NEW OR IMPROVED MACHINERY FOR STOCKING AND SCREWING GUNS AND PISTOLS
Year: 1862

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Stokes, Charles Wedge
James, and John Stokes at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 19th June 1862.
We, WILLIAM STOKES, of. Birmingham, in. the County of Warwick, Gun
Barrel Rifler, and CHARLES WEDGE JAMES, of Birmingham aforesaid, Gun
Manufacturer, and JOHN STOKES, of Birmingham, aforesaid, Gun Barrel
Rifler, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "NEW OR
IMPROVED MACHINERY FOR STOCKING AND SCREWING GUNS AND PISTOLS," to be as
follows:-
Our Invention consists of machinery constructed as herein-after described
for stocking and screwing guns and pistols, that is for cutting out or shaping
the stocks of guns and pistols, for the reception of the lock, beel plate, trigger
plate, guard rod, spring, nose cup, and side cups.
The said machinery is constructed essentially as follows:-On the bed of
the machine a compound slide or saddle works, the said slide having both
longitudinal and transverse motions in a horizontal plane. On the said com-
pound slide the stock to be operated upon is fixed by an excentric clamp, and
parallel with the stock a pattern or model is fixed, the said pattern having the
figure to be produced in the stock. The said compound slide is moved along
the bed of the machine by a rack and pinion, the rack being on the bed of
the machine and the pinion on the lower part of the slide. The upper part of

page_text: the slide is made to move transversely on the lower part by means of a rack
and pinion. Over the bed of the machine and extending from end to end of
the bed is a dovetail in which a slide carrying the cutting tool and a fixed
guide works. The guide, which consists of a pointed rod, is fixed to the said
slide in a vertica' position and the cutting tool which rotates on a vertical axis
is fixed parallel to the guide. Besides being capable of a horizontal motion
in the dovetail, the cutting tool and guide are capable of rising and falling
together in a vertical line. The cutting tool and guide are moved by hand both
horizontally and vertically by means of an arm or lever. Rotatory motion is
communicated to the cutting tool by means of a pulley and band. We
employ about six of the cutting tools, guides, and pulleys on the dovetail slide,
each of the said cutting tools being of a different size from the rest, and the
stock is brought under one or other of the cutting tools to operate upon
different parts. The slide carrying the stock and model can be moved from
end to end of the bed of the machine, but the horizontal motion of the slide
carrying the cutting tools is very limited. The stock to be operated upon is
turned, and the barrel is fitted to it in the ordinary manner before it is operated
upon by our new or improved machinery. After the stock and model have
been fixed in the slide on the bed of the machine the rotating cutting tool and
guide are brought down upon them respectively, and the slide carrying the
stock and model are moved about until the part of the stock being operated
upon
has been cut to the figure of the model. The position of the stock
is changed and different models are employed from time to time, in order to
operate upon all parts of the stock where portions have to be cut away.