Certain Improvements in Appliances for Use in Cutting Taper and Parallel Segmental Strips for Making Fishing Rods and for other purposes.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Nov., 1894--Accepted, 22nd Dec., 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Certain Improvements in Appliances for Use in Cutting Taper and
Parallel Segmental Strips for Making Fishing Rods and for
other purposes.
I, EDWARD PERKS, of 23, Evesham Street, Redditch in the County of
Worcester, Fishing Rod 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:-
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This invention consists of the herein described improvements in appliances for
use in cutting taper and parallel segmental strips of cane, wood or other substances
for various purposes such strips for instance as are glued together in building up
the better kinds of fishing rods, billiard cues and cane tubes or rods for velocipede
frames.
By my invention I am enabled to cut the strips to the required angular section
and of the proper taper at one operation, instead of, as heretofore, cutting the
strip approximately to the proper size and then tapering it by filing or by
other means.
I will describe my invention by referring to the accompanying drawings on
which the same letters of reference indicate the same or corresponding parts in all
the figures and on which :-
Fig. 1 is a front view of the bed or stationary part of an appliance constructed
according to this invention for cutting the said taper and parallel segmental strips
and
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Fig. 2 is a front view of the sliding carriage part of the same;
Fig. 3 is a cross section on an enlarged scale of the said appliance fixed on a
circular saw bench;
Fig. 4 is a cross section on an enlarged scale of the said sliding carriage part on
line X X of Fig. 2;
Fig. 5 is a cross section on an enlarged scale of the said sliding carriage part on
line Y Y of Fig. 2, and
Fig. 6 shows how the six segmental strips are fitted together in the usual way
for forming a fishing rod or other article which they are required to make.
I will describe my invention in connection with a circular saw but it is be
understood that my invention can be similarly used with a band saw or with a fret
saw or other saw or with a revolving circular or other cutter.
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In carrying out my invention I provide a metallic bed A which by the bolts d' d
or by other means is fixed on the circular saw table E and is inclined to the face of
the saw at the particular angle (in this case 60 degrees) to which the segmental
pieces are required to be cut. In this bed A there is an open ended parallel
channel a' and free to slide to and fro in this channel I provide a sliding carriage B
which is shown separately by Fig. 2 and is in the form of a parallel metal strip
having one side & bevelled off to correspond with the plane of the saw. The other
side of this carriage B is by preference bevelled as shown to fit in the undercut
Bide a² of the groove a¹ to prevent the carriage B from rising. In the bevelled
face of the strip B 1 provide an angular groove C which is planed taper to
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page_text: correspond with the taper to which the strips are required to be sawn; that is
to say, in the carriage shewn by Fig. 2 the groove C is deeper at the right
hand end, as shewn by the section Fig. 5, than it is at the left hand end as shewn
by the section Fig. 4.
In using the appliance above in part described the strip E of cane or wood or
other substance which is required to be sawn taper is fitted into the taper angular
groove C of the carriage B, and then the carriage with the strip F is pushed
forward along the groove a¹ so that as the carriage B and strip are moved past
the saw G the strip will be sawn and the part which is left in the groove C will
be of the required angle and taper so that when in this case six of the taper
angular strips are glued and secured together side by side as shewn in Fig. 6 they
will form the required taper rod or part of the rod.
It will be evident that the appliance above described can be similarly
constructed for use in cutting parallel segmental strips but in this case the angular
groove C instead of being planed taper will be planed parallel the same depth
from end to end.
The knobs on the carriage B are for convenience in pushing the carriage
along.
I have described and illustrated my invention as constructed for use in cutting
angular taper strips to an angle of 60 degrees, so that six of the strips form the rod,
but it will be evident that by making the bed A at the proper angle to the plane of
the saw my appliance can be used for cutting strips of other angles.
It will also be evident that my invention is similarly applicable for cutting
segmental strips of the section for instance as shewn by Fig. 7 where the strips
form a tube.
The accompanying drawing shews what I consider to be the best way of
carrying my said invention into practice but it is to be understood that my
invention is not limited to the precise details shewn as these may be varied without
departing from the nature of my invention.
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. In an appliance for use in cutting taper segmental strips for making fishing
rods and for other purposes, the employment, with the saw or other cutter, of the
carriage guided so as to move in a straight line and having in that side next to
the saw or cutter an angular taper groove corresponding with the required taper
segmental strip so that when the carriage and strip are moved past the saw or
cutter the part of the strip cut off in the groove will be of the required taper
segmental form substantially as herein before described.
2. In an appliance for use in cutting parallel segmental strips for making fishing
rods and for other purposes, the employment with the saw or cutter, of the carriage
guided so as to move in a straight line and having in that side next to the saw or
cutter an angular parallel groove corresponding with the required parallel
segmental strip so that when the carriage and strip are moved past the saw or
cutter the part of the strip cut off in the groove will be of the required parallel
segmental form substantially as hereinbefore described.
3. The improved appliance for use in cutting taper (or parallel) segmental strips
for making fishing rods and for other purposes, hereinbefore described and
illustrated by the accompanying drawing.
4. In an appliance for use in cutting taper (or parallel) segmental strips for
making fishing rods and for other purposes, the combination of the bed A inclined
to the face of the saw or cutter and the carriage B guided by the bed A so as to
move along the same in a straight line, said carriage having in that side next the
saw or cutter an angular taper (or parallel) groove C corresponding with the
required taper (or parallel) segmental strip, so that when the carriage and strip are

page_text: moved past the saw or cutter the part of the strip cut off in the groove will be of
the required taper (or parallel) segmental form, substantially as hereinbefore
described.
Dated this 7th day of November 1894.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.