Flexible Drinking Straws

straw machine

A manually movable straw machine used to dinsintegrate and chop the straw in a bale of compressed straw as a block, said machine comprising a body, a handbar attached to said wheels, body support and a flywheel mounted on said body to support and lead the same way that handbar, said body having a top and side walls, said top being normally in a horizontal position and equipped with a row of narrow slits straight substantially parallel and slightly spaced other, a tube open at both ends fully and vertically mounted on said top to register with the row of slots, guide means mounted on said top to support said tube in a vertical position while allowing said tube to rotate about its longitudinal axis, said tube defining guide surfaces engages the sides of a compressed ball machine for cutting the straw inserted into said tube, said guide surfaces for downward movement sliding said Strawbale under its own weight until the bottom surface of the bale of straw that is based on the top, but the rotation of the prevention of straw bale machine flexible straw from the tube, the power means mounted in said body to rotate said tube about said longitudinal axis, a shaft mounted in said body and disposed below and substantially parallel to such high and transversely to said row of slots, said axis being perpendicular to and intersecting the longitudinal axis of the tube, a series of parallel spaced radial section secured to said shaft and each in register with one of these slots, said cutters being thinner than the width of these slots, power means rotating said shaft, said cutting upon rotation, through the cracks, without contact with the edges of these slots and projecting above said top to engage and cut the machine and eject the straw straw cut below said top, said body also forming below said top of a curved passage in communication at one end with the slots and the opening at the other end outside said body through a discharge opening made in one of the side walls of the body, whereby the straw cut by said cutting is directly ejected by the latter through said passage and said discharge opening, said series of cutters' s extending along the axis across a radius of the circular path described by the radially outermost corner of the bottom surface of the ball machine of straw during the rotation thereof, whereby said cutting surface scan inferior to that entire bundle of straw during each full rotation of said TU