FORMA MINOR AD ADDADA THE PAD SPLITTING HIDES OR SKINS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Sam Haley, of Bramley, near Leeds, in the
County of York, Machine Maker, for the Invention of “Improve-
FORMA
MINOR AD ADDADA THE PAD SPLITTING HIDES OR SKINS"
Sealed the 14th August 1874, and dated the 18th February 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Sam Haley at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
18th February 1874.
I, SAM HALEY, of Bramley, near Leeds, in the County of York,
Machine Maker, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR SPLITTING HIDES OR SKINS,"
to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to the construction of the knives employed in
machinery for purposes aforesaid which heretofore have been constructed
by welding together the several parts. The degree of heat necessary to
admit of this destroys or so injures the steel that a good and durable
cutting edge cannot be had on knives so made.
I construct such knives of separate parts. The back part of the steel
(on which the cutting edge is to be formed) is received within a recess or
groove formed in the back or other portion of the knife. The two parts
are then secured together by rivets or countersunk screws, or the portion

page_text: of the knife on which the cutting edge is to be formed may extend over
and beyond the back or other portion of the knife, and be secured
thereto in manner as above described by means of rivets or countersunk
screws, or by means of brazing or soldering the parts to each other.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Sam Haley in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 18th August 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAM HALEY,
of Bramley, near Leeds, in the County of York, Machine Maker, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of February, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Sam Haley, Her special licence
that I, the said Sam Haley, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Sam Haley, my executors, admini-
strators, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY
or Apparatus foR SPLITTING HIDES OR SKINS,” upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Sam Haley, my executors or administrators, by
an instrument in writing, under my, or their, or one of their hands
and seals, should particularly 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 Scal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Sam Haley, 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 and accompanying Sheet of Drawings, that is to
say:-

page_text: This Invention relates to the construction of the knives employed in
machinery for purposes aforesaid which heretofore have been constructed
by welding together the several parts. The degree of heat necessary to
admit of this destroys or so injures the steel that a good and durable
cutting edge cannot be had on knives so made.
I construct such knives of separate parts. The back part of the steel
(on which the cutting edge is to be formed) is received within a recess or
groove formed in the back or other portion of the knife. The two parts
are then secured together by rivets or countersunk screws, or the portion
of the knife on which the cutting edge is to be formed may extend over
and beyond the back or other portion of the knife, and be secured
thereto in manner as above described by means of rivets or countersunk
screws or by means of brazing or soldering the parts together.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 is a cross section of a knife constructed according to the first
method above described, wherein the blade A or steel on which the
cutting edge is to be formed is received within a recess or groove formed
in the back portion B of the knife, and the two parts secured together
by rivets C, or countersunk screws may be employed; Fig. 2 is a plan
view of same.
Fig. 3 shews the portion of the knife on which the cutting edge is
formed extending over and beyond the back of the knife and secured
thereto, as before described, or in either case the parts may be brazed or
soldered together instead of being fastened by rivets or screws.
In witness whereof, I, the said Sam Haley, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Tenth day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.
Witness,
J. W. TASKER,
Clerk to Tasker & Brierley,
Patent Agents,
Halifax & Bradford.
SAM HALEY.
(L.S.)