Improvements in Machinery or Apparatus for Drilling and Cutting Wood.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Sept., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 10th June, 1891-Accepted, 11th July, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery or Apparatus for Drilling and Cutting
Wood.
A communication to me from abroad by KARL PUFE, of Weitsberg, in the Empire
of Germany, Master Carpenter.
I, EDMUND EDWARDS, of the firm of Edwards and Co., Patent Agents and
Engineers, of 35 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County of
Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :—
This invention relates to an improved apparatus for cutting, or drilling holes in,
wood, which can be used either alone or in combination with an ordinary work-
bench.
It consists of a rectangular box or support, or an ordinary work-bench, upon the
upper surface of which is fixed an angular bracket having a vertical and a horizontal
side, with rounded edge or corner. Near the angle where these sides meet is a hole
through which passes a horizontal pin or bolt, upon which fits and turns a bracket
having two side plates or flanges which embrace the support, and carrying bearings
in which revolves a spindle provided with a driving pulley by which it can be set in
rapid revolution by any convenient power. This moveable bracket can be turned
upon the pin or bolt so that the spindle is in either a vertical or horizontal position,
and it is fixed in either position by means of a bolt passing through the bracket and
the fixed support and provided with a nut.
The spindle has at its end a central hole in which fits and is fixed' a drill or a
cutting tool, as may be required.
When the cutting tool is to be used, the spindle is arranged in a vertical position,
a horizontal board or plate being arranged above it to support the work which is to
be cut or moulded, and the upper end of the spindle passing through a hole in the
board. This board is carried by an angle iron or bracket, the vertical arm of which
has a slot by which it can be adjusted to any desired height, and fixed to the side of
the supporting box or board by a thumb screw.
When the spindle is to be used for drilling holes, it is fixed in a horizontal position,
and the board or plate is turned outward and fixed at the required height to support
the work which is to be drilled.
Dated this 10th day of Contomban 1800
COMPLETE
SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery or Apparatus for Drilling and Cutting
Wood.
A communication to me by KARL PUFE, of Weitsberg, in the Empire of Germany,
Master Carpenter.
I, EDMUND EDWards, of the firm of Edwards and Co., Patent Agents and
Engineers, of 35, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County of
Middlesex, 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 and accompanying drawing, that is to say :—
This invention relates to an improved apparatus for cutting or drilling holes in
wood which can be used either alone or in combination with an ordinary work
bench.

page_text: The accompanying drawing is in illustration of
Figures 1, 2, and 3, being front, side, and top,
machine, and
invention,
ws respectively of the cutting
Figures 4, 3, and 6, being side, front, and top, views of the machine arranged for
drilling.
The machine consists of a rectangular box o support A, or an ordinary work
bench, upon the upper surface of which is fixet an angular bracket B having a
vertical and a horizontal side, with rounded eilge or corner. Near the angle where
these sides meet is a hole through which passes a horizontal pin or bolt. (', upon
which fits and turns a bracket E having two side plates or flanges (, (, which
embrace the support. B and carrying bearings d, d, in which revolves a spindle 11
provided with a driving pulley K by which it can be set in rapid revolution by any
convenient power. This moveable bracket E can be turned upon the pin or bolt (
so that the spindle is in either a vertical (Figures 1 and 2) or a horizontal position
(Figure 4) and it is fixed in either position by means of a bolt or pin D, passing
through the bracket and the fixed support and provided with a nut .
The spindle has at its front end a central hole in which fits and is fixed a drill
or a cutting tool, as may be required.
When the cutting tool is to be used the spindle is arranged in a vertical position,
a horizontal board or plate L being arranged above it to support the work which is
to be cut or moulded, the upper end of the spindle passing through a hole in the
board, and the cutting tool being fixed to it, that wood supported and guided
upon the hoard I, can be cut or moulded as dired. This board L is carried by
one or more angle irons or brackets M, the vertical arms of which have slots by
which they can be adjusted to any desired height, and fixed to the side of the
supporting box or bench A by a thumb screw N.
When the spindle is to be used for drilling es, the nut is unscrewed, and the
bracket E is turned upon the bolt C until it rests upon the horizontal top of the
support B, (as shewn in Figure 4) the nut F1 g then screwed upon the other pin
or bolt D, and the board or plate 1. being turned outward and fixed at the required
height to support the work which is to be drill d.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed. I declare that what
I claim is :-
A. machine for cutting and drilling wood, consisting of the bracket E, carrying a
revolving spindle II to which the tool or drill is fixed, and tuning upon the bolt C,
so that it can be adjusted and fixed in either a vertical or horizontal position upon
the support B, in combination with the board or plate L which when cutting is to
he done is fixed above the vertical spindle II, and when drilling is to be done is
fixed by the side of the horizontal spindle II, substantially as described and shown.
Dated this 10th day of June 1891.
EDWARDS & Co.,
35, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.