Tools for Applying Veneer to Mouldings and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application. 26th June, 1896-Accepted, 1st Aug., 1895
[Communicated from abroad by THE BROCK VENEERED LUMBER COMPANY,
of West Troy, County Albany. State of New York, U.S.A.]
Tools for Applying Veneer to Mouldings and the like.
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I, SAMUEL SIDNEY BROMHEAD of 97 Newgate Street, London, Patent Agent,
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 relates to tools for applying veneer to mouldings or the like, and
the object is to provide a hand tool for this purpose that may be adjusted for
different widths of moulding or surface to be veneered.
I will describe a tool embodying my invention and then point out the novel
features in the appended claims.
In the accompanying drawing :-
Fig. 1 is a top plan view of a veneering tool embodying my invention;
Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view thereof;
Fig. 3 is a side view;
Fig. 4, is an end view;
Fig. 5 is a section on the line 5-5 of Fig. 1; and
Fig. 6 is an enlarged view of a portion of one of the parts.
Referring to the drawing :-
A designates the tool consisting of end walls A1, A2, from which hand pieces or
handles A³ extend. The end pieces are parallel one with the other and each end
piece has presser blades or fingers extended at right angles from it. The end
piece A has integral presser blades or fingers a, a', and the end piece A2, has the
integral presser blades or fingers a², a³. The presser blades of one end piece
extend loosely through vertical slots at, in the opposite end pieces.
By this construction it is obvious that the end pieces may be moved toward or
from each other to shorten or lengthen the operating surfaces of the presser blades
to accommodate the tool to the width of the work in hand.
By referring to Fig. 3, it will be seen that the presser blades have a narrow
body portion b, and downwardly extended portion 6', the junction of the parts b, b¹
may be rounded as at 6, or otherwise shaped so as to conform to the moulding or
work to be veneered. By this construction it will be seen that all the blades will
engage the top surface of the veneer and the portions b', of alternate blades will
engage the opposite sides and press the veneer against the edges or sides of the
moulding.
For the purpose of presenting as small a surface of the blades as practical to the
veneer and thus insuring the complete rubbing down of the veneer and expulsion
of air from beneath the veneer I bevel the pressing edges of the blades as at ³
In operation after the glue and veneer shall have been laid on the moulding or
strip indicated by dotted lines, in Fig. 1, the tool is placed thereon and adjusted
to the width of the work in hand and then forced along longitudinally of the
moulding or strip.

page_text: 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 :-
1. A hand veneering tool consisting of two parts having presser blades or
fingers, the two parts having a relative adjustment substantially as specified.
2. A hand veneering tool consisting of two parts each part comprising an end
piece and presser blades extended at right angles therefrom, each end piece having
openings for the passage of the blades of the opposite end piece and a handle
extending from each end piece substantially as specified.
3. A. hand veneering tool consisting of two parts having a relative adjustment
and each part having parallel presser blades or fingers beveled on their pressing
edge substantially as specified.
4. A hand veneering tool consisting of two adjustable parts and each comprising
presser fingers having the narrow portion and the downwardly extended portion
substantially as specified.
Dated this 26th don of Iuns 100€
S. S. BROMHEAD.