Improvements in Machinery for the Ornamentation of Bedstead and other Metallic Mounts, Tea Pots, and other Globular and Cylindrical Articles of like Manufacture.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 27th Dec., 1889-Accepted, 15th Feb., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery for the Ornamentation of Bedstead and
other Metallic Mounts, Tea Pots, and other Globular and
Cylindrical Articles of like Manufacture.
We FREDERICK HOSKINS of the firm of Hoskins and Sewell of Bordesley in the
City of Birmingham Bedstead Manufacturer and CHARLES HARVEY of Yew, Tree
Lane Yardley near Birmingham Manager of Works do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to machinery or means, as hereinafter described, for
ornamenting metallic shell mounts and other articles of a globular and cylindrical
figure, such as, tea and coffee pots, cream jugs, short lengths of tubing, annuluses,
and other articles.
We will describe our invention in connection with machinery, and tools for putting
ornaments upon bedstead metallic shell mounts.
Carried by, and working within upright bearings or housings of a fixed frame,
supported upon a hed, is a horizontally directed hollow spindle, collared and wormed
at its inner end, and upon which latter, the mount holder comes and screws.
The mount holder which supports and fixedly secures the mount, when the same
requires to be held and turned, consists of a radially gapped hub or short cylinder
provided with sliding segments, which grip the mount from the inside, and hold it, so
as to rotate with the spindle when the same is turned.
The segments are operated by the inner and coned end of an inner spindle, directed
up the middle of the hollow one as aforesaid.
The cone of the inner end, comes upon inner inclined sides of the segments; so
that on the drawing in, or pushing forward of the said spindle by a hand wheel or
turn, on its screwed end, causes the segments to close or open out.
Made tight upon the outer end of the hollow spindle, is a bevel wheel, which gears
with another bevel wheel upon a feed axis, and which feed axis which is directed at
right angles to the direction of the machine, carries a ratchet wheel, with the teeth
of which, a pawl carried by a rocking and slotted arm, engages.
The throw of the arm is made adjustable by a.clamping screw pin passing through'
the outer end of the connecting rod of an eccentric, mounted upon the main and
driving axis, situated at the rear of the mount carrier; so that on the rotation of the
shaft, the rocking arm is moved to and fro, and the mount holder rotated at each
forward movement to a pre-determined part of a circumference.
Mounted upon the shaft, is a pair of levers, with short and long arms, after the
manner of a pair of pliers. The fore part of the said levers constitutes jaws, which
carry the operating or impressing tools, whilst the rear part constitutes the levers for
working the jaws. These said levers are provided with knee or toggle joint arrange-
ments, which are adjusted by a slide bar, and there locked by jamb nuts.
The levers are worked by an eccentric, driven from the main shaft, although
channel or other cams may with like effect be made to take the office of an
excentric.
The adjustment means of the toggle arrangement determines the grip or throw of
the jaws.
The shaft is mounted within adjustable bearings of an upright and open frame,
carried upon the bed plate.
Thus on the main shaft being driven from any source of power, the toggle
eccentric when moving outwardly opens the jaws, and frees the tools from the mount,
being operated upon; and as the shaft gives the feed eccentric a rearward move-
ment, the pawl gives to the ratchet wheel a partial rotation, equal to a pattern, or
two or more patterns, as the case may be.

page_text: The continued movement of the shaft causes the eccentric to now move inwardly
and close the jaws upon the newly brought and plain part of the mount, which is
thereby impressed with the pattern of the upper and lower tools.
It will be understood that the feed is arranged according to the pattern to be put
upon the mount; for example, if the mount is required to be impressed with twenty-
five impressions, which represent the pattern, then the feed is arranged to advance
the mount-holder spindle to the extent of one twenty-fifth of a revolution, and by
this means, the said feed is made to divide off the circumference of the mount into
divisions, which are impressed on the halting of each rotation; so that the mount
and operating tools are alternate in their movements.
On a pattern having been put upon the mount, it is removed by relaxing the
holding segments, and sliding the mount from off its holder, and from between the
jaws; and from this, it will be understood that the lower impressing tool and end
of its carrying jaw is within the inside of the mount, while the other tool and jaw is
upon the outside of the mount.
Instead of the toggle or knee joint arrangement, the arms of the levers may be
operated by channel or other cams.
As a modification of the said machine and appliances used therewith, we arrange
the parts as follows:
The impressing tools instead of being carried by jointed levers, we arrange them
to be worked and carried by spindles or shafts, whose inner ends are connected with
slides, which are reciprocated in opposite directions by excentrics driven from a
main or other shaft or spindle.
The mount-holder consists of two opposite cone-faced or other shaped supports,
through the middle or eyes of which, the lower tool carrier is threaded; so that the
lower tool comes within the inside of the mount, which is clamped between the holder,
or holders as aforesaid.
