Improvements in Apparatus for Dressing or Finishing the Sides and Ends of Wooden Boxes, Packing Cases, and the like.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Dec., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 21st Sept., 1889-Accepted, 2nd Nov., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Dressing or Finishing the Sides
and Ends of Wooden Boxes, Packing Cases, and the like.
1, WILLIAM CUMMINGS of 9 Murano Place Edinburgh in the County of Edinburgh,
Packing Box Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as
follows:-
This Invention relates to apparatus for dressing or finishing the sides and ends of
wooden boxes, packing cases and the like, and the improved apparatus consists of a
quadrilateral, sexagonal, octagonal or other number of faced disc to each of the faces
of which an adjustable tool having a projecting chisel point is secured by a screw bolt
or other means of fastening.
The disc is mounted on a rotating shaft driven from any suitable motor and the
surface of the planes around it and carrying the tools may be parallel to the length of
the shaft or they may be inclined to the length of the shaft in which case each alternate
plane is inclined in one direction and the other planes in the opposite direction.
After the box or case has been nailed up the sides and ends of it are submitted to
the action of the rotating disc or tool holder by which any projecting wood is cut or
shaved off.
Dated this Twenty-first day of December 1888.
CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
62, Saint Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Dressing or Finishing the Sides
and Ends of Wooden Boxes, Packing Cases, and the like.
I, WILLIAM CUMMINGS of 9 Murano Place, Edinburgh in the County of Edinburgh,
Packing Box Maker do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement :-
This Invention relates to apparatus for dressing or finishing the sides and ends of
wooden boxes, packing cases and the like and the improved apparatus consists, as seen
in face elevation at figure 1 and in side elevation at figure 2 of the annexed drawings
of a disc a having four, six, eight or other number of faces b the disc being mounted
on a rotating shaft in a dressing or finishing machine part of which is illustrated in
longitudinal section at figure 3 and in side elevation at figure 4. To each face of the
dise a tool c, having a projecting chisel point, is secured adjustably by screw bolts d,
passing through a slot in the tool and tapped into the holder or disc or by other means
of fastening.
The faces or planes b, into which the boundary of the disc or holder is divided may
have the breadths of their surfaces at right angles to the sides, that is, parallel to the
length of the shaft X but as shewn the said faces have their breadths preferably
inclined, each alternate plane being inclined towards one side and the other planes to
the opposite side of the disc.
After the box or case has been nailed up it is placed upon the table W, and against
the guide or rest Y, of the dressing or finishing machine and the sides and ends of it
are successively submitted to the action of the rotating disc or tool holder by which
any projecting wood is cut or shaved off.
To enable the same tool holder to be used with boxes of different sizes and thick-
nesses of wood the guide or rest Y, is adjustable vertically in its carrying brackets U,
which are adjustable horizontally towards or from the tool holder on their bearings V.

page_text: The table W is also adjusted vertically in slides T, in the framing by oporating the
screws S, at each end of it and it is held in the required position by nuts R, screwed
on to bolts fastened into the frames and passing through slots in brackets Q, carrying
the table the said brackets being jointed at P, to enable the table to be inclined
towards the tool holder or disc when required.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
For dressing or finishing the sides and ends of wooden boxes packing cases and the
like, a rotating disc or holder having four, six, eight or other number of planes or faces
around its boundary the planes being flat or inclined alternately towards the sides of
the disc and each of them carrying a chisel pointed tool substantially as described
with reference to the annexed drawings.
Dated this Twentieth day of September 1889
CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
62, Saint Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agents.