IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY AND APPARATUS FOR FLESHING, SCOURING, SHAVING, SCUDDING, BURRING, STRIKING OUT, GROUNDING, FRIZING, A TY
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Turner and Henry Page, both of
Lenton, in the County of Nottingham, Machinists, for the Inven-
tion of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY AND APPARATUS FOR FLESHING,
SCOURING, SHAVING, SCUDDING, BURRING, STRIKING OUT, GROUNDING, FRIZING,
A
TY
"
Sealed the 31st March 1875, and dated the 3rd March 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Turner and
Henry Page at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 3rd March 1875.
We, CHARLES TURNER and HENRY PAGE, both of Lenton, in the
County of Nottingham, Machinists, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY AND APPARATUS FOR FLESH-
ING, SCOURING, Shaving, ScuddinG, BURRING, STRIking out, GroundING, FRIZING,
OR REMOVING WOOL OR HAIR FROM HIDES OR SKINS," to be as follows :—
The machinery we employ consists of suitable standards which
support a bed in which a block or blocks slide. Each block carries two
axles, which operate two cranks attached at their front end to a knife or

page_text: other instrument. The back end of the axles are each provided with a
toothed pinion wheel, which are revolved by an intermediate wheel, the
axle of which carries a wheel at the back of the sliding block which
may be operated by a screw, rack, or crank, and connecting rod. The
sliding of each block may be effected by a rack and pinion crank and
connecting rod, or a revolving right and left screw; at the back of each
knife, scraper, or other instrument we place a spring of india-rubber or
steel, and in front of the sliding and revolving knives or other instru-
ments is a beam, over which the goods to operated upon are drawn by
two rollers geared together and intermittantly revolved by a ratchet
.wheel and driver or equivalent contrivance, or instead of the beam a third
roller may be substituted; such roller or beam may be provided with a
suitable cover or belt of india-rubber or other elastic material, so as to
be stationary or revolve, upon which the goods to be operated upon are
laid. Just under the knives or other instruments at the back of the beam
or roller on which the goods are laid we place a straight edged bar of
wood or metal, or reversely and helically coiled brushes, to spread out
the goods to be operated upon. If only one sliding block is employed
we cause it to be traversed from end to end of the bed, but if two blocks
are employed we cause them to be traversed from the centre outwards
towards the ends of the bed and back, the knives or other instruments
employed operating either way. Such blocks we arrange to slide either
horizontally, inclined, or perpendicular. The blocks carry either knives,
brushes, scrapers, or rubbers. The flesh refuse or other parts removed
from the hides or skins fall down an incline or shoot into a receptacle,
or on to the ground. The machino may be driven by hand or other
nowor
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said Charles Turner and Henry Page in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 3rd September 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, CHARLES
TURNER and HENRY PAGE, both of Lenton, in the County of Notting-
ham, Machinists, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her

page_text: of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs, and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto us, the said Charles Turner and Henry
Page, Her special licence that we, the said Charles Turner and Henry
Page, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
we, the said Charles Turner and Henry Page, our executors, admini-
strators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY
AND APPARATUS FOR FLESHING, SCOURING, SHAVING, SCUDDING, BURRING, STRIKING
OUT, GROUNDING, FRIZING, OR REMOVING WOOL OR HAIR FROM HIDES OR SKINS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Charles Turner and
Henry Page, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under our, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Charles Turner and Henry
Page, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement, reference being had
to the accompanying Drawings forming a part of this Specification :-
The machinery we employ consists of suitable standards, which
support a bed in which a block or blocks slide. Each block carries two
axles, which operate two cranks attached at their front end to a knife or
other instrument. The back end of the axles are each provided with a
toothed pinion wheel, which are revolved by an intermediate wheel, the
axle of which carries a wheel at the back of the sliding block which
may be operated by a screw, rack, or crank, and connecting rod. The
sliding of each block may be effected by a rack and pinion crank and
connecting rod, or a revolving right and left screw; at the back of each
knife, scraper, or other instrument we place a spring of india-rubber or
steel, and in front of the sliding and revolving knives or other instru-.
ments is a beam over which the goods to be operated upon are drawn by:

