Turret tile and machine for production of turret tile
AssigneeMaruhachi Ceramics of America
InventorsYoshihiro Suzuki, Masaki Murata
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Abstract
An apparatus for making ceramic tiles for roofs of turrets, including interchangeable cassettes each with a frame, a base mounted thereon and having an upper surface of frustoconical shape, and cutter carriers carrying the tile cutter blades and pivotally mounted on the frame, the tile cutter blades having edges for engaging a tile on the base along a cutting line oblique to a ray of the frustoconical surface, and operable by a drive unit for moving the cutter blades toward each other and into a tile to trim the tile to the shape of an oblique frustoconical segment. A turret roofed with tiles produced by the apparatus. A roofing tile for a turret, with the tile produced by the apparatus.
Claims4
An apparatus for making ceramic tiles for roofs of turrets, including in combination:
- a cassette frame;
- a base mounted on said frame and having an upper surface of frustoconical shape;
- cutter carrier means for carrying a tile cutter blade, with a cutter carrier means pivotally mounted on said frame on each side of said base;
- a tile cutter blade mounted on each of said cutter carrier means, each of said blades having an edge for engaging a tile positioned on said base along a cutting line oblique to a ray of said frustoconical surface;
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- each of said cutter carrier means further including an actuator arm for pivoting said cutter carrier means to move said cutter blades toward each other and into a tile on said base to trim the tile to the shape of an oblique frustoconical segment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.