IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR CUTTING AND SCORING CARDBOARD, STRAWBOARD, SCALEBOARD, AND OTHER SIMILAR SUBSTANCES FOR MAKING BOXES FOR BOOKBINDERS, AND OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Salmon, of Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Printers' Engineer, and Daniel Nickols, of the same
Place, Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY
FOR CUTTING AND SCORING CARDBOARD, STRAWBOARD, SCALEBOARD, AND OTHER
SIMILAR SUBSTANCES FOR MAKING BOXES FOR BOOKBINDERS, AND OTHER
SIMILAR PURPOSES.”
Scaled the 4th September 1874, and dated the 18th May 1874.
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Salmon and
Daniel Nickols at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 18th May 1874..
We, JAMES SALMON, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Printers' Engineer, and DANIEL NICKOLS, of the same Place, Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINERY FOR CUTTING AND SCORING CARDBOARD, STRAWBOARD, SCALEBOARD,
AND OTHER SIMILAR SUBSTANCES, FOR MAKING BOXES FOR BOOKBINDERS,. AND OTHER
SIMILAR PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
The principal object of our improved machinery is to facilitate the
making of fancy and other boxes, but it may be applied in bookbinding
and for other analagous purposes.

page_text: Our improved machinery consists of a table provided with any con-
venient number of guides, a roller to carry forward the strawboard or
other substance and a series of circular cutters the stands of which fit in
a groove and are connected by a stud to the traversing screw. The
strawboard is first cut to the size required and the guides on the table
are set to a corresponding distance apart, the cutters are also set so that
when the strawboard is fed in between them and the roller, it is carried
forward and scored to the depth required. When the strawboard has
been scored lengthwise and crosswise the angle pieces are removed, and
the four sides are bent up and surrounded by paper as usual to form the
box, the lids are formed in the same way, the pieces of strawboard are
fed in by hand or by self-acting machinery, the latter consists of
vibrating feeders which act on the lowest piece of a pile placed on the
table.
In making small boxes a large sheet of the strawboard may be cut
into horizontal strips, and the strips scored at one operation by setting
some of the cutters close to the feeding roller to cut the strawboard,
and the others further off to score it, and these strips may be cross cut
in the same way.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, a
filed by the said James Salmon and Daniel Nickols in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 18th November 1874.
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TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, wc, JAMES
SALMON, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Printers' Engineer,
and DANIEL NICKOLS, of the same Place, Engincer, send greeting.
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WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of May, in the year of.
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said James Salmon and Daniel Nickols, 3
Her special licence that we, the said James Salmon and Daniel
Nickols, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others.
as we, the said James Salmon and Daniel Nickols, our 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 3

page_text: 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 for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY
FOR CUTTING AND SCORING CARDBOARD, STRAWBOARD, SCALEBOARD, AND OTHER
SIMILAR SUBSTANCES FOR MAKING BOXES FOR BOOKBINDERS, AND OTHER SIMILAR
PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said James
Salmon and Daniel Nickols, our executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under our or their or one of our or their hands
and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of tho
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 we, the said James Salmon and Daniel Nickols,
do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement (that is to say) :-
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The principal object of our improved machinery is to facilitate the
making of fancy and other boxes, but it may be applied in bookbinding
and for other analagous purposes.
Our improved machinery consists of a table provided with any con-
venient number of guides, a roller to carry forward the strawboard or
other substance and a series of circular cutters the stands of which fit in
a groove and are connected by a stud to a traversing screw.
1. And in order that our Invention may be fully understood and readily
carried into operation we will proceed to describe the accompanying
Sheet of Drawings, reference being had to the figures and letters
marked thereon.
Fig. 1 is a sectional clevation; Fig. 2, a front view, and Fig. 3, a
>plan of our improved machinery.
a, a, are the standards supporting the table 6 which is provided with a
longitudinal V groove, and with any convenient number of guides c.
The centre guide may be a fixture, and the side guides are secured to
the table by bolts with shaped heads fitting in the longitudinal groove.
above referred to. In operating on broad sheets of cardboard or other
material the centre guide must be removed. To the inner edge of the

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table is fixed the bevel blade d, and the rule e.
The roller is sup-
ported in bearings in the standards a, and the upper surface of this.
roller is level with the top. of the table b. Above the roller fare the
circular cutters which revolve on studs fixed in the adjustable brackets:
h bolted to the stands i, one of which is shewn detached in Figs. 4, 5,
and 6. These stands fit in the groove in the rail ; which is fixed to the
standards and when the stands are set to their proper distances apart
they are held in position by the screws and handles k. To the stands i.
are also fixed the adjustable pointers which reach over the measuring
rule e.
In front of the rail j is the screw 7 which is made by preference
with
a quarter of an inch pitch, and the stands i are connected to the
screw when required by the studs m; the lower end of each stud when
pressed down fits in the screw, and the upper end fits in a tube n
screwed to the stand; there is a spring around the thin end of the stud
which spring lifts the stud out of the thread of the screw as soon as the
stand is fixed. The screw is turned round by the hand wheel this
wheel is divided on its circumference into thirty-two or other number of
parts, the pointers fixed to the end of the rail j points to the divisions
on the wheel, thereby enabling the position of the cutters to..be
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page_text: In some cases self-acting machinery may be used consisting of
vibrating feeders which act on the lowest piece of a pile placed on the
table.
In making small boxes a large sheet of the strawboard may be cut into
longitudinal strips, and the strips scored at one operation by setting
some of the cutters g close to the feeding roller f to cut the strawboard,
and the others further off to score it, and these strips may be cross cut
in the same way.
Having thus stated the nature of our Invention and described the
manner of performing the same, we wish it to be understood that
we do not intend to limit ourselves to the details given, as the same may.
be varied and that what we claim is, the general combination and
arrangements of the parts forming a machine for scoring or for cutting
and scoring strawboard and other materials, as shewn and described.
We also claim the screw in combination with the studs m for.
varying the position of the cutters g, as shewn and described.
In witness whereof, we, the said James Salmon and Daniel Nickols,
have hereto set our hands and seals, this Sixteenth day of
November, One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.
JAMES SALMON