Improvements in Machinery for Dividing Wood or other Material into Pieces, Sticks, or Strips.
Year: 1896

page_text: Improvements in Machinery for Dividing Wood or other Material
into Pieces, Sticks, or Strips.
I, HENRY NEWSUM of South Park Lincoln in the County of Lincoln, Timber
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of my invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to provide a machine by which wood or other
material can be readily and rapidly divided into pieces sticks or strips such for
instance as are used for kindling fires or for like purposes. In bearings upon a
suitable table I mount a spindle carrying any desired number of circular saws at
suitable distances apart upon the spindle in accordance with the size of the pieces
sticks or strips into which the wood or other material is to be divided. The spindle
is preferably above the level of the top of the table and is provided with fast and
loose pulleys for driving and stopping the saws. Distance pieces are situated
between the saws, level with the top of the table the said distance pieces consti-
tuting a grid. They can be attached to the underside of the table by means of a
hinge or other suitable fastening or they may be otherwise arranged so that they
can be removed when it is required to move the saws from the spindle. Capable
of sliding in guides upon the table towards and away from the saws is a holder
formed by sets of cramps capable of being moved towards and away from each other
by means of a screw to hold and releaso the wood or other material to be operated
upon there being spaces between the sets of cramps for the passage of the saws.
The holder can be traversed in its guides by hand or by the operation of the
machine a stop being provided to limit the amount of the travel.
The wood or other material to be operated upon is secured firmly in the holder
which is then moved towards the saws which divide the wood or other material
into slices. The holder is then drawn back clear of the saws and the slices of
wood or other material are released from the holder and replaced and secured in
another position and again subjected to the action of the saws which divide it into
sticks or strips.
The arrangement described may be duplicated a set of saws being on each end
of the spindle with the pulleys between and a holder being provided to operate in
conjunction with each set of saws.
Dated this Oth dox of December 190e
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47 Lincolns Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery for Dividing Wood or other Material
into Pieces, Sticks, or Strips.
I, HENRY NEWSUM of South Park Lincoln in the County of Lincoln, Timber
Merchant, 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 my Invention is to provide a machine by which wood, or other
material can be readily and rapidly divided into pieces, sticks or strips, such, for
instance as are used for kindling fires, or for like purposes.
I will describe my Invention with reference to the accompanying Drawings:-
Figure 1 being a front elevation partly in section, Figure 2 a plan and Figure 3
a side elevation partly in section of a machine constructed in accordance with my
Invention.
b
In bearings a upon a suitable table A I mount a spindle 6 carrying any desired
number of circular saws B at suitable distances apart upon the spindle b in
accordance with the size of the pieces, sticks, or strips into which the wood, or other
material is to be divided. The spindle b is preferably above the level of the top
of the table A and is provided with fast and loose pulleys 63 63 for driving and
stopping the saws which are driven from any convenient motor. Distance pieces c
are situated between the saws B the said distance pieces being level with the top
of the table Al and constituting a grid. They can be attached to the underside of
the table by means of a hinge as at or other suitable fastening, or they may be
otherwise arranged, so that they can be removed when it is required to move the
saws from the spindle.
Capable of sliding in guides a upon the table A towards, and away from, the
saws B is a holder formed by sets of cramps d d capable of being moved towards,
and away from each other by means of a screw d each set of clamps d sliding in
guides on the bases (to which the sets of clamps are fixed or with which they
are formed) so as to hold between, and release from, the said sets of clamps the
wood or other material to be operated upon; there being spaces between the
cramps of each set for the passage of the saws B. The holder can be traversed in
its guides by hand, or by the operation of the machine by mechanism like that
ordinarily emploved for analogous purposes, a stop or the like, being provided to
limit the amount of the travel.
The wood or other material to be operated upon is secured firmly in the holders
which are then moved towards the saws which; divide the wood or other material
into slices. The holder is then drawn back clear of the saws and the slices of wood
or other material are released from the holders and replaced and secured in another
position and again subjected to the action of the saws which divide it into sticks
or strips.
The arrangement described may either be duplicated as shewn with a set of saws
on each end of the spindle with the pulleys between and with a holder to operate
in conjunction with each set of saws, or I may use more than two sets of saws on
one spindle and holders to operate in conjunction with each set of saws or I may
use only one set of saws and one holder arranged as described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. A machine constructed substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated
in the accompanying drawings for cutting wood or other material into pieces,

page_text: sticks, or strips, whether the machine be arranged as a single, or as a duplex, or
multiple, machine.
2. În or for machines for dividing wood or other material a holder consisting
of a set of cramps simultaneously moveable relatively to a set of fixed clamps
both the said sets of clamps being arranged to slide on a table, substantially as
hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing.
Dated this 9th day of September 1897.
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47 Lincolns Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.