The mount carrying holders are intermittently turned by sleeve pinions or other
gear, working and sliding within adjusting slide frames, which admit of the said
holders receding from, or approaching each other, for the removal of, or the replacing
and affixing of the mount.
The gear is driven from feed mechanism, whilst the slide frames are traversed by
screw or other gear.
Thus, the taking of the outer holder or both holders, from position, in order to
remove or place in position a mount, is effected by bed slides, operated by screw or
other gear.
The outer ends of of the tool carriers, are supported by a hooked link, which
reciprocates with the slides as aforesaid, and admits of being removed, and again
placed in position, when a mount is required to be operated upon or removed from
the holders.
The throw of the slides may be attained by screw or rack adjustments.
The putting on of pattern is effected as follows.
The mount is rotated to an extent equal to the pattern to be put on, when the tools
carried by the slides approach each other, with the metal of the shell of the mount
between them; this done, the tools now retire, and the mount given another partial
rotation, by the feed, and so on, until its circumference has been intermittently
operated upon.
The application of our invention to the ornamentation of patterning of other
articles, differs in no essential respect from its application to that of a mount as herein
described and set forth.
Dated this Twenty-third day of Feb
1000
FREDERICK HOSKINS.
CHARLES HARVEY.
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicants.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery for the Ornamentation of Bedstead and
other Metallic Mounts, Tea Pots, and other Globular and
Cylindrical Articles of like Manufacture.
We, FREDERICK HOSKINS of the firm of Hoskins & Sewell of Bordesley in the
City of Birmingham, Bedstead Manufacturer and CHARLES HARVEY of Yew Tree
Lane, Yardley near Birmingham, Manager of Works, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:—
This invention relates to machinery or means, as hereinafter described, for orna-
menting metallic shell mounts and other articles of a globular and cylindrical figure,
such as tea and coffee pots, cream jugs, short lengths of tubing, annuluses, and other
articles as hereinafter described.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings, represents in front elevation, a machine
for the ornamentation or patterning, of bedstead and other shell mounts, and other
articles of a like manufacture, constructed and arranged according to one form of our
said invention. This said view represents also in elevation the arms of a system of
levers, arranged in the form of a pair of pliers, with the fore parts or short arms of
them forming the gripping and tool carrying means.
Figure 2 represents partly in plan, and partly in horizontal section, the said
machine-In this said view, the whole of the parts of the machine, are shown arranged
to operate and co-operate one with another.
Figure 3 represents a part longitudinal vertical section of the said machine, through
the dotted lines A B figure 2, that is, the said section, is taken first through the
jaws of the tool carrying levers, and then directed through the mount, chuck, or mount
holder, and adjacent parts. The cutting away of the said parts, exemplifies how the
upper and lower tools are held and carried by the jaws of the impression levers, and
how the segments of the chuck, are forced radically to the inside of the mount to
be held.
Figure 4 represents partly in elevation, and partly in transverse vertical section, on
the dotted lines CD figure 2, the said machine. This view exemplifies how a vertical
adjustment in patterning varying sized mounts, is obtained, also how the parts holding
the chuck, are thrown out of gear; and further, how the main and principal shaft,
upon which excentrics are mounted, for the opening and closing of the jaws of the
lever, are driven by shifting gear.
Figure 5 represents a back elevation of the machine showing the driving means
and feed thereof.
Figure 6 shows a transverse vertical section of the said machine, upon the
dotted lines E F figure 2 thus exemplifying how a sliding head stock, which carries
the mount chuck, is carried by a movable and balanced bed, for equalising or counter-
acting any want of uniformity in the shape or position of the mount; that is, by
balancing the bed, through which the chuck and cognate parts are carried, the
impressing tools, are made to follow the exact figure of the mount, or to give to it a
dead impress of the pattern carried.
Figure 7 represents the lifting cam seperately, figure 8 the feed cam, and figure 9,
a transverse section enlarged through the dotted lines G. H. figure 4.
Figure 10 (Sheet 1) represents a section of the acting faces of the upper and lower
tools, gripping or impressing a mount between them. Thus the shell mount, which
is shown in transverse section, receives eight impressions, to complete the patterning
or ornamenting of its surface, although it may receive six or any other number,
according to settings out of the dividing wheel.
The saine letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in figures 1 to 10 of the
drawings :-
a are upright bearings or housings, supported upon a fixed and horizontally directed

page_text: base or frame a², directed from end to end of the machine, and supported within
the said housings, is a horizontally directed hollow spindle b, with a collar b² near its
rear end.
Working within the hollow spindle to near its rear end, is a rod 63, with a
handle at its extended and front end, and by means of which, as hereinafter
described, the driving part of the machine, is disconnected from the driven part,
on a mount requiring to be introduced upon the chuck for ornamenting as herein-
after described, or a pattened one removed, as may be desired.
Surrounding the hollow spindle, in front of the collar 2, is a lifting can c, with
a snail incline 2, formed upon its rear presented face, and upon which incline, an
extended stud d², of a semi-pinion d³, working transversely through the boss d, of a
combined toothed wheel and feed cam dª, d³.
