IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTING CYLINDRICAL AND OTHER SURFACES OF WOOD AND OTHER MATERIAL
Year: 1848

page_text: GILLOTT and JOHN MORRISON, of Birmingham, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-eighth day of
September, One thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, in the eleventh year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto us, the said Joseph Gillott and John Morrison, our exors, adiñors,
and assigns, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority,
that we, the said Joseph Gillott and John Morrison, our exors, adñors, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said Joseph Gillott and John Morrison,
our exors, admors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times during the term of years therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, our Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTING CYLINDRICAL AND OTHER SURFACES OF WOOD
AND OTHER MATERIAL;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso
that we, the said Joseph Gillott and John Morrison, or one of us, should
cause a particular description of the nature of our said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing
under our hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us, to be

page_text: inrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said in part recited
Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto bad, will
more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, we, the said
Joseph Gillott and John Morrison, do hereby declare that the nature of
our said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed,
are fully described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof,
reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the figures and
letters marked thereon, that is to say:-
It has heretofore been the practise in ornamenting cylinders of wood such
as are employed for penholders and other purposes, and also in ornamenting
the surfaces of tubes, to pass them through dies or plates so formed as to
produce lines on such cylindrical surfaces parallel with the central axis
of the articles so operated on, such lines not being formed by removing
part of the wood or metal surface, but simply by compressing or embossing
the surface. In this mode so before employed of producing lines, the die or
plate remains stationary, and the wood or tube passes directly through the die
or plate without being caused to rotate. We mention this means of embossing
or ornamenting cylindrical surfaces of wood and other material in order that
our Invention may be the more readily understood. And we would state that
according to our Invention the dies or plates employed are arranged to rotate
or partially rotate, and the article of wood or other material when working
according to our Invention is either held from rotating or else rotates, and the
rotation may be only partial or complete, and varied from time to time as
the article proceeds through the die or plate, by which varied ornamental
effects of embossing may be obtained on the exterior surfaces of cylinders of
wood or other material, or the articles of wood or other material may, in place
of being cylindrical, be composed of several surfaces, and only be approaching
a cylindrical form.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shews a plan, Figure 2 a side elevation, and Figure 3 a longi
tudinal section of a machine arranged suitable for carrying out our Invention.
a is the fixed bed plate of the machine. b is a sliding plate having a toothed
rack formed on its upper surface; this plate slides freely in a dovetail groove
in the bed plate, and motion is communicated to the sliding plate 6 by the cog
wheel and handle c. The apparatus shewn in the machine is for producing
a partial movement of rotation to the die or plate d, which is shown separately

page_text: at Figure 4, such die or plate being placed in the collar or holder e, which has
a partial rotary movement given to it at intervals according to the nature of
template fused. The one shewn in the Drawing consists of regular rises and
falls, and produces on the surface of the article passed through the die or
plate a series of embossed lines in regular waves; but if the template be
varied, the effect may be varied even with the same die or plate, and the
grooves or flutes cut through the dies or plates may be varied. 9 is a sliding
bar in bearings at h, which is connected to the collar or holder e, and this bar
is connected to the lever i, which moves on an axis at j, there being two
studs k, k, which as the template moves back are acted on so as to cause the
lever to move, and consequently the bar, 9 and the holder e, the die or plate
holder making a partial rotation. I is the forcer which is made rough at its
end to offer friction, with a view to prevent the cylinder of wood or other
material turning as it is driven through the die. When it is desired that the
ornamental should pass round and produce helical embossing marks on the
surface, then I employ dies or plates such as are shewn at Figure 5, and
the holder or collar employed is such as is shewn at Figure 6, the dies or plates
having free motion, and in this case the grooves or flutes through the dies or
plates are to incline to the axis in the manner of a screw tool, but so formed
as only to produce embossing or pressure marks and not cuts; the forcer / in
this case being hollow, as shewn at Figure 7, so that the cylinder of wood
or other material may turn, which it would do should the die or plate stick,
the oblique cutting of the grooves through the die either causing the die or
the material to rotate. When it is desired to form the ornamental embossing
lines in opposite directions, we employ two dies, as seen in the holder at
Figure 8, the grooves through the two dies being cut in opposite directions,
so that when the cylinder of wood or other material is forced through the dies
the two dies will move in opposite directions, and the ornamental lines will
be in opposite directions and cross each other; and these lines may be all
similar one to the other, or varied in depth and width, so as to produce very
varied effects of embossing on the surfaces forced through.
In the above description we have spoken only of forcing the articles of wood
or other material, such as penholders, pencils, and others, but in place of forcing
the same through, where desired they may be drawn through by reducing one
end so as to pass it through the dies, and then by holding such end to draw it
through by suitable apparatus; and in applying the Invention to ornamenting
metal tubes it is better to draw them through the dies or plates, and if desired
the dies or plates may be moved round by cog wheels or other convenient
means.

page_text: Having thus described the nature of our Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, we would state that we do not confine
ourselves to the details so long as the peculiar character of the Invention be
retained. But what we claim is, the embossing of cylindrical or other forms
of wood and other materials by passing the same through dies or plates (with
oblique or straight grooves which rotate or partially rotate, and by causing the
article ornamented to be held or rotate on its axis in such manner that the
embossing lines shall be in helical or partially in helical directions.
In witness whereof, we, the said Joseph Gillott and John Morrison,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-third day of
March, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
forty-nine.
WEBB, Extra.
JOS" (L.S.) GILLOTT.
JOHN (L.S.) MORRISON.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-third day of March, in
the
year of our Lord 1849, the aforesaid Joseph Gillott and John Morrison
came before our said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged
the Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and
specified, in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was
stamped according to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Twenty-eighth day of March, in the year of our Lord
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hundred and forty-nine