Improvements in Cutting the Pocket Pieces Out of the Pulley Stiles of Sash Frames.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Mar., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 8th Nov., 1893-Accepted, 9th Dec., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cutting the Pocket Pieces Out of the Pulley Stiles
of Sash Frames.
I WILLIAM OSMENT of Sanford House Clapton in the County of Middlesex
Builder do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to provide means whereby the pocket pieces can be
cut out of the pulley stiles of sash frames easily and quickly and with great
certainty regularity and uniformity.
The top and bottom sides or ends of each pocket piece are each formed by two
bevelled cuts one being on the outer face the other being on the inner face of the
pulley stile and at different levels the inner ends of these bevelled cuts being joined
together by a longitudinal cut at or about the middle of the pulley stile in cross
section and the bevelled cuts are across the grain while the longitudinal cut is with
the grain. This the ordinary method of creating the top and bottom sides or ends
of the pocket piece is commonly performed by hand saws or cutters or other tools
which obviously are slow in performance while there can be no certainty that such
creation shall be regular and uniform.
To carry out my aforesaid object I use preferably four small circular saws or
cutters and each saw or cutter is secured on a suitable spindle whereon also is a
palley. The spimile is mounted in suitable bearings which can slide along a
convenient guide and all parts are so arranged as to present the saw or cutter to
the work in the proper position and at the proper bevel or inclination. One of these
saws or cutters is preferably so presented to the outer face of the pulley stile while
another saw or cutter is similarly presented to the inner face of the pulley stile and
another pair of saws or cutters is similarly presented to the outer and inner faces of
the pulley stile at the other end of the pocket piece. When this is the arrangement
a long drum is mounted above and bands round the two pulleys of one pair of the
saws or cutters also surround this drum wherealong they can slide when and as the
bearing of the spindle of each saw or cutter is moved along its guide and a similar
long drum is also mounted below to perform the same office for the other pair of
the saws or cutters and pulleys can be mounted on the axes of these drums round
which is a band or strap to connect the same together so that when the one drum is
revolved so is the other and thus all four circular saws or cutters are likewise
revolved.
When these bevelled cuts are thus made the longitudinal cut that joins their
inner ends can be made in any ordinary or other manner as also can the sides of the
pocket pieces be formed.
1000
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cutting the Pocket Pieces Out of the Pulley Stiles
of Sash Frames.
WILLIAM OSMENT of Sanford House Clapton in the County of Middlesex
Builder 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 :-
The object of this my invention is to provide means whereby the pocket pieces
can be cut out of the pulley stiles of sash frames very easily and quickly and with

page_text: great certainty regularity and uniformity and I so arrange the apparatus by which
this object is effected that these pocket pieces may be of any desired length and
size.
The top and the bottom sides or ends of each pocket piece are each created and
formed by two bevelled ents the one being on and in the outer face of the pulley
stile the other being on and in the inner face of the same and at different levels and
the inner ends of these bevelled cuts are joined together by a longitudinal cut at or
about the middle of the pulley stile in cross section and the bevelled cuts are across
the grain of the wood of which the pulley stile is generally made while the
longitudinal cut is with such grain.
This the ordinary and customary method of creating and forming the top and the
bottom sides or ends of the pocket piece is commonly performed by hand saws or
cutters or other like tools in the use of which certain evils are experienced in that
for example such performance is and obviously must be slow and tedious while
there is and plainly can be no certainty that such creation and formation shall be
exactly regular and uniform.
Now to carry out my aforesaid object and to remedy these aforesaid and other
evils provide an apparatus in and by means of which the required bevelled cuts
can simultam ously be made on and in both the outer face and the inner face of the
pulley stile and also as is generally preferable at both the top and the bottom sides
or ends of the pocket piece with great and even absolute certainty regularity and
uniformity.
In order the more clearly to explain this my invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed I refer to the accompanying drawing wherein
Figure 1 is a front elevation of a most convenient and efficient form and style of
construction and arrangement of my apparatus Figure 2 is a plan of the same and
Figure 3 is a side elevation of the same.
A suitable framing A of wood or metal or other material is mate for the
apparatus and at or near the top of this framing A are constructed two platforms B
and B which extend across the front of the framing A and are arranged parallel
with each other the desired and necessary distance apart and any suitable and
ordinary or other slides or guides D and D' are fitted on and along these
platforms Band B'. On the platforms B and B are mounted and in ad along the
slides or guides D and 1 can be moved and therein can be clamped in any usual or
other manner suitable brackets E and which carry in any convenient bearings
short revoluble spindles F and F and on the one end of each spindle For Fis
secured a small circular saw or cutter K or K¹ while on each spindle For F' can also
most conveniently be fittest a pulley Hor B. These brackets E and E' with their
bearings are constructed to carry the spindles F and F so inclined to and with the
platforms B and 13' as to maintain the saws or cutters K and K'at the inclination or
bevel at which the cuts that create and form as is hereinbefore described the top
and the bottom sides or ends of the pocket piece are desired to be made and the
brackets E and E may also be so fitted in any convenient and usual or other
manner that the angles of inclination at which the spindles F and F are so carried
may when desired be altered and adjusted while the spindles F and F also may be
so fitted in any convenient and usual or other manner that they are capable of
being moved endwise in their bearings so that the exnet positions of the saws or
cutters K and K in respect of the brackets E and E and the distances of the same
therefrom may also when desired be altered and adjusted.
Whensoever as is obviously preferable both the top and the bottom sides or
ends of the pocket piece are to be created and formed simultaneously two of
these brackets E are mounted on the one platform B and other two of these
brackets E are mounted on the other platform B all of which brackets E
and E are generally so mounted on such platforms 13 and 13 that all the
spindles and and therefore also all the saws or cutters K and K' are
similarly inclined to and with the platforms B and B and are also preferably
at exactly the same angles of inclination. The brackets E and E' are so

