Improvements in or relating to Machine Tools.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Mar., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Dec., 1889-Accepted, 11th Jan., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Machine Tools.
I, AUGUSTE FRANÇOIS PASQUIER of 69 Rue de la Chapelle, Paris, in the Republic
of France, Locksmith, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to a system of supporting and grouping machines, such as
punching machines, plate shears or such like, united to form a multiple machine
for working on plate or corner iron, etcetera, without the said pieco of iron having
to be transported from place to place.
To better explain my invention I will proceed to describe the same as applied to
a combined punching and shearing machine.
The combined machine rests on a fixed circular plate provided on its circum-
ference with a slide rod or guide. This multiple machine is grouped and centred
round a central axle or pivot round which the operator can turn it at will, so as
to get either the punching machine or the shears before him. With this object
the axle is provided with a screw thread for a certain length at the top, to receive
a fixing and regulating nut which is unscrewed by the operator before turning the
machine.
The punching machine and shears are grouped on a framework made in two
parts, firmly fastened together by nuts or their equivalent. Each of the machines
is worked by a cam lever, which lowers the punch holder in punching machines,
and the movable blade holder in shears.
The punching machine consists of a framework head in which the punch bolder
is moved, as on a slide under the action of its cam lever. With this object the
framework head is furnished at either end with lugs in one piece with the head,
and forming a handle or check across which passes a connecting pin or hinge for
the actuating lever. This lever is provided within the head with an eccentric or
cam, which turns on the pin while the punch is working. This working is effected
by moving the collar of the eccentric disc, (a projection from which is fastened to
the tool holder by means of a connecting pin).
The punch is inserted into the holder, and held there by a pin which lies about
half in the said punch and half in the holder.
The die holder underneath, receives the conical die; it is held on the frame by
nuts which can be unscrewed at will for changing the die. This die holder ends in a
double grooved foot in which is the bolt above mentioned, by means of which the
position of the die holder can be accurately regulated with regard to the panch.
A fork which allows the punch to be disengaged is held by a bolt, and terminates
in two teeth which project on either side of, and level with the punch.
The shears are worked in the same manner as the punch above described. A holder
receives the movable blade, and the opposite blade is fixed on a corner or angle
iron in one piece with the base.
The above application of the invention is merely given as an example, as the
tools may be varied in number or description.
Dated this 21st day of March 1889.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Patent Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION
Improvements in or relating to Machine Tools.
1, AUGUSTE FRANÇOIS PASQUIER of 69 Rue de la Chapelle, Paris, in the Republic
of France, Locksmith, 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 a system of supporting and grouping machines, such as
punching machines, plate shears or such like, united to form a multiple machine for
working on plate or corner iron, etcetera, without the said piece of iron having to
be transported from place to place.
To better explain this invention, it is shown in the accompanying drawings, but
only as an example
Figure 1 shows the arrangement of this multiple machine in elevation.
Figure 2 is a sectional plan of the arrangement of the support.
Figure 3 shows a separate view of shears for corner irons applied to the multiple
machine.
a
As seen on the drawings, the combined machine rests on a fixed circular plate
provided on its circumference with a slide rod or guide b. This multiple machine is
grouped and centred round a central axle or pivot c, round which the operator can
turn it at will so as to get either the punching machine or the shears before him.
With this purpose, the axle c is provided with a screw thread for a certain length at
the top to receive a fixing and regulating nut d, which is unscrewed by the operator
before turning the machine.
The punching machine and shears are grouped on a framework e made in two parts
firmly fastened together by nuts or their equivalent f. Each of the machines is
worked by a cam lever which lowers the punch holder in punching machines, and the
movable blade holder in shears.
The punching machine consists of a framework head in which the punch bolder g
is moved, as on a slide, under the action of its cam lever h. With this object, the
framework head is furnished at either end with lugs i in one piece with the head and
forming a handle or check, across which passes a connecting pin or hingej for the
actuating lever. This lever is provided within the head with an eccentric or cam k
which turns on the pin while the punch is working. This working is effected by
moving the collar of the eccentric disc (a projection m from which is fastened to the
tool holder g by means of a connecting pin n).
The punch pis inserted into the holder g and held there by a pin q, which lies
about half in the said punch and half in the holder.
The die holder receives the conical die s; it is held on the frame by nuts t which
can be unscrewed at will for changing the die. This die holder ends in a double
grooved foot in which is the bolt above mentioned, by means of which the position of
the die holder can be accurately regulated with regard to the punch.
The fork, which allows the punch to be disengaged, is held by a bolt v and
terminates in two teeth which project on either side of and level with the punch..
The shears are worked in the same manner as the punch above described. The
holder receives the movable blade y, and the opposite blade is fixed on a corner or
angle iron in one piece with the base w.
The drawings show shears for cutting and for corner irons, but only as examples,
for these tools may be varied in number or kind...
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
The arrangement, of multiple machine formed of a foundation in the form of a
cross, on the arms of which are divers tools, in a manner that a workman can
operate on any piece of work whatever by means of the different tools which be

page_text: may require, without being obliged to transfer the work from one machine-tool to
another, this arrangement consisting of a fixed circular plate a, provided on its
circumference with a slide rod or guide 6 on which, and around the central pivot c,
the workman causes the machine to turn so that he can have before him either a
puncher, a shearer, etcetera, the whole combined as described and shown.
Dated this 2nd day of December 1889.
.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.