IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR MAKING COMPOSITION ORNAMENTS AND FOR APPLYING THE SAME TO MOULDINGS
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Scully, of No. 8, Banner Street, Saint Luke's,
in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR MAKING COMPOSITION ORNAMENTS AND FOR
APPLYING THE SAME TO MOULDINGS."
Sealed the 28th November 1876, and dated the 22nd September 1876.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Scully at the Office.
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 22nd September 1878.
RICHARD SCULLY, of No. 8, Banner Street, Saint Luke's, in the County of
Middlesex. "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR MAKING COм-
POSITION ORNAMENTS AND FOR APPLYING THE SAME TO MOULDINGS."
:
My Invention has reference to an improved construction of machinery or
apparatus whereby composition ornaments, such as are used for picture frames and;
other mouldings, are firstly produced in a continuous manner and are then applied
to the prepared mouldings. For this purpose I mount in a framing a horizontal
roller or cylinder having the ornamental pattern to be produced on the composition
engraved upon it, in a similar manner to that described in the Specification to
Clifton's Patent, No. 3130, of 1868. On either side of the engraved part the roller
has a projecting rim, by which it rests upon a second roller or cylinder beneath it,
having a plain cylindrical surface, the depth of the said rims being made to corre-
spond with the thickness which the composition ornament is required to have.
The upper roller is carried in sliding blocks, which can be withdrawn together with
the roller from the framing whenever it is required to change the roller for one
having a different pattern; and the pattern roller is made to bear with any required
degree of pressure upon the lower roller by means of screw spindles pressing upon
the sliding blocks. At the back of these rollers is a hopper, into which the plastic
composition is introduced into a casing containing two parallel cylinders with
helical ribs, the ribs of the one cylinder fitting into the grooves of the other, so
that the cylinders being made to revolve in contrary directions the plastic com-
position which is introduced into the casing at one end is by them fed forward
towards a delivery spout at the other end, and is at the same time submitted to a
pugging action, whereby it is delivered from the spout in a continuous manner.
and of uniform consistency between the before-mentioned ornamenting rollers. On
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page_text: passing through between these rollers the composition is made to assume the form
of a continuous band, whose upper side has an ornamental configuration corre-
sponding to that of the engraved roller, while the bottom surface is flat, and the
edges correspond with the configuration of the inner surfaces of the before-
mentioned rims on the engraved roller. These surfaces may either both be flat, or
one or both may be formed with radial grooves or flutings, according as one or both
edges of the ornament may require to be grooved or fluted or irregularly shaped.
The composition is prevented from adhering to the rollers as it passes through
them by causing oil to flow from a small reservoir on to the engraved roller, on
which it is spread equably by a brush, whilst a revolving brush steeped in soap
solution or glycerine is applied to the surface of the bottom cylinder. From the
ornamenting rollers the band of ornamented composition is led first over a guide
roller and then with its under surface over a cylindrical brush or roller with felt
surface which dips into a reservoir of size or glue, whereby the under surface is
coated with this material ready to be applied to the moulding on to which the
band descends, and which is at the same time fed through the machine beneath the
ornamenting rollers at a speed corresponding to that at which the composition is
delivered. For this purpose the machine is provided, firstly, with a pair of hori-
zontal feeding rollers adapted for nipping the moulding on its upper and under side;
and secondly, with a pair of vertical feeding rollers adapted to nip the moulding on
its two edges, either the one or the other pair being brought into action, according
as the configuration of the moulding may require it.
The horizontal feed rollers are driven by an intermediate spur wheel from gearing
on the before-described ornamenting rollers, so as to revolve in exact uniformity
therewith, the intermediate wheel being withdrawn when these feed rollers are
put out of operation. The top roller is pressed down in an elastic manner upon
the moulding by two screws with caoutchouc or spring washers, to which screws
the bearings of the roller are connected. The vertical feed rollers are mounted with
their spindles upon slides, and can be made by means of adjusting screws to
approach or recede from each other so as to nip the moulding between them. They
are driven by means of half crossed straps from pullies driven by a strap from a
pulley on the spindle of the lower ornamenting roller, and so proportioned as to
drive the feed rollers at exactly the same surface speed as the ornamenting rollers.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Richard Scully in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 21st March
1877.
RICHARD SCULLY, of No. 8, Banner Street, Saint Luke's, in the County of
Middlesex. IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR MAKING COM-
POSITION ORNAMENTS AND FOR APPLYING THE SAME TO MOULDINGS."
