A Gauge for use when Cutting Tongued and Grooved Boards, Wooden Mouldings, and the like.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Nov., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 30th Mar., 1893-Accepted, 6th May, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Gauge for use when Cutting Tongued and Grooved Boards,
Wooden Mouldings, and the like.
I, THOMAS ARMITAGE BENNETT, of the firm of J. M. Bennett and Sons, of
Ardwick, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Timber Merchants, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention, which has been communicated to me from
abroad by Charles Louis Goehring, of Allegheny, Pennsylvania, one of the
United States of America, Doctor of Medicine, to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a gauge or templet for use when cutting tongued and
grooved boards wooden mouldings and the like, and the chief object of the invention
is to furnish a ready and reliable mode of cutting the tongues and grooves etc.,
accurately and to a standard size.
The gauge is made of metal or other suitable material, and of any convenient
form; for instance the gauge may be a triangular templet having formed upon one
side a raised tongue, upon another side a recessed groove and upon the third side
there may or may not be a recess of a given length, or recesses of different lengths,
whereby standard widths etc., of boards, may be gauged. The tongue on the
templet is of any desired standard width and depth and each groove on the boards
if accurately cut should exactly fit over it, and similarly the groove on the templet
is of corresponding size and will exactly fit over every accurately cut tongue on
the boards. The standard tongue and groove on the templet may be cut nearer
one edge than the other or equidistant between the edges, and the latter instead of
being triangular may be rectangular or of any other suitable form.
Dated this 9th day of November 1892
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Gauge for use when Cutting Tongued and Grooved Boards,
Wooden Mouldings, and the like.
I, THOMAS ARMITAGE BENNETT, of the firm of J. M. Bennett and Sons, of
Ardwick, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Timber Merchants, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention, which has been communicated to me from
abroad by Charles Louis Goehring, of Allegheny, Pennsylvania, one of the
United States of America, Doctor of Medicine, 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 gauge or templet for use when cutting tongued and
grooved boards wooden mouldings and the like, and the chief object of the invention
is to furnish a ready and reliable mode of cutting the tongues and grooves etc.,
accurately and to a standard size.
The gauge is made of metal or other suitable material, and of any convenient
form; for instance the gauge may be a triangular templet having formed upon one
side a raised tongue, upon another side a recessed groove and upon the third side
there may or may not be a recess of a given length, or recesses of different lengths
whereby standard widths etc. of boards may be gauged.
And in order that this invention may be fully understood and readily carried
into effect I will describe the accompanying sheet of drawings reference being had
to the figures and letters marked thereon.

page_text: Figure 1 is a side elevation of a gauge or templet made according to the
invention and Figs. 2 and 3 are cross sections taken respectively on the planes of
the lines XX and Z Z, Fig. 1.
Figures 4 and 5 are side and end elevations respectively of an alternative form of
the gauge.
In the triangular form of gauge illustrated by Figs. 1, 2 and 3, the raised
tongue 4 is formed upon the first side 1, the recessed groove 5 is formed upon the
second side 2, and upon the third side 3 are recesses of different lengths for gauging
standard widths etc. of boards.
The tongue 4 on the templet is of any desired standard width and depth and
each groove on the boards if accurately cut should exactly fit over it, and similarly
the groove on the templet is of corresponding size, and will exactly fit over
accurately cut tongues on the boards.
In the rectangular form of gauge or templet illustrated by Figs. 4 and 5 the
standard tongue 4 and groove 5 on the templet may be cut nearer one edge than
the other as shown or may be equidistant between the edges.
This gauge or templet may be of any suitable shape other than those herein
shown and described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A gauge or templet having upon one side a raised tongue and upon another
side a recessed groove substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.
2. A gauge or templet having upon one side a raised tongue upon another side a
recessed groove and upon a third side a recess or recesses substantially as and for
the purposes herein set forth.
3. A gauge or templet constructed substantially in either of the forms herein
described and shown for the purposes specified.
Dated this 29th day of March 1893.
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for Applicant.