IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR MOULDING AND PLANING WOOD
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Wilson, Manager for Messieurs Powis,
James, and Company, of Victoria Works, Blackfriars Road, in the
County of Surrey, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY
FOR MOULDING AND PLANING WOOD."
Sealed the 12th May 1865, and dated the 17th November 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Wilson at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 17th
November 1864.
I, HENRY WILSON, Manager for Messieurs Powis, James, and Company,
of Victoria Works, Blackfriars Road, in. the County of Surrey, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY
FOR MOULDING AND PLANING WOOD," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in constructing machines for moulding and planing
wood with both the vertical and the bottom horizontal cutters carried upon a
movable bed outside the framework of the machine, while the top horizontal
cutters are carried by a shaft projecting beyond the frame and over the
movable bed; thus all four sets of cutters are outside of the frame.
My Invention also consists in combining with the arrangements above
described a variable feed arrangement; this consists of a disc wheel by
toothed gear from which the grooved rollers for advancing the wood to the
cutters are driven, and in imparting motion to this disc wheel by means of a
clothed friction pulley fitted on a shaft with a feather along which the pulley

page_text: is free to move so as to act on the disc wheel at any desired distance from the
centre. By regulating the position of the pulley so will the feed be altered;
the nearer the pulley is approached to the centre of the disc the greater will
be the speed of the feed.
My Invention further consists in the employment of the feed arrangement,
last described, to regulate the feed in machines for moulding and in machines
for planing floor boards.
And, lastly, my Invention consists in mounting the spindles or holders
which carry the vertical cutters in frames with curved slots which are capable
of being set by means of screwbolts or otherwise, so as to enable one or both
of the spindles, and consequently the cutters they carry, to work in a vertical
line, or at any required anglo therefrom.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry Wilson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
17th May 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
WILSON,. Manager for Messieurs Powis, James, and Company, of Victoria
Works, Blackfriars Road, in the 'County of Surrey, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-eighth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Henry Wilson, Her special licence that I, the said Henry Wilson, my exe-
cutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry Wilson,
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 MACHINERY FOR MOULDING
AND FLANING WOOD," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Henry
Wilson, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my,
or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascer-
tain 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Wilson, do hereby declare the
nature of my 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 bad to the Drawings hereunto annexed,
that is to say:-
My Invention consists in constructing machines for moulding and planing
wood with both the vertical and the bottom horizontal cutters carried upon a
moveable bed outside the framework of the machine while the top horizontal
cutters are carried by a shaft projecting beyond the frame and over the move-
able bed; thus all four sets of cutters are outside of the frame.
My Invention also consists in combining with the arrangements above.
described a variable feed arrangement; this consists of a disc wheel by
toothed gear from which the grooved rollers for advancing the wood to the
cutters are driven, and in imparting. motion to this disc wheel by means of a
clothed friction pulley fitted on a shaft with a feather along which the pulley
is free to move so as to act on the disc wheel at any desired distance from the
centre. By regulating the position of the pulley so will the feed be altered ;
the nearer the pulley is approached to the centre of the disc the greater will
be the speed of the feed.
My Invention further consists in the employment of the feed arrangement,
last described, to regulate the feed in machines for moulding and in machines
for planing floor boards.
And, lastly, my Invention consists in mounting the spindles or holders
which carry the vertical cutters in frames with curved slots which are capable
of being set by means of screw bolts or otherwise, so as to enable one or both
of the spindles, and consequently the cutters they carry, to work, in a vertical
line, or at any required angle therefrom.
Figure 1 is an elevation of a moulding machine constructed according to
my Invention shewing the feed gear; Figure 2 is an elevation of the opposite
side of the machine; Figure 3 is an end view of the machine; Figure 4 is a
view shewing the top and vertical cutters; and Figure 5 is a plan shewing
the table top and bottom and side cutters. Similar letters refer to similar
parts in all the Figures.
A is the framing; B is a table outside the framing; this table is free to
rise and fall to the extent of about 9 in*. more or less.. C is a projecting leg
from the bottom of the table furnished with dovetails which slide in grooves
in the frame of the machine. Up-and-down motion is imparted to the table
through the screw a working in a nut 6 fixed to the frame A; the screw is
driven by the toothed wheel c through the crank handle d, the wheel c

page_text: driving a mitre wheel e keyed on to the top of the screw. The table B
carries the bottom rollers D, D, and the revolving bottom cutter shaft and
cutters E; F is the top cutter shaft and cutters extending beyond the frame
of the machine and over the table B; the outer end of this top cutter shaft
revolves in a bearing carried by the projecting arm f. The table is formed
with an aperture to allow of the working of the vertical cutters G, G; these
cutters are carried on shafts H, H, to which pullies I, I, are keyed; the
pullies and shafts are connected to plates K, K³, themselves attached by bolts.
to plates sliding in dovetails on the table B. Curved slots 9, 9, are made in
the plates K, K', through which studs pass to allow of 'the plates K, K¹,
being placed and fixed at any inclination required in order to cause the
cutters G, G, to cut the wood on either or both sides to the angle required.
h is a screw working in a nut on the back of the outer plate K' for regulating
the position of that plate; i, i, are pressing feeds as in ordinary moulding
machines. L, L³, are the feed rollers, the speed of which regulates the
travel of the wood along the table; M is a beam with two depending legs
terminating at bottom in a point; each of these points enters a V-recess on
the top of the bearings of the feed rollers L, L¹. This beam M is free to
nave on a centre to allow of the rollers to oscillate when the wood is first fed
on to the table. N is a weighted beam pressing on the beam M; k is a
roller carried by a bracket 1, the top of which works in a box, and is con-
tinually pressed upon by a spiral or other spring; the object of this roller.is
to keep the wood in contact with the bottom cutter, and to steady it under
the action of that cutter.
I now proceed to describe the feed arrangements. O is the disc wheel;
P is a toothed pinion on the boss of the disc wheel; this pinion gears into
the toothed wheel Q, on the boss of which there is another toothed pinion R,
which drives the toothed wheel S keyed on the shaft of the feed roller Lt.
T is an intermediate pinion for driving the toothed wheel U on the shaft of the
other feed roller L; V is a pulley driven by a belt; it carries a mitre wheel W
in gear with another mitre wheel X on the shaft Y; Z is a clothed friction
pulley free to travel to and fro on a feather on the shaft Y when moved by
an arm formed at top with a nut through which the screw m passes. Оп
one end of this screw is fastened a mitre wheel n, which is geared into by
another mitre wheel o on a shaft which is moved by a hand wheel p. The
arm l¹ carries at top a pointer, not seen in the Drawing, to indicate on an
index plate q, the back of which is shewn at Figure 1, the rate at which the
wood is driven thro' the machine by the feed rollers.
In order to stop the rotation of the feed rollers, I remove the clothed

