IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOXES OR CASES, AND IN MACHINERY EMPLOYED THEREIN
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edgar Breffit, of King William Street, in the City
of London, Glass Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOXES OR CASES, AND IN MACHINERY EMPLOYED
THEREIN."
Sealed the 25th March 1862, and dated the 2nd October 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edgar Breffit at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 2nd
October 1861.
I, EDGAR BREFFIT, of King William Street, in the City of London, Glass
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOXES OR CASES, AND IN MACHINERY EMPLOYED
THEREIN," to be as follows:-
My Invention is intended chiefly to apply to the making of rough cases or
boxes, and consists in taking the wood after being sawn to the required sizes,
and drilling holes for the reception of the nails. The machinery consists of
movable adjustable metal frames and fences, upon which the wood and the
cases in their various stages of manufacture are placed, and held while being
nailed together.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Edgar Breffit in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 1st
April 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDGAR
BREFFIT, of 61, King William Street, in the City of London, send greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Second day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto him, the said Edgar Breffit, Her special licence that he, the said Edgar
Breffit, his executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as he,
the said Edgar Breffit, his 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 Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOXES OR CASES, AND IN MACHINERY
EMPLOYED THEREIN," upon the condition (amongst others) that he, the said
Edgar Breffit, his executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under his, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edgar Breffit, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
My improvements in the manufacture of boxes or cases, and in machinery
employed therein, is intended chiefly to apply to the making of rough cases or
boxes, and consists in taking the wood after having been sawn to the required
sizes, and drilling holes for the reception of the nails. The machinery consists
of moveable adjustable metal frames and fences, upon which the wood and the
cases in their various tages of manufacture are placed and held together while
being nailed.
Fig. 1 is an elevation of the machine employed for the making or putting
together the sides and ends of the cases or boxes, the ends being held between
the guides A, A, and the uprights B, B, and resting upon the adjustable
bars C, C, during the nailing of either side, and adjustable to meet the size of
the cases; the stops D, D, which slide along the guides A, A, and secured in
position by bolt and nut; the bars C, C, are capable of being raised or lowered
to any height required by means of vertical slots in the uprights B, B, and are
kept in their parallel position by means of the set screws E, E. The two sides

page_text: or uprights B, B, admit of being adjusted to any width, as seen in the plan
view (Fig. 2), by means of the slots F, F, in the bed G, and secured in position
by means of the bolts H, H.
Fig. 3 is an elevation, and Fig. 4 a plan view, of another machine I employ
for the putting together of the tops and bottoms of the cases. This machine
has three sides, I, I, I, each carrying an adjustable bar J, J, J, and working
in two upright slots K, K, as shewn in Fig. 3. The sides having been set
square to the required size, the frame of the case or box is laid upon the three
bars J, J, J, and the bottom or top is then nailed on. For the purpose of
drilling the holes for nailing the parts together after having been sawn to the
requisite sizes, I attach to the end of a driving shaft an eccentric, on which
works a crank and connecting rod, the rod terminating with a plate having a
series of points inserted on its face or under side; the rod works in a box of a
cross head attached to two uprights on a rectangular frame; at each revolution
of the eccentric the crank is carried round, and the rod drawn up; the square
of wood is then laid upon the bed of the table immediately underneath the
square plate at the end of the rod, which, on decending, pierces the slab of
wood with the necessary number of holes, and is again raised for the workman
to withdraw and replace another board to be operated on; by this part of the
Invention the position of all the nails are determined in the separate pieces
which form the box or case, the points forming piercings or drillings in the
wood, which prevents splitting, and enables a boy to do the work equal to and
with more rapidity than a practised hand by the ordinary method.
Having now described my said Invention for "Improvements in the Manu-
facture of Boxes or Cases, and in Machinery employed therein," and stated and
shewn the manner of carrying the same into practical effect, I now state that
what I claim is, the mode of constructing cases or boxes by the arrangement
of apparatus herein-before shewn, described, and stated.
In witness whereof, I, the said
and seal, this
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have hereunto set my hand
day of
in the year of our Lord
Signed and sealed in the presence of
JOSEPH STAYNER EIDMANS.
EDGAR BREFFIT. (L.S.)