An Improved Apparatus for Setting-out, Marking, and Cutting Wood and other Material.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Nov., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 27th Aug., 1894-Accepted, 29th Sept., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Apparatus for Setting-out, Marking, and Cutting Wood
and other Material.
I WILLIAM OSMENT of Sanford House Clapton in the County of Middlesex
Builder do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to provide for use a very simple and cheap and yet
extremely efficient apparatus in and by which any required work can very rapidly
and surely be properly set-out and marked or indicated on the surface of the wood
or other material to be treated amongst which work I may instance mortises and
the like and this apparatus can also when desired be so arranged as to be capable of
cutting or grooving wood or other material.
To carry out this object I make two rectangular or other frames which are hinged
together or otherwise connected along one of their edges in which place a shaft is
mounted. At or near the opposite edge of each frame is mounted another shaft and
all three shafts are parallel with each other and the central shaft can cause by
bands or other like appliances the other two shafts separately to revolve. On the
two shafts on the free edges of the frames are a number of loose bosses on the side
of each of which can be secured an annular or a disc saw or cutter or other suitable
appliance or these saws or cutter or appliances may be directly on the shafts and the
bosses or the saws or cutters or appliances and the shafts whereon they are mounted
are so fitted in any convenient manner that the same can be secured on such shafts
in any positions and at any desired intervals. For example set screws may be used
for this purpose or screw nuts or keys or wedges or the like. The central shaft is
mounted on a suitable framing whereon also a table may be provided for the piece
of wood or other material to be treated and on this framing may further be fitted
screw or other adjustable stays or supports by which the two hinged frames can be
supported in the desired positions the desired distances apart. The central shaft
can be revolved by any suitable means and the table which may be adjustable
and sliding can be fitted with any desirable guides and gauges and other
appliances.
When therefore the saws or cutters or appliances are secured on the shafts in the
desired number at the desired intervals and the frames are supported the desired
distance apart and the central shaft is revolved the piece or pieces of wood or other
material can be entered between these revolving saws or cutters or appliances and
is or are either marked thereby for the setting-out of the work or when the frames
are brought closer together cut or grooved thereby as deeply as may have been
arranged for and the effect has obviously simultaneously been produced on both the
surfaces of such piece or pieces.
When it is desired so to treat only one surface of the piece or of each of the
pieces of wood or other material one of the frames preferably perhaps the lower
or under one if so arranged can obviously be supported in such position that the
other surface will not be touched or treated by the saws or cutters or appliances
thereof.
Dated this 27th day of November 1893
HART & Co.,!
186, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Agents.

page_text: An Improved Apparatus for Setting-out, Marking, and Cutting Wood.
and other Material.
1 WILLIAM OSMENT of Sanford House Clapton in the County of Middlesex
Builder 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 :―
The object of this my invention is to provide for use a very simple and cheap and
yet extremely convenient and efficient apparatus in and by which any work such
for example as mortises and the like that may be required can very rapidly and
surely be properly set-out and marked or indicated on the surface or surfaces of the
piece of wood or other material that is to be treated and this operation can very
speedily and easily be repeated so often as may be desired with great exactitude
regularity and uniformity and furthermore this apparatus can when desired be so
fitted and arranged as to be capable of cutting or grooving or the like the surface
or surfaces of the piece of wood or other material that is to be treated in the same
manner and with the same excellences and advantages.
In order the more clearly to explain this my invention and in what mauner the
same is to be performed I refer to the accompanying drawing wherein Figure 1 is
an end elevation of an extremely simple and convenient form and style of
construction of my apparatus and Figure 2 is a plan of the same.
A suitable framing A of wood or metal or other material and of any appropriate
length and breadth is made to support the apparatus at the desired and convenient
height.