The teeth of the semi or half pinion, engage or mesh with the teeth of a rack and
sliding bolt d, working within a radially directed hollow slot formed within the said
toothed wheel boss d.
The lower end of the said bolt, takes within a gap, cut or sunken within the
periphery of the end 6, of the spindle b, so that on the driving portion of the
machine, requiring to be disengaged from the other portion, on the introduction or
removal of a mount to or from the chuck or holder, the handle 6, which is constantly
being pulled forward by the attendant of the machine, is released, when the spring
or springs C³, interposed between a collar on the inside of the cam c, and a sleeve e²,
of a clamping device e, force or forces the said cam, which slides only rearwardly, and
thus brings the stud d², upon the reduced part c, of the snail of the excentric
part c², when on the rotation of the said wheel d', and its boss d, it causes the stud d²
to rise, and by its angular movement, turn the semi-pinion d³, and by its teeth, to
lift the rack bolt de from out of the recess within the end of the spindle b³, thereby
disconnecting the said driving or driven parts, from the other parts, and so allowing
the first named parts to run idle.
The means for again clutching or making the parts d, d, fast upon the spindle b
consists of a pin 68, on rod 63, which when drawn forwardly and the springs com-
pressed thereby, takes the said cam from out of contact with the stud d²,
which now falling, causes the semi-pinion to be turned in a reverse direction and
lower the rack clutching bolt, into the recesses of the spindle, so as to make the
whole of the parts move together.
The rear end of the spindle, turns and is supported upon a pivot or trunnion
bearing f, with a forked outer end, f2, embracing or lying within a neck f³, of a
sleeve, whose lower end, carries fast upon it, a pinion f³, which is driven from
and slides upon the feathered shaft g, whose lower end has a bevel toothed wheel g³,
receiving its motion from a driving pinion g³, of a main shaft g, having upon it,
fast and loose pulleys 98, 96, and with the extreme rear end, provided with a hand
wheel g', for adjusting jaws.
The band pulley gº,
is a driving pulley, whilst the pulley g³ is a loose one.
The main shaft g, works within bearings g bolted to the base frame a², of the
machine.
To allow of the vertical adjustment of the spindle, and the consequent raising or
lowering of the cognate parts carried by it, the sleeve f* and toothed wheel 75, have
corresponding key ways cut within them, so as to slide vertically upon the feather g°,
of the shaft g, which works with bearings a³ carried by overhead framing at, and base
framing a², respectively.
Vertical adjustment is performed, by erect and non-rotating screws h, taking
through the framing of the machine, and with their lower ends, connected to sliding
bearings, wherethrough the spindle b, and clamping device e, e, pass, whilst the
upper ends of the said screws, pass through screw boxes ³, with spur wheels h³, of
equal diameter, made fast to, and carried by them, so that by turning the hand
wheel, which has a spur wheel he upon its axis, meshing with the teeth of the
screw box spur wheels.³, the parts as aforesaid, are raised and lowered. .

page_text: Mounted and turning upon the hollow axis b, between the clamping devices e, e,
as aforesaid, is a pair of levers i, with long and short arms 3, 3, jointed and working
in manner alike unto a pair of shears.
The fore parts or short arms 3, constitute jaws, which respectively carry the upper
and lower impressing tools j. 1, whilst the long arms 3, form rocking levers for
working the jaws, and which rocking levers, are provided with toggle or knee joint
links, connected to a slide bar 5, with opposite slide blocks ¹,, upon the opposite
ends of spindles 7, 3, and which said blocks, work within races or slots k³, of an
adjustable guide k, fulcrumed at its inner end, upon the sleeve of the clamping
device e, surrounding the hollow spindle b.
The adjustment of the throw, or pinch of the jaws, or rather the tools carried by
them, is effected by lock nuts 8, taking upon the wormed slide bar ³.
The spindle, of the block i takes through the extreme end of the eccentric rod l,
of the excentrics 1, whose straps are marked ', whilst the spindle 17, of the block,
is connected, passes through and forms the joint, of the toggle links *, so that by .
loosening the lock or jamb nuts 8, and changing the position of the worm slide
bar, the pinch of the jaws of the pattern impressing levers, are adjusted. Thus,
the thickness of the metal of a shell mount may vary, and to such variation, exact
adjustment of the impressing tools is rendered necessary.
The excentrics 1, which are connected to the slide bar, are for the purpose of
opening and closing the jaws, through the intervention of the toggle links.
Thus, the rotation of the hollow spindle, upon which the excentric plates are keyed,
imparts, through, the intervention of the said excentrics, a reciprocation to the slide
bar, which works the toggle links, in and out, and so opens out and draws in the
arms of the impressing levers.
