An Improved Appliance for Use in Moulding Ceiling Cornices and the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Dec., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 21st Sept., 1896-Accepted, 7th Nov., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Appliance for Use in Moulding Ceiling Cornices and
the like.
I, JOSEPH LIGHT, of Moseley House, Hill Road, Clevedon, Somerset, Plumber,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists in an improved appliance for use in moulding ceiling
cornices and the like, in plaster, cement and other material in a plastic state.
The improved appliance in which this invention consists is constructed and
arranged as follows.
The blade or cutter by which moulding is effected, and which is of steel or other
suitable material, bisects a right angle, formed by two sides of a platform on which
is a bracket or frame carrying the blade or cutter. The cutter is readily attached to
and detached from the bracket by means of screws or other devices.
The moulding blade being, as aforesaid, disposed at an angle of 45 degrees,
the operator is enabled to carry the blade into rectangular corners of rooms and
elsewhere, and thus complete the mouldings in the angles without the necessity,
hitherto prevailing, of employing additional instruments or tools for finishing the
moulding in the angles.
The platform is fitted with the usual friction plates for contact with walls. The
friction plate for contact with ceilings is attached to the cutter by a screw bolt
or the like and is readily relaxed for change of moulding blade or cutter.
The moulding blade or cutter, when in operation, extends at an angle of 45 degrees
from the wall or other surface on which the moulding is being made.
Dated this 19th day of December 1895.
NICHOLAS WATTS,
Bristol, Chartered Patent Agent.
An Improved Appliance for Use in Moulding Ceiling Cornices and
the like.
I, JOSEPH LIGHT, of Moseley House, Hill Road, Clevedon, Somerset, Plumber,
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 consists in an improved appliance for use in moulding ceiling
cornices and the like, in plaster, cement, and other material in a plastic state."
The improved appliance in which this invention consists is constructed and
arranged as follows:-
The blade or cutter by which moulding is effected, and which is of steel or
other suitable material, bisects a right angle, formed by two sides of a platform on
which is a bracket or frame carrying a blade or cutter. The cutter is readily
attached to and detached from the bracket by means of screws or other devices.

page_text: The moulding blade being, as aforesaid, disposed at an angle of: 45 degrees to
each of the two front sides of the platform, the.-operator is enabled to carry the
blade into corners of rectangular rooms and into like places and thus to complete
the mouldings in the angles without the necessity, hitherto prevailing, of employing
additional instruments or tools for finishing the moulding in the angles. The
platform is fitted with the usual friction plates for contact with walls and ceilings.
Referring to the accompanying sheet of drawings, Fig. 1 represents, in plan, a
cornice moulding tool as made in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a side
view.
The moulding blade or cutter a with its dentated edges, which vary with the
design of the moulding, is a plate of steel, wrought iron, or other suitable metal
or material. It bisects a right angle formed by the two front sides of the
platform b, also made of steel, wrought iron, or other suitable metal. The moulding
blade a fits into a bracket c, either made separately from and attached to the
platform b, or provided by making the platform in two portions and turning up
the sides which are to come into contact with the blade a. The blade a is clamped
in place in the bracket b by the clamping screws.d fitted with binding nuts d
The same platform is adapted to take a variety of moulding blades or cutters.
Friction plates f for contact with walls are rivetted to the front sides of the
platform b, or they may be made in one piece with the platform. The friction
block g for contact with ceilings may be a fixture, or it may be removable and
adapted to fit on more than one blade or cutter.
Whilst
In moulding with the improved tool in which this invention consists, the operator,
grasping the handle e, applies the friction plates at one side of the platform to the
wall the ceiling friction plate 9 being in contact with the ceiling.
the front edge of the blade or cutter a is kept leading, it can be carried into the
corners formed by the meeting of walls in rectangular rooms and thus the moulding
can be completed in the angles without necessitating the use of additional tools.
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 :-
A tool for moulding ceiling cornices, in which the moulding blade or cutter is
-disposed at an angle of 45 degrees to each of the front sides of the platform; the
nose or front edge of the blade or cutter being at the apex of the angle formed
by the said sides of the platform, substantially as hereinabove described with reference
to the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings.
Dated this 18th day of September 1896.
NICHOLAS WATTS,
Bristol, Chartered Patent Agent.