CUTTING, HEWING, AND DRESSING, BOTH IN TAKINGS AS WELL ASMENTS, KERBINGS, AND STRUCTURES AND FOR THE BUILDING OF ALL OTHER DESCRIPTION OF PUBLIC OR PRIVATE WORKS
Year: 1876

page_text: ETTERS PATENT to James Begg Weir, of Number Ten, Main Street, Bridgeton,
Glasgow, in the Shire of Lanark, Scotland, for the Invention of "CUTTING,
HEWING, AND DRESSING, BOTH IN PLAIN AND ORNAMENTAL STYLES, OF ALL
STONES OF VARIOUS KINDS, AND OF THE NATURE AND DESCRIPTION AND UNDER
THE NAMES KNOWN IN THE TRADE SUCH STONES ARE USED, FOR THE PURPOSES
OF ERECTING AND CONSTRUCTING OF BUILDINGS, MONUMENTS, AND OTHER
ERECTIONS, AND FOR CUTTING, HEWING, AND DRESSING OF ALL STONES
REQUIRED TO BE USED IN THE FORMATION AND ERECTION OF BRIDGES, DOCKS,
CANALS, BASINS, PIERS, RAILWAYS, AND OTHER UNDERTAKINGS AS WELL AS
PAVEMENTS, KERBINGS, AND OTHER STRUCTURES, AND GENERALLY FOR THE
CUTTING, HEWING, AND DRESSING OF ALL STONES REQUIRED FOR THE BUILDING
OF ALL OTHER DESCRIPTION OF PUBLIC OR PRIVATE WORKS."
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said James Begg Weir at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 13th October 1876.
"
JAMES BEGG WEIR, of Number Ten, Main Street, Bridgeton, Glasgow, in the
Shire of Lanark, Scotland. CUTTING, HEWING, AND DRESSING, BOTH IN PLAIN
AND ORNAMENTAL STYLES, OF ALL STONES OF VARIOUS KINDS, AND OF THE NATURE
AND DESCRIPTION AND UNDER THE NAMES KNOWN IN THE TRADE SUCH STONES ARE
USED, FOR THE PURPOSES OF ERECTING AND CONSTRUCTING OF BUILDINGS,
MONUMENTS, AND OTHER ERECTIONS, AND FOR CUTTING, HEWING, AND DRESSING OF
ALL STONES REQUIRED TO BE USED IN THE FORMATION AND ERECTION OF BRIDGES,
DOCKS, CANALS, BASINS, PIERS, RAILWAYS, AND OTHER UNDERTAKINGS AS WELL AS
PAVEMENTS, KERBINGS, AND OTHER STRUCTURES, AND GENERALLY FOR THE CUTTING,
HEWING, AND DRESSING OF ALL STONES REQUIRED FOR THE BUILDING OF ALL OTHER
DESCRIPTION OF PUBLIC OR PRIVATE WORKS."
First. I make use of machines constructed on principles after the model and
form of machines used for iron planeing, nibbling, and slotting, to be driven by
steam, water, or other power, and which machines are intended to be of various
sizes, according to the size or sizes of the stones to be dressed; such machines are
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page_text: intended to be fixed upon sound stone, wood, or other foundations of sufficient
solidity to prevent vibration as far as possible; the machines described are intended
to be driven by belts, shafting, and pulleys or other gearing.
Second. The stones to be cut, hewn, and dressed are intended to be placed and
fixed firmly into or upon such machines by screws, keys, wedges, and other necessary
appliances in such positions that my Invention may be used to cut, hew, and dress
such stones upon either one or more faces and into such shapes, patterns, and forms
as may be necessary and requisite.
Third. My Invention consists in the use of steel and iron tubes or circular pipes
composed of steel or iron of equal diameters in the course of their entire lengths,
varying from one-fourth of an inch to twelve inches in diameter, and in lengths of
from one quarter of an inch to forty feet, to be tempered and (or) casehardened to
such degree or degrees as the nature or hardness of the stones to be cut, hewn, and
dressed may require; such tubes or circular piping are to be placed and fixed into
a socket or sockets, and so fixed in horizontal, vertical, angled, and inclined positions,
or into one or more of these positions, according to the nature of the work required
to be done, and in such numbers and sizes as will be necessary for the proper cutting,
hewing, dressing, and ornamenting of the stones; these tubes or circular piping will
be so fixed in the socket or sockets as at times to be immoveable and at other times
to enable them to revolve, and being also capable of being shifted backwards or
forwards, or partially so, or changed to a proper position in other respects as
the work or cutting, hewing, and dressing progresses; these tubes or circular
piping will also be so fixed as to enable them to revolve upon an ordinary or self-
acting spindle or spindles. The working of the tubes or circular piping and spindles
when revolving are to be regulated and driven or worked by a self-acting motion or
a combination of spur or other wheels of various sizes, and a similar motion when
immoveable.
Fourth. The socket or sockets to which the tubes or circular piping or spindles. are
to be attached are intended to be made of cast metal, and of such different sizes,
dimensions, and designs, as will be adaptable to the proper fixing of the various
sizes of the tubes or circular piping and spindles thereto, and in such numbers as
may be required, according to the description of work necessary to be performed and
the hardness or softness of the stones to be operated upon.
Fifth. All stones to be cut, hewn, and dressed, both plain and ornamental are to
be so cut, hewn, and dressed by the action of the end or ends of the tubes or circular
piping working upon the faces or surfaces of the stones, combined with the working
of the other portions of the machinery described in article first hereof; this
particular portion of the machinery being intended to be wrought in a manner
similar or nearly so to that of the working of an ordinary iron planeing machine
and by the means described in article first hereof.
And, having now described the nature of my said Invention, what I claim as
novel, is the application of the articles and materials mentioned in articles three,
four, and five, above specified, to the purposes of cutting, hewing, and dressing of
stones for building and other purposes, both in a plain and ornamental style, and
to be wrought in combination with the machinery described in article first hereof,
and such Invention is new and distinct from that of any other Patent heretofore
granted for cutting, hewing, and dressing of stones, or to that of any other mode or
method presently in use.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Begg Weir, have hereunto set my hand