A MACHINE FOR CUTTING VENEERS IN WOOD AND OTHER SUBSTANCES
Year: 1818

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
FAVERYEAR, of Castle Street, Leicester Square, in the Parish of Saint Martin
in the Fields, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of His United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-fifth
day of December, in the fifty-ninth year of His reign, give and grant unto
me, the said Henry Faveryear, my exors, admors, and. assigns, His especial
license, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Henry
Faveryear, my exors, admors, and assigns, during the term of years therein
mentioned, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of
"A MACHINE FOR CUTTING VENEERS IN WOOD AND OTHER SUBSTANCES;" in which
said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, that if I, the said Henry
Faveryear, shall not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters
Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted; shall
utterly cease, determine, and become void, as in and by the same (relation
being thereunto had) will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Henry Faveryear, do hereby specify, describe, and ascertain the nature of my
said Invention, the particular organization of the same, and the manner in
which the operations are to be performed, to produce the full effect of my said
Invention, such particular Specification and description being made with
reference to the representations in the different views of its explanatory
Drawings annexed (that is to say) :--
The nature of my said Invention is the contrivance and management of
a machine for producing in a more complete and useful manner than has
hitherto been produced the articles or commodities commonly known by the
appellation of veneers, both with respect to their forms, extent of dimensions,
with relation to the block or piece from which the veneers are cut, beauty
of variegation, and facility of application to their various purposes. The
particular orginization of my Invention in the construction of my said machine
is as contained and set forth in the following description-
Figure 1 of Drawing No. 1 represents a geometrical side elevation of the
machine.
Figure 2 represents a geometrical horizontal plan of the machine.
Figure 3 represents a geometrical elevation of the front or end Z of the
machine.
Figure 4 represents an enlarged geometrical side elevation of the part of the
piece or frame F, F, of Figure 1, for the purpose of a more minute explana-
tion of the cutting apparatus G and H, which is attached to it..
Figure 5 represents an enlarged geometrical elevation of the front or end
of the piece or frame F, F, also with respect to the cutting apparatus G
and H.
Figure 6 is an enlarged geometrical horizontal plan of the front part of the
piece F, F, arranged directly below the elevation of the same part in Figure 5,
and its several parts connected by dotted lines to explain their identity.
Figure 7 represents an upper edge view of the metal bar G, and Figure 8
represents a geometrical view of the face of the same bar.
The Figures 4, 5, 6, 7, and eight are intended to shew-more particularly the
method of attaching and adjusting the knife and the bar.
In these Figures, which respectively represent different views of the same
'machine, the same parts are in each respectively marked with the same letters
of reference, for the more readily connecting them with each other, and
applying to them this my further description.
In Figure 1 of Drawing No. 1, A, A, A, A, is a rectangular frame, across

page_text: which is fixed in the usual manner an axis carrying a fly or ballance wheel
B, B, and'a toothed wheel c, which drives a larger wheel D, D, on the axis of
which is fixed (as herein-after described) the cylinder or block E from which
the veneer is proposed to be cut ; F, F, is an oblong frame, supported at that
end which is farthest from the front of, the machine, by brackets or pieces O, O,
and which attach it to the pieces W, W; which slide vertically between grooves
in that end of the large frame A, A; A, A; and at its other end or front
carrying the knife or cutting apparatus G and H, and allows their application
to the surface of the block E; I is a small grooved wheel or pully set on the
axle of the wheel D, and by means of the band K drives a similar wheel L set
on the end of the roller Y; the roller Y is for the purpose of receiving and
rolling up the veneer as it is produced and delivered at the cutting apparatus
G and H. The veneer passing between the cutting apparatus and the roller Y
is shewn at N, N, in the Figure; the dotted lines P, P, shew the situation on
the inner side of the frames A, A, A, A, of a metal bar, which is applied at
one end to the axle of the wheel D, and at the other at the rack R. To one
end of the rack R is attached a bar S, moving on a pivot or center at S, and
forming an angle of inclination with the rack R, being held or supported at its
other end on an arched piece T; on the upright piece W is fixed a small plate,
from which projects a clip V, which holds a small wheel or roller grooved on
its edge for the purpose of receiving the upper edge of the bar inclined S. The
frame F, F, is attached to the upright piece W, W, and those pieces slide ver-
tically in grooves in the frame A, A, A, A; the piece F, F, is thus supported
by the roller at V, which rests on the upper edge of, the inclined bar S. The
rack R and its inclined bar Ș may be advanced towards the front of the
machine, and the point of support V of the frame F, F, is thereby lowered, and
the cutting apparatus G and H on the frame F, F, is made to follow the
continually decreasing size of the cylinder or block E, on which it operates.
This I effect by means of the bar P, P, the situation of which I have already.
pointed out;, but, for. the purpose of more clear description I refer to the
Figures 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 of the Drawing No. 2.
Figure 6 of Drawing No. 2 represents a geometrical side elevation of the
bar P, P, with the wheel D and the rack R and inclined bar S seperated from
the machine.
Figure 7erepresents a horizontal plan or view of the rack R and part of the
bar. P, P.
Fig. 8 represents a geometrical side elevation of that end of the bar P, P,
which is connected with the wheel D. The bar P, P, is connected with the

