IMPROVEMENTS IN WOOD PLANING AND MOULDING MACHINES to be as follows:
Year: 1885

page_text: We, ALLEN RANSOME and THOMAS JAMES WILKIE both of Stanley Works Kings
Road Chelsea in the County of Middlesex Engineers do hereby declare the nature
of our invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN WOOD PLANING AND MOULDING MACHINES
to be as follows:-
"
This Invention has for its object improvements in planing and moulding mahines
and relates to the arrangement of the gearing which drives the feeding roller and
is primarily intended to facilitate the changing and adjustment of the fixed or
rotary cutters by decreasing the width of such machines.
The invention is applied to machines in which 4 feeding rollers are driven by
a train of gearing driving 2 rollers underneath and 2 above the material to be fed
each roller being mounted on a shaft which also carries a driving spur wheel.
These driving spur wheels are coupled by intermediate spur wheels on axes placed
between the feed roller shafts; and the top rollers are connected with the bottom
by another wheel which serves to unite the 2 trains.
To effect this object the whole of 4 wheels driving the rollers and the two
connecting wheels are placed outside the machine and overhanging ou the ends of
their spindle instead of inside the machine as heretofore the space formerly occupied
by the spur gear inside the machine being saved.
The two top rollers are carried by arms on the axis carrying the wheel by which
motion is transmitted to the rollers and around this axis the said arms are able to
move freely.
Instead of the top train of wheels being placed outside the machine and at the
back and the bottom train outside in front both trains may be placed outside
either at front or back of the machine if desired the end in view i.e. the making
the machine of a minimum width being attained.

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We ALLEN RANSOME and THOMAS JAMES WILKIE both of Stanley Works Kings
Road Chelsea in the County of Middlesex Engineers 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:-
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This Invention has for its object improvements in planing and moulding machines
and relates to the arrangement of the gearing which drives the feeding rollers and
is primarily intended to facilitate the changing and adjustment of the fixed or
rotary cutters by decreasing the width of such machines.
The invention is applied to machines in which 4 feeding rollers are driven by
a train of gearing driving 2 rollers underneath and 2 above the material to be fed
each roller being mounted on a shaft which also carries a driving spur wheel.
These driving spur wheels are coupled by intermediate spur wheels on axes placed
between the feed roller shafts, and the top rollers are connected with the bottom
by another wheel which serves to unite the 2 trains.
To effect this object the whole of 4 wheels driving the rollers and the two
connecting wheels are placed outside the machine and overhanging on the ends of
their spindle instead of inside the machine as heretofore the space formerly occupied
by the spur gear inside the machine being saved.
The two top rollers are carried by arms on the axis carrying the wheel by which
motion is transmitted to the rollers and around this axis the said arms are able to
move freely.
Instead of the top train of wheels being placed outside the machine and at the
back and the bottom train outside in front both trains may be placed outside
either at front or back of the machine if desired the end in view, ie, the making
the machine of a minimum width being attained.
The invention is also obviously applicable where two feeding rollers only are
employed and also where the number of feeding rollers exceeds four.
In order that our said invention may be most fully understood and readily
carried into effect we will proceed to describe the drawings hereunto annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a side elevation Figure 2 is a plan and Figure 3 is a transverse
section of a planing machine to which our invention is applied..
a. a. is the main frame. b is a stud axis. c. c. are belt pulleys turning, on the
stud b. The driving pulley is fast with a pinion d. which drives a wheel e on an
axis f; this axis turns in bearings in the main frame and has upon it wheels g and h.
The wheel g gears with and drives spur wheels i and k on the axes of the lower
feeding rollers and m whilst the wheel h gears with and drives an intermediate
spur wheel n on an axis o.
The intermediate wheel n in turn gears with other spur wheels p and q on the
axes of the upper feeding rollers 7 and s. All these gear wheels are outside the side
frames a. a. the distance between which is such as to leave room only to admit the
upper feeding rollers and the arms carrying their axes. t and u are these arms

page_text: they are mounted on the axis o about which they are able to turn freely. v is
a weight suspended from the arms t and it holds the top rollers r and 8 firmly
against the wood w. which is in passage through the machine. x is a hand wheel
which by means of a screw and screw nut as shown serves to lift the weight and
the rollers r and 8 and to adjust the distance they can descend when the wood
passes from between the feed rollers. The other parts of this planing machine
shown by the drawings will be readily understood without detail description; they
present no special features of novelty.
In moulding machines the feeding apparatus is applied in the way here repre-
sented the cutters employed are as usual made in accordance with the contour of
the moulding it is desired to produce.
Our improved arrangement of the feeding gear much facilitates the adjustment of
the cutters and has other advantages.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that
what we claim is
Our improvements in wood planing and moulding machines having feeding
apparatus provided with upper and lower rollers both or all driven and the latter
moveable by being carried by arms around the centre of a toothed wheel or wheels
from which they derive their rotation:-such improvements consisting in bringing
near together the two side frames in which the feed rollers are carried and placing
the gear wheels outside these side frames as herein described.
Datedth of Draamahan 100K
CARPMAEL & Co.,
Agents for the Applicants.