US47742A - Improvement in machines for cutting tobacco - Google Patents

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UNITEDL STATES PATENT OFFICE..

HERBERT A. MORSE, OE CANTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 47.742, dated May 16, 1865.

To @,Z whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERBERTA. Monsn, of Canton, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have .invented an Improved Machine for Cutting Tobacco; and I do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure lis a top view, Fig. 2 afront ele` `vation, Fig'. 3 a horizontal section, Fig. 4 a vertical section, and Fig. 5 a longitudinal section, of it.

In the drawings, A denotes a guideframe consisting of a bed-plate, c, and two posts, b b', projecting upward therefrom and inclined thereto, and arranged parallel to one another, as represented, such posts being connected by means of an arched or curved bar, c, arranged aside ofthe two posts, and a lever, B. At the upper part of the inner side of the front part., b, there is a rack or arrangement of teeth, d d, &c., which engage with a toothed sector, e, projecting from the said lever B.V

The fnlcrum ofthe lever is shown at f, it serving to connect to the levera cuttingknife, C, and aguide-bar, D, which are arranged on opposite sides of the posts of the guide-frame A, as well as on, opposite sides of the lever. The guidebar has guides or projections g g extending from it, and between and against the two parts of the frame A, the knife being fastened to such projections by screws h It. A

p third projection, t', may also extend from the guide-bar and in front of and against the front part, b. Furthermore, underneath the knife there is a bar, E, of soft metal, which is held in place by a clamp-bar, F, fastened to the frame A,`and having an abutment, k, raised and arranged on it and aside of and above the bar E in manner as shown in the drawings. By raising the lever B the knife will `be drawn upward, and while rising will be moved backward. On depressing the lever the knife will be forced downward, and will cut with a draw-- ing stroke a piece of tobacco when resting on the bed-plate and against the abutment 7c of the clamp-bar F.

My present invention is an improvement with reference to the tobacco-cutter represented in Letters Patent No.82,640, granted J une 25, 1861, to myself and Henry U. Morse, f

as by means of it I am enabled to dispense with much of the mechanism contained therein, and thereby to greatly simplify the machine and render it more easily operated and less expensive in construction. i

I claim as my invention- The combination of the single guide-frame A, guidebar D, and its projections or guides, with the knife C, the lever B, the toothed sector c, and the rack d, the whole being substantially as specied.

HERBERT A. MORSE. Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, F. l?. HALE, J r.

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