IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR CUTTING OR SPLITTING WOOD FOR FUEL AND OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1843

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TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, CHARLES
CHILTON, of Gloucester Street, Curtain Road, and FREDERICK BRAITHWAITE, of
the New Road, Engineers, both in the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
power,
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Sixteenth day of March, in the sixth year" of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said
Charles Chilton and Frederick Braithwaite, Her especial licence, full"p
sole. privilege and authority, that we, the said Charles Chilton, and Frederick
Braithwaite, our exors, adiñiors, and assigns, or such others as we, the said
Charles Chilton and Frederick Braithwaite, our exors, adñiors, or assigns,
should' at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times during the term of years therein expressed, "should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed; our Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR
CUTTING OR SPLITTING WOOD FOR FUEL AND OTHER PURPOSES;" in which said
Letters Patent is contained a proviso that we, the said Charles Chilton and

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Frederick Braithwaite, or one of us, shall cause a particular description of the
nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be inrolled in Her said 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..
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, we, the said
Charles Chilton and Frederick Braithwaite, do hereby declare that the nature
of our said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed,
are fully described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof,
reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed and to the figures and
letters marked thereon, that is to say:
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
The nature of the several parts of the Drawings being written thereon it
will not be necessary to repeat them here, further than to state that A is the
broad knife, cutter, or chopper; B, B, B, any convenient number of cross
knives, cutters, or splitters; C, C, crank and fly wheel; D, pullies, one fixed,
the other loose, driven with a leather_band; E, connecting rod attached to
crank and frame, upon which the knive or cutter A is attached or screwed;
F, frame upon which is screwed the broad cross knife and the frame containing
the splitters; G, guide rods; H, frame on which the cross splitters are
placed and secured; I, outside or main framing; J, trough for feeding the
machine, the feeding of the wood blocks being regulated by hand, counter-
balance weight, or screw... In using the machine, the wood, being cut in"]
proper
lengths, is to be pushed in the trough constantly towards the knives or cutters,
the grain of the wood. being vertical, and the successive movements of the
cutters will cut off portions of wood divided into several pieces.
Having thus described the Drawings representing a machine constructed
according to the Invention, we would remark that we make no claim to any
of the parts separately, nor do we confine the Invention to the precise details
shewn, so long as the mode of combining the knives or cutters be retained
but what we claim is the mode of combining a cutter A with a series of
cutters B, as herein described, for cutting wood for the purposes of firewood
and other uses requiring wood to be similarly cut..
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Chilton, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of September, One thousand eight
hundred and forty-three.
CHA (L.B.) CHILTON..

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Sixteenth day of September, in
the year of our Lord 1843, the aforesaid Charles Chilton came before our
said Lady the Queen in Her 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 stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.