US12689A - Paklirg - Google Patents

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y suitable forms `for saidjpurpose.

SAMUEL N. MAXAM, E SHELBURNE FALLS; MASSACHUSETTS.

To aZZ whom may concern:

Be it known thatl,` SAMUEL N. MAXAM,

n `of Shelburne Falls,`in the county of Franklin and State `of Massachusetts, have invented` a new and Improved Mode of` Operating the Knives of `fAutomatic Apple- `Parers,` which I denominate an improvement in Paring-Machines, and I do hereby declare that the following isa full and exact. description thereof, reference being had to the `accompanyingdrawings and to theletters of reference marked thereon.

l` The nature `of my invention consists. in guiding4 and controlling the knives of paring machines over and upon the surface of the apple to be pared,` by means of an inclined plane scroll afiixed to the driving wheel of y such machine, in connection with suitable l loop,gears and `slidebar`,.as will more fully `appear from the `following description.

A, represents the driving wheel fixed upon .i "its axle B `having suitablebearings `in the .i standards of the `frame of the" machina-and .having also an internalgearupon and withi `in its exterior rim, which gear..1 communi lCates motion to theiappleby means of a pinion, shaftand fork constructedgin any Upon and .attached to the arms ofsaidwwheel A,is

from the plane of the: arms ofsaid wheel `A, near the shaft B and extending. around formed the inclined plane "scrollC, arising said shaft in scroll` form at "constantly in;

creasing distances ffromsaid shaft B. l This `scroll also increases "3 constantly, but` not necessarily in uniform` degrees, iny width from the said plane `oftheiarms until "sufficient` width is gained to` communicate sufIicientmotion to the slide bar D with the parts connected therewith.

same, is placed the sliolebar D the end i l thereof appropriately fittingupon the edge aforesaid and extending therefrom between the prongs `of the guidepost K, is hinged bya screw pin to the segment` gear E in such manner as to communicate motion to i `the same. This segment gear E is hinged 1 "in like manner upon the standard I, and by jverse motionto theloop F which loop F is' fixed upon the shaft G which, having proper the `connecting gearing, communicates a re- "bearings inthe standards I-I-i-I, is revolved ArEntr onnion.'

Against the `edge of .the scroll C and pressing against the l MAci-INE Fonl APPLES.

Specification afnemers Patent No. 12,689, .dated April 1o, 1855.

by the said loop F and its connect-ing gear within said bearings.

wThe curved end J, of the Shaft G is `slotted to receive the handle of the knife `moving laterally with a swinging mo- .tion during the revolution of the scroll,

there is therebycommunicated to the segment gear E and consequently to the loop F, the semicircular movement necessary to convey the knife over the surface of the apple,

from one pole to the opposite, while the said apple .is revolved, by meansl of the fork, shaft and pinion above described, at such greater velocity than that of the driving wheel A as may enable the knife most efficiently to perform the paring of said apple. When the operation' upon each'apple placed upon the fork is completed, and by the revolutio'n of the scroll C as aforesaid, the end A of the slide bar D, is released from the scroll `.by the passage, of the wide end of the samev plast the saidslide bar D.,`the spring L then operates byits tension to draw the slide bar with the Segment gear and loop connected therewith `back to their original positions,

and thereby returning the knife, attached `to `the handlepassing thro-ugh the loop F` as aforesaid, from its position on the completion of theprocess of paring the apple, to that preparatory to a repetitionof the process, the slide bar D being at the same time vthereby carried into 4position to repeat its action upon the edge of the Scroll C as aforesaid. i

I do not confine myself to the precise fo-rm and exact arrangement of the several parts hereinbefore described, as I may choose to l vary the same while I attain the same results by means Substantially the same. Nor e do I claiinany particular form or construction of the knife to be used upon the machanioal equivalents combined, arranged and operating substantially in the manner 10 and for the purposes herein set forth.

SAMUEL N. MAXAM.

Witnesses:

THos. B. MONTAGUE, GUY H. HUBBARD.

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