Improvements in the Manufacture of Dentils and the like for Enriching Wood Mouldings.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Feb., 1887
Complete Left, 4th Nov., 1887
Complete Accepted, 6th Dec., 1887
Improvements in the Manufacture of Dentils and the like for
Enriching Wood Mouldings.
I, TOM HIGGINS, of 29, Yardley Street, Brighton, in the County of Sussex, Joiner
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
This invention relates to improvements in the manufacture, of dentils and the like
for enriching wood mouldings whereby the dentils are produced in a more rapid and
economical manner than hitherto.
In carrying out my invention first take a flat piece of wood of the required
thickness and by means of a suitable tool I form a number of grooves on the two
sides of the piece of wood, the strips between the grooves being of the width which
it is desired that the dentils or the like shall have when made. By means of a
suitable cutting tool I then cut the piece of wood into a number of strips of the
thickness which it is required to give the dentils or the like the cuts being made
transversely to the said grooves and at an obtuse angle to one of the flat sides of the
piece of wood. I then cut each strip longitudinally so as to form two lengths of the
pattern or dentils therefrom which can be applied to the wood moulding in this
form or the inclined ends of the teeth or dentils can be cut off at a right angle.
By cutting off the strips at an obtuse angle in the manner hereinbefore described
the bottoms of the grooves are then out of square with the face of the dentils or the
like and allow of the strips being so cut longitudinally that the bottoms of the grooves
shall form a kind of core which serves to hold a strip of dentils together without
presenting any surface beyond the face of the dentils.
G. F. REDFERN,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: I, TOM HIGGINS, of 20, Yardley Street, Brighton, in the County of Sussex, Joiner,
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:
This invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of dentils and the like
for enriching wood mouldings whereby the dentils are produced in a more rapid and
economical manner than hitherto.
In order to enable the invention to be fully understood I will describe how it can be
carried into practice by reference to the accompanying drawing the several figures of
which illustrate the various stages of manufacture of dentils made according to my
invention.
In carrying out my invention I first take a flat piece of wood of the required thickness
such for exainple as that shown in face view and edge view at figures 1 and 2
respectively by means of a suitable tool I form a number of grooves a a on the two
sides of the piece of wood as illustrated in face view at figure 3 and in edge views at
figures 4 and 5, the strips 66 between the grooves being of the width which it is
desired that the dentils or the like shall have when made. By means of a suitable
cutting tool I then cut the piece of wood into a number of strips of the thickness
which it is required to give the dentils or the liko the cuts being made transversely
to the grooves a a and at an obtuse angle to one of the flat sides of the piece of
wood.
The dotted lines in figure 4 indicate the direction in which the cuts are made to
form the said strips.
Figures 6 and 7 represent a face view and an end view respectively of one of the
strips cut from the grooved piece of wood in the manner described.
I then cut each strip longitudinally so. as to form two lengths of the pattern or
dentils therefrom.
The dotted lines in figure 7 indicate the direction in which the strips should be cut
to form the two lengths of the pattern or dentils, and
Figures 8 and 9 represent a face view and an end view respectively of one of the
said lengths. The lengths of the pattern or dentils can be applied to the wood
moulding in the form represented in figures 8 and 9, or the inclined ends of the teeth
or dentils cc can be cut off at a right angle as shown in figures 10 and 11 which
respectively represent similar views to figures 8 and 9 of a length of pattern which
has been cut in the described manner.
By cutting off the strips at an obtuse angle in the manner hereinbefore described

page_text: the bottoms of the grooves a are then out of square with the face of the dentils or the
like and allow of the strips being so cut longitudinally that the bottoms of the
grooves shall form a kind of core indicated at d in figures 8 to 11, which core serves
to hold a strip of dentils ce together without presenting any surface beyond the face
of the dentils.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
The improvements hereinbefore described in the manufacture of dentils and the like