IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PLANING AND CUTTING WOOD
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel William Worssam, junior, of King's
Road, Chelsea, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PLANING AND CUTTING
WOOD."
Sealed the 17th October 1868, and dated the 20th April 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel William
Worssam at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 20th April 1868.
I, SAMUEL WILLIAM WORSSAM, junior, of King's Road, Chelsea, in the
County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PLANING AND CUTTING
Wood," to be as follows:-
The Invention has for its object. improvements in machinery or
apparatus for planing and cutting wood, and relates to the application
of means to those machines known as "trying up" and "squaring up
machines, whereby in addition to their ordinary work they are rendered

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capable, when desired, of simultaneously working on three sides of the
stuff under operation. For this purpose I mount on a suitable frame a
pair of feed rollers and a pair of vertical shafts or axes, to which
suitable cutters are fixed according to the work required. The feed
rollers and vertical shafts or axes having rotary motion given to them
from any suitable part of the machine or in any suitable manner.
feed rollers and vertical shafts or axes are with their frame capable of
trying"
being moved out of the way when the machine is used only for ".
and "squaring up" work, and of being readily brought into position for
action directly they are required; whilst the travelling bed of the machine
when not required for "trying up" or "squaring up
squaring up" work is moved
out of the way, and into position for receiving the work after it has been
operated upon by the three cutters. By these means the "trying up
or "squaring up" machine is, in addition to its ordinary work, rendered
capable of planing up floor boards, panel boards, edging, grooving,
rebating, ploughing, and tongueing, and cutting mouldings on one, two,
or three sides as required.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Samuel William Worssam in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 20th October 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE. PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
WILLIAM WORSSAM, junior, of King's Road, Chelsea, in the County of
Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of April, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
first year of Her reign, did for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Samuel William Worssam, Her special
licence that I, the said Samuel William Worssam, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Samuel William
Worssam, 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 Ire-

page_text: land, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PLANING AND CUTTING WOOD," upon
the condition. (amongst others). that I, the said Samuel William Worssam,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing 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, 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..
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NOW KNOW YE; that I, the said Samuel William Worssam, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and. in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
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The Invention has for its object improvements in machinery or
apparatus for planing and cutting wood, and relates to the application
of means. to those machines known as "trying up" and "squaring up
machines, whereby in addition to their ordinary work they are rendered.
capable when desired of simultaneously working on. three sides of the
stuff. under operation. For this purpose I mount on a suitable, frame a
pair of feed rollers and a pair of vertical, shafts or axes, to which suitable.
cutters are fixed according to the work required, the feed rollers. and
vertical shafts or axes having rotary motion given to them from any
suitable part of the machine or in any suitable manner. The feed rollers.
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and vertical shafts or axes are with. their frame capable of being moved,
out of the way when the machine is used only for trying and squaring:
up work, and of being readily brought into position for action directly.
they are required, whilst the travelling bed of the machine when not-
required for "trying up or squaring up work is moved out of the
way and into position for receiving the work after it has been operated
upon by the three cutters. By these means the "trying up" or
"squaring up" machine is in addition to its ordinary, work rendered
capable of planing up floor boards,. panel, boards,. edging, grooving,
rebating, ploughing, and tongueing, and cutting mouldings on one, two,
or three sides as required.
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And in order that my Invention may be more fully understood and
readily carried into effect I will proceed, aided by the accompanying.
Drawings, more fully to describe the same.

page_text: VESUMPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a side view, Figures 2 and 3 are end views, and Figure 4
is a plan of parts of a "trying up" or "squaring up" machine shewing
my improvements applied thereto.
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a, a, is the ordinary travelling bed of the machine,. upon which when
the machine is used as a "trying up" or "squaring up "machine the
timber is supported in the usual manner, but when it is required to work
on three sides of the stuff under operation the table a is moved out of the
way and into position for receiving the work after it has been operated
upon by the three cutters, and the means by which motion is given thereto
are thrown out of gear, the frame is then slidden into position by being
pushed along its bed c, and the wood to be operated upon is passed
between the feed rollers d, d', by which it is:fed on to the cutters e mounted
on the vertical axes e', and receiving motion by straps or bands e (shewn
in Figure 1) passing around the pulleys e² and guide pulleys e to pulleys
mounted on any suitable axis; the wood in addition to being worked by
the cutters e is also operated upon by the cutters f mounted on the
horizontal axis f, as is now usual.. The cutters e are capable of adjust-
ment to different widths of stuff by means of a screw e acting upon
one of the slides es supported by and capable of travelling on the
V guides ', as shewn, or by other suitable means. The top feed
roller di is caused to press upon the stuff under operation by means of
a weight attached to one end of the cord d', the other end. of which is
fixed to the lever d³ mounted on the axis d carrying the arms d³, in
which the feed roller is supported. And I give motion to the feed
rollers d, d¹, in the following manner :-On the shaft or axis g is
mounted a pulley g¹ receiving motion by a strap or band or gearing
from any suitable pulley or shaft. The shaft or axis g is sufficiently
long to allow of the travelling of the frame b into and out of position
for the cutters and parts carried thereby to act on the stuff, and is pro-
vided with a long key-way, by which whilst permitting of the pinion.
travelling thereon gives motion to such pinion h, which in its turn
gives motion to the toothed wheels d', d', ds, and do, and consequently
to the feed rollers d, d', on the axes of which the toothed wheels. d® and
do are mounted. .
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the mode
which I have found to answer in carrying the same into effect, I would

page_text: have it understood that I do not claim the various parts separately
considered, nor do I confine myself to the precise details herein shewn
and described, as such may be varied without departing from the peculiar
character of my Invention; but what I do claim is the combination with
a "trying up" or "squaring up" machine of cutters capable of working
on the edges of the stuff under operation, such cutters being mounted
on a frame provided with feed rollers and capable of being slidden into
and out of position in order that when desired the machine may, as
heretofore, be used as an ordinary "trying up" and "squaring up
machine, or when the extra cutters and feed rollers are brought into
position the machine may be caused to work on three sides of the stuff,
substantially as herein shewn and described.
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In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel William Worssam, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of October,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
eight.
S. WORSSAM, JUNE. (L.S.)
Witness,
FRED. HARRIS,
Patent Agent,
35, Southampton Buildings.