Improvements in Machines for Planing Metal.
Year: 1892

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Planing Metal.
I, JOSEPH APPLEYARD, of Wire Belt Sewing Machine Works, Portland Street,
Manchester Road, Bradford, in the County of York, Machine Maker, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention retates to improvements in that machine for planing metal for
which Letters Patent were granted to me No. 5,797 of 1885 and other planing
machines in which the planing tool is carried by a saddle traversed below a
stationary table supporting the metal to be planed and its object is to facilitate
mounting in position to be planed certain objects adapted to be supported by their
extremities.
For this purpose I employ two short tables each of which is supported on the
bed or gantry by a foot passing down between the shears of the gantry and having
side flanges which rest upon the top face of the gantry. Said tables may be of
unequal height and are secured in any convenient position on the gantry by a
clamping bolt or bolts passing through a lug at the rear.
In the accompanying drawing
Figure 1, represents an elevation of such parts of a planing machine of this class
as are necessary to illustrate the application of my improvements thereto.
Figure 2, is a plan view of the same.
Figure 3, is a cross section of the gantry with the saddle in position thereon. And
Figure 4, is a cross section of the gantry through the foot of the table on the
broken line a, b Figure 1.
Figure 5, is also a cross section of the gantry showing a modification hereinafter
referred to.
The gantry A, the saddle B and the traversing screw C are arranged and
operated in a similar manner to that described in the above cited Letters Patent.
The tables D, D have each a foot E connected by the limb F to their outer ends.
To support the said tables in a horizontal position the feet E have small side
flanges F parallel to the table top and adapted to rest upon the top of the gantry.
The bolts & passing through the lugs H at the outer ends of the tables and through
the plates J serve to clamp the table in any convenient position on the gantry. A
portion of the saddle B is cut away at K as shown in Figure 5 to allow the saddle
to pass under the table over the feet E and side flanges F
Instead of mounting and securing the table D in this manner they may be
secured at the back as shown by D' in Figures 2 and 5. Planed strips L are
provided at the back of the gantry from end to end and the foot E¹ of such table is
arranged to fit in between these strips so that it may be moved to any convenient
position on the gantry and be rigidly secured by the bolt G' passing through a slot
or hole in the back of the gantry.
The table D' may be employed to support the object being planed at any
convenient point between the tables D.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
In a planing machine of the type specified the use of the tables D, D and D'¹

page_text: constructed substantially as herein shown and described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawings.
Dated this 27th day of October 1892
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Bradford, Agents.