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 608 FEDERAL REPORTBE. �the bung desired without the loas of any material. He had a very ingenious arrangement for that, and it operated -with the whole machine, automatically. But that involved a cône, eccentrics, varions bars, slats, slides, etc., which it would take too much time to explain, unless I had the model before me. �The patentees' claim is doscribed by himself as follows : �"1. The chisel or cutter D, with cylindrical cavity, in com- bination with the plunger C, and feediug bar i, constructed and arranged, substantially as deseribed, for the purpose of cutting bung blanks from separate square blocks of wood. �"2. The combination of feeding slide-bar i, feed-box C, guides 00, and spring o', for feeding successively one of a series or pile of bung-blocks forward in exact line wi-th the cutting edge of the ohisel of a bung machine, operating sub- stantially as deseribed- �"8. The cutter D, feeding slide-bar i, and plunger C, so arranged relatively to each other as that the cutter or chisel shall, when cutting, have at least two blocks or blanks in line with its cuting edge, and that at each stroke of the machine the cutter shall finish cutting one block or blank, and enter and partly eut a second blank, instead of cutting a single blank at each stroke, substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore deseribed. �"4. The cutter and feeding device of a bung-cutting ma- chine, arranged substantially as hereinbefore deseribed, as that each block as it is fed into the machine shall serve as a cutting board for the next preceding block. �"5. The use of the hingci bar m, in the slot of the sliding feed bar i, in combination with the vibrating shaft h\ whereby, by raising the bar m, the motion of the feed bar i is suddenly arrested, without stopping the motion of the other parts of the machine." �The fourth claim is the one which it is alleged the defend- ant infringes. Now, if the combination for placing one block after another on the fish-mouth cutter, whether underneath or sideways, vertical or longitudinal, so as to operate as a cutting board through which that fish-month may penetrate. ��� �