IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR BORING WOOD AND OTHER MATERIALS USED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BROOMS AND BRUSHES
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Appleby, of 4, Tavistock Place, Plumstead
Common, in the County of Kent, Gentleman, and Henry Harrison, of
the Grand Junction Works, Northampton, Engineer, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR BORING WOOD AND OTHER MATERIALS
USED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BROOMS AND BRUSHES."
Sealed the 6th June 1862, and dated the 13th December 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Appleby and
Henry Harrison at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 13th December 1861.
We, HENRY APPLEBY, of 4, Tavistock Place, Plumstead Common, in the
County of Kent, Gentleman, and HENRY HARRISON, of the Grand Junction
Works, Northampton, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR BORING WOOD AND OTHER MATERIALS USED
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BROOMS AND BRUSHES," to be as follows:--
This Invention has for its object improvements in machinery for boring
wood and other materials used in the manufacture of brooms and brushes.
For these purposes, in order that numerous holes may be simultaneously bored
in a piece of wood or other substance to receive tufts or quantities of bristles
or other substances used in the manufacture of brooms or brushes, a number
of suitable drills or boring tools are employed, each mounted separately in a
socket or holder on the end of a stem, which is so formed in parts connected

page_text: by universal joints as to admit of a part of the stem being at an angle to the
plane in which the drill or boring tool carried thereby works. At that end of
the stem where the boring tool is applied a perforated plate is stationed,
having in it a number of holes corresponding with the holes desired to be
bored in the piece of wood or other material, and in each of these holes there
is a socket for a boring tool, and each socket has motion communicated to it
by a stem constructed as above described. From this plate the stems diverge
from one another and get farther and farther apart, when they pass through
sockets which turn in holes in another plate. To the plate last mentioned a
lever is applied, or other provision is made to move it forward together with
the stems of the boring tools, so as to advance the boring tools into the wood
or other material held to the points of the boring tools. The back ends of the
stems are supported in any suitable bearings, and each of the stems has on it
pulley or drum to receive a band or strap driven by a cylinder, which is put
in motion by a steam engine or other power. By thus having the stems of
the boring tools in parts connected by universal joints, the boring tools may
be caused to work very close together, whilst the stems where they are driven
are at a convenient distance apart to admit of their being driven. The plate
which carries the boring tools may be changed from time to time, according as
the work to be done requires to be varied.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry Appleby and Henry Harrison in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 13th June 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, HENRY
APPLEBY, of 4, Tavistock Place, Plumstead Common, in the County of Kent,
Gentleman, and HENRY HARRISON, of the Grand Junction Works, North-
ampton, Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
us, the said Henry Appleby and Henry Harrison, Her special licence that
we, the said Henry Appleby and Henry Harrison, our executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Henry Appleby and
Henry Harrison, our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-

page_text: after 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 "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MACHINERY FOR BORING WOOD AND OTHER MATERIALS USED IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF BROOMS AND BRUSHES," upon the condition (amongst others)
that we, the said Henry Appleby and Henry Harrison, our executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under our or their hands and
seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us or them, 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 Henry Appleby, on behalf of myself
and the said Henry Harrison, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion, 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:
This Invention has for its object improvements in machinery for boring
wood and other materials used in the manufacture of brooms and brushes.
For these purposes, in order that numerous holes may be simultaneously bored
in a piece of wood or other substance to receive tufts or quantities of bristles
or other substances used in the manufacture of brooms and brushes, a number
of suitable drills or boring tools are employed, each mounted separately in a
socket or holder on the end of a stem, which is so formed in parts connected
by universal joints as to admit of a part of the stem being at an angle to the
plane in which the drill or boring tool carried thereby works. At that end of
the stem where the boring tool is applied a perforated plate is stationed,
having in it a number of holes corresponding with the holes desired to be
bored in the piece of wood or other material, and in each of these holes there
is a socket for a boring tool, and each socket has motion communicated to it
by a stem constructed as above described. From this plate the stems diverge
from one another and get farther and farther apart, when they pass through
sockets which turn in holes in another plate. To the plate last mentioned a
lever is applied or other provision is made to move it forward, together with
the stems of the boring tools, so as to advance the boring tools into the wood
or other material held to the points of the boring tools. The back ends of the
stems are supported in any suitable bearings, and each of the stems has on it
a pulley or drum to receive a band or strap driven by a cylinder, which is put
in motion by a steam engine or other power. By thus having the stems of

page_text: the boring tools in parts connected by universal joints, the boring tools may be
caused to worked very close together, whilst the stems where they are driven
are at a convenient distance apart to admit of their being driven. The plate
which carries the boring tools may be changed from time to time according as
the work to be done requires to be varied.
Having thus stated the nature of our said Invention, we will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING,
which represents a side elevation of a machine arranged and combined accord-
ing to our Invention.
a, a, is the framing of the machine; b, 6, are a series of drills or boring
tools; c, c, are the stems, which at their ends receive the boring tools or drills.
These stems are each made in two parts, which are connected together by an
universal joint d, so that although the drills or boring tools may be required
,to work very close together, the stems may be at such a distance apart as to
admit of their being readily driven by bands or straps acting on separate
pulleys or drums e, e. On each of the stems are collars or projecting bands
at f on both sides of the plate g, by which all the stems can be moved forward
or backward at the same time to and from the work. Or in place of the
drills or boring tools being arranged to be moved to and from the work simul-
taneously, provision may be made for moving the work up to and from the
drills or boring tools. h is a lever by which the plate g is moved. On the
axis of the lever h are cranks or arms h¹, to which and to the plate g con-
necting rods are attached by pin joints.
Having thus described the nature of our Invention and the manner of
performing the same, we would have it understood that we make no claim to
any of the mechanical parts separately; but what we claim is the combined
arrangement herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Appleby, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
H'. APPLEBY. (L.S.)