US1454731A - Surfacing machine - Google Patents

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l/VVE/VTOH WEE-avails A TTOR/vEYS W. H. FRANCIS SURFACING MACHINE Filed April 1 1922 7 WW W fi Q 5 WE May 8, 1923 WITNESSES a/ve Patented May 8, 1923.

UNITED STATES 1,454,731 artar space;

' WILLIAM III Farmers, or orIEnaYvA n, Kansas.

sUnFAoINe MACHINE.

Application'filed. April 19, 1922. Serial No..555,650.

To all whomitmay concern: p

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H; FRANCIS,

a citizen of the United States, and resident of Cherryvale, in the county of Montgomery and State of Kansas, have invented a new and Improved Surfacing Machine, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact descri tion. 1 i

y invention relates to a surfacing machine, and aims to provide a device of this character adapted to be used in conjunction with the manufacture of bricks, and forthe purpose of making a mat-textured facing brick or similar member. I a

It is a well appreciated fact thatnumerous expedients have been resorted to with a View of providing a machine or process whereby a brick or similar member might be produced which would be suitable for fac- 2 ing purposes, and present an artistic effect,

such as that of a mat-texture, but the present invention aims to provide a device of this character capable of handling a great number of members such as bricks, and also aims to provide an extremely simple construction permitting of this effect being produced. I

It is a further object of this invention to provide a machine of the type described by means of which the effect desired will also be enhanced, incident to the factthat mechanism will be provided not alone serving to digthe surface of the member being treated, but

this mechanism will also vre-deposit the dug.

material upon the face of the memb-er..

Further objects of this invention will be come apparent in the annexed specification:

taken in connection with the drawingswhich latter illustrate one practical embodiment of the same and in which;

Figure 1 is a plan view of a machine embodying my improved construction;

Figure 2 is a partly sectional side elevation thereof, and

Figure 3 is an enlarged fragmentary view of a detail of construction.

In these views the reference numeral 5 indicates the discharge end of the brick making machine adjacent which my surfacing machine is positioned, it being noted, that as the column 6 of flexible material is fed from the machine 5 onto my surfacing machine that the same comes to rest upon a suitable type of conveyor, which in the em bodiment illustrated includes an endless belt 7 passing around wheels 8v and resting upon rollers 9. v I V Thus assuming that the brick making machine is being actuated, and that one of the Wheels8 isv being driven-by any suitable means such as a belt 10,it willbe appreciatedthat the column of material 6 will move along the ,upperface of thesurfacing machine,and Vbeldischarged from the rear end thereof, to a suitable receiving member ,65 (not shown). Now assuming thatthe upper,a'nd one of the side faces of the; column 6 is tozbe surfaced in the manner indicated, it will be seen that I employ two similar members for accomplishing this purpose, and it will be noted that each-of these membersin" cludes .a shaft 11 which may be driven by suitable mechanism 12, and is carried in bearings 13 positioned adjacent to'the col-; 5 umn of material which is vfed along the surfacing machine.- Each, of these shafts provides an operative portionpreferably com-. prisinga square bar. 14, and, as has been indicated .by the'arrows. in Figures 1 and 2, these bars are revolved in av direction; opposite tothat in whichthe column 6 moves; Attention is now invited to the fact-that the corners of-the bars when revolved will extend in a plane beyond that in whichthe outer andsidefaces ofthe column 6 extends. Thus, assuming that the column is being. moved in the direction of the arrow indi catedin Figure 1 by means of the mechanism Within the brick machine, togetherwith the conveyor belt 7 and further, assuming that the shafts 11 are being revolvedat a relatively high speed inathe direction of the arrows also indicated in Figure 1, itwill be appreciatedthat as .the column .6 moves along the face-of the-machine thatthecorners of the bars 14L will bite,or dig "into the column,ofvmateriallthus obviously re -j moving a certain amount of the same, which surplusage of material will adhere to, the faces of the bar, as has been clearly shown in Figure 3, and will be re-deposited upon the face of the column 6 upon the next revolution of the bar.

Thus, contrary to machines of this char actor in which a scraping action takes place, my, machine provides a digging action, and a re-depositing action, which will not alone serve to provide a mat-surface, but will also M0 produce an extremely artistic facing brick or similar member incident to the fact that numerous portions of the face of the memher are excavated to a certain depth, and the material accruing from these excavations is re-deposited upon the face of said member to thus enhance the artistic effect produced.

Thus it will be appreciated that the objects of this invention have been accomplished and it will further be understood that numerous modifications of structure might readily be resorted to without in the least departing from the scope of my claims; which are- 1 l. A surfacing machine including a conveyor adapted to receive a column of material, means adjacent to said conveyor for digging into the face of said column, said means including a rotatable member having a digging edge elongated axially of the member and rigidly carried by said member and means for rotating said member in the direction opposite the direction of movement of the'column of material on the conveyor whereby on regulating the speed of rotation of themember the digging edge thereof operates to remove material from the column, convey such removed material awayfrom and then toward the column, and redispose such removed material on the column.

2. A surfacing machine including a conveyor adapted to receive a column ofmaterial, means adjacent to said conveyor for digging into the face of said column, said.

means including a rotatable member having a digging edge elongated axially of the member, said member being of polygonal cross-section and said edge being formed at the meeting line of a pair of adjoining faces of the member and means for rotating said member in the direction opposite'the direction of movement of the column of material on the conveyor whereby on regulating the speed of rotation of the member the digging edge thereof I operates to remove material from the column, convey such removed material away from and then toward the column, and redispose such removed material on the column. a

3. A surfacing machine including a conveyor, means'for moving said conveyor, said conveyor being adapted to receive material, surfacing means positioned adjacent to said conveyor and to the material carried thereby, said surfacing meansbeing adapted to deposit material upon said first named material and means for advancing the means last-mentioned toward the material on the conveyor and in a direction opposite to the direction of movement of such material on the conveyor.

4. A surfacing machine including a conveyor, means for moving said conveyor, said conveyor being adapted to receive a column of material, surfacing means positioned adjacent to said conveyor and material, and means forming a part of said last named means for digging the surface of said material and re-depositing the material thus removed upon the face of said column and means for advancing the means last-mentioned toward the material on the conveyor and in a direction opposite to the direction of movement vof such material on the con:

veyor.

5. A surfacing machine including a conveyor, means for moving said conveyor, a bar movably positioned adjacent to said conveyor, said bar presenting a plurality of elongate edge portions formed from the material of the member means for rotating said conveyor and 'bar, and means for rotating said bar in a direction opposite, to the direc tion of movement of the material onfthc conveyor. a

6. A surfacing machine including a con-. veyor, a shaft mounted adjacent to said conveyor, a square bar attached-to said shaft, means for rotating said shaft and means for moving said conveyor and means for coupling the two means last mentioned to rotate the bar in a direction opposite to the direction of travel'of the conveyor.

.7. A surfacing machine including a conveyor, ashaft mounted adjacent to said con-' veyor,-asquare bar attached to said'shaft,

and means for rotating said shaft and means.

for moving said conveyor, said conveyor being adapted to carry a column of material, the edgesof said bar being adapted to extend to a point beyond the face of said col-- umn and means for coupling the two means last mentioned torotate the bar in a direction opposite to the direction of travel of the conveyor. 1 a

WILLIAM H. FRANCIS.

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