At or near the rear edge of the top of the framing A is longitudinally mounted
an horizontal shaft B in suitable bearings C which shaft B can be revolved and
governed by any suitable power and by any convenient means and appliances
through fast and loose pulley's B' or otherwise. At or near the front edge of the
top of the framing A is longitudinally mounted another horizontal shaft D in
suitable bearings E which shaft D is parallel with the shaft B and can be revolved
with the same by a driving band F passed round fixed pulleys on such shafts B
and D preferably as is shewn near one of the ends thereof or by other convenient
and usual means. Near to and parallel with the line of the shaft B or as is perhaps
preferable and as is shewn in the drawing in the same line as and outside of or
beyond the ends of such shaft B are erected or fitted on the framing A two
brackets H in or on each of which brackets H is mounted and pivoted one end of
an arm K of the desired length and shape and near or at the free ends of these
arms K is mounted in suitable bearings another shaft M which shaft M likewise is
parallel with the shaft B and can similarly be revolved with the same by a driving
band N passed round fixed pulleys on such shafts B and M preferably also near
one of the ends thereof and as is shewn opposite to the band F or by other
convenient and usual means and the two shafts D and M are at about the same
distance from the shaft B and therefore correspond with each other. The arms K
can be supported at the desired elevations by adjustable stays P or other suchlike
appliances properly erected or fitted on the framing A or elsewhere therefor in
such positions as not to interfere.with the due treatment hereinafter described of the
piece of wood or other material which stays P or other appliances are so provided
with any ordinary and suitable devices as to be capable of maintaining such arms K
in their required positions and I would state that I consider that the screw nuts
shewn in Figure 1 are extremely appropriate for this purpose. On each of the
shafts D and M are mounted a certain desired number of loose sleeves or bosses R
which can freely slide or move along such shafts D and M and can be fixed and
secured thereto in any required positions it may be by set screws R¹ or in any

page_text: other convenient and usual manner and by and through any other suitable and
ordinary means and devices and on and to the side of each boss R is secured by
screws or otherwise an annular or a disc saw or suchlike cutter S of the desired
diameter or other appliance that may be suitable for and capable of producing the
effect required and when it may be desired so to do one of these cutters S or other
appliances may be so secured on and to each of the sides or ends of each boss R
or it may be whensoever desired the cutter S or other appliance can be so
constructed and formed and fitted in any usual and appropriate manner as to be
capable of being mounted on and fixed and secured to the shaft D or M in any
position without the intervention of any separate boss.
The apparatus herein before described is properly arranged and can be used and
worked in the following manner when it is desired to set-out and mark or indicate
on the surfaces of a piece of wood or other material the required work.
.
The cutters S or other appliances that are to be used have in each case
peripheries or edges properly formed and constructed to produce the required
marks and such peripheries or edges circumferentially or in or about the planes of
such cutters S or other appliances may be single or may be duplicated or triplicated
or otherwise and may be formed with teeth or may be ribbed or grooved or milled
or the like longitudinally or transversely or may be otherwise treated as may be
customary or as may be desired. Such a number of these cutters S or other
appliances whether with or without the bosses R are mounted on the shafts D and M
and thereto are fixed and secured in such positions and at such intervals as is
necessary to produce the required marks on the surfaces of a piece of wood or other
material in the required positions. The arins K are supported by the stays Por
other appliances at such elevations and are maintained thereby in such positions
that the shaft M is so far above and from the shaft D that the cutters S or other
appliances on such shafts D and M will not allow the particular piece of wood or
other material that is to be treated to pass freely between them or that is to say
the shafts D and M are maintained so far apart that the distance between the
approaching peripheries or edges of the cutters S or other appliances thereon is a
little less than the breadth or depth or thickness of such piece of wood or other
material.
The shaft B is then revolved causing the shafts D and M with their cutters S
or other appliances likewise to revolve and the piece of wood or other material
that is to be treated is presented to and forced or drawn against and in between
these cutters S or other appliances in such wise that the peripheries or edges
of such cutters S or other appliances will cut or will impress or will force
themselves into the surfaces of such piece of wood or other material in the
desired and arranged for positions and to the desired and arranged for depths
and thus the required marks for the setting-out of the work are produced and
made on both surfaces of this piece of wood or other material.
When on the other hand it is desired to cut or groove or the like the surfaces of a
piece of wood or other material the peripheries of the cutters S are similarly formed
and constructed in any usual and suitable manner to produce such cuts or grooves or
the like of such sizes and shapes in transverse section or otherwise as are required
and these cutters S are similarly mounted on and fixed and secured to the shafts D
and M in such uumber and in such positions as is necessary to produce the required
cuts or grooves or the like in the surfaces of the piece of wood or other material
in the required positions and these shafts D and M are similarly so supported and
maintained as to cause the approaching peripheries of the cutters S to be at such
a distance apart as is necessary having regard to the breadth or depth or thickness
of the particular piece of wood or other material that is to be treated and the
depths of the cuts or grooves or the like that are to be made in the surfaces
thereof.
The shafts B and D and M with the cutters S are similarly revolved and the
piece of wood or other material that is to be treated is similarly presented to and
forced against and in between these cutters S in such wise that the required cuts

page_text: or grooves or the like are similarly produced and made in the desired and arranged
for positions and to the desired and arranged for depths in both surfaces of this
piece of wood or other material.
