US85224A - Iprqvefvlent in feeding percussion-caps - Google Patents

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A. J. FRENCH. FEEDING PERCUSSION CAPS.

Patented Dec. 22

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A.J. FRENGH. FEEDING PERCUSSION GAPS.

No. 85,224. Patented Dec. 22, 1868.

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A. J. FRENCH, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

EMPRQVEENT IN FEEDENG- PERCUSSlQN-CAPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent Nos gtgfid, dated December 22, 1868.

rt all-whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, A. J. FRENCH, of Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Feed for Percussion-Cap Machine; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying resent, in

Figure 1, a side view; Fig. 2, a longitudinal section; Fig. 3, an inside view, the hopper removed; Fig. 4, a section on line as m.

This invention relates to an improvementin the feed of machines used for the manfacture i of percussion-caps, but is alike applicableto other similar purposes.

In the manufacture of percussion-caps, cartridge-shells, and other similar articles struck or drawn up, the edge requires to be trimmed. 'lfo do this, the articles must be delivered to he trimming apparatus, the open end always in the same direction. Heretofore this has been done by hand, the articles-fed singly into the machine; but by my improvement the articles are delivered from the mass, so as to make the feeding automatic; and my invention consists in the'arrangement of a feedwheel provided with hooked teeth, arranged so that, revolving in a mass of the articles to be delivered, thehooks will enter the open. ends of the articles, and-holding them upon the hooks, deliver them into the tube theclosed end downward.

To enable others to construct and use my improvement, I will proceed to describe the same as illustrated in the accompanying draw-, lu s.

- h is aplate, formed witha channel, 13, near its edge, and placed in immediate connection with the hopper N, or other receptacle for a 'so delivered.

The hopper N- is arranged so as ,to present quantity of caps, and so that a supply of caps or other articles will lie constantly against the revolution of the wheel, and in such relative position to the channel B that the articles.

which lie in the hopper and fall into the said; j channel will be caught by the hooks entering the open end of the article, as denoted at E and F, and to such, as it strikes upon the closed end, as at G, will carry up until it of its own gravity tips from the hook and falls back into the hopper, while those upon the hook at E and 1. will be carried up and enter a tube, H, arranged in such relative position to the hooks, and slotted so that the hooks pass centrally, or nearly so, through thesaid' tube, thus delivering the articles, their closed end into the tube, and retained in their posi tion by the proper size of the tube, are carried to the desired the mass of caps or similar articles to the hooks, and the hooked wheel 0 may be caused to IBXQIVG with the other part of the machin ery, so as to make the feeding automatic.

Having; fully described my invention, what I claim as new and useful, and desire to so cure by Letters Patent, is-- The arrangement of the hooked carryingwheel C, with a delivering-tube, H, and a hopper'to supply the carrying-wheel, the whole operating substantially in the manner herein set forth.

v A. JQFRENGH. Witnesses:

A. G. Hones, SMITH W .ANDERSON.

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