Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Feb., 1887
Complete Left, 23rd Nov., 1887
Complete Accepted, 6th Jan., 1888
I WILLIAM KIMBERLEY Highgate Tool Works Emily Street Highgate near
Birmingham Tool manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:
This invention consists of the novel arrangement of parts hereinafter set forth
forming and constituting a plough or sash fillister.
The ordinary plough or sash fillister is usually constructed with a narrow plane
similar to a rabbet plane. This rabbet plane is pierced with two transverse holes, one
near each end. A fence piece is next provided, and on to this fence piece are fixed
two projecting arms, which are usually made of wood. These two projecting arms
pass through the transverse holes in the plane and are used for the purpose of adjust-
ing the fence at varying distances from the side of the plane. The adjustment is usually
accomplished by wooden wedges tightening against the projecting arms.
Instead of making my plough or sash fillister adjustable by means of arms in the
old style I dispense with the projecting arms entirely, and in lieu thereof to answer
the same purpose I proceed in the following manner.
At or about the centre of the plane I pierce a hole transversely and pass through
it a piece of metal, henceforward called the adjusting box, which may be of any
convenient external configuration.
a nut over
The adjusting box would project through each side of the plane and be provided
with a screw thread. It could thus be secured to the plane by rotating
the parts projecting from each side of the plane; the box is secured rigidly to the
plane in the manner hereinbefore described or by other suitable equivalent mechanical
means and the box is provided with a she screw thread. I next proceed to connect
the plain part of the plough or sash fillister to the fence piece in the following
manner.
I provide an adjusting screw which would be of substantial dimensions, and which
for an ordinary plough would be about three quarters of an inch in diameter, more or
less. Near one end of the adjusting screw provide an indentation around the
periphery of the said spindle: I leave the end of the spindle whereon is provided
the indentation plain for about one inch and a half in length more or less, that is to
say the threads of the screw would not be carried over this end of the spindle.

page_text: At or about the centre of the fence I provide a projecting bracket, this projecting
bracket is pierced with a hole corresponding with the plain end of the spindle. The
plain end of the spindle is passed into this hole. I next provide a pin hole passing
transversely through the material of the bracket surrounding the spindle. I then
pass into this pin hole a suitable lynch pin which takes into the indentation formed on
the periphery of the spindle.
The
Having now connected the fence to one end of the adjusting spindle, I revolve the
adjusting spindle through the adjusting box of the plane and thereby move the fence
towards the side of the plane. By this action the desired result is obtained, that is
to say the fence can be moved backwards and forwards from or to the side of the
plane so that the plough or sash fillister may be used in the ordinary manner.
whole of the parts would be fitted mechanically true, therefore when the tool was set
it would not be likely to move, but in order to rigidly fix it where desired I in some
cases provide a nut on each side of the plane working on the adjusting spindle, and
by means of these nuts lock the spindle in position.
I do not confine myself to this one method of locking the spindle as I can use any
other ordinary mechanical equivalent.
Dated this 23rd day of Fahru 1887
ALFRED WILLIAM TURNER,
Cobden Buildings,
Corporation Street, Birmingham,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in Plough and Sash Fillister Planes.
I WILLIAM KIMBERLEY of Highgate tool Works Emily Street, Highgate near
Birmingham in the County of Warwick Tool Manufacturer do hereby declare the
nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to he
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention consists in the utilization of an adjusting screw passing through a
plough or sash fillister, for the purpose of adjusting the fence of the plough or sash
fillister at varying distances from the side of the plane or plough.
I will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying drawings the
manner in which my improved plough or fillister is constructed and used.
Figure 1 represents a plough fitted with my improved spindle, the plane being
provided with a handle.
Figure 2 represents a plough similar to figure 1 excepting that the handle is
dispensed with.
Figure 3 represents a plough fitted with my improved spindle this plough or plane
is fitted with a side knife.
Figure 4 represents a plough similar to figure 3 excepting that the handle is
dispensed with.
Figure 5 represents a transverse section of the plough through the adjusting-spindle
and nut.
Figure 6 represents a longitudinal section of the plough through the adjusting nut,
shewing a method of locking the spindle.
