
ment, and which serves to deliver the picks in bulk, combined with a carrier belt
placed below the lower end of the tube, substantially as described
Dated this 6th day of May 1895
WALLACE FAIRWEATHER,
Chartered Patent Agent,
62, St Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agent for the Applicaut