The adjustable guide and carrier k, admits of taking an angle with respect to the
framing of the machine, and mount to be operated upon as represented by the arc-
dotted lines figure 3, in order that the impressing tools may be brought upon a
back or front incline or step of the mount to be ornamented, that is to say, the
back or front of the mount, or a portion of the mount, may be disposed in varying
elevations or planes, and when this is so, the tools must be made to follow the
planes, or inclinations of the planes, in order that the impressing tools may operate
upon any part that may be required.
When say, the direction of the adjustment guide is in the direction of the dotted
lines, figure 3, the impressing appliances and their auxiliary parts, are made to take
the same inclination, and when in this position, the impressing tools admit of
operating upon a back incline, or a back contraction or step.
The adjustable guide is affixed in an adjusted position by the clamping device e,
and sleeve e, which take upon the screwed ends of the said sleeves.
The lower impressing tool 3, is fixed with the lower jaw, by a stem j³, taking into
a longitudinal hole in the said jaw, and being clamped therein, by a screw collar *,
wherethrough the stem ³ passes.
The upper impressing tool, is attachedly fitted to the acting face of the upper jaw,
alike unto a ball and socket joint, which admits of the said upper die, taking a dead
impress upon the metal between it and the lower die.
This is accomplished by making the seat of the die, hemisperical, and the stem hole,
enlarged outwardly as shown.
The mount holder and feed, consists of a head stock m, clamping screw and
handle m², barrel part m³, wherethrough a hollow feed sleeve m*, passes, and upon
whose front end a chuck n, screws, whose clamping segments n2, are opened out
by the coned nose end o², of an inside spindle o, whose front end o³ (see figure 2)
is screwed, and takes into a screwed fore part of the sleeve m³, so that by forwardly
rotating the hand wheel o, the coned end of the spindle o, forces asunder the
segments n², of the chuck and affixes the mount p, upon it.
The chuck consists essentially of a radially gapped hub, or short cylinder, within
the gaps of which, the clamping segments for the holding of the mount, work.

page_text: For releasing the mount from the chuck, turn the hand wheel o*, in the reverse
direction, when the coned end of the inner spindle, is removed from the segments
of the chuck, when the same fall inwardly within their slots, and release the
inount.
Intermittent feed of the mount is performed, by the hollow feed sleeve m*, being
intermittently rotated, through the intervention of a toothed wheel m³, made fast
upon it, and gearing with a toothed wheel q, taking upon a feathered spindle q². This
toothed wheel q, has its bush or boss. 9, provided with a key-way, wherein the
feather q, of a spindle g², takes, thus admitting of the said toothed and
spur wheel
sliding upon the said spindle, and with the head stock as aforesaid, which is moved
by hand, so that the mount carried by the chuck, which is a movable part of the
head stock, is taken to and from the impression tools, by the sliding of the said head
stock, which is mounted and slides upon, a balanced bed r, as hereinafter described
(see figure 6).
The sliding of the head stock, slides the driving wheel q, with it, as the said wheel
is carried by a bracket extension o³, of the head stock framing.
Motion to the said spur wheel q, and spindle q³, is accomplished by a spur wheel q³,
on the inner end of the latter, gearing with a like mitre wheel 98, on the axis of a
spindle 9', whose rear end carries a dividing wheels, having teeth upon its periphery,
to the number of impressions which the mount is to receive.
Engaging with the teeth of the dividing wheel, which is the feed for the mount,
is a pawl s², carried upon a rocking and slotted arms, turning loosely upon the
axis q', upon the end of which, the said dividing wheel is made tight.
Jointedly connected to the slotted arm s³, is a link t, whose inner end is jointedly
connected to a rocking and feed arm t², which is worked by a cam d³, (see figure
4 and 5) on the main and hollow spindle b, which is surrounded by the principal
parts of the machine.
The dividing wheel and its auxiliary parts are carried by a fixed headstock framing
whilst the said feed parts are brought back to their normal positions, after the cam d³,
has forced the rocking arm or lever t2, which is fulcrumed at t2 t, to the extent of a
feed, by a coiled spring *, which has become distended, by the forward movement of
the said rocking lever.
The head stock m, after adjustment, is affixed by the clamping end m of the
screw m², taking against the underside of the overhanging slot of the balanced
bed r.
The balancing of the bed, is performed by a system of parallel motion links v
jointed respectively at v², to a depending extension r², of the bed r, and fixed webs a
of the framing a².
The upper link v of the links, has an extended arm v³, and a counterpoise weight v
at its outer end. This said head stock, which carries the mount chuck, is balanced,
for the purpose of equalising any defect in setting, or any want of uniformity in the
way in which the mount presented to the operating tools, that is, the balancing
compels the metal of the mount under operation, to be presented evenly between the
acting faces of the tools.
OPERATION.
