The cutting apparatus patented by M. Devoulx, of Marseilles, is much used in France. The machine stands upon a board or table, upon which are fastened two uprights, far enough apart to allow of the passage of a truck carrying the glue, which is cut into cakes by blades or wires stretched between the uprights.
Fig. 20.
Fig. 19 shows the perspective elevation of the machine with its truck. The upper part is filled up for the reception of the glue to be cut up into cakes. The sides are omitted in this figure in order to admit of a better explanation of the separate parts.
Fig. 20 gives the same view, except that the truck, the upper part of which is closed, is between the uprights, and contains the glue to be cut.
Fig. 21 represents the moment the wires have passed through the glue and cut it into cakes. In all the figures, a is the wooden frame upon which the machine rests, b the table-plate fastened to the frame, c and d are the uprights, between which the cutting wires are stretched, and f the truck carrying the glue.
Fig. 21.
Fig. 22.
