New or Improved Method of Embossing or Embellishing Wood or other suitable Material, and Apparatus therefor.
Year: 1891

page_text: Cate of Application, 23rd Feb., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 27th Feb., 1891--Accepted, 4th Apr.. 1801
GEST
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
New or Improved Method of Embossing or Embellishing Wood or
other suitable Material, and Apparatus therefor.
A communication from abroad by SILAS MARION LAND and SAMUEL ALBERT
VAN BUSKIRK, both of Fort Scott, in the County of Bourbon and State of
Kansas, United States of America.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of the Agency for
Foreign Patent Solicitors, 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6, Bank Street,
Manchester, both in the County of Lancaster, and 323, High Holborn, in the
County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a method and apparatus hereinafter described, by which
a design of any desired configuration may be transferred to the wood or other
suitable material and then reduced to a smooth and finished condition.
On the top of the supporting-frame of the machine is a table over which the
material passes as it is being embellished.
A corrugated feed-roll is journalled in the frame in the proper position, so that
its corrugations may extend up through an opening in the table a slight distance
above the plane of the table in order that it may engage the material being
embellished and force it along through the machine.
A train of gear-wheels connects the feed-roll with the power-shaft.
A. pulley on the power-shaft may be driven by a band.
On the said shaft is an
on a planer-shaft.
upper end. Secured
Secured to the lower
Said impression-roll
An additional pulley is provided on the power-shaft, said pulley being connected
by a band with a pulley on a shaft supported by a frame.
additional pulley, which is connected by a band with a pulley
In a U-shaped frame is a screw having a hand-wheel on its
to the lower end of the screw is a vertically sliding frame.
side of the frame by straps is a hollow impression roll or die.
may be heated by a gas or other jet located therein, the jet being supplied by a
pipe.
A frame is hinged to the U-shaped frame.
A screw works in the frame on the upper end of which is a hand-wheel, and on
the lower end is secure a vertically-sliding frame. To said frame is secured by
straps the planer-shaft, on which the planing knives are situated. The hinged
frame may be secured to table by bolts, or the bolts may be removed and the frame
and planer turned back on its pivot, when so desired.
A hollow burnishing-roller is supported by braces, which are connected to the
frame.
A gas-jet is located in the roller, which may be supplied by a pipe.
A. roller is provided on which the material travels in passing through the machine.
and which acts as a support to the material beneath the burnishing-roll.
The operation is as follows:-
The wood is first passed under the heated die or impression roll which may have
any desired design thereon, the die of course embossing the wood to a greater or
less degree, according to the depth of the design in the die and the pressure placed
upon the die. For instance, if it is desired, to have an impression with certain
parts of the same of a darker shade than other parts, the design on the die is made
of greater or less prominence, so that, when the impression is made in the wood, the
portion that is to be the darkest will be the deepest, the heat of course making the
wood dark. After the wood has passed beneath the die, it then passes beneath
the planer, which reduces the raised or embossed portions of the wood down to a

page_text: comparatively smooth surface, and thus producing a design or figure in dark and
light wood, wherein the shadows and other portions intended to be dark are the
depressed portions and the high lights and portions intended to be white or of a
light colour are those portions which were more or less elevated and which were
shaved off by the planer, thus removing their charred or dark surfaces and exposing
the natural or light colour of the wood. It will of course be understood that grada-
tion of shade or the blending of the lights and shadows is attained and governed by
the extent to which certain portions are depressed, the darkest portions being
deepest, while the medium tints are not so deep and the highest lights are left above
the general level. Thus it will be seen that the planer will entirely remove the
discoloration from the prominent portions, while it only reaches and removes the
outer surface of the discoloration of the intermediate elevations, thus blending
the high lights with the deep shadows in the lower depressions into which latter
the planer does not extend at all. The planer, however, while it is effective in
producing the proper lights and shades and in reducing to a considerable extent the
prominent or elevated portions, yet it cannot, for reasons obvious, make the whole
surface of the design perfectly smooth and flat and on a level with the background.
Hence it is necessary, for this reason and for the further purpose of producing a
highly-polished surface, to pass the board beneath a heated burnishing-roller, which,
being driven at a higher rate of speed than the embossing die, simultaneously
smooths out the elevations so as to reduce them to the level of the deepest. depres-
sions and burnishes or polishes the whole surface, producing a very artistic effect,
and one which closely resembles hand painting.
Dated this 21st day of February 1891.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
New or Improved Method of Embossing or Embellishing Wood or
other suitable Material, and Apparatus therefor.
A communication from abroad by SILAS MARION LAND and SAMUEL ALBERT
VAN BUSKIRK, both of Fort Scott, in the County of Bourbon and State of
Kansas, United States of America.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.L.M.E., of the Agency for
Foreign Patent Solicitors, 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6, Bank Street,
Manchester, both in the County of Lancaster, and 323, High Holborn, in the
County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to a method and apparatus, hereinafter described, by which
a design of any desired configuration may be transferred to the wood or other
suitable material and then reduced to a smooth and finished condition.
In the drawings—
Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section of a machine for carrying out the
process.
Figure 2 is a perspective view of the same.
Figure 3 is a perspective view of the embellished wood, showing a portion of the
same in a finished condition and a portion in an unfinished condition.
Corresponding parts in the drawings are denoted by the same letters of reference.
Referring to the drawings,
1 represents the supporting-frame of the machine, on the top of which is a table 2,
over which the material passes as it is being embellished.
3. represents a corrugated feed-roll, which is journalled in the frame 1 in the
proper position, so that its corrugations may extend up through an opening 4 in the