My Invention has reference to an improved construction of machinery or
apparatus whereby composition ornaments, such as are used for picture frames and
other mouldings, are firstly produced in a continuous manner and are then applied to
the prepared mouldings. For this purpose I mount in a framing a horizontal roller
or cylinder having the ornamental pattern to be produced on the composition
engraved upon it in a similar manner to that described in the Specification to
Clifton's Patent, No. 3130), of 1868. On either side of the engraved part the roller
has a projecting rim, by which it rests upon a second roller or cylinder beneath it
having a plain cylindrical surface, the depths of the said rims being made to corre-
spond with the thickness which the composition ornament is required to have.
The upper roller is carried in sliding blocks, which can be withdrawn together with
the roller from the framing whenever it is required to change the roller for one
having a different pattern; and the pattern roller is made to bear with any required

page_text: degree of pressure upon the lower roller by means of screw spindles pressing upon
the sliding blocks. At the back of these rollers is a hopper, into which the plastic
composition is introduced into a casing containing two parallel cylinders with
helical ribs, the ribs of the one cylinder fitting into the grooves of the other, so that
the cylinders being inado to revolve in contrary directions the plastic composition
which is introduced into the casing at one end is by them fed forward towards a
delivery spout at the other end, and is at the same time submitted to a pugging
action, whereby it is delivered from the spout in a continuous manner and of
uniform consistency between the before-mentioned ornamenting rollers. On passing
through between these rollers the composition is made to assume the form of a con-
tinuous band, whose upper side has an ornamental configuration corresponding to
that of the engraved rollor, while the bottom surface is flat and the edges correspond
with the configuration of the inner surfaces of the before-mentioned rims on the
engraved roller. These surfaces may either both be flat, or one or both may be
formed with radial grooves or flutings, according as one or both edges of the orna-
ment may require to be grooved or fluted, or irregularly shaped.
The composition is prevented from adhering to the rollers as it passes through
them by causing oil to flow from a small reservoir on to the engraved roller, on
which it is spread equably by a brush, whilst a revolving brush steeped in soap
solution or glycerine is applied to the surface of the bottom cylinder. From the
ornamenting rollers the band of ornamented composition is led first over a guide
roller, and then with its under surface over a cylindrical brush or roller with felt
surface, which dips into a reservoir of size or glue, whereby the under surface is
coated with this material ready to be applied to the moulding on to which the band
descends, and which is at the same time fed through the machine beneath the
ornamenting rollers at a speed corresponding to that at which the composition is
delivered. For this purpose the machine is provided firstly with a pair of hori-
zontal feeding rollers adapted for nipping the moulding on its upper and under
side, and secondly with a pair of vertical feeding rollers adapted to nip the
moulding on its two edges, either the one or the other pair being brought into
action according as the configuration of the moulding may require it.
The horizontal feed rollers are driven by an intermediate spur wheel from gearing
on the before-described ornamenting rollers, so as to revolve in exact uniformity
therewith, the intermediate wheel being withdrawn when these feed rollers are put
out of operation. The top roller is pressed down in an elastic manner upon the
moulding by two screws with caoutchouc or spring washers, to which screws the
bearings of the roller are connected. The vertical feed rollers are mounted with
their spindles upon slides, and can be made by means of adjusting screws to
approach or recede from each other, so as to nip the moulding between them. They
are driven by means of half-crossed straps from pullies driven by a strap from a
pulley on the spindle of the lower ornamenting roller, and so proportioned as
to drive the feed rollers at exactly the same surface speed as the ornamenting
rollers.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 shews a side elevation of my before-described improved machine for
producing composition ornaments and applying the same to mouldings; Fig. 2
shows a plan; and Figs. 3, 4, and 5 shew detached details.
On the framing A is mounted the engraved cylinder B carried by a shaft B¹, and
having projecting rims B2, which rest upon the plain cylinder C bencath, as shewn
at Fig. 3. The shaft of the roller C is carried in fixed bearings on the framing,
while the shaft B¹ is carried in sliding bearings that are pressed down to any
desired extent by screws D for insuring the requisite pressure of the cylinder B
upon C. By raising the screws D the cylinder B can be withdrawn and replaced
by another of a different design. The composition for forming the ornaments is
introduced through the hopper E into the casing F containing two cylinders G, G,
having helical ribs gearing into each other, as shewn at Fig. 4, so that the cylinders

page_text: being made by gearing H to revolve in contrary directions the plastic composition
entering the casing F through the hopper will be submitted to a pugging action by
the cylinders, and will at the same time be fed forward, so as to be delivered in a
continuous manner and of uniform consistency through the spout I between the
two cylinders B and C. On passing through between these cylinders the com-
position is made to assume the form of a continuous band P, ornamented on the
upper side in a corresponding manner to the engraved part of B, and having a flat
under side and side edges corresponding in configuration to the inner faces of the
rims B2, these being either flat or formed with radial grooves or flutings. In order
to prevent the composition from adhering to the cylinders as it passes through, oil
is made to flow on to the cylinder B from a reservoir K, and is spread thereon by
a brush L, as shewn at Fig. 3, while a revolving brush steeped in soap solution or
glycerine is applied to the cylinder C.
