IMPROVED MACHINERY FOR CUTTING AND PARING LEATHER FOR DRIVING BELTS OR BANDS, OR FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Taylor Wheelhouse, of Clifton, near Brighouse,
in the County of York, Currier, for the Invention of "IMPROVED
MACHINERY FOR CUTTING AND PARING LEATHER FOR DRIVING BELTS OR BANDS,
OR FOR OTHER PURPOSES."
Sealed the 24th November 1874, and dated the 29th May 1874.
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Taylor Wheelhouse
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 29th May 1874.
I, TAYLOR WHEELHOUSE, of Clifton, near Brighouse, in the County of
York, Currier, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVED MACHINERY FOR CUTTING AND PARING LEATHER FOR DRIVING BELTS
OR BANDS, OR FOR OTHER PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to machinery employed for paring or cutting
taper the ends of strips or sheets of leather for splicing or joining them
together to form driving belts or bands, or for other purposes: Machines
for this purpose have been constructed with a fixed knife or cutting

page_text: blade (and a suitable guide bed). The leather to be cut has been drawn
forward at right angles to and in contact with the said knife, but the
action or performance of such machines has been found defective, as the
ends of the strips of leather, instead of being cut to a clean slope, have
been torn or broken off near the end. To remedy this defect I construct
the machine with a moveable knife, and I cause it to reciprocate or
slide endwise during the time the leather is being drawn forward in
contact therewith, thus effecting a clean cut as well as facilitating the
cutting, and preventing or greatly reducing the tendency to break off
the thin ends of the leather.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Taylor Wheelhouse in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 28th November 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, TAYLOR
WHEELHOUSE, of Clifton, near Brighouse, in the County of York,
Currier, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of May, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Taylor Wheelhouse, Her special licence.
that I, the said Taylor Wheelhouse, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Taylor Wheelhouse, 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 "IMPROVED MACHINERY
FOR CUTTING AND PARING LEATHER FOR DRIVING BELTS OR BANDS, OR FOR OTHER
PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Taylor Wheelhouse, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and scals, should

page_text: 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 Scal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Taylor Wheelhouse, 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, and accompanying Sheet of Drawings, that is. to
say:
This Invention relates to machinery employed for paring or cutting
taper the ends of strips or sheets of leather for splicing or joining them
together to form driving belts or bands, or for other purposes. Machines:
for this purpose have been constructed with a fixed knife or cutting.
blade (and a suitable guide bed). The leather to be cut has been drawn
forward at right angles to and in contact with the said knife, but the
action or performance of such machines has been found defective, as the
ends of the strips of leather, instead of being cut to a clean slope, have
been torn or broken off near the end. To remedy this defect I construct
the machine with a moveable knife, and I cause it to reciprocate or slide
endwise during the time the leather is being drawn forward in contact
therewith, thus effecting a clean cut as well as facilitating the cutting,
and préventing or greatly reducing the tendency to break off the thin
ends of the leather.
The reciprocatory motion of the knife may be obtained by means of 2.

page_text: imparted by means of the worm G and worm wheel H. The knife A is
fixed by bolts to the sliding bar A', by which it is prevented from
springing.
It will be readily seen that my improvements can be readily adapted
to machines in which stationary knives have hitherto been employed.
Such machines being well known I have not deemed it necessary to
give further particulars thereof than are necessary to illustrate my
Invention.
I would have it understood that I do not confine myself to the precise
details herein given for imparting the reciprocatory motion, as the same
may be varied, but what I do claim as my Invention is, the application
and use of a reciprocatory knife to leather splicing machines in manner
and for purposes substantially as shewn and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Taylor Wheelhouse, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of November, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.
Witness,
WN. TASKER,
Patent Agent,
TAYLOR WHEELHOUSE. (L.S.)
Halifax & Bradford.