IMPROVEMENTS IN TOOLS FOR DIVIDING WOOD INTO CYLINDERS
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Nathan Thompson, of No. 15, Abbey Gardens,
St. John's Wood, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN TOOLS FOR DIVIDING WOOD INTO CYLINDERS."
Sealed the 28th August 1866, and dated the 3rd March 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Nathan Thompson at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
3rd March 1866.
I, NATHAN THOMPSON, of No. 15, Abbey Gardens, St. John's Wood, in
the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN TOOLS FOR DIVIDING WOOD INTO CYLINDERS," to be as
follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in tools for dividing wood
into cylinders, and is applicable in cases where it is desired to divide wood
into a number of cylinders of different diameters. The tool is composed of
cylinders of thin steel fixed concentrically one within the other, there being a
space left between each of the cylinders according to the thickness of the
wooden cylinders desired to be produced. The ends of the cylinders form the
edges for dividing the wood, and these edges are made flat, that is unserrated.
The cylinders are carried by an axis with which they are concentric. In order
to divide wood in the cylinders by this tool the axis is caused to revolve, and
the wood is fed up to the ends of the steel cylinders, or the tool is moved to
the wood. The portion of wood acted on by the tool is then divided into a

page_text: number of cylinders, according to the number of steel cylinders employed.
By employing a tool of this description not only is the wood divided up into
cylinders, but the surfaces of the wooden cylinders produced are at the same
time polished or made smooth, and even a great saving of wood is also
effected.
Tools formed as above described are particularly useful in forming wooden
cylinders to be made into stoppers for bottles and other vessels as described in
the Provisional Specification of a Patent applied for by me on the 1st
January 1866 (No. 3); they are also useful for manufacturing small wooden
boxes and for other purposes.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Nathan Thompson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
1st September 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, NATHAN
THOMPSON, of No. 15, Abbey Gardens, St. John's Wood, in the County of
Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Third day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the twenty-ninth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Nathan Thompson, Her special licence that I, the said Nathan
Thompson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said Nathan Thompson, my 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 "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN TCOLS FOR DIVIDING WOOD INTO CYLINDERS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Nathan Thompson, my executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their
hands and seals, 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 immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Nathan Thompson, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be

page_text: performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in tools for dividing wood
into cylinders, and is applicable in cases where it is desired to divide wood
into a number of cylinders of different diameters. The tool is composed of
cylinders of thin steel fixed concentrically one within the other, there being
a space left between each of the cylinders according to the thickness of the
wooden cylinders desired to be produced. The ends of the cylinders form the
edges for dividing the wood, and these edges are made flat, that is unserrated.
The cylinders are carried by an axis with which they are concentric. In order
to divide wood into cylinders by this tool the axis is caused to revolve, and the
wood is fed up to the ends of the steel cylinders, or the tool is moved to the
wood. The portion of wood acted on by the tool is then divided into a
number of cylinders, according to the number of steel cylinders employed. By
employing a tool of this description not only is the wood divided up into
cylinders, but the surfaces of the wooden cylinders produced are at the same
time polished or made smooth, and even a great saving of wood is also
effected.
Tools formed as above described are particularly useful in forming wooden
cylinders to be made into stoppers for bottles and other vessels as described
in the Provisional Specification of a Patent applied for by me on the
1st January 1866 (No. 3); they are also useful for manufacturing small
wooden boxes and for other purposes.
In witness whereof, I, the said Nathan Thompson, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
NATHAN THOMPSON. (L.S.)