IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR RASPING, CUTTING, AND CHIPPING DYE- WOODS
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Galloway and John Galloway, both of
Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Engineers, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR RASPING, CUTTING, AND CHIPPING DYE-
WOODS."
Sealed the 4th November 1856, and dated the 14th May 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Galloway and
John Galloway at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 14th May 1856.
We, WILLIAM GALLOWAY and JOHN GALLOWAY, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR RASPING,
CUTTING, AND CHIPPING DYE-WOODS, to be as follows:―
The peculiar feature in our machine for the above purpose is the periphery
of the wheel or drum in which the knives, rasps, or cutters are placed, and
which is of an angular form. The dye-wood is advanced through a box or
trough upon this so-formed periphery, with its knives, cutters, or rasps, and is
consequently acted upon obliquely instead of "end on," or at right angles to
its length, whereby much-power in the operation is saved.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Galloway and John Galloway in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 5th November 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WILLIAM
GALLOWAY and JOHN GALLOWAY, both of Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Engineers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said William Galloway and John Galloway, Her special licence that we,
the said William Galloway and John Galloway, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as we, the said William Galloway and John Gal-
loway, our executors, administrators, 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 FOR RASPING, CUTTING, AND CHIPPING DYE-WOODS," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that we, the said William Galloway and John Galloway,
our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our or
their hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us or them, 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 Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and im-
mediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said William Galloway and John Galloway,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the accompanying
Drawing, and to the figures and letters marked thereon, that is to say
The peculiar feature in our machine for the above purpose is the periphery
of the wheel or drum in which the knives, rasps, or cutters are placed, and
which is of an angular form. The dye-wood is advanced through a box or
trough upon this so-formed periphery, with its knives, cutters, or rasps, and is
consequently acted upon obliquely, instead of "end on," or at right angles to
its length, whereby much power in the operation is saved.

page_text: Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing is a side view, and Figure 2 is a plan
of a machine, constructed according to our Invention. A is the wheel or
drum, which is of a double conical or angular form. The knives, rasps,
or cutters are fixed upon or in slots in this drum. They may be placed
alternately on each side of the angular groove. B is a trough, in which the
dyewood is placed. It is advanced to the wheel A by means of a sliding
plate or piston C attached to a screw D, which passes through a nut in the
centre of the toothed wheel E, which is driven by an endless screw on the
shaft F. The shaft F carries a pulley G, which is driven by a strap from a
pulley H on the axis of the drum A. The wood is thus gradually advanced
to the drum. When the plate or piston C has reached the end of its course
the endless screw is disconnected, and the screw D is drawn back by turning
a winch or handle I on the axis of the pinion J, which geers into the
wheel E. The wheel or drum A is driven by the wheel K and pinion L, or
in any other suitable manner. M is a friction clutch for throwing the machine
into or out of geer; N is the framing of the machine.
In lieu of making the drum A of a double conical form, as shewn in the
Drawing, it may be a single cone, such as would be obtained by dividing the
drum A into two equal parts by a plane at right angles to the axis.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, we wish it to be understood that what
we claim is, constructing machinery for rasping, cutting, and chipping dye-
woods with a wheel or drum, the periphery of which is of an angular form,
and in or on which the knives, rasps, or cutters are placed, as herein-before
described.
In witness whereof, we, the said William Galloway and John Galloway,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Fourth day of November,
L on of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
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Witness,
WILLIAM NEWTON,
Knott Mill Iron Works,
Manchester.
WILLIAM GALLOWAY. (L.S.)
JOHN GALLOWAY.
(L.S.)