IMPROVEMENTS MEANS WHEREBY 'TOOLS OR OPERATING IMPLEMENTS, INSTRUMENTS, APPLIANCES. OR PARTS OF MACHINERY OR APPARATUS MAY BE MOVED TO AND WORKED AT VARIOUS PARTS OF ARTICLES OR SURFACES TO BE OPERATED ON BY THE SAME
Year: 1867

page_text: IN THE
LETTERS PATENT to Michael Henry, of 68, Fleet Street, in the City
of London, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
MEANS WHEREBY 'TOOLS OR OPERATING IMPLEMENTS, INSTRUMENTS, APPLIANCES.
OR PARTS OF MACHINERY OR APPARATUS MAY BE MOVED TO AND WORKED AT
VARIOUS PARTS OF ARTICLES OR SURFACES TO BE OPERATED ON BY THE SAME'
-A communication from abroad by Norbert Belvallette, of 33, Boulevart
Davis Dance
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Michael Henry at the
-Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 15th
January 1867.
I, MICHAEL HENRY, of 68, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent
Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
IN
"IMPROVEMENTS
THE MEANS WHEREBY TOOLS OR OPERATING IMPLEMENTS, INSTRUMENTS,
APPLIANCES, OR PARTS OF MACHINERY OR APPARATUS MAY BE MOVED TO AND WORKED
AT VARIOUS PARTS OF ARTICLES OR SURFACES TO BE OPERATED ON BY THE SAME,'

page_text: communicated to me from abroad by Norbert Belvallette, of 33, Boulevart Saint
Martin, Paris, France, to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to provide means whereby the tools or
operating implements, instruments, appliances, or parts of machinery or appa-
ratus may be moved to and worked at various parts of surfaces or articles to be
operated upon, without the article or surface operated upon having to be moved
or shifted. For this purpose a jointed frame or a number of rigid frames,
arms, bars, or rods, jointed or articulated together is employed in the machine
or apparatus, such frame, frames, arms, bars, or rods carrying gear appliances
or means by which motion is communicated to the tool operating part, appliance,
or instrument to be actuated from the driving power or prime mover used, so
that the tool or appliance being connected with the jointed frames or arms, or
the parts carried by the same, may be moved to the required position of the
surface or article and worked thereat, motion being transmitted to it in what-
ever position it be thus placed. This may be effected as follows: A number
of frames are jointed together at the ends, each frame carrying a wheel or
pulley, the first of which is driven by the main driving wheel of the machine,
and the last of the train or series carries or is connected with the tool, instru-
ment, or part to be operated, and all the wheels or pulleys are in gear or
connection with each other, so that motion is transmitted to the tool, instrument,
or operating part into whatever position it may be moved by the frames. The
means of communicating motion carried by the frames may be, for example,
bevel, toothed, or friction gear, or pulleys and straps or other ordinary appli-
ances, and the wheels or pulleys may be some horizontal and some vertical, and
the frames may be jointed together by pins, knuckle joints, universal joints, or
other joints or fittings, so that they may be moved at various angles with
respect to each other.
In order that the Invention may be well understood I proceed to describe
two arrangements for carrying it into effect.
A wheel or pulley receiving motion from a driving pulley, on the axis of
which it is mounted, transmits such motion to a third pulley connected with it
by a frame in which their respective axes are mounted, and on the axis of the
third pulley is a fourth pulley supported also in a frame, at the further end of
which is a fifth pulley to the axis of which the tool to be operated is secured,
the frames are jointed or articulated together, hence into whatever position 1
the tool be moved by adjusting the frames, as required, the necessary driving
power will be communicated to it.
In another arrangement three or more frames may be jointed together at

page_text: their ends, each frame carrying a bevel toothed. wheel, the wheels being in
gear with each other, and the first of the train being driven by the driving
wheel and the last of the train carrying the tool on its axis.
The Invention is of course applicable to the working of tools, implements,
or operating parts or appliances in machinery or apparatus used for a very
great number of purposes in the manufactures and useful arts, among these may
especially be mentioned cutting, planing, smoothing, polishing, burnishing,
roughing, rubbing, boring, drilling, perforating, crushing, pulverizing, brushing,
varnishing, slotting, chasing, engraving, ornamenting, and various others too
numerous to detail, but which apparatus have all in common one distinctive
feature or requirement, viz., that of carrying a tool, implement, instrument,
appliance or part having to operate on various parts of a. surface or article,
and in all of which it is important to move such tool, instrument, appliance,
or part to the required part of the surface or article, and to work it
thereat without having to move, shift, or readjust the surface or article to be
operated upon.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Michael Henry in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
15th July 1867.
TO ALL. TO WHOM THESE. PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MICHAEL
HENRY, of 68, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent Agent, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said. Michael Henry, Her special licence that I, the said Michael
Henry, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said Michael Henry, 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, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and. Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN. THE MEANS WHEREBY. TOOLS OR. OPERATING IMPLEMENTS.
INSTRUMENTS, APPLIANCES, OR PARTS OF MACHINERY OR APPARATUS MAY BE MOVED

