A METHOD OF, AND MACHINERY POR MANUFACTURING A CERTAIN DESCRIPTION OF WOODEN BOXES, CALLED CHIP BOXES OR PILL BOXES, OF ALL THE VARIOUS SIZES AND SHAPES HITHERTO MADE, WHICH MACHINERY IS ALSO APPLICABLE TO OTHER USEFUL PURPOSES
Year: 1809

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES.
GODDARD, of Newman Street, in the Parish of Saint Marylebone, in the
County of Middlesex, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-third day of January, in
the forty-ninth year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said James
Goddard, my exors, admors, and assigns, His especial licence that I, the said
James Goddard, my exors, admors, and assigns, should and lawfully might,.
during the term of years therein mentioned, make, use, exercise, and vend,.
within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention
of "A METHOD OF, AND MACHINERY POR MANUFACTURING A CERTAIN DESCRIPTION
OF WOODEN BOXES, CALLED CHIP BOXES OR PILL BOXES, OF ALL THE VARIOUS SIZES
AND SHAPES HITHERTO MADE, WHICH MACHINERY IS ALSO APPLICABLE TO OTHER
USEFUL PURPOSES;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso,
obliging me, the said James Goddard, by an instrument in writing under my
hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled
in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar month after

page_text: the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, relation
being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Goddard, do hereby declare
that the nature of my said Invention, and the names in which the same is
to be performed, are particularly described and ascertained as follows, that is
to say:-
In the Drawings hereunto annexed; Figure 1st represents a side view or
section of machinery for cutting wood into chips, veneers, or thin plates or
boards, for the purpose of making boxes, or for other uses. Figure 2ud repre-
sents another or opposite side view or section of the machinery. Figure 3d
represents an end view or section of the same; and Figure 4th represents a
vertical view or section of the nature of a plan of the same. And in the said
Drawing, as well as in Figures 5 and 6, the same letters of the alphabet aro
used to denote the same things. A, B, C, D, represents a strong frame of
wood or other fit materials; E, F, Figures 3 and 5, is a moveable piece,
called the carriage, which is moved very steadily along grooves in the frame,
which for strength and precision are, in preference, made of metal; and the
said carriage carries along the knife or cutter II, seen endwise in Figure 3 and
sidewise in Figure 6, and the saw knife is made of plate steel, having the edge
thereof bevelled or ground only on the side of the face farthest from the wood
intended to be cut, and the line of the said edge is sloped or inclined to the'
line in which it is moved by the carriage (while cutting) in an angle of about
thirty degrees; or, in other words, the angle of slope in cutting is such that the
length of the said knife, in proportion to the breadth thereof, is as six to one;
but I do at the same time declare, that though, from experience, I do prefer the
said angle as the most useful, it is nevertheless practicable to cut the said chips,
veneers, thin plates, or boards very well, with other angles of inclination consider-
ably different from that which is hero mentioned, and that the said angles may
be easily found by trial. And upon the rail or picce G, G, G, is fixed a platform
(by preference of metal) for supporting the wood intended to be cut, and in the
said platform a slit or groove is made, wherein the lower part of the said knife
or point thereof moves, and is steadily supported, so as to prevent any side.
motion or shake in the same. I, represents a gage or cutter, fastened also to
the said carriage, and acting crosswise with relation to the knife II, so that the
gage I cuts a line in the face of the wood, which is afterwards shaved off by HI,
and the shaving is by this means made into two slips or pieces of such width:
as may be required. And I do make the cutting part of the said gage moveable
and adjustable, in order to vary the breadth of the said shavings. And I do,