Place the mount to be patterned, upon the chuck, when the head stock is pulled
back, then turn the hand wheel of, which forces forward the spindle o, and causes its
conical nose end o³, to open out the segments n², of the chuck 'n, and thereby hold
the mount P, affixedly upon the said chuck. This done slide forward the head stock,
so as to bring the mount, as represented in figure 3, between the acting faces of the
tools carried by the jaws of the impression levers; then turn the hand wheel 97,
which turns the shaft 9, imparts the motion to the bevel wheel g³, and through it,
'communicates motion to the bevel wheel g² which being fast on the feathered shaft
turns the bevel wheel f³, and communicates motion to the hollow spindle b, through

page_text: the bevel wheel d*, at its end, when bolting clutch is in position. This rotation of
the said hollow spindle opens the impressing levers, through the excentrics 1, 11, 12,
closing the toggle links, by the pulling back of a slide bar ", which is attached to
the ends of the said two excentric rods, 12, thus admitting of adjustment.
If a mount of larger diameter, than heretofore, is to be patterned, then the hand
wheel h, is turned, which through it turns the spur wheel h, which communicate
motion to the screw boxes ³, through the wheels h, at their upper ends. This rota-
tion of the screw box, raises collectively, through the intervention of the screws h,
the whole of the mechanism and parts, carried by and threaded upon, the hollow
spindle b, thus bringing the nip of the acting faces of the tools, and the jaws, in
proper relative positions, with respect to the sides or walls of the shell of the
mount
The adjustment of the said parts, also slides the bevel pinion f³, upon the feathered
shaft g.
Having set the mount in its proper relative position, with respect to the impressing
tools, the band from the loose pulley is transferred to the driving pulley, which com-
municates motion to the shaft g, rotates the pinion g³, which in its turn, communicates
motion to the toothed wheel 92 and then to the shaft g, and from thence to the
pinion, to the wheel d*, which being rotated, through the intervention of the afor-
said gear and means, turns the hollow spindle b, and through it, the excentrics are
rotated, which gives to the excentric rods, a forward movement, and force inwardly
the slide bar , and through it the toggle links are opened out, and so also are the
long arms, of the impressing levers, which thereby closes the jaws ³, and with them
the impressing tools j,, which on coming together, impress or pattern a portion or
segment of the mount. This done, the continued rotation of the hollow spindle b,
causes the excentrics to force back the slide bar, close the toggle link, and open out
the jaws of the impressing levers, and with them the impressing tools.
The continued rotation of the spindle, for the opening of the jaws, has now brought
the cam d' against the rocking arm or lever t2, which being forced outwardly to the
extent of the throw of the said cam, imparts a forward movement to the dividing and
feed wheels s, through the pawl 82, slotted arm s³, and link t. The forward movement
of the said dividing and feed wheel, is equivalent to one sixth of the circumference of
the mount, when a mount is to receive six impressions, and when so rotated to the
extent as aforesaid, a like motion is given to the spindle q', to the bevel wheel 96, and
from it, to the bevel wheel q, of a feathered spindle q2, and through the said spindle,
to the sliding and turning spur wheel q, which gearing with the spur wheel m³, on the
outer end of the feed sleeve m, turns the said sleeve, and gives to the chuck, and
mount carried by the said chuck, a rotation, equivalent to the distance made by the
dividing wheel; then comes again the closing of the jaws, as aforesaid.
The operation of opening the jaws, and turning the mount through a pre-determined
distance, and then again closing the jaws, is performed in manner, and by the means,
as herein before described, until the dividing wheel, has made a complete rotation, or
rotations, and the mount finished.
We wish it to be understood, that the dividing wheel and feed, may make only a
portion of a revolution, or a whole revolution, or two or more revolutions, for each
rotation of the mount, which is accomplished through the intervention of speed or
reduction gear, but we also propose to have in general practice, a series of dividing
wheels corresponding to different sized mounts and the patterns to be impressed upon
them.
The removal of the finished mount is performed by throwing the driving mechanism
out of gear, and this is performed by releasing the knob 64, of the rod b³, which allows
the lifting cam c, to slide towards the collar 62, and the stud d², of the semi pinion d³,
to come upon the reduced snail part e, of the snail incline c², which on the continued
rotation of the said stud, is made to travel up the said incline and thereby lift its
crank end, and give to the semi-pinion, a partial rotation, when its teeth, engaging
with the teeth of the sliding bolt do, raises the said bolt, from engagement with the
hollow spindle, and thereby allowing the driving parts to run free, leaving the

page_text: operating parts at rest-The head stock is then slid backwards, the clamping segments
relaxed, by the removal of the nose end of the spindle, and the mount removed, as
hereinbefore described.
The impressing levers may be worked by a cam or cams, instead of toggle joints,
or links.
Figure 11 represents in side elevation, the tool portion of the machine, constructed
according to another form of our invention-In this arrangement, one of the impress-
ing levers is made to open and close in advance of the other, for the purpose of
patterning mounts or articles of small diameter, so that the upper tool, is made
practically the advancing tool, with the lower tool, a stationary one, fitting within the
inside of the mount-Or instead of the upper tool being made the advancing tool, it
may be made the stationary one, and the lower one the moveable tool-Or the tool
which goes within the inside of the mount, or the jaw carrying it, may be made to
have only a slight movement, relative to the outer jaw or outer tool.
