IMPROVED. MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR CUTTING AND DRESSING OR PRODUCING AN EVEN SURFACE ON STONE, MARBLE, SLATE, OR OTHER SUBSTANCES, ALSO, FOR MOULDING OR SHAPING AND POLISHING SUCH SUBSTANCES.
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Archibald Neill, of Bradford, in the County of.
York, Builder and Contractor, for the Invention of "IMPROVED.
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR CUTTING AND DRESSING OR PRODUCING AN
EVEN SURFACE ON STONE, MARBLE, SLATE, OR OTHER SUBSTANCES, ALSO,
FOR MOULDING OR SHAPING AND POLISHING SUCH SUBSTANCES.
Sealed the 18th February 1870, and dated the 21st August 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Archibald Neill at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
21st August 1869.
I, ARCHIBALD NEILL, of Bradford, in the County of York, Builder
5 and Contractor, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVED MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR CUTTING AND DRESSING OR PRO-
DUCING AN EVEN SURFACE ON STONE, MARBLE, SLATE, OR OTHER SUBSTANCES, ALSO

page_text: FOR
MOULDING OR SHAPING AND POLISHING SUCH SUBSTANCES," to be as
follows:-
My Invention relates, firstly, to a novel arrangement and descripton of
machinery for cutting and dressing stone, and other substances to a
required size, and producing a smooth and regular or even surface
thereupon, for which purpose I employ a revolving wheel or face plate
with either a vertical or horizontal axis, and a cutter or cutters bolted or
otherwise fixed to the face of the wheel or face plate. The cutters may
be straight, or curved, or of other suitable form. The material to be cut
or faced is placed on a carriage, waggon, or travelling bench constructed
to pass in front of the wheel or face plate, and such carriage may be
constructed to move at a stationary height or adjustable to any desired
height as required, and further it may be so constructed as to move in
one line at a fixed distance from and parallel with the face plate, or the
line may be varied or variable both as to distance and direction from
the face plate.
Secondly. The Invention relates to the cutting or executing of circular
or straight rebating, grooving, or moulding of such substances. For
this class of work the stone, marble, or slate is fixed on the carriage or
travelling bench, and is caused to move in front of a vertical face plate
or underneath a horizontal face plate. For the production of circular
or curvilinear work the tools or cutters are fixed on the face plate at a
distance from its centre equal to the radius of the rebate, groove, or mould
to be worked thereon. Stone or other material being fixed on the
carriage or bench it is placed in position before the face plate and
lateral motion given to the carriage to press the material against the
cutters as the work proceeds. One or more cutters may be employed
in the operation. In executing straight rebating, grooving, or moulding
the cutters are fixed on the plate with their cutting edges toward the
circumference, and the material is fixed and adjusted on the carriage or
bench to a suitable position for the cutter to operate thereon; the
carriage is then moved forward parallel with the surface of the plate
and also moved laterally, pressing the stone against the cutters as the
work proceeds.
Thirdly. The Invention relates to the polishing or cleansing of stone

page_text: a rim of iron or stone at or near the circumference of the said face plate
so that it will revolve therewith. The stone or other material to be
operated upon is fixed upon the travelling bench in a similar manner
as proposed for dressing, the carriage travelling in face of the rim, sand
and water or other scouring matter being applied betwixt the rim and
the material; or this polishing may be effected by the stone being pressed
against the revolving face plate with sand and water supplied as before
stated; but for economy and other advantages I prefer to apply the rim
as explained.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Archibald Neill in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 21st February 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ARCHIBALD
NEILL, of Bradford, in the County of York, Builder and Contractor, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Archibald Neill, Her special licence
that I, the said Archibald Neill, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Archibald Neill, my executors, adminis-
trators, 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 "IMPROVED MACHINERY OR
APPARATUS FOR CUTTING AND DRESSING OR PRODUCING AN EVEN SURFACE ON
STONE, MARBLE, SLATE, OR OTHER SUBSTANCES, ALSO FOR MOULDING OR SHAPING
AND POLISHING SUCH SUBSTANCES," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Archibald Neill, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or
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,

