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ca. 1900 Ad-Salem Iron Works, Dixie #1 Planer |
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Salem Iron Works Catalogue #10, ca. 1900 pgs. 64, 67 & 68 |
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10/31/2016 9:47:15 PM |
THE DIXIE PLANER AND MATCHER
This is a splendid light, self-contained Planer, Matcher and Moulder. It has been designed to meet the demand for a light, good machine for small Saw and Planing Mills, when the conditions will not Warrant buying a heavy and high-priced machine. A good 5 H. P. to 10 H. P. steam engine or Gasoline Motor 8-15 H. P. Will drive the machine successfully. It will do satisfactory work making ?ooring, ceiling, wainscoting, casing, ship-lap, plain and novelty or drop siding, and a variety of moulding.
The moulding attachment rests squarely on the main frame of the machine, and thereby prevents any vibration or tremble when in operation which is so noticeable in most all other light machines. The moulding arbor is driven from the same pulley on the countershaft as the knife cylinder, by a belt running on the outside of the cylinder belt.
The feed can be instantly started or stopped by a tightening pulley. The feed is about 40 lineal feet per minute, but can be decreased if desired, when placing order. The feed rolls are steel, the top rolls being strongly geared and held down by spiral steel springs so arranged that any necessary pressure may be obtained. The bottom feed rolls on Nos. 2 and 3 Machines are also geared and driven by means of expansion gears.
The bed is raised and lowered by two screws operated from below by bevel gearing and a double crank, thereby keeping the bed rolls and bed in alignment and proper adjustment by a single operation.
The cutter head is of solid steel with long journals, which run in self-oiling boxes lined with good anti-friction metal.
Immediately behind the cutter head, is a pressure bar, and another behind the beader and moulding arbor. These two pressure bars hold the stock down while being worked. Without these it would be impossible to do first-class work. Some similar machines on the market do not have a pressure bar on them. Look out for this.
All the Dixie Planers and Matchers will finish stock as thick as 6 in. and by removing the guides as thin as ½ in. They will match stock from 5/8 in. to 2 in. thick and 1½ in. to 10 in. wide. The Matcher Heads will carry knives as wide as 2¼, in. Moulding Head on No. 1 and 2 Machines will carry knives 6 in. long and the No. 3, 7 in. long.
Counter shaft should make 800 revolutions per minute and drive pulley is 24 in. x 12 in. and tight and loose pulleys are 12 in. x 6 in.
The matcher heads move up and down with the bed, are easily adjusted by means of a hand-wheel and screw, for matching any width desired within the capacity of the machine, and are provided with bracket and guides to hold stock ?rm while being worked. These are provided with chip breakers; the one on the left being a combined adjustable plank guide and chip breaker, and is held ?rmly against the stock by means of a spring. The spindles are made of re?ned machinery steel and run in self-oiling boxes. We fit them either with solid malleable matcher heads and sectional matcher bits, or with Shimer Patent Heads and bits, but the regular equipment carries the solid heads with sectional bits. Bits as wide as 2¼ inches can be used in these heads. The Shimer Heads will be charged as extra.
The countershaft is placed on the same sills with the Planer, has wide face pulleys, giving ample belt power and makes this machine self-contained and convenient to load and move.
We have spared neither time or expense in perfecting this machine, and for simplicity of construction, excellency of workmanship and design, and last, but not least, for durability, it is not surpassed by any machine of like weight. |
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