IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR MAKING WOOD SPLINTS FOR MATCHES AND · FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Benjamin Joseph Barnard Mills, of the Firm of
Harris and Mills, of 23, Southampton Buildings, in the County of
Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR MAKING WOOD SPLINTS FOR MATCHES AND
· FOR OTHER PURPOSES."-A communication from abroad by Valdemar
Bergin Nielsen, of Malmö, in the Kingdom of Sweden.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Benjamin Joseph
Barnard Mills at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
his Petition, on the 1st October 1874.
I, BENJAMIN JOSEPH BARNARD MILLS, of the Firm of Harris and
Mills, of 23, Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex,
Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR MAKING WOOD SPLINTS FOR
MATCHES AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES," a communication to me from abroad

page_text: by Valdemar Bergin Nielsen, of Malmö, in the Kingdom of Sweden, to
be as follows:-
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The machinery or apparatus consists of a frame mounted at one end
upon centres of motion carried by suitable frames or standards. The
outer end of this frame is provided with a bracket carrying an axis of
motion forming the centre on which a feed lever is oscillated.
The timber to be made into splints is mounted in centres carried by
frames of a somewhat similar character to what are known as "poppet
heads" in lathes, one of such frames being fixed, and the other adjust-
able to the length of wood to be held between them.
The feed lever is formed at each end with inclines which are
alternately acted upon by the frame of the plane or cutter as the
latter arrives at each end of its stroke. The feed lever has mounted
on an axis of motion carried thereby a double-acting dog or knife, which
is acted upon by a stud or projection on the cutter frame to cause the
dog or knife at the times required to enter or to leave the piece of wood
or timber to be operated upon.
Each end of the cutter frame has projections or prolongations which
alternately come under one or the other of two lock levers acting
alternately to lock the feed lever. The plane or cutter frame is mounted
on suitable guides, and receives its reciprocating motion from a link
operated by any suitable means, and being capable of rising and falling
with the varying height of the apparatus in relation to the wood being
cut into splints.
The action of the apparatus is as follows:-The wood or timber
to be cut into splints is mounted centrally as before described, and the
frame carrying the cutter frame rests thereon. The cutter then in its
motion from left to right acts first to cut the wood, after which its
frame turns the feed dog or knife on its axis so as to release it from
the wood; one of the lock levers is then raised so as to release the
oscillating feed lever, which is then pushed a certain distance suitable
to bring the wood round into position for the next cut, and to enable
the opposite lock lever to hold the feed lever in this position. The
plane or cutter frame in its return motion first turns the feed dog or
knife on its axis so as to force it into the wood, and on approaching the
other end of its stroke the plane or cutter frame first releases the lock
lever from the feed lever, and then pushes against the feed lever so as