page_text: 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 Archibald Neill, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement (that is to say) :-
My Invention relates, firstly, to a novel arrangement and description
of machinery for cutting and dressing stone and other substances to a
required size, and producing a smooth and regular or even surface
thereon, for which purpose I employ a revolving wheel or face plate
with either a vertical or horizontal axis, and a cutter or cutters bolted
or otherwise fixed to the face of the wheel or face plate. The cutters
may be straight, or curved, or of other suitable form. The material to
be cut or faced is placed on a carriage, waggon, or travelling bench,
constructed to pass in front of the wheel or face plate, and such car-
riage may be constructed to move either continuously or intermit-
tently at a stationary height or adjustable to any desirable height as
required, and further it may be so constructed as to nove in one
line at a fixed distance from and parallel with the face plate, or the
line may be varied or variable both as to distance and direction from
the face plate.
Secondly. The Invention relates to the cutting or executing of circular
or straight rebating, grooving, or moulding, of such substances. For
this class of work the stone, marble, or slate is fixed on the carriage
or travelling bench, and is caused to move in front of a vertical face plate
or underneath a horizontal face plate. For the production of circular or
curvilinear work the tools or cutters are fixed on the face plate at a
distance from its centre equal to the radius of the rebate, groove, or
mould to be worked thereon. Stone or other material being fixed on the
carriage or bench it is placed in position before the face plate, and
lateral motion given to the carriage to press the material against the
cutters as the work proceeds. One or more cutters may be employed in
the operation. In executing straight rebating, grooving, or moulding
the cutters are fixed on the plate with their cutting edges towards the
circumference, and the material is fixed and adjusted on the carriage or

page_text: bench to a suitable position for the cutters to operate thereon; the
carriage is then moved forward parallel with the surface of the plate,
and also moved laterally, pressing the stone against the cutters as the
work proceeds.
Thirdly. The Invention relates to the polishing or cleansing of stone
and other materials, and for this purpose I fix to the face of the plate
a rim of iron or stone at or near the circumference of the said face
plate so that it will revolve therewith. The stone or other material to
be operated upon is fixed upon the travelling bench in a similar manner
as proposed for dressing, the carriage travelling in face of the rim, sand
and water or other scouring matter being applied betwixt the rim and
the material; or this polishing may be effected by the stone being pressed
against the revolving face plate, with sand and water supplied as before
stated; but for economy and other advantages I prefer to apply the rim
as explained.
Having thus described the nature and particulars of this my said
Invention, I desire it to be understood that I do not confine myself to
any particular construction or arrangement of the machinery or apparatus
to be employed for the purposes herein set forth, as various modifications
may be made therein to effect the same object; but what I claim as my
Invention under the first part of the said Invention is, the combination
and arrangement of a revolving wheel or face plate carrying suitably
formed cutters mounted upon either a vertical or a horizontal axis, with
á travelling carriage, waggon, or bench capable of being adjusted to the
face plate for carrying the stone or other substance forward either
continuously or intermittently to the cutters to be cut or dressed in
manner substantially as herein described.
Under the second part of this Invention I claim the combination
and arrangement of a revolving face plate wherein the cutters are
capable of being set to any radius or distance from the centre thereof,
according to the circular or curvilinear work required to be cut, with a
travelling carriage or bench to carry the stone or other substance capable
of lateral motion being imparted to it in the manner substantially as
described.
And under the third part of the said Invention, I claim the com-
bination of a revolving wheel or face plate capable of carrying a rim of

page_text: In witness whereof, I, the said Archibald Neill, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of February, in the 5
of our Lord One thousand cight hundred and seventy.
year
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
within-named Archibald Neill in
the presence of,
WM TASKER,
Patent Agent,
Halifax & Bradford.
ARCHIBALD NEILL. (L.S.)