IMPROVE- MENTS IN LAYING VENEERS ON TO SURFACES, IN APPLYING THE GLUE FOR THAT
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Stickland, of No. 25, Gee Street, Saint
Luke, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN LAYING VENEERS ON TO SURFACES, IN APPLYING THE GLUE FOR THAT
Scaled the 2nd November 1863, and dated the 9th May 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Stickland at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
th May 1868.
I, JAMES STICKLAND, of No. 25, Gee Street, Saint Luke, in the County
of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for " IM-
PROVEMENTS IN LAYING VENEERS ON TO SURFACES, IN APPLYING THE GLUE FOR
THAT PURPOSE, AND IN THE APPARATUS EMPLOYED," to be as follows:-
. One part of my Invention has for its object the laying of veneers on to
surfaces in a more expeditious and effective manner than has heretofore been
employed, and consists in applying the requisite pressure successively over the
whole of the surfaces to be united, but only to small portions of the same at
one time, by passing the veneer and the wood to which it is to be united
between a pair or pairs of revolving rollers, which are caused to exert such a
pressure upon every portion of the surfaces in succession as they pass through
that all superfluous glue is effectually squeezed from between them, and they
are consequently made to adhere in the most perfect possible manner.
Another part of my Invention has for its object a more expeditious and

page_text: effective application of the glue to the surfaces to which the veneer is to be
applied, and consists in causing the wood to pass over and against two or
more circular revolving brushes one or more of which is or are partially
immersed in a bath of glue, and serves or serve to apply the same to the
surface of the wood, whilst the other or others serves or serve to remove the
superfluous glue from the wood after it has been laid on by the first-named
brush or brushes. These revolving brushes are by preference formed upon
hollow metal cylinders, into the interior of which steam is conducted for the
purpose of maintaining them at the required temperature. In some cases
I dispense with the second-named brush or brushes for removing the super-
fluous glue.
This improved manner of applying the glue may be employed in com-
bination with the before-described process of laying on the veneers, or each
process may be employed independently of the other.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said James Stickland in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
6th November 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
STICK LAND, of No. 25, Gee Street, Saint Luke, in the County of Middlesex,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-sixth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said James Stickland, Her special licence that I, the said James
Stickland, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
James Stickland, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN
LAYING VENEERS ON TO SURFACES, IN APPLYING THE GLUE FOR THAT PURPOSE,
AND IN THE APPARATUS EMPLOYED," upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said James Stickland, 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,

page_text: 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 James Stickland, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, reference being had to the accompanying Drawing and to
the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say:-
One part of my Invention has for its object the laying of veneers on to
surfaces in a more expeditious and effective manner than has heretofore been
employed, and consists in applying the requisite pressure successively over the
whole of the surfaces to be united, but only to small portions of the same at
one time, by passing the veneer and the wood to which it is to be united
between a pair or pairs of revolving rollers which are caused to exert such a
pressure upon every portion of the surfaces in succession as they pass through
that all superfluous glue is effectually squeezed from between them, and
they are consequently made to adhere in the most perfect possible manner.
On the accompanying Drawing is shown the arrangement of apparatus
which I prefer to employ in carrying this part of my Invention into
practice.
Figure 1 shows a side elevation; Figure 2 shows a front elevation, and
Figure 3 shows a plan of the same, similar letters of reference indicate similar
parts in each of the Figures.
A, A, is a framing carrying in front two rollers B, B', receiving rotary motion
in the direction of the arrows, and between which the wood moulding or other
article and the veneer to be laid upon it are made to pass; the lower roller B
revolves in fixed bearings, whilst the upper roller B is carried by a sliding
frame J, and is capable of being raised or lowered so as to adjust itself to the
thickness of the wood that is passed between it and the lower roller; they receive
their requisite motion and are made to exert the necessary pressure upon the
wood and veneer, so as to cause them to adhere firmly together, and to pass them
through the apparatus in the following manner :-Upon the same spindle with
the driving pulley C is the small spur pinion D, in gear with the spur
wheel E fixed on the axis of the lower roller B¹. This roller runs in
fixed bearings and is provided on the opposite side of the machine with a
bevil pinion F in gear with a second bevil pinion G fixed upon the spindle H.
This spindle is carried by the framing A, and is provided at the upper end with
another bevil pinion I which revolves with the spindle, but is arranged to slide
up and down upon the same. The pinion I is carried by the sliding frame J,

page_text: that carries the upper roller B, and upon the axis of the latter is fixed another
bevil pinion K in gear with the pinion I. By this arrangement the motion
imparted to the lower roller B' is communicated in the reverse direction to the
adjustable upper roller B in whatever position this latter may be. The roller B is
pressed down with the requisite force upon the wood, passing through by means
of the weighted lever L. Thus the wood and veneer being laid in proper
position, the one upon the other, and presented to the rollers B, B', are
nipped by them and are drawn through. The wood then passes between a
number of pairs of rollers M, M, M, of which the lower rollers are fixed to
the framing A, whilst the upper ones are capable of vertical adjustment as
shown, each two of the same being pressed down upon the wood and veneer,
by means of the weighted levers N, N. In some cases where more power
and pressure is required to draw the wood through the apparatus than is
afforded by the single set of the nipping rollers B, B', I arrange two or more
sets of the same, the one set placed in front of the other. In cases where it
is required to cover one or both edges of a piece of wood with veneer as well
as the face of the same, as in the case of mouldings, and when the vencer is
thin enough to admit of this being done by bending the same down, I make
the veneer of such a width as to overlap the wood, and I provide springs to
the sides of the framing A, A, in such a manner that as the wood passes into
the machine, these springs bend down the overlapping veneer and press the
same against the edge of the wood with sufficient force to make it adhere
thereto.
The driving pulley Cis made to run loose upon its spindle, and is connected
with the same by means of a clutch O, so that by throwing the latter out of
gear the apparatus is instantly stopped.
Another part of my Invention has for its object a more expeditious and
affective application of the glue to the surfaces to which the veneer is to be
applied, and consists in causing the wood to pass over and against two or more
circular revolving brushes, one or more of which is or are partially immersed in
a bath of glue, and serves or serve to apply the same to the surface of the
wood, whilst the other or others serves or serve to remove the superfluous glue
from the wood after it has been laid on by the first-named brush or brushes.
These revolving brushes are by preference formed upon hollow metal cylinders,
into the interior of which steam is conducted for the purpose of maintaining
them at the required temperature.
In some cases I dispense with the second-named brush or brushes for
emoving the superfluous glue.
This improved manner of applying the glue may be employed in com.

page_text: bination with the before-described process of laying on the veneers, or each
process may be employed independently of the other.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the best means I
am acquainted with of performing the same, I wish it to be understood that
I do not limit myself to the arrangement of apparatus for laying vencers as
herein-before described with reference to the accompanying Drawing, as the
same may be variously modified without departing from the nature of my
Invention, but what I claim is,--
Firstly, laying veneers on to surfaces by so applying the requisite pressure
by means of rollers or their equivalents, that it is exerted upon only a small
portion of the surfaces to be united at one time, the whole of the surfaces
being subjected in a progressive manner to such pressure.
Secondly, constructing apparatus for laying veneers on to surfaces in which
the veneers and surfaces are caused to pass between rollers or their equiva-
lents, that are made to exert the requisite pressure upon them as they pass
through, substantially as herein-before described with reference to the accom-
panying Drawing.
Thirdly, applying the gluo to surfaces to which veneers are to be applied
by means of revolving brushes as herein-before set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Stickland, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
JAS. STICKLAND. (L.S.)