page_text: to cause it to turn on its axis and feed the wood for a fresh cut, in which
position it is firmly held by one of the lock levers until the plane or
cuiter has taken its next cut, when the movements are repeated as
before. The main frame follows by its own weight the outside of the
wood as the latter is cut away by the plane or cutter.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Benjamin Joseph Barnard Mills in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 1st April 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, BENJAMIN
JOSEPH BARNARD MILLS, of the Firm of Harris and Mills, of 23,
Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousan eight hundred and seventy-four, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Benjamin Joseph Barnard
Mills, Her special licence that 1, the said Benjamin Joseph Barnard'
Mills, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said Benjamin Joseph Barnard Mills, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, usc, exercise, and vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY
OR APPARATUS FOr Making Wood SPLINTS FOR MATCHES AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES,"
a communication to me from abroad by Valdemar Bergin Nielsen, of
Malmö, in the Kingdom of Sweden, upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Benjamin Joseph Barnard Mills, my executors or admini-
strators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their
hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of
the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
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page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Benjamin Joseph Barnard Mills,
do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, that is to
say:
The machinery or apparatus consists of a frame mounted at one end
upon centres of motion carried by suitable frames or standards. The
outer end of this frame is provided with a bracket carrying an axis of
motion forming the centre on which a feed lever is oscillated.
The timber to be made into splints is mounted in centres carried by
frames of
a somewhat similar character to what are known as "poppet
heads " in lathes, one of such frames being fixed, and the other adjust-
able to the length of wood to be held between them.
:
The feed lever is formed at each end with inclines which are
alternately acted upon by the frame of the plane or cutter as the
latter arrives at each end of its stroke. The feed lever has mounted
on an axis of motion carried thereby a double-acting dog or knife which
is acted upon by a stud or projection on the cutter frame to cause the
dog or knife at the times required to enter or to leave the piece of wood
or timber to be operated upon.
Each end of the cutter frame has projections or prolongations which
alternately come under one or the other of two lock levers acting
alternately to lock the feed lever. The plane or cutter frame is mounted
on suitable guides, and receives its reciprocating motion from a link
operated by any suitable means, and being capable of rising and falling
with the varying height of the apparatus in relation to the wood being
cut into splints.
And in order that the said Invention may be more clearly understood
and readily carried into effect, I will proceed, aided by the accompanying
Drawings, more fully to describe the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a side view of machinery or apparatus constructed
according to the said Invention; Figure 2 is an end view, and Figure 3
is a plan of nants.
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page_text: a is a frame which is mounted at one end upon centres of motion
carried by the frames or standards b. The outer end of this frame a
is provided with a bracket a¹ carrying an axis of motion c¹ forming the
centre on which a feed lever c is oscillated.
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The timber d to be made into splints is mounted on centres carried
by frames or standards e similar to the frames or standards b, and of a.
somewhat similar character to what are known as poppet heads in
lathes, one of such frames being fixed, and the other adjustable to the
length of wood to be held between them.
The feed lever c is formed at each end with inclines c², which are.
alternately acted upon by the rounded parts f¹, f, of the frame ƒ of
the plane or cutter as the latter arrives at each end of its stroke. The
feed lever chas mounted on an axis of motion c³ carried thereby a
double-acting "dog" or knife which is acted upon by a stud or
projection on the cutter frame f to cause the dog or knife y at
the times required to enter or to leave the piece of wood or timber to be.
operated upon.
Each end of the cutter frame has projections or prolongations ƒ*, ƒ³,
which alternately come under one or the other of two lock levers h, h',.
mounted on centres of motion carried, by the frame a, and acting
alternately to lock the feed lever c. The plane or cutter frame f is
mounted on guide rods a² carried by the frame a, and receives its
reciprocating motion from a link i operated by any suitable means,
and being capable of rising and falling with the varying height of the
frame a as it follows the surface of the wood being cut into splints.
The end of the link i acts within a hole or recess f* in the cutter
frame f.
The action of the apparatus is as follows:-The wood or timber d
to be cut into splints is mounted centrally as before described, and the
frame a rests thereon. The cutters carried by the cutter frame ƒ in the
motion thereof from left to right act first to cut the wood, after which
the projection f³ on the frame f turns the feed dog or knife g on its
axis into the position shown by dotted lines in Figure 5, so as to release
it from the wood. The lock lever is then raised by the projection
or prolongation f³ on the cutter frame ƒ so as to release the oscillating
feed lever c, which is then pushed by the rounded part ƒ of the frame f
at its right-hand end a certain distance suitable on its return motion

page_text: to bring the wood round into position for the next cut, and to enable
the opposite lock lever to hold the feed lever c in this position. The
plane or cutter frame in its return motion towards the left hand first
by the projection f³ turns the feed dog or knife 9 on its axis c³ so as
to bring it into the position shown by the full lines in Figure 5, and
thereby force it into the wood, and on approaching the completion of
its motion to the left the plane or cutter frame f by its projection or
prolongation f first releases the lock lever / from the feed lever c, and
then the rounded part f¹ of the frame f pushes against the feed lever c
so as to cause it to turn on its axis into the position shown at Figure 3,
and thereby feed the wood or timber for a fresh cut, in which position
it is firmly held by the lock lever h¹ until the plane or cutter has taken
its next cut, when the movements are repeated as before described. The
frame a follows by its own weight the outside of the wood d as the latter
is cut away by the plane or cutter.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and the modo
in which the same is carried into effect, I would have it understood
that what I claim is, the novel construction and combination of
machinery or apparatus for making wood splints, substantially as hercin
shown and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Benjamin Joseph Barnard Mills,
have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of
March, in the year of our Lord One thousand cight hundred.
and seventy-five.
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