The shafts D and M and therefore the cutters S or other appliances thereon can
be caused in manner as is hereinbefore described or otherwise in any other
convenient and usual manner to revolve in the same direction or in opposite
directions as may be advisable or preferable or perhaps even necessary in each
particular case.
Any ordinary and suitable table or other suchlike contrivance may when
desired be provided for and with this apparatus whereon the piece of wood or
other material that is to be treated can be placed and whereby it can be supported
before and it may be during such treatment which table or other contrivance may
most conveniently be adjustable in height and position and may be stationary or
may be capable of travelling or sliding as may be desired.
Any convenient clamps and supports and guides and gauges and other usual and
appropriate appliances and devices may most suitably be provided for and with
this apparatus and may be fitted on the supporting framing thereof or on the table
or other contrivance if any or elsewhere to clasp and hold the piece of wood or
other material that is to be treated and to regulate and govern the position of the
same before and during such treatment and thus to ensure the exact regular and
uniform repetition of the same treatment so often us may be desired.
It will perhaps very frequently even if not invariably be advisable or necessary
that the shaft M should be parallel with the shaft D as most even if not all of the
pieces of wood or other material that it is desired to treat in manner as is herein-
before described have parallel surfaces and for this purpose the adjustable stays P
could be so fitted or marked or otherwise treated in any usual and convenient
manner and with any ordinary and suitable devices that they would always or
generally support and maintain the arms K at the same corresponding elevations
or when other appliances are used instead of the stays P they could be so fitted as
to be capable of being actuated or operated on simultaneously.
I have thus described and I have shewn in the accompanying drawing as is
herein before stated an extremely simple and convenient form and style of
construction of my apparatus but I would have it clearly understood as indeed is
sufficiently obvious that I do in no wise limit myself exactly and precisely thereto.
For example the shaft D can be mounted on two arms similar to and corre-
sponding with the arms K instead of in the bearings E on the framing A which
arms likewise could and preferably would be similarly pivoted in or on the
brackets H and can be similarly supported and maintained at the desired elevations
by the same or other adjustable stays P or other appliances.
Again the two arms K may be rigidly connected together by a longitudinal tie
or bar or by longitudinal ties or bars whereby a frame would be created to carry
the shaft M as also could another similar frame be created to carry the shaft D
when so arranged in which latter case the two frames could and preferably would
be mounted in or on the brackets H and could be hinged or jointed together at or
along one of their edges or could be pivoted together in or on such brackets H
and in either case a central adjustable stay P or other appliance may when desired
be similarly used to support and maintain the frame or frames at the desired
elevation or elevations care being taken that this central stay P or other appliance
is in such position as not to interfere with the due treatment herein before described
of the piece of wood or other material.
It may also be sometimes desired to treat in manner as is hereinbefore described
only one surface of a piece of wood or other material instead of both surfaces
thereof and in this case it is obvious that a table or other suchlike contrivance
would be needed whereon to place such piece of wood or other material and
whereby to support the same during such treatment and when the shaft D is
mounted on two arms or is carried by a frame this shaft D can be so lowered that
the cutters S or other appliances thereon cannot touch and treat the under

page_text: surface of the piece of wood or other material when placed on and supported by
the table or other contrivance or when the shaft D is mounted in the bearings É
on the framing A or even when it is mounted on two arms or is carried by a
frame the shaft M can be so elevated by the arms K whereon it is mounted
or by the frame whereby it is carried and the table or other contrivance can
be so adjusted and raised that when the piece of wood or other material is
placed on and supported by such table or other contrivance the cutters S or
other appliances on the shaft D similarly cannot touch and treat the under
surface of such piece of wood or other material while in both cases and according
to both arrangements the cutters S or other appliances on the shaft M can and will
be caused to touch and treat the upper surface of the piece of wood or other
material when presented for treatment in manner as is hereinbefore described.
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
1. In an apparatus for setting-out marking and cutting wood and other material
the combination with a revoluble shaft D mounted on a framing A or on arms
or on a frame pivoted or hinged on such framing A and adjustable cutters S or
other appliances mounted on and secured to such shaft D of a revoluble shaft M
mounted on arms K or on a frame pivoted or hinged on the framing A and
adjustable cutters S or other appliances mounted on and secured to such shaft M
means being provided whereby the shafts D and M can be simultaneously revolved
and can also be maintained at the required distance apart substantially as and for
the purpose herein before described and declared.
2. The apparatus for setting-out marking and cutting wood and other material
substantially as herein before described and shewn in the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 27th day of July 1894.
HART & Co.,
186, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Agents.