IMPROVEMENTS IN PARALLEL TURNING, AND IN MACHINERY FOR THAT PURPOSE
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Elsom, of No. 10 and 11, Regent's Row,
Dalston, in the Parish of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, in the County of
Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PARALLEL TURNING,
AND IN MACHINERY FOR THAT PURPOSE."
Sealed the 31st March 1864, and dated the 9th October 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Elsom at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 9th October
1863.
I, JOSEPH ELSOM, of No. 10 and 11, Regent's Row, Dalston, in the Parish
5 of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PARALLEL TURNING, AND
IN MACHINERY FOR THAT PURPOSE," to be as follows:-
For turning broom and mop handles, cornice poles, tent poles, and umbrella
sticks; and in order that my Invention may be fully understood and readily
carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the means pursued by me.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
No. 1, a revolving cylinder driven by pulley No. 3; No. 2, an internal
stationary cylinder within No. 1, with square hole through it to pass the
wood to cutters; No. 4 are feed rollers, two to receive the wood when square
and two when round and finished; No. 5, a metal chuck and revolving
cutters; No. 6, an hollow round tube to receive the stick when finished;

page_text: No. 7, feed gear; No. 8, iron framework to carry running spindle or revolving
cylinder which takes the cutters.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention and the manner of
performing the same,
First, I would have it understood that I claim the running cylinder with
chuck and cutters, and particularly the inner stationary cylinder with square
hole through it to take the wood to cutters; I also claim the barrel No. 6 to
receive the wood after it has passed the cutters.
Secondly, I claim an entire new method of parallel turning by cutters
revolving for the purpose of manufacturing broom and mop handles, cornice
poles, tent poles, and umbrella handles.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Joseph Elsom in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
7th April 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
ELSON, of No. 10 and 11, Regent's Row, Dalston, in the Parish of St.
Leonard's, Shoreditch, in the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of October, in the year. of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-seventh year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Joseph Elsom, Her special licence that I, the said Joseph
Elsom, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Joseph Elsom, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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 "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN PARALLEL TURNING, AND IN MACHINERY FOR THAT PURPOSE," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Joseph Elsom, 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Elsom, do hereby declare
the nature of the 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 thereof (that is to say :-
No. 1 (on Drawing is a revolving cylinder driven by pulley No. 3; No. 2 is
a stationary cylinder within cylinder (No. 1), with square hole inscribed,
through which I pass the wood to the cutters No. 5; No. 3 is a pulley to
drive cylinder No. 1; No. 4 are feed rollers, two to receive the wood when
square and two to receive the wood from the cutters when turned; No. 5 is a
metal chuck with cutters fixed thereon, attached to the revolving cylinder
No. 1; No. 6 is a fixed cylinder to receive the wood from cutters; No. 7 is
the feeding gear; No. 8 are two levers with rods to raise or fall the upper
feed rollers, and to carry the wood through cylinders No. 2 and 6; No. 9 is
an iron table or frame bolted together, upon which is fixed the working parts
of the machine; No. 10 is a shaft with a pair of mitre wheels to drive the
feed gear No. 7; also a rigger to drive pulley No. 3.
Having hereby described the various parts, I would here remark that I do
not claim the iron frame or feeding gear; but I claim particularly the external
and internal cylinders with the chuck and cutters on the same, as described
above, as being the peculiarity of my Invention, anu by which means every
description of paralel turning may be performed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Elsom, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventh day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
JOSEPH ELSOM. (L.S.)