page_text: TO AND WORKED AT VARIOUS PARTS OF ARTICLES OR SURFACES TO BE OPERATED ON
BY THE SAME," communicated to me from abroad by Norbert Belvallette, of
33, Boulevart Saint Martin, Paris, France, upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Michael Henry, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Michael Henry, do hereby declare
the nature of the 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, as communicated to me, reference being had to the
accompanying Drawings, and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that
is to say:
The object of this Invention is to provide means whereby the tools or
operating implements, instruments, appliances, or parts of machinery or
apparatus may be moved to and worked at various parts of surfaces or articles
to be operated upon, without such articles or surfaces operated upon having to
be moved or shifted. For this purpose a jointed frame or a number of
frames, arms, bars, or rods jointed or articulated together are employed in the
apparatus, such frame, frames, arms, bars, or rods carrying gear, appliances,
or means by which motion is communicated to the tool operating part,
appliance, or instrument to be actuated from the driving power or prime
mover used, and the said tool, appliance, instrument, or operating part being
connected with the jointed frames or arms may be moved to the required
position on or required part of the surface to be operated upon, and may be
worked thereat, motion being transmitted to it in whatever position it be thus
placed; this may be effected as follows:-A number of frames are jointed
together at the ends, each frame carrying a wheel or pulley; the first of the
train of wheels or series of pulleys is driven by the driving wheel of the
machine, and the last of the train or series carries or is connected with the
tool, instrument, or part to be operated, and all the wheels or pulleys are in
connection or gear with each other, so that motion is transmitted to the tool,
instrument, or operating part into whatever position it may be moved by the
frames. The means of communicating motion carried by the frames may be,
for example, bevel, toothed, or friction gear, or they may be pulleys with
straps or other ordinary appliances for transmitting motion, and some of the

page_text: wheels or pulleys may be horizontal, and others of them vertical, so that the
tool or instrument may be moved into and worked at various planes; for
which purpose, also, the frames may be jointed together by hinges, knuckle
joints, universal joints, ball-and-socket joints, or other joints, so that they
may be moved at various angles with respect to each other.
And in order that the Invention may be well understood I herein-after
describe, with reference to the Drawings, two arrangements for carrying it
into effect.
The Invention is applicable to the working of tools, implements, or operating
parts or appliances in or of machinery or apparatus used for a very great number
of purposes in manufactures and useful arts; among these may be specially
mentioned apparatus for cutting, planing, smoothing, polishing, burnishing,
roughing, rubbing, boring, drilling, perforating, crushing, pulverizing,
brushing, varnishing, slotting, chasing, engraving, ornamenting, and various
other apparatus; or, in other words, apparatus for various other purposes far
too numerous to detail, but which apparatus have all in common one dis-
tinctive feature and requirement, namely, that of carrying a tool, implement,
instrument, appliance, or part having to operate on various parts of a surface
or article, and in all of which it is important to move such tool, instrument,
appliance, or part to the required part of the surface or article, so that it may
work thereat without having to move, shift, or readjust the surface or article
to be onerated upon.
The accompanying Drawings exemply two arrangements or apparatus 10)
carrying the Invention into effect.
Figure 1 is an elevation, and Figure 2, a plan of the first of these
arrangements.
A. is a grooved pulley mounted on a vertical axis b secured on a bench,
table, or framework of such height that the tool or instrument herein-after
mentioned may be in a convenient position for the workman to manipulate or
guide it; this pulley is actuated by a pulley at B worked by any ordinary
arrangements for communicating rotary motion, and the pulley A transmits
motion to a third pulley c connected with the pulley A by an arm, cross piece,
or rigid frame d; the pulley c is on an axis, on which is also a pulley d*
mounted at one end of a frame e; this frame e carries at its opposite end a
pulley; the axis of this last-named pulley extends downward at g below the
frame e, and the tool or instrument to be worked is fitted on this extended

page_text: part of the axis. It is evident that whatever be the position of the frame e,
with respect to the arm d motion will be communicated from the pulley B to
the stem g, and to the tool or instrument mounted thereon, and the workman
readily guides, adjusts, or shifts the tool into various positions required by the
work to be performed, and as indicated by the dotted lines,. Figure 2, without
interfering with the transmission of rotary motion from the pulley B to the
tool or instrument; is a weight for counterbalancing the weight of the tool
and the frame; v, v, are guide handles for guiding or directing the tool into
the various positions required.
I may mention, though it may almost be considered. as obvious, that the
greater the length of the frames jointed together, as above described, the
greater will be the extent of surface attainable by. the tool or instrument
which they carry.
Figure 3 is an elevation of a modification in which motion is transmitted
to the tool by bevelled gear; x, y, z, are a train of toothed or smooth wheels
or pinions, (that is to say, a train of either toothed or friction gear,) motion
is communicated to one pinion & transmitted to the others therefrom, the
axis of the last carrying the tools. It is evident, without farther explanation,
that motion will be transmitted to the tool or implement whatever be the
relative positions of the pinions and z with respect to the pinion y, the
pinions being mounted in or carried by frames or arms, which are jointed or
articulated to each other, and the tool is mounted on the axis of one of the
pinions.
In both these arrangements the tool, instrument, appliance, or implement
may be moved to any part of the surface of the article or material to be
operated upon without interfering with the communication of rotary motion to
such tool, instrument, appliance, or implement from the driving power or
actuating appliances employed, though the article or material while thus
being operated upon remains stationary or in a fixed position.
Although in Figures 1 and 2 only two frames are shown it is evident that
any number may be used, and they may be so arranged that the tool shall
work either in a horizontal plane or any other planes. Pulleys or wheels of
various sizes may be employed to obtain any required velocity.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same may be performed, I declare that I claim the employment
of a jointed or articulated frame, or of a number of frames, bars, arms, or
rods jointed or articulated, together, such frame, frames, arms, bars, or rods
carrying gear appliances or means by which motion is transmitted to a tool,

page_text: instrument, implement, or operating appliance or part connected with such
jointed frame, frames, arms, bars, or rods, so that such tool, instrument,
implement, or operating appliance or part may be moved to and worked
at various parts of articles or surfaces to be operated on by the same,
substantially as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Michael Henry, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of July, One thousand eight hundred
and sixty-seven.
Witness,
ERNEST DE PASS,
68, Fleet Street,
London, E.C.
M. HENRY. (L.S.)