page_text: table a slight distance above the plane of the table in order that it may engage
the material being embellished and force it along through the machine.
5, 6, 7, 8 represent a train of gear-wheels connecting the feed-roll 3 with the
power shaft 9.
10 represents a pulley on the power-shaft, which may be driven by a band 11.
12 represents an additional pulley on the power-shaft 9, said pulley being con-
nected by a band 13 with a pulley 14 on a shaft 15. The shaft 15 is supported by
a frame 16. On the shaft 15 is an additional pulley 17, which is connected by a
band 18 with a pulley 19 on a planer-shaft 20.
21 represents a U-shaped frame, in which works a screw 22, having a hand-wheel 23
on its upper end. Secured to the lower end of the screw 22 is a vertically sliding
frame 24. Secured to the lower side of the frame 24 by straps 25 is a hollow
impression-roll or die 26. Said impression-roll may be heated by a gas or other
jet 27, located therein, the jet being supplied by a pipe 28.
29 represents a frame, which may be hinged to the frame 21 at 30.
31 represents a screw working in the frame 29, on the upper end of which is a
hand-wheel 32, and on the lower end of which is secured a vertically-sliding
frame 33. To the frame 33 is secured by straps 34 the planer-shaft 20, on which
the planing knives 35 are situated. The frame 29 may be secured to table by.
bolts 36, or the bolts may be removed and the frame and planer turned back on its
pivot 30, when so desired.
37 represents a hollow burnishing-roller supported by braces 38, which are
connected to the frame 29.
39 represents a gas-jet located in the roller 37, which may be supplied by a
pipe 40.
41 represents a roller, on which the material travels in passing through the
machine, and which acts as a support to the material beneath the burnishing-roll.
42 represents a portion of the material after it has been acted upon by the
impression-roll or die, and 43 represents the same after it has been acted upon by
the planer and burnishing-roll.
The operation is as follows:-
The wood is first passed under the heated die or impression roll 26, which may
have any desired design thereon, the die of course embossing the wood to a greater
or less degree, according to the depth of the design in the die and the pressure
placed upon the die. For instance, if it is desired, to have an impression with
certain parts of the same of a darker shade than other parts, the design on the die
is made of greater or less prominence, so that when the impression is made in the
wood the portion that is to be the darkest will be the deepest, the heat of course
making the wood dark. After the wood has passed beneath the die, it then passes
beneath the planer, which reduces the raised or embossed portions of the wood
down to a comparatively smooth surface, and thus producing a design or figure in
dark and light wood, wherein the shadows and other portions intended to be dark
are the depressed portions and the high lights and portions intended to be white or
of a light colour are those portions which were more or less elevated and which
were shaved off by the planer, thus removing their charred or dark surfaces and
exposing the natural or light colour of the wood. It will of course be understood
that gradation of shade or the blending of the lights and shadows is attained and
governed by the extent to which certain portions are depressed, the darkest portions
being deepest while the medium tints are not so deep and the highest lights are left
above the general level. Thus it will be seen that the planer will entirely remove
the discoloration from the prominent portions, while it only reaches and removes
the outer surface of the discoloration of the intermediate elevations, thus blending the
high lights with the deep shadows in the lower depressions into which latter the
planer does not extend at all. The planer, however, while it is effective in pro-
ducing the proper lights and shades and in reducing to a considerable extent the
prominent or elevated portions, yet it cannot, for reasons obvious, make the whole
surface of the design perfectly smooth and flat and on a level with the background.

page_text: Hence it is necessary for this reason and for the further purpose of producing a
highly polished surface to pass the board beneath a heated burnishing-roller 37,
which being driven at a higher rate of speed than the embossing die simultaneously
smooths out the elevations so as to reduce them to the level of the deepest
depressions and burnishes or polishes the whole surface, producing a very artistic
effect, and one which closely resembles hand painting.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me
by my foreign correspondents, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. The method of embellishing wood or other suitable material, which consists in
embossing the same with a heated die, planing off the surface of the material so as
to remove the discoloration from the more prominent portions, and finally smoothing
out the remaining elevations so as to reduce them to the level of the depressions,
but without cutting away any of the discoloured surfaces, substantially as set forth.
2. The method of embellishing wood or other suitable material, which consists in
embossing the same with a heated die, planing off the surface of the material so as
to remove the discoloration from the more prominent portions, and finally rubbing
the surface under the influence of the heat until the remaining elevations are
reduced to the level of the depressions and the whole surface is burnished, substan-
tially as set forth.
3. The method of embellishing wood or the like, which consists in first passing
the material under a heated die and forming a design in cameo therein, which is
made darker than the other parts of the wood under the influence of the heat, then
cutting away the raised portions of the wood, leaving the reduced parts lighter, and
finally passing the wood under the heated burnisher, substantially as set forth.
4. The herein described arrangement of parts forming the improved apparatus
for embossing or embellishing wood or other suitable material substantially as set
forth.
Dated this 26th day of February 1891.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.