US Patent: 505,752
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| Excelsior Machine
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Patentee:
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| Henry C. Cloyd (exact or similar names) - Union City, Randolph County, IN |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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| Applied: |
Mar. 30, 1893 |
| Granted: |
Sep. 26, 1893 |
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Joel Havens
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Description: |
| Abstract:
This invention relates to a new and improved excelsior machine, and it has for its object to provide a machine of simple construction adapted to he placed between the cylinder of a steam engine and its main driving-shaft, the knives of the excelsior machine being carried by the piston rod of the engine, whereby said engine will act directly on the excelsior machine, and at the same time serve to drive other machinery.
Claim:
n an excelsior machine the combination of a steam cylinder, a piston working therein, and its piston-rod, crossheads rigidly secured to the piston-rod, vertical plates secured to the crossheads and connecting them on each side of the piston-rod, suitable guides for these plates, knives carried by these plates on the inner sides thereof, their cutting edges projecting outwardly through openings1 formed in the plates, some of said knives projecting forwardly and the remainder projecting backwardly for the purpose set forth, adjustable supports carried by the frame of the machine, said supports adapted to support q blocks of wood, and means for automatically feeding the blocks of wood to the knives just before said knives begin their cutting stroke |
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