page_text: constructed and formed it may very conveniently be as is shewn in the drawing
and are so arranged on the platforms B and B and it may preferably be are
so clamped in the slides or guides D and D' thereupon and the spindles F
and Fare so adjusted in and carried by the brackets E and E' that the one
pair of saws or cutters K and K' near the one side of the framing A are in
the proper relative positions to make the required cuts simultaneously on and
in the outer face and the inner face of the pulley stile in the desired positions
and at the desired bevel to create and form the one side or end of the pocket
piece while the other pair of saws or cutters K and K near the other side of
the framing A are not only similarly in the proper relative positions to make
the required cuts simultaneously on and in the cute face and the inner face
of the pulley stile in the desired positions and at the desired bevel to create
and form the other side or end of the pocket piece but are also at the proper
distances from the aforesaid former pair of saws or cutters K and K' to make this
pocket piece of the desired length and size.
To actuate this apparatus any convenient and appropriate appliances and devices
may be used and in the drawing I shew an extremely suitable and efficient method
of revolving all the saws or cutters simultaneously as obviously is necessary. A
long drum is mounted in any desired position on the framing A parallel with the
platforms B and B and the slides or guides D and D' thereupon and is fitted with
fast and loose pulleys M and M' wherethrough this drum L. can when desired be
revolved by any convenient power through any suitable and ordinary or other
means and appliances and endless bands N and N are separately passed round
the drum and each and all of the pulleys H and H' so that all the
spindles F and F can simultaneously be caused to revolve it may preferably be in
the same directions as such drum Land at the desired speed whatever may be the
positions of the brackets E and on the platforms B and B as the bands N
and N can obviously be moved along the drum L.
When therefore the brackets E and E' have been properly arranged on the
platforms B and B in manner as is hereinbefore described and the spindles F and F¹
are caused to revolve at the desired speed the side or edge of the pulley stile is
properly presented to this apparatus in such wise that the four revolving saws or
cutters K and K will make the required four cuts simultaneously on and in the
outer face and the inner face of this pulley stile in the desired positions and at the
desired bevel to create and form the two sides or ends of the pocket piece which
are the desired distance apart and therefore this pocket piece will be of the desired
length and size.
When these four bevelled cuts have been so made the longitudinal cut through
the pulley stile that creates and forms the lateral side of the pocket piece can be
made in any ordinary or other manner and by any suitable saw or other appliance
and then the longitudinal cut at or about the middle of the pulley stile in cross
section that joins the inner ends of each of the pairs of bevelled cuts may also if
necessary be made in any ordinary or other manner and by any suitable saw or
other appliance although very frequently these latter longitudinal cuts will not
require to be made as they can and will make themselves being as is hereinbefore
explained with the grain of the wood of which the pulley stile is generally
made.
Thus and in this manner and by this apparatus as is hereinbefore explained and
described the pocket pieces can be cut out of the pulley stiles of sash frames very
easily and quickly and with great and even absolute certainty regularity and
uniformity as is desired.
Any suitable tables or rests provided with guides and gauges and other desirable
appliances may when required very conveniently be fitted to and for the front of
the framing or elsewhere whereon the pulley stiles can be supported and held while
these bevelled cuts are being made as is hereinbefore described.
This apparatus hereinbefore described will obviously only make the cuts at
and in one bevel unless and until the brackets E and E are reversed in position on

page_text: the platforms B and B and in the slides or guides D and D' thereupon and
this reversal would plainly take and waste some time and yet it is commonly
desirable and expedient even if it be not absolutely necessary and obligatory
that the top and the bottom sides or ends of the pocket pieces on opposite sides
of the sash frame should be oppositely bevelled. It is therefore generally
pri ferable to duplicate this apparatas as is shown in the accompanying drawing
and to construct and arrange on the traming & two other similar platforms P
and it may be below the platforms B and B' hereinbef are described which
platform, P and P are likewise provided with similar slides or guides and
with similar brackets carrying similar spindles with saws or cutters and it may
he pulleys which can be similarly revolved from and through the same
preferably another similar long drain all in manner as is hereinbefore described
except that the spindles and therefore also the saws or cutters are inclined to
and with the platforms P and Pat the opposite angles to those at which the
spindles and the says or cutters are inclined to and with the platforms Band B' and
this part of the complete apparatus obviously would be arranged and actuated
and would net and would be used in a similar manner to that hereinbefore described
and no further description or explanation is or can be needed or desired.
ог
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
1 claim is
1. In an apparatus for cutting the pocket pieces out of the pulley stiles of sash
frames the combination with the two platforms B and B on a framing A of
adjustable brackets E and E' revoluble spindles F and F carried in and by the
brackets E and E' and inclined to and with the platforms B and B and saws or
cutters K and K seemed on the spindles F and F substantially as and for the
purpose herembefore described and declared.
2. The arrangement and coudunation of parts and appliances constituting the
apparatus for cutting the top and the bottom sides or ends of the packet pieces out
of the pulley stiles of sash frames substantially as hereinbefore described and shewn
in the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 3rd day of October 1893.
HART & Co..
186, Fleet Street, London, E.U., Agents.