AN IMPROVED FENCE FOR WOOD MOULDING MACHINES
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
JAMES HAYES of number 18 East Road, City Road, London, E.C. in the
County of Middlesex, Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my invention
for AN IMPROVED FENCE FOR WOOD MOULDING MACHINES to be as follows :—
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The object of my invention is to ensure true jointing or thicknessing on a
vertical spindle wood moulding machine and is applicable 'alike to either the
vertical, or horizontal, types of moulding machines.
The improvement in my jointing fence over those in general use consists
essentially in the following features. One part of the face of my improved fence
is made stationary and the other is caused to move parallel-wiso at any adjustable
angle. That is to say, under one arrangement the casting forming the body of the
improved jointing fence may be made to draw back at right angles to the stationary
one or at any adjustable angle therefrom. By this improved arrangement the
operator is enabled to adjust the thickness of "cut" whilst the spindle of the
moulding machine is in motion.
The adjustment before mentioned is effected by means of a screw at the end of
the sliding face of the fence, or mechanical equivalent therefor.
The whole of the apparatus according to my invention is readily attached to the
top or operating bed of a moulding machine.
Dated this twenty seventh day of March 1884.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
I JAMES HAYES of 18 East Road, City Road, London, E.C. in the County
of Middlesex, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for AN
IMPROVED FENCE FOR WOOD MOULDING MACHINES and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:--
My invention consists in adapting to any of the well known types of wood
moulding machines, a device, or contrivance whereby the depth or degree of cut
may be varied with the greatest accuracy, without altering the position of, or
adjusting the cutter. Also, by means of my said invention, I am enabled to ensure
that the fence" may be shifted during the progress of the work,―without
stopping the machine, in any desired direction: always maintaining the ordinary
"canting fence" exactly parallel with the plane at which the machine is originally
arranged to work.
In the accompanying drawing, A represents the main casting of the improved
fence according to my invention, and which is secured to the table B of the
machine, at D; and, C is the cutter thereof. a is the angular frame of the device
or contrivance according to my invention, and- which is caused to travel up and
down the portion b of the main casting A, by operating the hand wheel and
screw c or equivalent contrivance, is a sliding frame with canting fence e jointed
thereto as shewn. The sliding frame d is capable of being caused to travel up
and down the angular frame a by means of the hand wheel and screw f.-After
the angular frame a or the sliding frame d (as the case may be) have been adjusted
or set to the required position by their respective hand wheels and screws, or
equivalent contrivances, they may be firmly retained in such operating positions
by means of gripping bolts g, h, or equivalent contrivances.
When the several parts constituting said improved fence according to my
Invention are duplicated, as shewn in the accompanying drawing; in such
arrangement, the canting fence el can be advanced towards, or retired from, the plane
of the cutter C, while the canting fence e on the opposite side remains stationary,
or the canting fence e¹ may be stationary while e is moved in any desired direction;
or, the two canting fences may be moved at once; all these movements being
effected whilst the cutter continues to revolve.
Also, the principle upon which the contrivance according to my Invention is
constructed, and upon which it acts, allows, by its adoption, of a wood moulding
machine being used for other than the ordinary purposes to which such a machine
as usually constructed, is put, such for instance, as planing, mitreing and other
wood working operations that may be performed by means of revolving cutters.
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 improved adjustable fence, substantially as and for the purposes herein
described and shewn in the accompanying drawing.