AN IMPROVED PROCESS AND MACHINERY FOR ORNAMENTING, ENGRAVING, EMBOSSING, OR SCULPTURING WOOD OR OTHER MATERIAL
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Urbain Auguste Lanteigne, of Boulevard de
Strasbourg, No. 23, à Paris, Mechanician, for the Invention of
"AN IMPROVED PROCESS AND MACHINERY FOR ORNAMENTING, ENGRAVING,
EMBOSSING, OR SCULPTURING WOOD OR OTHER MATERIAL."
Sealed the 20th September 1872, and dated the 20th March 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Urbain Auguste
Lanteigne at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
his Petition, on the 20th March 1872.
I, URBAIN AUGUSTE LANTEIGNE, of Boulevard de Strasbourg, No. 23,
à Paris, Mechanician, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "AN IMPROVED PROCESS AND MACHINERY FOR ORNAMENTING, ENGRAVING,
EMBOSSING, OR SCULPTURING WOOD OR OTHER MATERIAL," to be as follows :-
This Invention consists in an improved process of sculpturing, emboss-
ing, or engraving wood by mechanical chasing or milling and pressure
by means of circular matrices having revolving movements; and the
embossing or sculpture is obtained without chips or waste by the simple

page_text: pressing inwards of the fibres of the wood. According to this process
the wood requires no preparation, and the driest and hardest wood give
the best results and realize the greatest perfection of work, and at the
same time the wood that has been ornamented by this process loses
none of its primitive qualities..
The framework of the machine is formed of two cheeks or side frames,
held firmly at their proper distance apart by cross bars and bolts, and to
the checks is fixed a table level with a supporting cylinder below the
matrices. In the table there are groves in which are placed screws
provided with nuts and ears for regulating by means of movement bars
the space between the edges the pieces of wood, and which permit them
to be directed under the matrices without supervision.
In grooves in the side frames there are sliding blocks forming bearings
for the shift, the supporting cylinder, and also for the ends of the shaft
to which the matrices are adjusted and fixed; for giving the required
vertical separation of the shafts there are screws, which by being turned
in one direction or the other bring the cylinder and matrices closer
together or further apart, according to the thickness of the wood which
is to be passed between the matrices and the supporting cylinder. The
matrices are adjusted and fixed to their shaft in connection with nuts,
or otherwise by keys or cotters.
For working and stopping the machine there is a fast and loose pulley,
the shaft of the fast pulley communicating by toothed wheels into the
shaft of the supporting cylinder, and by employing a greater or lesser
number of toothed wheels the speed of the cylinder and matrices is
varied according to the nature of the wood to be worked.
The main feature in this machine consists in the circular tool matrices
having on their external circumferences or peripheries designs cut in or
standing out in relief, the hollows in the matrices forming the reliefs of
the wood, and the reliefs of the matrices forming the hollows in the
wood. For a single matrix the speed of the circumference may be
about sixty-five yards per minute, and by experience it is found that
matrices of comparatively large diameters have the advantage in per-
fecting the reproductions in the wood, and the said matrices are made of
steel, hard bronze, or other suitable metal.
In another arrangement of the machine there are two circular

page_text: matrices, which revolve vertically for enabling the ornamentation to be
made on both sides of the wood, the matrices being formed as hollow
cylinders, held firmly on cylindrical blocks formed, with or fixed to the
shafts; and for keeping the wood straight when it receives the pressure
of the matrices there are india-rubber rollers placed on studs fixed to the
framework of the machine, and this arrangement enables each side of
the work produced by the machine to be inspected.
To manufacture circular ornaments conical matrices are employed,
and these are placed in a moveable frame which receives its pressure by
a screw and nut, and below the matrices there is a moveable plate or
table which rests on conical wheels placed in strong framework and
worked by pulleys and wheels in any required manner. For certain
ornaments the circular matrices are engraved on their exteriors, and
have at certain parts spaces forming stopping places of the pattern, and
this arrangement is applied to all circular matrices, which are required.
to reproduce completely the acting parts of the matrices forming the
ornament.
In the manufacture of ornamental moulding I employ mandrils having
grooves or profiles of different shapes, and these mandrils are so arranged
that the differences of the thickness of the same profile always present
themselves parallel to the form of the matrix.
These various combinations enable me to manufacture all kinds of
ornaments, subjects, or attributes on any kind of wood, for garden work,
portraits of celebrated personages, cards and plans in relief, various
imitations of lace for furniture, boxes, or other necessaries, covers of
albums and books, frames for photographs and pictures, ornamental
platters, pannels in imitation of twisted osiers for carriages, and for all
articles of ornament in general.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-
fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Urbian Auguste Lanteigne, Her special
licence that I, the said Urbian Auguste Lanteigne, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Urbian
Auguste Lanteigne, my 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 "AN IMPROVED PROCESS AND MACHINERY FOR
ORNAMENTING, ENGRAVING, ENBOSSING, OR SCULPTURING WOOD OR OTHER MATERIAL,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Urbian Auguste
Lanteigne, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, 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 Urbian Auguste Lanteigne, do
hereby declare the nature of my 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) :—
This Invention consists in an improved process of ornamenting,
sculpturing, embossing, or engraving wood or other materials, by me-
chanical chasing or milling and pressure by means of circular matrices
having revolving movements, and the embossing or sculpturing is
obtained without chips or waste by the simple pressing inwards of the
fibres of the wood. According to this process the wood requires no
preparation, and the driest and hardest wood give the best results and
realize the greatest perfection of work, and at the same time the wood
that has been ornamented by this process loses none of its primitive
qualities.
This Invention will be clearly understood by the following particular
description thereof, reference being had to the figures and letters on

