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J. A. PAY & CO.’S ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE

No. 1

Large Car-Sill and Timber-Dressing Machine.

With Solid Forged-Steel Cylinders and Feeding-Out Rolls.

To Work on all Four Sides.

Tliis is an excellent machine intended for planing car-sills, where there is alimited amount of work to he done, and a less expensive machine than the No. 2Extra Heavy Sill-Dresser is desired, and yet one that can he utilized for variousother kinds of work common in railway, car, and hridge-building.

It is massive and heavy, and will surface and square up on all four sidestimbers to 17" wide hy 8", 10", or 12" thick at one operation. It has the capacityto reduce car-sills l%" at one cut if needed, and will finish, in the very bestpossible manner, at the rate of 30' per minute.

The bed of the machine is fixed, the cylinder and rolls being adjustable tothe various thickoiesses of lumber to be planed. The feed is very powerful, con-sisting of a revolving endless bed, made of slats from the best cold-blast iron,the slides on which they travel being of the same material, with accuratelyground faces; auxiliary to this, a pair of large, powerful feeding-out or deliveryrolls, expansively geared, are added, to draw the timber from the side cutters.

The cylinders are made from solid steel forgings, with journals of largediameter, lead-ground and finished, with lips formed on them to act as chip-breakers. They carry three knives, run in self-oiling boxes, and have pulleys fortwo belts. The upper pressure-rolls are of wrought-iron, and weighted withfolding levers, so arranged as to be under instant control of the operator; theeccentric connection with the front pressure-roll by means of the lever permitssills varying from y" to 2" in thickness to follow each other without stoppingthe feed or machine.

The arrangement of the fixed traveling bed and heavy feeding-out rolls,connected by a massive train of gearing, running at slow velocity, is a verypowerful combination indispensable to sill-dressing. The side heads are of steel,carrying three knives, and fitted with heavy spring chip-breakers, which preventtearing of lumber. Flooring can lie worked by substituting special matchingheads for the side cutters. A side lever is also provided to hold material againstthe fence as it is being fed in. The feed is controlled hy a lever within conven-ient reach of the operator.

The spindles are very heavy, have a top-bearing support, and run in largebearings, with special self-oiling devices for maintaining a constant lubrication,and are adjusted by heavy square-thread screws, which retain them in their placeswhen once set.

The tight and loose pulleys on the countershaft are 18" x 10", and should make900 revolutions.