Improvements in Firewood Chopping Machinery.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 5th July, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 4th Apr., 1896-Accepted, 9th May, 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Firewood Chopping Machinery.
HAROLD HIBBERD ELLIOTT The Limes Newbury Berks do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
That is to more effectually and by less power and waste cut & split up cubes of
wood whether knotty or otherwise into suitable sizes for lighting fires. I provide
a fly wheel or other mechanical arrangement, with a rim or face plate properly
balanced and sufficiently broad for my purpose. I make a number of short steel
saws which I fix in a frame or sole peice paralell to each other. I then fix the
sole peice or frame with the saws on the outside face of fly wheel, or other
contrivance in such a manner that all the saws will be brought into cutting form. .
I then provide a second sole peice or frame on which I fix a cleaver or knife which
should be the same width as face of flywheel the cutting end I slope or bevel to an
angle of about 45 degrees so that one side of the cleaver either right or left should
strike the wood first. I then fix the sole piece or frame with the knife or cleaver
on the outside face of fly wheel or other contrivance in such a manner and at equal
distance from the saw frame that the knife or cleaver will shave off the wood after
the saws have cut through the wood & by the combined arrangement of saws &
cleaver I accomplish my purpose.
Dated this 3rd day of July 1895.
HAROLD HIBBERD ELLIOTT.
Improvements in Firewood Chopping Machinery.
HAROLD HIBBERD ELLIOTT The Limes Newbury Berks Engineer 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 :-
That I am enabled by very little power to readily and most effectually, with a
small amount of waste, to split cubes of knotty and cross-grained wood into
suitable sizes for lighting fires. The wood to be operated on should be cut off into
equal lengths for my purpose. I provide a bench or table i, on which I place the
cubes of wood to be controlled for the feeding and splitting up of same, the grain
of the wood to be perpendicular to the table i. In the end of the table i, (see
Figures 1 and 2), 1 place a circular saw, h, the top of which is sufficiently above the
table, i, for my purpose. I further fix a tongue of iron, d, in line with the circular
saw, h, to extend the whole length of table. I also provide side or pressure
brackets, l, to support pressure guide, c, which extends from the roller, k, to the
end of the table. I also provide feed rollers, k, which I connect with shaft by
eccentric or other means, to control the travelling of the wood cubes to the cutters a
and b. Thus the wood cubes are passed over the circular saw, h, which cuts a
groove on the underside of the cubes of sufficient size to receive the iron tongue, d,
which guides the wood cubes in a direct line to the cutters a and b. I then provide

page_text: a fly-wheel e (see Figures 1 and 2), or other mechanical contrivance fixed on to a
shaft with driving pulley f. The rim of fly-wheel e should be sufficiently thick and
the face of it the proper width for my purpose. I then provide a number of short
steel saws a of segment shape, (see Figures 5 and 6), which I fix in a sole-piece or
frame properly distanced apart but parellel to each other. I then fix the sole-piece
or frame with saws a on the outside face of fly-wheel e, (see Figure 1.). I then
make a knife or cleaver 6 (see Figures 3 and 4), of same width as the collective
number of saws a :-This cleaver, b, is also of segment shape, to fit the radius of
fly-wheel e. I also make another sole-piece on which the knife or cleaver b
which is also fixed on the face of the fly-wheel e (see Figure 1), but opposite to the
sole piece with the saws a.
When the fly-wheel e is set in motion by the pulley f, (see Figures 1 and 2), all
the saws, a, enter the cubes of wood at the same time to the depth of half an inch,
more or less, as may be required; thus dividing the wood into sections.
Immediately following the saws a, by the revolution of the fly-wheel e, the
cleaver b strikes the cube also perpendicularly and shaves off the wood, already
divided by the saws a; and the separated pieces fall out ready for use.
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. By the combined action of the saws and cleaver, I separate and divide coarse
and knotty cubes of wood into fillets or equal shaped pieces for lighting, fires.
2., By the combined action of the circular grooving saw and iron tongue
enabled to travel irregular cubes of wood to the cutters.
Dated this 4th day of April 1896
am
HAROLD HIBBERD ELLIOTT,
The Limes, Newbury, Berks.