In figure 11. a is the upright framing, carried by the base a³-i are a pair of levers,
turning loosely, as before, around the hollow spindle b, provided with accessory parts,
as previously described and represented.
k is the adjustable guide and carrier, provided with supplementary plates k', having
slots formed within them, and within which slots, which form rares or guides,
blocks,, slide, and which blocks have connected with them, the rods of the
operating excentrics, for opening and closing the impressing levers-These supple-
mentary plates (disposed on two opposite sides of guide k,) are made adjustable, and
the guides or slots k², angularly changed thereby.
Adjustment is effected by screw pins k³, taking through slots k*, so that by changing
the pins, which are carried by the plates, in respect to the slots, the inclination of the
slots of the supplementary plates, are changed, thereby varying the throw of the said
impressing levers, or making one levers advance, whilst the other remains stationary.
Figure 12 represents in transverse vertical section, the head stock and feed portion
of another form of machine, constructed according to a further improvement of
our invention. This said arrangement or modification, is for the ornamenting of a
square or angular mount or other article.
Figure 13 represents a plan of the same.
Figure 14 represents a longitudinal vertical section, on the dotted lines J K―
In this arrangement, the head stock, hollow sleeve, chuck and mount, and mount,
are made to traverse transversely in order to make the mount move across or between
the impressing tools; the arrangement for feeding or turning the planes or facets of
the mounts, being the same as heretofore referred to, in the turning of a circular
mount, although the said square mount may if necessary, be turned into position by
hand.
In figure 13, the head stock, which carries the chuck and mount, is shown removed,
in order to more clearly show the supplementary bed, upon which it is carried and
moves.
a² is the base or framing of the machine, r is a supplementary bed, supported and
carried by a reciprocating and sliding saddle b, which is moved to and fro by a
traversing screw w, working within end bracket bearings 83, and taking through a
screw box, carried by the said supplementary bed.
The saddle is carried upon a balanced bed 3, as before described, (with reference
to the first arrangement,) working through a gap in the said framing, whilst the
supplementary bed, carries the head stock m, with feed sleeve mt, and chuck and
mount and other accessory parts, as described in the said first arrangement.
Made fast upon the end of the traversing screw w, is a pinion q, which gears with
a toothed wheel m³, made fast to the dividing plate s, turned by a pawl f, mounted
upon a slotted arm s³, to which motion is communicated from a lever t, see figure 14,
by a link t.
The feed is got from off the cam d³, as in figure 4.
The far side bracket s³, of the saddle, has a hole st, of a size to receive a (adjustable)
peg a, carried by the supplementary bed r.

page_text: y is a cranked arm, sliding upon the carrying axis s³, and between which cranked
arm, and spur wheel m³, a coiled spring, is interposed, for the bringing back of the
said arm to a neutral position, on the supplementary bed, being taken back to its rear
position.
The said cranked arm y, which is adjustable to any angle, by means of a pin y³,
taking through a slot made within it, has a stud y³, which on the side. of a mount
having been patterned; or fully ornamented, it comes in the way of a hanging lifters,
(see figure 14) of the pawl s². Thus, on the forward movement of the supplementary
bed, and chuck head stock, and parts carried by it, the long stud .c, passes through
the holes, in the brackets, and forces the cranked arm y, towards the wheel m³, and
thereby takes the stud y³, within the path of the lifter se, of the pawl s², thereby lifting
the said pawl, from off the periphery, and above the notch divisions of the dividing
wheel, so that no feed is improved beyond the side or facet of a mount, until a fresh
one has been presented.
Thus, after the tools have impressed one pattern upon a side the jaws of the
impressing tools, have been opened, and the tools removed from their acting positions,
the cam d³, which is upon the hollow spindle of the operating part of the machine,
turns, and through it, moves forward the lever 2, and imparts motion to the slotted
arms, through the link t, and as the slotted arm s³, carries the pawl s², the forward
movement made by it, carries round the dividing and feed wheel; to an extent equal
to the distance that the second pattern is to be from the first.
The movement thus made by the dividing wheel, turns the toothed wheel m³, which
gears with a pinion q, and turns it and the traversing screw w, on which it is mädo
fast.
This rotation of the said screw, working within the screw box 7² brings a supple-
mentary bed, head stock m, carried by it, and the mount on the chuck, into a
forward position equal to the distance of a pattern or impress upon the face of a
mount, which is to have two or more impresses or patters-This done, the jaws of
the pattern impressing levers, are now closed and bring the tools carried by them,
together, and thereby impress a second, third, or other pattern upon the said side.
