New or Improved Apparatus for Housing Timber.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Aug., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Apr., 1895-Accepted, 24th May, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
New or Improved Apparatus for Housing Timber.
I, ALFRED SLATER of Horton Lawn, Gloucester in the County of Gloucester,
Manager to The Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company Limited
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists of a machine or apparatus capable of being driven by
power for housing timber between mortice holes or otherwise whereby great
economy in time and labour is effected.
The machine or apparatus consists of revolving cutters attached to a frame or
grip for holding the timber to be housed and is furnished with rollers on either
side worked by circular hand wheels to facilitate the adjustment of the timber.
The cutters consist of a blade or of blades fixed on a revolving head by set
screws or otherwise which head has horizontal and vertical motions and can be
fitted with checks or stops to regulate the extent of the stroke in either
direction.
The timber to be housed being fixed in its place the cutters are set in motion and
worked into the timber horizontally by means of a lever or screw to any depth
required, the vertical motion also by means of a lever or screw is then brought
to bear on the timber to the required amount of travel and the housing is
completed.
Dated this 20th day of August 1894
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Agents.
New or Improved Apparatus for Housing Timber.
I, ALFRED SLATER, of Horton Lawn, Gloucester, in the County of Gloucester
Manager to The Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company Limited,
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:-
My invention consists of a machine or apparatus capable of being driven by
power for housing timber between mortice holes or otherwise whereby great
economy in time and labour is effected.
The machine or apparatus consists of revolving cutters attached to a frame or
grip for holding the timber to be housed and is furnished with rollers on either
side worked by hand wheels to facilitate the adjustment of the timber. The cutters
consist of a blade or of blades fixed on a revolving head by set screws or otherwise
which head has horizontal and vertical motions and can be fitted with checks or
stops to regulate the extent of the stroke in either direction.
The timber to be housed being fixed in its place the cutters are set in motion
and worked into the timber horizontally by means of a lever or screw to any depth
required, the vertical motion also by means of a lever or screw is then brought

page_text: to bear on the timber to the required amount of travel and the housing is
completed.
In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 is a transverse section and Figure 2 is
an end view.
The machine consists of a main frame D which carries an adjustable or fixed
table B on which the back stop C is adjustable. E is a slide rest for carrying the
revolving cutters a consisting of a blade or blades fixed to a revolving head A
which may be done in the usual manner by set screws. The said head A is carried
by the slide rest E and has horizontal and vertical motions and checks or stops are
provided to regulate the extent of the stroke in either direction.
The horizontal feed is given by the screw and hand wheel e and the vertical
feed by the hand lever g connected to the saddle F carrying the slide rest E which
saddle slides vertically on the main frame D being partly balanced by the balance
weight G.
The timber to be operated upon is placed on the table B which is furnished
with rollers 6 on either side worked by hand wheels to facilitate the adjustment of
the timber.
The timber is gripped by the jaw c operated by the hand wheel and screw d.
The driving belt from countershaft H passes round the pulley h on the cutter
spindle and round the jockey pulley I and also round the belt tightening pulley J
which works in vertical guides K and is provided with the weight W.
The timber to be housed being fixed in its place on the table B, the cutters a
are set in motion, and worked into the timber horizontally by means of the feed
screw e to any depth required. Then by means of the lever g the vertical motion
is given to the required amount of travel, and the housing is completed.
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 arrangement and combination of parts constituting an apparatus or machine
for housing timber substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by the
accompanying drawings.
Dated this 20th day of April 1895.
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
Agents.