page_text: two rollers geared together and intermittently revolved by a ratchet
wheel and driver or equivalent contrivance, or instead of the beam a
third roller may be substituted. Such roller or beam may be provided
with a suitable cover or belt of india-rubber or other clastic material, so
as to be stationary or revolve, upon which the goods to be operated upon
are laid. Just under the knives or other instruments at the back of the
beam or roller on which the goods are laid we place a straight edged bar
of wood or metal, or reversely and helically coiled brushes, to spread out
the goods to be operated upon. If only one sliding block is employed
we cause it to be traversed from end to end of the bed, but if two blocks
are employed we cause them to be traversed from the centre outwards
towards the ends of the bed and back, the knives or other instruments
employed operating either way. Such blocks we arrange to slide either
horizontally, inclined, or perpendicular. The blocks carry either knives,
brushes, scrapers, or rubbers. The flesh refuse or other parts removed
from the hides or skins fall down an incline, or shoot into a receptacle,
or on to the ground. The machine may be driven by hand or other

page_text: three knives to revolve one way and three the reverse way, as indicated
by the arrows seen in Figure 1. By this arrangement three knives
press the skin; they operate upon the opposite way to the other three so
as to stretch the skin tight while it is drawn over a bar E, which is
covered with india-rubber or other suitable material. This bar E is
carried by and is adjustable upon bearing brackets E¹ secured to a slide
Es at each end of the machine; the front end of each slide also carries a
bearing for a roller F, the shaft of which carries a toothed wheel C¹,
which gears into and is driven by the worm C before mentioned. The
roller F has a groove cut or otherwise formed in it for a lag or plate F¹
held by a loop at one end of the roller and a spring at the opposite end.
The brackets which carry the slides E' form bearings for an axle G
capable of being, rocked by a hand lever G¹ at one end of the machine.
This axle is provided with a boss G³ near each end, each of which
carries a clip plate in which a truck G³ rides. The trucks turn on axles
secured in the slides E2, by which means both the bar E and roller F
can be moved towards the attendant so as to afford room to pass the
skin to be operated upon between the bar and the knives, and also
between the bar and the top of a roller H. Close under the bar the
roller is held and supported by screws carried by brackets H¹ secured to
an axle H³ rocking in bearings carried by the slide brackets. The roller
His held close and firmly to the bar E by adjustable weights H³. The
axle H2 carries an inclined board H³ secured to it, the upper edge of
which terminates in front of the roller H. A front view of one of the
knives His shown at Figure 3, and an end view of one knife secured to
the bar D³ carried by the crank pin D is shewn at Figure 4.
When operating upon skins or hides the attendant takes the lag or
plate out of the groove and places one edge of the skin or hide therein,
and secures it to the roller F by means of the plate F¹; he then moves the
bar E and roller outwards and passes the skin or hide, with the flesh side
upwards, between the bar and the knives, taking care that the skin or
hide is passed between the bar and the roller H; then throwing the bar
and roller from him, the belts being on the fast pulleys, the skin or hide
will be drawn round the roller towards him; the knives at the lower half
of each revolution they make pressing upon the skin or hide and taking
off the flesh. After being drawn over the clamped edge of the skin is
released, the opposite edge clamped, and the remainder of the skin or
hide operated upon.

page_text: Our second modification consists of a machine as above described, but
we substitute for the knives D' one or more knives approximating to the
shapes shewn at Figure 5 secured on each axle.
In either modification the length of the machine between the standards
will depend upon the size of the skins or hides to be operated upon.
Instead of knives we employ brushes, scrapers, or rubbers, according
to the work to be performed.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention and the
manner of performing the same, we wish it understood that we
.claim,―
First. For a machine constructed as herein-before described in the
first combination for performing the operations specified.
Second. For the knives described as employed in the second com-
bination.
In witness whereof, we, the said Charles Turner and Henry Page
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Second day of
September, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and seventy-five.
ATTTTTS
Witness,
H. W. GOUGH, O.E.,
Nottingham.
CHARLES TURNER. (L.8.)
HENRY PAGE.
(L.S.)