Improvements in Apparatus for the Manufacture of Balusters and Newel Posts, Table Legs, or similar Work in which the Appearance of a Square Section at any part is required.
Year: 1896

page_text: Improvements in Apparatus for the Manufacture of Balusters and
Newel Posts, Table Legs, or similar Work in which the Appear-
ance of a Square Section at any part is required.
I, CUTHBERT MARR, of 52 Bede Burn Road Jarrow, in the County of Durham,
Mahogany Merchant &c., do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention has reference to an invention having the same object, patented by
me No. 1668795.
I have in the Specification of that invention described a method, whereby, instead
of securing many balusters or newel posts on one large turning wheel by means of
straps passing round the circumference of the wheel and over the balusters, or newel
posts as was done before my said invention, they can be secured in groups upon the
wheel, and held securely in their places by separate segments of a circle.
improvement being that it is not now needful to loosen the whole of the balusters or
newel posts on the wheel at once, but only such as are embraced by one segment,
and further that very much increased facility is afforded for charging and discharging
the wheel or for altering the position of the balusters or newel posts as they are
turned.
I have described in my said patent how the said segments are applied outside the
balusters.
My present invention is a further perfecting of the arrangement patented by me
as aforesaid in the manner following that is to say: I use the segments as before
but instead of applying them outside the balusters as described in my last patent I
place them inside the balusters nearer to the centre of the wheel, and press them
outwards radially so as to hold the balusters between a ledge on the circumference of
the wheel and the segment, and I may for convenience hinge them as described in
my before mentioned patent or secure them in any other convenient way.

page_text: Improvements in Apparatus for the Manufacture of Balusters and
Newel Posts, Table Legs, or similar Work in which the Appear-
ance of a Square Section at any part is required.
I, CUTHBERT MARR, of 52 Bede Burn Road, Jarrow, in the County of Durham,
Mahogany Merchant &c., do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be perforined, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :--
My invention has reference to an invention having the same object, patented by
me No. 1668795.
I have in the Specification of that invention described a method, whereby, instead
of securing many balusters or newel posts on one large turning wheel by means of
straps passing round the circumference of the wheel and over the balusters, or newel
posts as was done before my said invention, they can be secured in groups upon the
wheel, and held securely in their places by separate segments of a circle. The
improvement being that it is not now needful to loosen the whole of the balusters or
newel posts on the wheel at once, but only such as are embraced by one segment,
and further that very much increased facility is afforded for charging and discharging
the wheel or for altering the position of the balusters or newel posts as they are
turned.
I have described in my said patent how the said segments are applied outside
the balusters.
My present invention is a further perfecting of the arrangement patented by me
as aforesaid in the manner following that is to say: I use the segments as before,
but instead of applying them outside the balusters as described in my last patent I
place them inside the balusters nearer to the centre of the wheel, and press them
outwards radially so as to hold the balusters between a ledge on the circumference
of the wheel and the segment, and I may for convenience hinge them as described
in my before mentioned patent or secure them in any other convenient way.
In the drawing hereto attached A. A. represents what I have called the wheel
wherein for clearness I have shewn 6 segments with balusters in them, and
6 segments empty. This is merely shewn thus for clearness-ordinarily I prefer to
fill the whole wheel with balusters. B. B. are what I have called seginents, and C. C.
the bolts before described which pass through the segments, and serve by means of
the nuts shewn to brace the segments firmly against the balusters, and the latter
against the wheel, and so to hold them in position. D. is the ledge or internal flange
upon the wheel; against which flange the ballusters are laid, and pressed by the
segments so as to be quite secure.
One, two or more bolts may be used in each end of each of the segments, and
manifestly they may be variously arranged. And the segments may be made
entirely removable from the wheel, or they may be shifted round upon the bolt so
as to take a position parallel to the axis of the wheel, or they may be hinged near
the circumference of the wheel so as to fold back out of the way of the balusters,
such modifications not being essential features of my invention.
I usually trim all the balusters square at one end as a preliminary to turning
them, and I construct a flange on one side of the wheel against which the trimmed
end of the baluster abuts, so as that in all positions if exactly parallel to the axis of
the wheel the turning will exactly correspond on each side.
The parallelism with the axis of the wheel is secured by the squareness and
uniform size of each baluster, and the fixed position of the bolts; or in the case of
the segments being hinged by a suitable guide piece on each segment.
I may use india rubber for the inside of the segments, or I may employ a number

page_text: of small pins screwed into the inside surface of the segment or I may roughen
the inside as the footstep of a stirrup iron is roughened, or by any other convenient
means I may provide extra security of attachment.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
The use of segments substantially as described in wheels for the production of
approximately square balusters or newel posts, instead of straps or other device as
heretofore employed for that purpose.
Dated this Twenty-sixth day of June 1897.