page_text: the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a longitudinal
elevation, and Fig. 2 a transverse section of one of my improved machines
used for ornamenting, embossing, or sculpturing.
The framework A of the machine is formed of two cheeks or side
frames, held firmly at their proper distance apart by cross bars and bolts,
and to the cheeks is fixed a table level with a supporting cylinder D
below the matrices E. In the table there are grooves in which are
placed screws provided with nuts and ears for regulating by means of
moveable bars the spaces between the edges of the pieces of wood,
and which permit them to be directed under the matrices without
supervision.
In spaces in the side frames A there are sliding blocks B, forming
bearings for the shaft of the supporting cylinder D, and also for the
ends of the shaft also marked D, to which circular matrices E, Figs. 2,
8, and 9, or of any required design are adjusted and fixed.
For giving the required vertical separation of the shafts, there are
screws C, which by being turned in one direction or the other bring the
cylinder and matrices closer together or farther apart, according to
the thickness of the wood which is to be passed between the matrices
and the supporting cylinder, and the matrices are adjusted and fixed to
their shaft by means of a screw cut on the shaft in connection with nuts,
or by keys or cotters.
For working and stopping the machine, there is a fast and loose
pulley M, M, the shaft of the fast pulley communicating by toothed
wheels N, N, with the shaft of the supporting cylinder, and by employing
a greater or lesser number of toothed wheels the speed of the cylinder
and matrices is varied according to the nature of the wood to be
worked.
The main feature in this machine consists in the circular tool matrices,
having on their external circumferences or peripheries designs cut in or
standing out in relief, the hollows in the matrices forming the reliefs
of the wood, and the reliefs of the matrices forming the hollows in the
wood. For a single matrix the speed of the circumference may be
about sixty-five yards per minute, and by experience it is found that
matrices of comparatively large diameters have the advantage in per-
fecting the reproductions on the wood, and the said matrices are made of
steel, hard bronze, or other suitable metal.

page_text: In another arrangement of the machine shewn in Fig. 3, there are
two circular matrices E, E, which revolve vertically for enabling the
ornamentation to be made on both sides of the wood, the matrices being
formed as hollow cylinders, held firmly on cylindrical blocks formed
with or fixed to the shafts, and for keeping the wood straight when it
receives the pressure of the matrices, there are india-rubber rollers placed
on studs fixed to the framework of the machine, and this arrangement
enables each side of the work produced by the machine to be inspected,
and for each revolution of the matrices there is the required impression,
as for example, shewn in Fig. 5.
To manufacture circular ornaments, conical matrices E and cylinders D,
shewn in Fig. 4, are employed, and these are placed in a moveable frame,
which receives its pressure by a screw c and nut m, and below the
matrices there is a moveable plate or table P which rests on the conical
cylinders D, the shafts of which are fitted to suitable bearings in the
framework, and are worked by pulleys and wheels in any required manner.
For certain ornaments, the circular matrices are engraved on their
exteriors, and have at certain parts spaces, as shewn in Fig. 7, forming
stopping places of the pattern, and this arrangement is applied to all
circular matrices which are required to reproduce completely the acting
parts of the matrices forming the ornament.
In the manufacture of ornamental mouldings I employ mandrils D, D,
Fig. 6, having grooves or profiles of different shapes, and these mandrils
are so arranged that the differences of the thickness of the same profile
always present themselves parallel to the form of the matrix.
These various combinations enable me to manufacture all kinds of
ornaments, subjects, on attributes, on any kind of wood, for garden work,
portraits of celebrated personages, cards and plans in relief, various
imitations of lace for furniture boxes, or other necessaries, covers of
albums and books, frames for photographs and pictures, ornamental
platters, pannels in imitation of twisted osiers for carriages, and for all
articles of ornament in general.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, what I claim
Having
now described the nature of my said Invention, what I claim

page_text: engraving, embossing, and sculpturing of wood, in mouldings, or other
designs.
Secondly. The arrangement and combination of the cylinders and
engraved matrices for sculpturing, milling, or embossing on wood.
And, thirdly. The application of the machinery described for orna-
menting or embossing leather, gutta percha, caoutchouc, or other
similar matters.
In witness whereof, I, the said Urbian Auguste Lanteigne, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Tenth day of September,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
two
Witness,
ALBERT CAHEN,
U. A. LANTEIGNE. (L.S.)
Civil Engineer,
32, Boulevard Magenta,
à Paris.