page_text: as. occasion may require, make use of more than one of such cutting parts, in
order to obtain as many of the said shavings as may be needful or required..
R, S, T, shows the apparatus, for drawing the carriage along, by means of a
chain or strap fixed thereto, and for moving the same back to its first
position. The Drawings are sufficiently clear, without farther explanation, and
the said method of giving motion to the carriage and cutter may be varied
by the use of a strait rack, or by other means well known to workmen in
mechanicks. K represents a piece of wood applied upon the platform in order
to be cut or shaved, and bearing endwise against an upright roller L. The said
piece of wood is held firmly upon the said platform by two screws Q, Q, (or by
wedges, small pieces, or other fit pieces proper for this or the like purpose,)
and the screws M, M, M, M, support the same behind by the nuts and con-
necting pieces belonging thereto. O and O shews two trains, each consisting
of a leading wheel and three equal wheels, the two extreme or exterior of the
latter of which are fixed upon the heads or ends of the pair of screws, as repre-
sented in the Drawing, and the leading wheels are moved, when needful, by
the endless screws P, P, so that whenever the handle is turned, all the screws
M; M, M, M, are made to revolve equally and alike. And further, I do
declare that the manner of making or using the said machinery is as follows:-
(1.) By turning the handle X the carriage and its cutter and gage or gages
are brought to the end I of the machinery. (2.) The screws or fastening
pieces Q, Q, are discharged or raised up. (3.) The nutts N, N, and pieces
connecting the same are drawn back by turning the handle V. (4.) The
piece of wood K, being first shaped nearly of the proper size, is put into its
place, resting upon the platform upon G, G, and having its face a very little
beyond the groove. in which the cutter is made to move. (5.) The screws or
fastening pieces Q, Q are brought down to fix and confine the said piece of
wood. (6.) The bearing pieces of the nuts N, N, are made to act fairly against
the same piece. (7.) The carriage is drawn through its course or run and
O cuts off a slice or shaving.. (8.) The carriage is returned back, and the
handle V turned one or more turns or parts of turns, as may be required, duly
to press the said piece K forward in the way of the cutter. (9.) The carriage
is again drawn forward, and the cutter now takes off a shaving of uniform
thickness, and more or less stout, according to the quantity of shift or motion
5 which may have been produced by the action of the screws N, N. (10.) The
carriage is again drawn back, the shift made as before, by the screws M, M,
and a second cut is made, and proceeding in the same manner, the whole piece
may
be cut up until a thin portion only remains; and the remaining portions

page_text: of a number of pieces may, if thought fit, be glued together, and then cut into
shavings or slices of the requisite thinness, as before.
Figure 7 and 8 represent a tool for cutting out the tops and bottoms of boxes,
or for other similar uses. a, e, is a stem or arbor, of which the end A is to be
inserted in the mandrel of a lathe or other revolving piece; E is a piece carrying
several points on its face, and itself fitted upon A, C, by a cylendrical or tubelar
stem urged forward by the spring at C; F is a cross arm, adjustable through the
socket b; and g is a cutter, adjustable in a socket at the end of the said cross
arm. And in the use of the said tool, if against the face e a piece of flat wood
or chip be pressed the points will hold it fast; while e, being made to yield, the
cutter g will enter the wood, and almost instantly take out a round piece of the
size required. But I do in general make my tops and bottoms by means of a
seat and cutting punch, worked by a fly press, in the same manner as metal
in blanks are cut out for coins, buttons, and other works.
And I do cut my
pieces for making boxes into fit lengths by gages, as usual, and I do glue
them up upon cylinders or blocks, and put them to dry in frames or cells, which
require no particular description. And, lastly, I do declare that my said
machinery may be made of various forms and dimensions, and the parts thereof
may be varied, according to the general descriptions and particular clucidation
by which the nature and effect of my said Invention hath been heretofore
described and ascertained, and that the situations of the said several parts may
be respectively changed, so that the cutter shall or may act either in a level or
an horizontal line or direction, or upwards or downwards, perpendicularly or
obliquely, or with the edge thereof so placed that the face of the wood from
which the said chips, vencers, thin plates, or boards shall be cut, may be hori-
zontal, vertical, or oblique, in any manner or degree whatever which the
nature of the wood or the thinness of the chip, vencer, thin plate, or board, or
the local situation of the works and premises, or any other circumstance,
matter, or thing, may render necessary or convenient. And, moreover, that
the cutter may (if preferred) be fixed in the frame, and the wood moved regu-
larly along and against the edge thereof, so as to cut off the said chips,
veneers, thin plates, or boards, but that I do give the preference to the motion
of the cutter as herein-before first described and explained.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Goddard, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and nine.
JAMES GODDARD. (1.s.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Thirteenth day of February, in
the year of our Lord 1809, the aforesaid James Goddard came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to
the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Thirteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and nine.