page_text: wheel D by having a clip or fork A, B, (Figure 8 of Drawing No. 2,) which
receives the axle of the said wheel, and that part of the said axle which is so
received by the clip or fork A, B, as aforesaid is excentric to the wheel D,
that is to say, the smaller circle, Figure 8, Drawing No. 2, of which Y marks
the centre, represents the true axle of the wheel D; but the larger circle in
the same Figure, having its centre marked a, is excentric to the wheel D, and
fitting in or resting on the fork A, B, does, when the wheel D revolves on the
centre Y, cause the bar P, P, to move back and forward on the mortice M
(Figure 6 of Drawing No. 2), and by this action causes the rack R to advance
towards the front of the machine, and so produces the lowering of the frame
F, F, herein-before stated.
The Figures 9 and 10 further explain the excentricity of that portion of the
axle of the wheel D which applies to the forks A, B, (Figure 8, Drawing
No. 2).
Figure 9 is a propective view of the entire end of the axle of the wheel D,
shewing the excentric portion x, and also the portion y, which is concentric to
the wheel D.
Figure 10 is a geometrical side view of the same Figure, represented in
perspective in Figure 9, the parts thereof being respectively marked with the
same letters of reference in both Figures.
The method by which the rack R is caused to advance will be more clearly
described by reference to the Figure 7, of Drawing No. 2. The bar P, P,
alternately advances and recedes by the action of the excentric axle or cylinder
.on the fork A, B, Figure 8, Drawing No. 2; at each advance the end p slides
up the inclined plane of one of the notches 1, 2, 3, 4, &c., and by the pressure
of the spring 9, shewn in Figure 6 (Drawing No. 2), is made to enter the next
notch; the receeding movement of the bar P, P, will draw the rack R towards
the front of the machine the quantity or length of one notch, and so on for
each notch in succession.
Figures 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8, of Drawing No. 1, illustrate my description
of the method of fixing and adjusting the knife or cutting apparatus of the
machine.
Figure 4, of Drawing No. 1, represents a side elevation of the knife and
cutting apparatus and part of the frame F, F.
Figure 5 represents a front elevation of the same, and Figure 6, a horizontal
plan of the same. The knife is shewn at H in each of these Figures.
In Figure 4, edgewise, shewing its width and thickness; in Figure 5, front-
wise, shewing its length; and in Figure 6 also shewing its length and width,

