IM- PROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR MOULDING OR CUTTING MOULDS
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Blackett Haigh; of Oldham, in the County
of Lancaster, Machine Maker, and William Bissell, of Wolverhampton,
in the County of Stafford, Iron Merchant, for the Invention of "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR MOULDING OR CUTTING MOULDS
"
Sealed the 13th April 1866, and dated the 20th October 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Blackett Haigh
and William Bissell at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 20th October 1865.
We, WILLIAM BLACKETT HAIGH, of Oldham, in the County of Lancaster,
Machine Maker, and WILLIAM BISSELL, of Wolverhampton, in the County of
Stafford, Iron Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR MOULDING OR CUTTING
MOULDS AND PLANING WOOD AND
WOOD AND OTHER SIMILAR MATERIALS," to be as
follows:-
We place an extra box behind the top revolving adze, in which can be
fixed drawers of various descriptions containing stationary knives or cutters
made to any design of work required. The said box is supported in two

page_text: upright pedestals secured to the table by bolts and set screws, and can be
attached to most machines now in use. It is provided with two ears or lugs
which slide on the pedestals, through which pass screws to enable the box to
be raised parallel or at an angle, as may be required. A recess is cast or cut
in the back of each ear, in which is placed caoutchouc or other flexible
material to allow the box to give or yield to the different natures of timber or
other material operated upon, and thus prevent the jar on the knife or cutter.
The draws can be provided with wood or metal soles made to suit all
descriptions of moulds and boards, and thus save the expense of having a
great number of drawers. By this machine the upper surface of boards and
moulds of any and every description can be finished in a superior style to
what has hitherto been done. One or more rollers can be placed in the
table to prevent friction.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Blackett Haigh and William Bissell in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 19th April 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WILLIAM
BLACKETT HAIGH, of Oldham, in the County of Lancaster, Machine Maker,
and WILLIAM BISSELL,' of Wolverhampton, in the County of Stafford, Iron
Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-ninth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
us, the said William Blackett Haigh and William Bissell, Her special
license that we, the said William Blackett Haigh and William Bissell, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said William
Blackett Haigh and William Bissell, 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 nake, 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 OR APPARATUS FOR MOULDING OR
CUTTING MOULDS AND PLANING WOOD AND OTHER SIMILAR MATERIALS," upon the
condition (amongst others) that we, the said William Blackett Haigh and
William Bissell, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing

page_text: under our, or their, or one of our or 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 we, the said William Blackett Haigh and William
Bissell, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the
Figures on the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, and to the letters of
reference marked thereon (that is to say) :-
This Invention consists in improved machinery or apparatus for smooth
planing or cutting mouldings and planing wood and other similar materials
after they have been acted upon by roughing-out tools. Behind a revolving
adze or roughing-out tool which acts on the top of the work we employ an
extra box or frame, in which we place one or more drawers of various widths
or forms containing one or more stationary planes, knives, or cutters made to
any design of work required. The said box is supported in two upright
pedestals secured to the table by bolts and set screws, and can be attached to
most machines now in use. The box is provided with two lugs or ears which
slide vertically between the pedestals, through which lugs pass screws to
enable the box to be raised parallel or at an angle, as may be required. A
recess is cast or cut in the back of each ear, in which are placed caoutchouc
or metal springs to allow the box to give or yield to the different natures of
timber or other material operated upon, and thus prevent the jar on the knife
or cutter. The drawers can be provided with wood or metal soles made to
suit all descriptions of mouldings and boards, and thus save the expense
of having a great number of drawers. By this machine the upper surface of
boards and mouldings of any and every description can be finished in a
superior style to what has hitherto been done. One or more rollers can be
placed in the table to prevent friction.
On the accompanying Sheet of Drawings Figs. 1 and 2 are front and end
elevations, and Fig. 3 a sectional plan of Fig. 1 at the line A, B, of one
arrangement of our improved cutting and planing machinery. a represents
the extra box or frame; b, a drawer within it; c, a plane or cutter placed at
an angle transversely; d, the pedestals; e, the lugs or ears which slide in the
pedestals; f, the screws for raising and lowering the box; 9, the nuts through
which the screws pass; h, the recesses in the lugs; and i, the caoutchouc or
netal springs. The shafts or plain parts of the screws f pass through the

page_text: pedestal caps and are mounted at the top with bevil wheels 1, there being
collars m for preventing the screws from rising. The bevil wheels l gear into
bevil wheels n on the shaft o, which works in bearings q and is mounted with
the hand wheel r. When both bevil wheels n are in gear with the wheels /
and the hand wheel turned the box is raised or lowered horizontally, but if one
bevil wheel n is put out of gear with its corresponding bevil wheel and the
hand wheel turned, the screw on the side where the wheels are out of gear
will be stationary and the screw on the other side be turned, and thus the
box and its contents can be adjusted and held at any angle required. The
. materials to be smooth planed are fed from the revolving adze or other
roughing-out machine to the machinery before described, and the cutting tools
mould or plane their upper surfaces in a very efficient manner.
Having now described the nature and particulars of our said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, we desire it to be under-
stood that we claim the recesses in the lugs at the sides of the box and the
caoutchouc or metal springs for preventing the jar of the knife or cutter, and
also the general arrangement of the machinery for smooth planing or cutting
the upper surfaces of mouldings and planing the upper surface of wood and
other similar materials, as all such improvements are herein described and
illustrated in the accompanying Sheet of Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Blackett Haigh, for and on
behalf of myself and the said William Bissell, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of April, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
within-named William Blackett
Haigh, in the presence of
E. J. HUGHES,
Patent Agent,
Manchester.
W. B. HAIGH. (L.S.)