IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR BORING OR PERFORATING STONE AND OTHER MATERIALS."
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine Moreau, of
No. 4, South Street, Finsbury, London, and 89, Rue de l'Echiquier,
Paris, in the Empire of France, Patent Agent, for the Invention of.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR BORING OR PERFORATING STONE AND OTHER
MATERIALS." A communication.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Peter Armand le Comte
de Fontaine Moreau at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
his Petition, on the 12th May 1855.
PETER ARMAND le Comte DE FONTAINE MOREAU, of No. 4, South Street,
Finsbury, London, and 39, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris, in the Empire of
France, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR BORING OR PERFORATING STONE AND OTHER
MATERIALS" to be as follows, that is to say:-
This Invention relates to the construction of a machine for boring or
perforating stone or other materials for the manufacture of pipes or tubes for
conducting air, gas, water for drainage, and other purposes.
The machine consists of a strong wooden frame firmly secured to a wall or
other body and the ground. The central frame or bed of the machine is

page_text: pierced with fivo or more square or round openings of sufficient size to allow
the boxes or cases containing the stone or other material to pass through.
These boxes or cases consist of pieces of wood, of a square or other suitable
shape, one sliding within the other, the inner one containing the stone or other
material to be bored, the whole of which are firmly secured together with iron
bands. They are then suspended to and rotate upon iron braces attached by
bolts to the upper framework. The bolts, by a nut screwed to their ends, can
be raised or lowered at pleasure.
Attached to the lower ends of the cases are five or more toothed wheels
gearing together. Four of the wheels are provided underneath with a wooden
cylinder working against antifriction rollers. The whole of the wheels receive
motion by means of a bevilled pinion, keyed to a first motion shaft, and gearing
into the central wheel. The drills or centre bits are stationary while in action,
& secured to the lower framework of the machine by keys, set screws for
adjusting, & other mechanical means.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine Moreau in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 12th November 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PETER
ARMAND le Comte DE FONTAINE MOREAU, of No. 4, South Street, Finsbury,
London, and 39, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris, in the Empire of France, Patent
Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the eighteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine Moreau, Her special license
that I, the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine Moreau, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others us I, the said Peter Armand le
Comte de Fontaine Moreau, 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 of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINERY FOR BORING OR PERFORATING STONE AND OTHER MATERIALS," com-

page_text: municated to me from a foreigner residing abroad, upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine
Moreau, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should par-
ticularly 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 I, the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine
Moreau, do hereby declare the nature of the 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
Drawings hereto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon,
that is to say:-
The Invention consists in the construction of an improved machine for boring
or perforating stone and other like materials for the manufacture of pipes or
tubes for conducting air, gas, and water, or for drainage, and other purposes,
and which pipes are intended as a substitute for those composed of cast iron
or earthenware.
Figure 1 shews an elevation, in partial section, of the machine; and Figure 2,
a horizontal section through A, B, of the same.
The machine consists of a strong wooden frame A, to which uprights are
suitably fixed to support an oak bed or platform B, perforated with five or
more cylindrical holes sufficiently large to allow the passage of the cases
or frames containing the stone to be perforated or bored. These square frames
C, D, E, F, and G, composed of wood, are suspended to the upper frame H by
iron bands I, J, K, to which are attached bolts, which pass through the frame
H, and are secured by nuts on the upper part, by means of which the cases
can be adjusted so as to revolve without coming in contact with the bed
frame B. The outer frames or cases have fixed to their lower part the toothed
wheels O, P, Q, R, S, which gear together. The central wheel Q is also cast
with bevelled teeth, which gear with and receive motion from a bevel pinion T,
fixed to the main shaft U, worked by steam or other suitable power. Under-
neath each of the wheels O, P, R, S, there is fixed an iron or wooden cylinder
V, V, which revolves against antifriction rollers W, W. The double cases
or frames are braced together by iron bands X, X, X. One side of each outer
case works on hinges to enable the stone to be placed in the frame. The
inner cases Y slide vertically within the outer, as represented in section,
Figure 1. The inner frames contain the stone Z to be bored. The boring
operation is accomplished by means of steel drills a, b, c, of different sizes,

page_text: which are fixed by keys d, d', d", in cast-iron guides e, f, g. These guides
have slots cast in them to allow the steel bits h, h, h", to be adjusted by
the set screws i, i, . These bits or tools are for the purpose of forming
the shoulders or joints of the pipe, one end of the latter being turned or
bored of a circular shape, so as to fit in the end or shoulder of another, which
being cemented will form an air and water tight junction.
From the above arrangement it will be seen that the weight of the stone
resting upon the drill will materially assist the boring operation, and that the
bore, being perfectly smooth and true, will offer less resistance to the flow of
liquids than ordinary pipes.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I would have it understood that what I
claim is,
First, the general arrangement and construction of machinery as herein-
before described, and referred to in the accompanying Drawings.
Second, the mode or method of forming pipes, by placing the stone or other
substance to be bored in suitable frames or cases, so that when in motion the
weight of the material rests upon fixed drills or bits, as herein-before described,
and shewn in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine
Moreau, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Ninth day of
November, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
fifty-five.