page_text: and further explaining the method of attaching it to the frame, and of adjusting
the thickness of the veneer intended to be cut. The knife is attached to the
frame F, F, by the screws 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, shewn in Figures 4, 5, and 6.
The end A2 of the frame F, F; are seen in Figure 6 to project beyond the
cross bar B of the frame F, F, and as far beyond as the edge of the knife
perpendicularly; into these projecting pieces of the frame F, F, pass screws
V, V. Mortice holes are made in the front of the pieces A³, shewn in Figure 5
at W; a part of the screws V, V, near the lower end is turned away, leaving
a groove or channel round the screw, as shewn in the Figure below. The
mortice holes project screws X, X, Figure 4 and 5, and by means of these
screws the bar G, shewn edgewise in Figures 4, 6, and 7, is attached to the
frame F, F, and is adjusted with relation to the knife H thus
The projecting tongue shewn at W, W, in Figures 7 and 8 of the bar G,
are placed in the mortice holes W, W (Figure 5), and the screws X, X,
seen in Figures 4 and 5, pass at the same time through the oblong holes,
shewn in the bar G at Figure 8. The nuts of the screws V, V, being
released, these screws will adjust the bar G as to its height, the aforesaid
oblong holes X, X, allowing as much adjustment as is required. When the
adjustment is made, the nuts of the screws V, V, must be tightened and
the nuts X, X, screwed on. The situation of the lower edge of the -bar G;
which may thus be adjusted with respect to the cutting edge of the knife,
so as to be higher or lower, regulates and determines the thickness of
the veneer:
Figure 11, of Drawing No. 2, is a perspective view of the entire machine,
in which the several parts are respectively marked with the same letters
of reference which are applied to them in the other Figures of them in
these Drawings. I further declare, that to fix the piece of wood or other
material from which it is proposed to cut veneers on the axis of the
wheel D, I use the following method, that is to say, I take the block
intended to be cut, and having bored a cylindrical hole through its length
by the common method of boring, I then square the cylindrical hole so
produced by boring) by means of the apparatus shewn in Drawing No. 2,
in Figure 1. To do this, I make the cylindrical hole of the same diameter,
or a very small quantity larger than the cylindrical portion C, D, of the
tool, shewn at Figure 1, in Drawing No. 2; I then introduce the portion
C, D, into the cylindrical hole (first passing the rod and hook A); I then
attach the hook A, by means of a chain, rope, or other sufficient matter,
to the axle of the fly wheel B, B; I then bear the front face, or that end of

page_text: the block I am to operate upon which is nearest to the hook A, firmly against
the back of the frame A, A, A, A, or any other firm object, which, I thus use
as a purchase'; the fly wheel B, B, being. then put in motion, the chain or rope
attached to the tool (Figure 1, Drawing No. 2,) is wound on the axle of the
said wheel, and the tool is drawn forceably through the length of..the block,
forming a four-sided hole in it, by which I fit it on the axle of the wheel D.to
be operated on as herein-before described.
Figure 2 is an enlarged view (geometrical) in side elevation of the cylin-
drical portion C, D, of the apparatus, shewn in Figure 1. The knife or.cutter
D, E, is here taken off, and also the piece E, F, in order. to shew the interior
of the instrument and explain its action. The cylindrical.portion C, D, of this
tool first passes into the aperture or hole first produced by. boring in the usual
manner as aforesaid, the cutter D, E, follows, and is firmly held up to its
fitting against the end of the cylindrical piece C, D, by the piece E, F,
which is screwed fast to the projections of the interior G, G, as shewn
by the dotted representations of screws in the Figure. The fitting of the
cutter against the end of the cylinder C, D, is shewn in Figure 3, in which
the dotted circle represents the end D,.D, of. the cylinder C, D. The outer
line of the cutter, as shewn in Figure 3, is the cutting edge, and the squares
H, H, H, H, are its points of bearing against the end of the cylinder. The
square cutter enlarges the cylindrical hole by its angles, and in section
describes a circumscribing square to the circle formed by the boring; the
matter so cut out passes away through the angular openings of the cutter into
and through the channels or grooves G, G, of Figure 2, (and shewn in
Figure 3 at K, K, K, K.
Figure 5 is a perspective view of the cutter, the more clearly to shew
its construction. In cases. where other substances are intended to be cut
which are not of sufficient thickness to admit of being bored; the said
substances must be fastened on a block, similar to that from which the
veneer is produced, by nails, or other means, best suited to the quality of the
material.
In. witness whereof, I, the said Henry Faveryear, party hereto, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, the Twenty-third day of June, One
thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
گیناب
HENRY (L.s.) FAVERYEAR.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-third day of June, in
the year of our Lord 1819, the aforesaid Henry Faveryear came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-fourth day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and nineteen.