Fig. 16.
When the block of glue has been cut in this direction, it is divided by cuts perpendicular to the former, into cakes of a size in which the finished product is to be brought into commerce. The apparatus shown in Fig. 16 serves for this purpose. The vertical bars, a, furnished with the wire, b b, serve as guides. The sheets thus formed are lifted from the block with the moist blade of a large knife, and laid upon nets.
The machine shown in Figs. 17 and 18 is the invention of Mr. J. Schneible, and it is for slicing and spreading glue-jelly preparatory to drying, and it consists in the combination of a reciprocating cutter with the jelly-box and a traveling belt-carrying frame for receiving the slices as cut by the knife.
Fig. 17 is a partly sectional side view of the machine, and Fig. 18 is a cross-section of the same.
Fig. 17.
A A are side bars of the supporting frame, fitted at the ends with cross-shafts, a´, carrying pulleys, a a, around which are endless belts, b b. c c are slide-ways upon the bars, A, and d d are slides carrying a cross-plate, e, and also a plate, f, to which plate e is attached a knife or cutter, g, the cutting edge of which is at the edge of the plate, f, and about the same thickness as the slices to be cut. The cross-shaft, h, is fitted in boxes on bars, A, and near one end thereof it is provided with cranks at its ends, which connect by rods, i, to the slides, d.
Fig. 18.