A new or improved soap cutting machine / [Jacob Adrian Jacobson].

  • Jacobson, Jacob Adrian.
Date:
1895
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Credit: A new or improved soap cutting machine / [Jacob Adrian Jacobson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    N° 7299 A.D. 1895 Date of Application, 9th Apr., 1895—Accepted, 6th July, 1895 COMPLETE SPECIFICATION. A New or Improved Soap Cutting Machine. We, Jacob Adrian Jacobsen, Carpenter of 32 Bethune Street, in the City County and State of New York, and Alfred Mortimer Miles, Printer, of West Hoboken, in the County of Hudson and State of New Jersey, United States of America, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what 0 manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement : — This invention has reference to a machine for cutting a block of soap successively first into slabs then into bars and lastly into cakes of the required „ , size so that a considerable saving in time and labour is obtained and the cutting 1 up of a block of soap into cakes greatly facilitated and expedited and the invention consists in its general features of a soap cutting machine which comprises an elevator for receiving the block of soap means for intermittently lifting the elevator a horizontal reciprocating frame provided writh two pivoted pushers and a horizontal cutting wire at one end of the frame for cutting off a slab from the ^ block which slab is then moved by the first pusher with the frame and by the next motion of the frame taken up by the second pusher and pushed through stationary vertical cutting wires so as to be cut into bars. The bars thus obtained are next placed in front of a laterally reciprocating pusher which forces the bars through a second series of vertical cutting-wires arranged in a stationary frame at 20 right angles to the first set of vertical cutting-wires so as to cut the bars into cakes the laterally reciprocating pusher being hinged to its frame so as to pass over the bars that are fed forward by the next motion of the horizontally reciprocating frame. The invention consists further of means for intermittently lifting the elevator so that the block of soap is successively subjected to the action 25 of the cutting-wire for being cut into slabs said transmitting mechanism being operated when the reciprocating frame has cleared entirely the block of soap. The invention consists lastly of certain mechanisms by which motion is imparted at the proper time to the different operative parts of our soap-cutting machine as will be fully described hereinafter and finally pointed out in the claims. And in order that our invention may be easily understood and readily carried into practice we will proceed to fully describe same with reference to the accompanying drawings in which :— Fig. 1 represents a side-elevation of our soap-cutting machine. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 2A is a vertical longitudinal section of one form of reversing mechanism employed in our soap-cutting machine. Fig. 3 is a plan view drawn on a larger scale and showing the mechanism for transmitting motion from the driving shaft to the different operative parts of the machine. Fig. 4 is an end elevation of the left hand end of the machine. Fig. 5 is a vertical transverse section on line 5—5 Fig. 2. Fig. oA is a detail vertical transverse section on line 5a 5a Fig. 2 seen in the direction of the arrow Fig. 2, and Figs. 6, 7 and 8 are detail vertical longitudinal sections drawn on a larger scale 45 of the longitudinally reciprocating frame by which the soap-block is cut into slabs and the slabs then moved forward and passed through the first set of vertical cutting-wires. Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout. [Price 8^.] 50 35 40