To prevent the patterning beyond a pre-determined distance upon the said side,
the sliding forward of the supplementary bed, and parts carried by it, causes the
peg, to advance and impinge upon the arm y, which being pressed forward, takes
the stud y³, over the wheel m³, and within the path of the lifting arms, of the
pawl so that on the said pawl being raised after the side of a mount or article has
been duly or completely patterned it is lifted and disengaged from the dividing and
feed wheel, by the said arm coming against the study as a stop, thus leaving the
dividing and feed wheel, inoperative.
It will be understood from the aforesaid description, that a plain surface or side of
a mount, can receive patterning impressions at equi-distances apart.
The taking back of the parts to their normal positions, after a side has been
patterned, is performed either by automatic means, or by a winch handle-taking upon
the square end w² of the traversing screw.
Instead of giving an intermittent and equi-distant movement or movements to the
mount, we may impart to the impressing tools, a like movement, and leaving: the
mount stationary.
Figure 15 represents partly in elevation, and partly in vertical section, a machine
for the ornamenting or patterning of bedstead and other mounts and articles,
according to another form of our invention.
Figure 16 is a transverse vertical section of the same.
The patterning, or the tools for the patterning, are in this arrangement, made to
reciprocate or slide to and fro within or upon guides, on motion being communicated
to the said tools from the driving shaft.
The mount which is threaded upon the lower tool, or the bar of it, is held and
fixedly secured to its carriers, by sliding and turning gear, mounted upon a feathered
shaft, of the dividing wheel.
"a is the base or framing of the machine; a upright fixed framings carried by it,

page_text: and with longitudinal gaps or openings a³, directed through them, wherein the slides of
the tool carriers, as hereinafter described, work, and are guided.
b is a lower tool bar, with tool 62 directed upwardly from. about its middle,
and with its right hand end, taking into and being secured to a tool carrier
block b³.
The other end of the said tool bar, is supported upon a shoulder d³, of a swing
arm or excentric rod d³, taking upon a cam or excentric d, carried upon the main
shaft e.
The lower tool bar at the slide side of the said machine, is supported by hanging
rods ff, connected at their upper ends, to an underseated cross-head f2, which rests
upon cams g, on the main driving shaft e; so that the said shaft on rotating,
raises and lowers the lower impressing tool to a distance equal to the throw of the
said cams.
c is an upper tool bar, with tools e³, whose acting face is presented to the face
of the lower tool-and which tool bar is supported by the sliding block c³ and d³
respectively.
Disposed between cams i, i, upon the main driving shaft, and the upper tool carrier,
are (adjustable) rods h, with bearing faces or ends h² 3, at their upper and lower
ends; so that on the rotation of the said shaft, the said rods are impressed down-
wardly and with them, the upper tool bar and tool.
The bearings or brackets, connected to the cross head portion a*, of the machine
framing, are adjustable, for the purpose of raising or lowering the impressing tools,
to suit a large or small sized mount requiring to be ornamented.
k, is a shell mount, strung upon the lower tool, and its bar, I are mount carriers,
with coned inside presented faces or ends, 12, for the tightly gripping of a mount, on
the two said carriers, being brought up into their holding positions.
These carriers are carried within shifting or sliding bearings m, of upright
brackets m², the mount carriers also carry spur wheels m³, which respectively gear
with spur pinions n, carried by bosses n², working within bearings m³, of the said
shifting and upright brackets m².
o is a dividing wheel shaft, with a feather o² on it, which takes into corresponding
key-ways, made through the eyes of the bosses n², and by which, the wheels admit of
sliding on the shaft, and rotating with it.
The end of the shaft has made fast upon it, the dividing and feed wheel p.
Interposed between the tool rods, or the blocks of them, is a coiled spring q, for
making the tools recede from each other, after each tool impress. The brackets m²
dovetail the feet n which slides in dovetail bed a³ sunken within the framing a.
OPERATION.
To set the mount, open out the carriers, and clamping devices, then thread the
mount upon the lower tool, and tool, this done, then close the carriers upon the
ends of the said mount, thereby clamping it in position; motion now being com-
municated to the feathered shaft o, by means of the dividing plate, the said mount,
when the tools are apart, is intermittently rotated, and at the halting of each
rotation, the tools are made to approach each other, by the rotation of the shaft
and thereby impress the pattern of the impressing tools upon the walls of the mount.
The parts which advanced, now retire, and allow the tools to be seperated by
the expansion of the spring or springs, interposed between them, which thus allows
the feed to make another equi-distant rotation.
e,
The left hand end of the machine is left open, which the swinging rod of the arm
or excentric d, is mounted so as to turn aside in order to facilitate the putting on, and
removal of the mount to be operated upon, and when operated upon.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
First
Working the impressing tools of machinery as hereinbefore described, for

page_text: the ornamenting or patterning of shell mounts, and other articles as aforesaid by means
of a pair of levers i, operated by toggle or knee joints, or by a cam or cams, sub-
stantially as described and set forth.
