Kin′dling-wood Ma′chine.
An apparatus for splitting the short wood used for kindling coal fires, etc. In that illustrated in
Fig. 2753 the vertically reciprocating cutter is operated by a crank shaft rotated by pulley and belt connections, making about 125 strokes per minute; the wood is placed on a circular table below the cutter, and the machine is adjusted to cut different lengths by varying the elevation of the table and by a clearing plate, shown detached to the left of the base of the machine.
The bundling-machine is operated by a lever, which
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works a toggle-joint, causing a loop to compress the bundle, placed in a semicircular rest, while being tied.
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Kindling-wood machine. |
In another bundling-machine, the split wood from the cutter falls into boxes on an endless belt, and is conveyed to the clamps into which the charges are dropped.
These are closed by cam movement, a wire is passed around the bundle and automatically cut and twisted.
Still another machine has a cutting-edged cylinder, to which the bundles are delivered by a feed-wheel being forced through by a plunger and trimmed smooth.
