| 摘要 |
A non-uniformly weighted flexible toothed belt is driven to traverse and produce both a forceful combing action on an animal hide in its traversing motion parallel to pulley-to-pulley movement and a varied yieldable pressure against the hide transverse to such traversing motion and so not only removes animal hairs engaged thereby in an automatic and particularly efficient manner, but also provides for hide massaging and oil distribution. The apparatus comprises a toothed belt supported on spoke-surfaced pulleys, the pulleys rotatably supported on parallel spaced apart plates, one of the plates having a smooth bottom edge and extending further below the axis of the pulleys than the bottom edge of the other plate and acts as a guide and support; one pulley is attached to a drive motor and the belt is sufficiently loose on one side of the pulleys that, while traversing the space between the pulleys, the belt is there yieldably displaced during oscillations transverse to the distance between the rollers and also transverse to the direction of axes of the rollers; the teeth on that portion of the belt face downwardly and resiliently contact the hide hair to provide the above described wave action; the other portion of the belt located between the rollers is tight.
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