CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR CUTTING OR FORMING ORNAMENTAL MOULDINGS OR DEVICES IN WOOD AND OTHER MATERIALS
Year: 1839

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOB TAYLOR,
of Pendleton, in the Parish of Eccles, in the County of Lancaster, Joiner,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Nineteenth day of September, in the third year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Job Taylor, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said Job Taylor, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Job Taylor, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, should agree with, and no other, from time to time and at all
times during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, usc, exercise, and vend, within England, and Wales, and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY
OR APPARATUS FOR CUTTING OR FORMING ORNAMENTAL MOULDINGS OR DEVICES IN
WOOD AND OTHER MATERIALS;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a
proviso that I, the said Job Taylor, shall cause a particular description of the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be enrolled in Her 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
had, will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Job Taylor, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, is particularly described and
ascertained in and by the Drawings hereto annexed, and the following
explanation thereof, that is to say:
My improvements in machinery or apparatus for cutting or forming orna-
mental mouldings or devices in wood and other materials consist in a novel
arrangement and combination of mechanism, whereby all such parts or portions
of any moulding or device which consists of any part of a circle may be cut
or formed with much greater facility and dispatch than by the means now
ordinarily practised of forming such mouldings entirely by hand. The im-
proved machinery. or apparatus employed for this purpose is exceedingly
simple, and will be fully understood by reference to the Drawings attached to
these Presents, which contains several views of the mechanism marked with
figures and letters of reference, and having similar letters marked upon cor-
responding parts of the apparatus in all the Figures. Figure 1 is a front
elevation; Figure 2, a side elevation; and Figure 3, a plan or horizontal view
of an apparatus for cutting mouldings for forming the "cusps' in gothic
arches, or any similar device intended for ornamenting panel work, and which
particular design is only here introduced by way of illustration. The appa-
ratus consists of upright side standards, a, a, a bed or table b, b, for supporting
the work under operation, and brackets c, c, the extremities of which are
provided with bearings or pedestals d, d, in which the main centre spindle c, e,
revolves; the lower end of the spindle e, e, is provided with a socket for the
purpose of receiving the centering tool f, which carries the cross bar g, g,
upon this cross bar two tool sockets or carriers h, h, are mounted, capable of
adjustment by sliding thereon, containing two tools i, i, of different cutting
forms, according to the mould or pattern required. Now it will be seen that
by passing a strap around the driving pulley k, which is keyed upon the upright
spindle e, and the cutters being brought down to operate upon any work that
may be placed upon the table b, and by the rotation of the cutting tools and
the gentle depression of the tools by pressing upon the treadle connected by
the rod m and lever n to the spindle e, the cutters will take out circular pieces
in succession as the work is passed under them, and leave the "cusps" of the
arch as shewn in Figure 4, at 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, the only work remaining to be
finished by the hand being the small space 6 at the crown. Figure 4 also repre-
sents a horizontal or plane view, and Figure 5, a side elevation of a trammel
for cutting portions of larger circles in the same device in which the cutting tool
a is mounted upon a trammel bar b, and swivels to and fro by hand upon the

page_text: centre at d; this centre piece is capable of sliding in a groove in the bed or
table, for the purpose of adjusting the sweep of the curve. This apparatus
is used for removing the piece 7 in the work under operation and producing
the mould 8, the straight lines of the mould being wrought by hand as usual.
Figure 6 shews another arrangement of cutting tools for smaller work, in
which the outer cutters for the moulds are provided with a centre bearing of
wood to support them. Figure 7 is a side elevation; and Figure 8, a plan
view (reversed) of another arrangement of the cutting tools required for
performing the same operations upon stone or other hard substance, and
consists of cutting tools a, a, a, a, inserted and secured in the circular carrier
b, b, b, b, as shewn in the Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Job Taylor, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Eighteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord One
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Eighteenth day of March, in
the third year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, the said Job
Taylor came before our said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknow-
ledged the instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained
and specified, in form above written. And also the instrument aforesaid
was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute made in the fifty-fifth year
of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Third.