Secondly-Mounting the dies, within the jaws of the impressing levers, as in the
preceeding claim, by means substantially as described and set forth in figure 3.
Thirdly-The combination with a pair of impressing levers i, 12, 13, of toggle
links, as set forth.
Fourthly Adjusting the angle or position, at which the impressing tools shall
come upon a mount or article to be ornamented by adjustable guides and carriers k,
substantially as, and for the purpose, as described and set forth.
Fifthly The combination with the pattern impressing levers, of an excentric or
excentrics 1, adjustable guide and carrier k, toggle links, and slide bar &³, and its
accessory parts, substantially as described and set forth.
Sixthly Adjusting vertically the pattern impressing levers, with respect to the
walls of the shell of a mount or article, by means, substantially, as described and set
forth.
Seventhly-Mounting the adjustable guide and carrier or carriers k, upon clamping
devices, which secure and fix the said guide and carrier in position, substantially as
set forth.
Eighthly-Holding the mount or article to be operated upon in position, and
turning the same, by means of a chuck, with radiating segments, and opening out rod,
substantially as set forth.
Ninthly Carrying the mount chuck, upon a feed sleeve m*, which has imparted
to it, an intermittent and pre-determined portion of a rotation, substantially as
described and set forth.
Tenthly Holding, carrying, and feeding the circumference of the mount or article
intermittently to the impressing tools, by means substantially as described and set
forth.
Eleventhly Balancing and adjusting the head stock of the feed mechanism, or
tools of the feed mechanism, by means substantially as described and set forth in
figure 6.
Twelfthly:-Throwing the driving part of the machinery, as hereinbefore described,
into and out of gear with the operating parts, by means c, c³, c, d, d³, d³, d³, arranged
and operated substantially as described and set forth.
Thirteenthly-Making the connection between the driving pinions f³, and the
driven wheel d, and hollow spindle d, by sleeve f, f³, f2, and pivot or trunnion f
arranged and working, substantially as described and set forth in figures 2 and 4.
Fourteenthly.:-The construction and arrangement of the parts of the driving
mechanism, for communicating motion to the impressing tools, substantially as set
forth in figure 2.
Fifteenthly Dividing off, or determining the positions for patterning a mount,
by the impressing tools, by means of a dividing plate, substantially as set forth in
figures 1 and 2.
Sixteenthly-The combination with a dividing plate, of cam d³, lever d³, link t,
slotted arm and pawl s³, 83, substantially as set forth.
Seventeenthly-Communicating motion from the dividing and feed wheel, by
mechanism and gear, substantially as described and set forth.
Eighteenthly-The construction and arrangement of the parts of mechanism for
working the impressing levers, for the patterning of a mount, or other article,
substantially as described and set forth in figure 1 to 6.
Nineteenthly:-The general construction, arrangement, and combination of the
parts of machinery and mechanism for feeding, substantially as herein described, as
set forth in figure 1 to 5.
Twentiethly-The means for changing the throw, or producing a differential
movement of the jaws of the impressing levers, as described and set forth in
figure 11.

page_text: Twenty-first-The means as set forth for feeding horizontally the shell, mount, or
other article, before or between the impressing tools, as described and set forth in
figures 12, 13, and 14.
Twenty-second :-The carrying of the head stock, and its cognate parts with mount
to be operated upon, upon a supplementary bed, which is itself carried upon a
reciprocating saddle, connected to and carried upon a balanced or other bed,
substantially as set forth.
Twenty-third :-The combination with the feed mechanism and dividing plate, of a
traversing screw, for the intermittent feeding forward of the mount to be operated
upon, as set forth in figures 12, 13, and 14.
Twenty-fourth-The means herein described and set forth, for preventing a side
or facet of a mount, or article, being patterned beyond a predetermined point.
Twenty-fifth-The general construction and arrangement of the parts of mechanism
as herein described, for the purpose, substantially as set forth in figures 12,-13,
and 14.
Twenty-sixth :-Mounting, arranging and working the tools or dies, which recede
from and approach each other, by acting cams, excentrics, or the like, substantially
as described and set forth in figures 15 and 16.
Twenty-seventh-Supporting the operating tools, or their carrying bars, at one
side of the machine, by a swinging or hanging bar or rod, in connection with a cam
or excentric, whereby a mount or article is readily introduced or removed from the
said tools, substantially as set forth in figures 15 and 16.
Twenty-eighth-The means herein described and set forth, for supporting and
clamping the mount or article, during the time the same is intermittently rotated, and
operated upon by the tools, as set forth in figure 15 and 16.
LastlyThe general construction and arrangement of the parts of mechanism for
impressing patterns upon mounts or other shell articles, as herein described and set
forth in figures 15 and 16.
D
FREDERICK HOSKINS.
CHARLES HARVEY..
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicants..
FREDERICK HOSKINS.
CHARLES HARVEY..
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicants..