CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATIONARLAR CUTTINGS IN METAL OTHER HARD SUBSTAN
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Edwin Moore, of 3, Great Titchfield Street,
St. Marylebone, London, in the County of Middlesex, Engineer, for the
Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Edwin Moore at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
5th October 1854.
I, THOMAS EDWIN MOORE, of 3, Great Titchfield St., St. Marylebone,
London, in the County of Middlesex, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS
FOR CURVILINEAR AND ANNULAR CUTTINGS IN METALS AND OTHER HARD SUBSTANCES"
to be as follows, reference being had to the annexed Drawings, and to Figures
and letters marked therein :--
The Invention consists in effecting the above-named objects by adapting a
circular moving disk to an ordinary planing machine, so that the longitudinal
motion of its sliding bed shall produce the required motion on said circular
moving disk; the construction and working thereof, as herein-after described.
Of the said Drawings, Figures, & letters, Fig. 1 represents a side elevation
of an ordinary planing machine, with a view of the said circular moving disk
in situation as intended to be worked. A shews said disk raised to show its
centre shaft B. The dotted line C indicates the longitudinal sliding bed of

page_text: planing machine, which, being put into motion by the ordinary driving gear
and regulated, acts as required on the circular moving disk by means of an
intermediate rack and pinion wheel, as seen in Fig. 2. D is the end of
driving shaft; E, the band wheels of the same.
Fig. 2 shews a top view of said circular moving disk with a portion
removed, to bring into view the rack and pinion wheel, by means of which, as
aforesaid, its circular motion is produced. A is the circular moving disk; B is
its centre shaft; C, the rack; and F is the pinion wheel.
Fig. 3 manifests a front view of said circular moving disk with rack
attached to the longitudinal bed of an ordinary planing machine. A denotes I
said disk; B, its centre shaft; C, the longitudinal sliding bed with rack
attached to it; F is the pinion wheel for driving said disk.
Fig. 4 exhibits front view of another mode of working said disk, and by
which arrangement the said disk may, if required so, be effectively worked
independent of the sliding bed. A shews the circular moving disk; B, its 1
centre shaft, having its lower end set in a socket C; D is an ordinary cross
shaft, with the necessary gear for working the sliding bed; F is the bevil
gearing wheels for driving said disk.
Fig. 5 shews another mode of giving motion to said disk, viz., by means of
cross or longitudinal endless screw shaft, and, as in the preceding case, can, if
so required, be worked independent of sliding bed; B is the pinion wheel of
said disk; C, its centre shaft; D, the cross shaft, with its endless screw.
DESCRIPTION OF MODE OF WORKING.
The work to be operated on is to be secured upon the face of said circular
moving disk, which being set in motion by the longitudinal movement of the s
sliding bed of an ordinary planing machine, as shown in Fig. 1, 2, & 3, aud
the cutting tool properly adjusted and brought down upon the work, the
required operation will be effected.
Besides the herein-before mentioned modes of working the said disk, other
adaptations of it may be employed to effect equally well the same purposes..
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Edwin Moore in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 28th March 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
EDWIN MOORE, 3, Great Titchfield Street, St. Marylebone, London, in the 8
County of Middlesex, Engineer, send greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the eighteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Thomas Edwin Moore, Her special licence that I, the said Thomas
Edwin Moore, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Thomas Edwin Moore, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter 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
"CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR CURVILINEAR AND
ANNULAR CUTTINGS IN METALS AND OTHER HARD SUBSTANCES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Thomas Edwin Moore, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and seal, 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 Thomas Edwin Moore, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:-
The Invention consists of effecting the above-named objects by adapting a
horizontal circular moving disk or round table to ordinary planing machines,
so that the said horizontal circular moving disk or round table shall receive the
required motion by the longitudinal movement of the sliding bed of the ordinary
planing machine to which it may be attached; the construction and working
thereof, as herein-after described.
The Invention has two objects in view, and as the adaptation for accom-
plishing these are somewhat different, it may be desirable to give to each a
seperate description.
First, then, as to "curvilinear cuttings," for Drawings of which see Plate 1;
and the following is the description of the Figures thereof:-
Figure 1st represents a side elevation of an ordinary planing machine, with
the apparatus of my Invention in situation as intended to be worked. A shows
the said horizontal circular moving iron disk or round table, supported on a
centre pivot B, and steadied in its motion by its rimmed eiges running in cor-
responding grooves in four standards b. b. b. b. as seen in Figure 3. d, d; is

page_text: the connecting arm rack, attached to the horizontal circular moving disk cor
round table by means of a pin working in a collar secured by nuts, as seen at e.
This arm rack gears in pinion wheel f, f. j is the centre pin of pinion
wheels and g; i, i, is the stationary rack, bolted to the inner side of side
frame of planing machine, gearing in the smaller pinion wheel g; h, h, h, h, is
the iron bed to which all the standing parts are secured; C, C, indicate the
longitudinal sliding bed of the ordinary planing machine; D shows the end
of driving shaft; and E, the band wheels.
Figure 2 shows the elevation of an end view of Figure 1, the several parts
being distinguished by the same letters as far as can be seen. Figure 3
represents the apparatus of my Invention detached from the bed of planing
machine, and its several parts in relative position bearing the distinguishing
letters of Figures 1 and 2, but having the pinion wheels fand g reversed, in
order to alter the speed. The arm rack in this case gears in the smaller and
now under-pinion wheel g; and the stationary rack i, i, consequently gears in
the larger and now upper-pinion wheel f,f, which, like the circular moving disk
or round table, has a portion of its centre removed to show the under parts, viz.,
the small pinion wheel g in the former, and the arm rack d, d, in the latter.
In proceeding to operate and use this part of my Invention for "curvilinear
cuttings," the apparatus of my Invention is first set up, as shewn in Figure 3,
Plate 1, (with the exception of the of the rack i, i, which is to be bolted to side
frame of planing machine, as before described,) and then placed on the most
convenient part of the longitudinal sliding bed of an ordinary planing machine,
and there secured by means of dogs or otherwise. The said longitudinal bed
of planing machine being then set in motion by the ordinary means, the said
apparatus is consequently carried with it, and so the pinion wheel g is brought
into gear with the stationary rack i, i, as seen in Figure 1. By thus setting
the pinion wheel g in motion, the pinion wheel below f, f, which is bolted to it,
is carried with it in the same direction, which, gearing in the arm rack d, d,
moves it (the arm rack) in an opposite direction, and by the connection of said
arm rack d, d, with the circular moving disk or round table, as before described,
and, as can be seen readily and understood by reference to Figures 1, 2, and 3,
it draws with it the said circular moving disk or round table to such an extent
as is necessary to allow the cutter, which of course, will be always previous
properly adjusted, to perform the required curve on the work as it passes
under it, and this is repeated as long as may be necessary by the up and down
motion of the said sliding.
Plate 2 refers to the second part of the description of my Invention, and
applies to "annular cuttings."

page_text: Figure 1 represents a side elevation view of an ordinary planing machine,
with the said horizontal circular moving disk or round table in situation as
intended to be worked, but raised out of the socket to show its centre shaft.
A indicates the said horizontal circular moving disk or round table, with its
centre pinion wheel or circular rack attached to it. B is the centre shaft,
passing into a working socket in socket frame b, and when properly down it
rests upon the broad shoulders of said socket frame. d, d, is the stationary
rack fixed to the inside of side frame of said planing machine. C shows the
longitudinal sliding bed of planing machine. D is the driving shaft of planing
machine, and E, E, its band wheels. In this case, as in the others which the
Figures of Plate 2 represent, it will be observed that the centre shaft of the
said horizontal moving disk is firmly fixed in the same, and always moves
with it:
The mode of operating and using this form (Figure 1) of my Invention is as
follows:-The socket frame b being bolted to a convenient part of the sliding
bed of an ordinary planing machine, and the centre shaft of said disk A set in
the socket, as seen in Figure 1, but resting on the shoulders of socket frame b;
the longitudinal sliding bed of planing machine is then set in motion by the
ordinary means, and carrying with it the horizontal circular moving disk A,
the pinion wheel or circular rack e, e, is brought into gear with the stationary
rack d, d, which results in giving a circular movement to the said disk A while
passing under the cutter &, and by having the work to be operated on properly
secured to the said circular moving disk A, and the said cutter suitably
adjusted, the required object of annular cuttings is accomplished. Figure 2
shows a top view of horizontal circular moving disk with a portion removed, to
exhibit the gearing racks, by means of which, as aforesaid, its circular motion
is produced, the several parts being distinguished by the same letters as in
Figure 1.
Figure 3 manifests a front sectional view of the said horizontal circular
moving disk or round table, with the rack attached to the under side of the
sliding longitudinal bed of ordinary planing machine, and gearing in a cor-
responding centre pinion wheel. A points out the said disk with its centre
shaft B, B, set in a foot socket, as seen in Figure 4 of same Plate. C shows
the longitudinal sliding bed of planing machine; D is the fixed rack; aud
E, the centre pinion wheel gearing in it.
Mode of working. In this case, like the following others, the horizontal
circular moving disk is fixed immediately under the cutter, as seen in Figure 4
of the same Plate, and consequently does not partake of the motion of the
longitudinal sliding bed of planing machine, as described in the foregoing

page_text: Figures; still its rotatory movement is produced by it, which will be readily
understood by referring to the Drawing. The sliding bed C being put in
motion, the rack D is carried with it, and by its gearing with the centre pinion
wheel E, the circular motion of the disk A is produced, and by properly
adjusting the work to be operated upon and the cutter, the object required is
accomplished.
Figure 4 exhibits a front. sectional view of another mode of working said
horizontal circular moving disk, and by which arrangement the said disk
may,
if required, be worked independent of the longitudinal sliding bed. A shows
the horizontal circular moving disk; B, B, its centre shaft, passing through
slotted bed C, and set in a socket G; D, D, is an ordinary cross shaft with
the necessary gearing wheels E, E, for working the sliding bed; F, F, are the
bevel gearing wheels for driving said circular moving disk.
Figure 5 shows another mode of working said disk, viz., by means of a cross
endless screw shaft, and, as in the preceding case, may be worked independent
of longitudinal sliding bed of planing machine. A's show the longitudinal sliding
bed (under part); B, the pinion wheel of said disk; C, C, is the centre shaft
of the same; D, the cross shaft with the endless screw E.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
operating with and using the same, I will state my claims as follows:-
I claim the adaptation of the horizontal circular moving iron disk or round
table as set forth in the foregoing descriptions, and so giving to it the required
rotary motion for effecting the objects required by the longitudinal movements
of the sliding bed of ordinary planing machines. A similar motion may be
produced by other mechanical arrangements, two instances of which are shown
in Figures 4 and 5, Plate 2, but not, in my opinion, with such effective
results.
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