From the ornamenting cylinders the composition band P is led over the guide
roller M, and then over å revolving brush or roller with felt surface N dipping into
a reservoir of heated size or glue O, whereby the under surface of the band P is
coated with this material ready to be applied to the moulding Q on to which the
band descends, and which is at the same time fed through the machine on to the
table R beneath the ornamenting cylinders at a speed corresponding to that at
which the composition is delivered, the latter being applied to the moulding by
hand. To effect this a pair of horizontal feed rollers S, S¹, (Fig. 5) are provided,
of which the lower one S¹ is carried in fixed bearings and has rotary motion
imparted to it through gearing T, T¹, from the wheels U on the shafts of the orna-
menting cylinders, so as to revolve in exact uniformity with the latter. The upper
roller S is made to nip the moulding Q down upon the lower roller with elastic
pressure by means of screws V carrying the bearings of the roller and provided
with spring washers. In case the form of the moulding Q is such as not to permit
of its being passed through the feed rollers S, S¹, these are put out of gear by
raising the upper roller S by means of the screws V and withdrawing the inter-
mediate wheel T' that communicates the motion to the roller S¹; and the feeding
forward of the moulding is then effected by two vertical feed rollers W, W, made
to nip the side edges of the moulding and receiving motion from the ornamenting
cylinders as follows:-A pulley C on the shaft of the cylinder C drives a shaft X
by a strap X¹, and this shaft drives another shaft Y from pulleys on which half
crossed straps Y¹ are passed round the pullies W¹ on the vertical shafts W2 of the feed
rollers W. The shafts W2 are mounted on slides W³, each of which can be moved
by a screw Z, so as to adjust the rollers W to the width of the moulding Q and
cause them to nip the latter sufficiently to insure an accurate feed.
When the feed rollers W require to be put out of gear in order to bring the
rollers S, S¹, into action this is effected by means of the clutch C¹ on the shaft of
the roller C which gears with the pulley C, through which motion is imparted to
the rollers W, as before described, and which is loose on its shaft. The requisite
motion is imparted to the ornamenting cylinders B, C, from the driving shaft a
through a strap b, pulley c, and toothed gearing d, the two cylinders B, C, being
geared together by the wheels U. The shaft of C drives firstly the shaft X, as
before described; secondly, the guide roller M and glueing brush N through bands
e and f; and thirdly, the feed rollers S, S¹, as before described.
The shaft X drives firstly the shaft Y for imparting motion to the feed rollers W,
as before described; and secondly, it imparts motion to the pugging and feeding
cylinders G through the bands g, h, pullies i, k, and gearing H.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and in what manner tho
same is to be performed, I claim,―
First. The construction of machinery for producing and applying composition
ornaments to mouldings, wherein the composition, is fed from a pugging mill
between ornamenting cylinders, from which the ornamented band is delivered in a
continuous manner, and after being passed over a glueing brush or roller is then
applied to the prepared moulding, which is at the same time caused by feed rollers

page_text: to pass through the machine at a speed corresponding to that at which the
composition band is delivered from the said cylinders, substantially as herein
described.
Second. The use for producing composition ornaments of an ornamenting roller
or cylinder having projecting rims on each side for imparting the desired con-
figuration to the edges of the band of composition at the same time that its one
surface is impressed with the engraved pattern on the cylinder, substantially as
herein described.
Third. The method, substantially as herein described, of producing continuous
ornamented bands of composition by causing the composition to pass continuously
between a revolving ornamenting cylinder or roller, such as is referred to in the
preceding claim, and a plain cylinder or roller, with which the projecting rims of
the ornamenting cylinder or roller are in contact, so that the band of composition
is delivered both with its upper surface ornamented and with its side edges formed
with the exact configuration required.
Fourth. In combination with the ornamenting rollers the use of two sets of feed
rollers for feeding forward the wood moulding, the one set being arranged to act
upon the upper and under surfaces of the moulding, while the other set is arranged
to act upon the side edges of the moulding, and both sets being so geared to the
ornamenting rollers that they move in uniformity therewith, and that the one or
the other set can be put out of action, substantially as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Scully, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twentieth day of March, in the year of our Lord One thou-
sand eight hundred and seventy-seven.
RICHARD SCULLY. (L.S.)