Figure 7 represents a transverse section of the plough shewing a method of locking
the adjusting spindle by means of two nuts.
I
Figure 8 is a plan showing the method of connecting the locking-screw to the
locking-bar.
Figure 9 is a plan of figure 6 on the line.
Figure 10 is a transverse section of the projecting-bracket and locking-bracket.
Figure 11 is a longitudinal section of the projecting bracket and locking bracket.
In carrying out my invention I provide a plane part a a¹ a² a³ and pierce it with a
hole to receive the adjusting box 6: the adjusting box is represented of a circular
transverse section; the said box is driven tightly into the hole provided to receive it
and is by that means rigidly secured in position but I do not confine myself to making
the external surface of the adjusting box of a circular section as I can in some cases
make it of other configuration suitable for griping the internal surface of the hole
pierced in the side of the plane.
I next provide the fence c and the adjusting screw d, the back end of the adjusting
screw is provided with a groove fas shewn at figure 11, the back end is passed into the
circular hole g of the fence-bracket; the locking-bracket h is then secured in position
by means of the screw j; it will thus be apparant that the back end of the adjusting
screw will revolve in the box g and that it will be secured or locked by means of the
lip k working in the groove.
The front end of the adjusting screw is provided with a moveable thumb screw
(or its equivalent) the thumb screw is removed and the front end of the adjusting
screw passed through the adjusting-nut in the manner illustrated at figures 1. 2 3. 4,
the thumb screw is then secured tightly to the front end of the adjusting screw and
used as a 'cross-handle' to turn the said adjusting-screw.

page_text: Guide rods m are provided, which assist in preventing the plane from vibrating when
in use.
In using my improved plough or sash fillister constructed in the manner herein-
before described, the thumb screw is turned and the adjusting-screw thereby rotated
in the adjusting-screw-box or nut, the plane would slide on the guide rods to any
desired position.
In ordinary cases the length of screw bearing in the adjusting box, would prevent
the plane from moving out of the position to which it may be moved on the guide-rods
but for greater security I can by preference provide the locking arrangement shewn
at figure 7 which consists of a nut on each side of the adjusting-spindle, the nuts o o¹
being tightened against the side of the plane; in such cases I prefer to
adjusting-box through both sides of the plane as indicated at figure 7.
Figures 6-8 and 9 represent another simple method of locking the adjusting
spindle in the adjusting box when set to the desired position.
carry
the
I provide an ordinary set screw which can be formed with a thread suitable to
grip the inside surface of the opening r, pierced in the plane, or which can be screwed
into a metal box, fixed in the hole 7, the bottom end of the set screw is bored to
receive a locking bar the locking-bar s is provided with a grooved shank, taking into
the bottom end of the set screw.
Figure 8 represents a transverse section of set pin q on the line it will be observed
that the wire or pint passes through the groove u and thus allows the pin g to rotate
while the locking edge rises and falls in the slot provided at u to receive it, the
locking bar moves down through the slot u on to the root of the screwed thread
formed on the adjusting screw, thus tightening the adjusting screw in the adjusting
box.
1 do not confine myself to using wood to form the plane as 1 may in some cases
make what is technically termed a skeleton-shell-plane-out of metal; in such cases
the adjusting-splindle-box would be formed to constitute part of the skeleton-shell-
plane.
Having now particulary described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
1st. The utilization of an adjusting screw in a plough or sash fillister, working in
a threaded or screwed part of the plough or sash fillister for the purpose of regulating
the distance from the face of the cutting part to the face of the fence or guage
plate.
2nd. The combination of the grooved back end of the adjusting screw of a Plough
or sash-fillister with the fence-bracket the groove working over a flange, pin or other
projection so that the rotating of the adjusting screw will cause the fence to move
towards or from the plough or sash fillister to which it is connected.
3rd. The combination of the nuts o o' with the adjusting screw of a plough or sash
fillister for the purpose of locking the adjusting-screw in the adjusting-screw-
box.
4th. The combination of a set pin working over or inside a locking bar in con-
junction with the adjusting screw of a plough or sash fillister as illustrated, and
described in reference to figures 6-8 and 9, for the purpose of locking the adjusting
screw in the adjusting-screw-box.
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