page_text: friction pulley from the feed disc, and this is effected by means of the
weighted lever r, shewn at Figure 3, where the parts are in the position they
occupy when the pulley is removed from the disc. The lever r is slotted to
allow the weight to be shifted according to requirement; the lever is cranked,
and terminates at its short arm in a loop s, which receives a pin fixed on
the bearing in which the outer end of the shaft Y works, and this bearing is
free to move in a slot in a bracket fixed to the frame of the machine.
The Drawings shew the manner in which the various parts of the machine
are driven by belts from a steam engine or other prime mover.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim as my improve-
ments in machinery for moulding and planing wood,-
First, constructing such machines with the top and bottom and vertical
cutters outside and beyond the frame of such machines.
Second, the employment in moulding machines of what I have termed a
variable feed arrangement, constructed and acting substantially in manner
herein-before described, and that whether applied to the particular moulding
machines, herein-before described, or others.
And, third, mounting the spindles or holders which carry the vertical
cutters, in manner and for the purpose herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Wilson, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of May, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-five.

page_text: In the Matter of Letters Patent granted to HENRY WILSON,
Manager for Messieurs Powis, James, and Company, of Victoria
Works, Blackfriars Road, in the County of Surrey, for "Im-
PROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR MOULDING AND PLANING WOOD,"
bearing date the 17th day of November 1864, No. 2875.
MEMORANDUM OF ALTERATION proposed to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office, pursuant to the Statutes in that case made and
provided, by Jabus Stanley James, Edward Arnold, Charles Robert
Western, and James Alston Carfrae, all of Vine Street, Lambeth,
Surrey, to whom the said Letters Patent were assigned on the
1st day of November 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JABUS
STANLEY JAMES, EDWARD ARNOLD, CHARLES ROBERT WESTERN, and
JAMES ALSTON CARFRAE, all of Vine Street, Lambeth, Surrey, send
greeting.
WHEREAS, we have been advised that the first claiming clause in the
Specification of the said Letters Patent contained in lines 18 and 14,

page_text: page 5, of the printed copy of the same, as printed by Her Majesty's
Printers, is too broad and comprehensive, and that it should be limited.
to an arrangement in which both the vertical and the bottom horizontal
cutters are carried upon a moveable bed outside the framework of the
machine, as described in the descriptive part of the said Specification,
and shown in the Drawings which accompany the same.
NOW, THEREFORE, KNOW YE, that we, the said Jabus Stanley
James, Edward Arnold, Charles Robert Western, and James Alston
Carfrae, for the reason aforesaid are desirous of altering, and do hereby
alter the said Specification by adding at the end of the said first claiming
clause the words following, that is to say, "when the said bottom and
"vertical cutters are carried upon a moveable bed as herein-before
"described and represented in the accompanying Drawings."
In witness whereof, we, the said Jabus Stanley James, Edward
Arnold, Charles Robert Western, and James Alston Carfrae,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-seventh day
of March One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.
I hereby grant my fiat giving leave to the above-named Jabus Stanley
James, Edward Arnold, Charles Robert Western, and James Alston
Carfrae, to file in the Great Seal Patent Office, with the Specification to 2
which the same relates, the above-written Memorandum of Alteration,
subject to the conditions contained in an undertaking signed by them
dated the Twentieth day of April, instant, and annexed hereto.

page_text: RELEASE OR UNDERTAKING REFERRED TO IN THE MEMORANDUM OF
ALTERATION FILED BY JABUS STANLEY JAMES, EDWARD ARNOLD,
CHARLES ROBERT WESTERN, AND JAMES ALSTON CARFRAE.
In the Matter of the Petition of JABUS STANLEY JAMES, EDWARD
ARNOLD, CHARLES ROBERT WESTERN, and JAMES ALSTON ČARFRAE,
Assignees of Letters Patent granted to HENRY WILSON, dated Seventeenth
November, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, No. 2875, for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR MOULDING AND PLANING WOOD," to file in the
Great Seal Patent Office with the Specification of the said Patent a Memo-
randum of Alteration thereto, and which Petition was referred to Her
Majesty's Attorney-General, who has decided upon granting the prayer
thereof upon condition of our giving the undertaking herein-after con-
tained: Now in consideration of the premises we hereby undertake that
no legal proceedings shall be taken by us against Allen Ransome by
reason of the use or continued use by the said Allen Ransome, or his
customers, or any of them, of any part of the Invention the subject of

page_text: the said Letters Patent in any machine already constructed or being
constructed by the said Allen Ransome, or his Firm.