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1907 Article-Trevor & Co., Pan-American Stave Cutter |
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The National Coopers' Journal Feb 1907, pg 6 |
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1/2/2012 12:34:08 PM |
The "Trevor" Pan-American Stave Cutter.
This improved stave cutter is of a new design embodying the excellent points of the standard stave cutter heretofore illustrated, but built much heavier throughout. It is intended for mills having exceptionally heavy work. It has a knife 36 inches long and 20 inches circle and the ribs are faced with steel. It is built on both styles, No. 1 having a deep tumbler and screws for adjusting the wood blocking, and style No. 2 being without these adjusting screws. Floor space, 3x4 feet. Floor space to include the countershaft and pitman, 4 x 11 feet. Speed, about 100 per minute.
It will be supplied with brass-faced ribs, so as to prevent coloring white oak stock, instead of steel, on special order without extra charge.
These machines, as well as our other stave cutters, are well adapted to perform the severe duty required of a stave cutter. The back and knife are capable of adjustment to compensate for wear. We also make machines for cutting nail-keg staves on a 15-inch circle, and larger and longer machines, as per price list, for basket stuff, dry hogshead staves, etc. Our No. 1 cutter has a deep tumbler with set screws and an iron bar in the groove for adjusting the wood upward when it needs dressing off. The No. 2 cutter is the same as the No. 1, except that it has not so deep a groove in the tumbler, nor the adjusting screws. Size of cutter is 20-inch circle, 36-inch knife, for flour and fruit-barrel staves. The countershaft consists of a shaft with crank and crank pin, journal boxes, and a 44-inch fly-wheel with 8-inch face turned for the belt. A 44-inch loose pulley will be extra, as per price list. The better plan is to have the fly-wheel only and use a tightener on the belt. The cutter is conveniently stopped by raising the tightener and allowing the belt to slip. Capacity from 18,000 to 30,000 staves per day, varying with the timber and the skill of the operator. Speed, 100 to 120. Power required, about 4 horse. One cord of good stave bolts should yield from 1,000 to 1,200 slack barrel staves.
The groove in the tumbler is to be filled by the customer with dry hard maple, to be put in so that the knife will come down on the end of the grain just sufficiently hard to insure cutting the stave entirely off without slivers. Orders not specially calling for the heavy "Pan-American" cutter, will be understood to mean one of our regular machines. For further particulars address the Trevor Mfg. Co., Lock port, N. Y. |
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1907 Trevor & Co., Pan-American Stave Cutter
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