IMPROVEMENTS. IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOLSTERS AND SCALES, AND IN MACHINERY EMPLOYED. THEREIN
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Bunting, of Sheffield, in the County of
York, Spring Knife Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS.
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOLSTERS AND SCALES, AND IN MACHINERY EMPLOYED.
THEREIN."
Sealed the 13th June 1862, and dated the 15th February 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Bunting at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 15th
February 1862.
I, RICHARD BUNTING, of Sheffield, in the County of York, Spring Knife
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IM--
PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOLSTERS AND SCALES, AND IN MACHINERY
EMPLOYED THEREIN," to be as follows:-
The Invention consists in cutting ornamental bolsters and scales of various.
designs in horn, bone, ivory, wood, pearl, tortoiseshell, gutta percha, india-
rubber, and all other materials adapted to the making of hafts or handles for
cutlery, and especially for spring cutlery, table knives, bowie knives, and lock
knives.
The machinery consists of a table or bed, upon which are fixed bearings for
supporting a shaft carrying fast-and-loose pulleys. A circular saw is keyed
on the shaft for the purpose of cutting up the material, also a wheel or roller,.
having the pattern cut on the face thereof which it is desired to produce on.
the bolster or scale. The pattern roller is made to revolve, and the bolster
or scale being held on a rest under it the pattern is cut thereon..

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Bunting in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
15th August 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
BUNTING, of Sheffield, in the County of York, Spring Knife Manufacturer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fifth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Richard Bunting, Her special licence that I, the said Richard
Bunting, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Richard Bunting, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for " IM-
PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOLSTERS AND SCALES, AND IN MACHINERY
EMPLOYED THEREIN," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Richard Bunting, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in
the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Bunting, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, reference being bad to the Drawings hereunto annexed,
that is to say:-
The Invention consists in cutting ornamental bolsters and scales of various
designs in horn, bone, ivory, wood, pearl, tortoiseshell, gutta percha, india-
rubber, and all other materials adapted to the making of hafts or handles for
cutlery, and especially for spring cutlery, table knives, bowie knives, and lock
knives.
The machinery consists of a table or bed, upon which are fixed bearings for
supporting a shaft carrying fast-and-loose pulleys. A circular saw is keyed
on the shaft for the purpose of cutting up the material, also a wheel or roller

page_text: having the pattern cut on the face thereof which it is desired to produce on
the bolster or scale. The pattern roller is made to revolve, and the bolster or
scale being held on a rest against it, the pattern is cut thereon.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a side elevation, and Figure 2
is an end view of this machinery. a is the table or bed supported by
standards b, b; c is a shaft, supported in bearings formed in the brackets d, d,
and carrying fast-and-loose pulleys e, e. Upon one end of the shaft ca cir-
cular saw f is keyed, and on the other end a wheel or pattern roller g; detached
views of which wheel or roller are given on a larger scale at Figure 3. This
roller is made of iron, with a steel or hardened face, upon which any
desired device or pattern is cut. h is a rest, on which the bolster or scale is
laid while being cut. On motion being communicated to the machine by a
strap passing round the fast pulley the material is held against the circular
saw f, and cut up. The bolster or scale is laid on and held to the rest h,
and as the roller g revolves it cuts out the pattern on the bolster or scale.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim the employment
of machinery for the manufacture of bolsters and scales whereby the material
of which they are composed is cut up, and the pattern or device cut thereon,
through a circular saw and pattern roller, as herein-before described and
illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Bunting, have hereunto set my
band and seal, this Fourteenth day of August, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-two.
Witnesses,
EMMA BUNTING.
ALFRED APPLEBY.
RICHARD BUNTING. (L.S.) ·
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