IMPROVEMENTS IN MITRE BOXES AND SHOOTING BOARDS
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Elmy Garrood, of High Street, Chelmsford,
in the County of Essex, Carver and Gilder, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MITRE BOXES AND SHOOTING BOARDS."
Sealed the 21st January 1862, and dated the 27th July 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Elmy Garrood
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 27th July 1861.
I, ROBERT ELMY GARROOD, of High Street, Chelmsford, in the County. of
Essex, Carver and Gilder, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MITRE BOXES AND SHOOTING BOARDS," to be as
follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in mitreing mouldings for
picture frames, and such like articles. For this purpose I apply to the
ordinary mitre box or shooting board (as used by joiners) a stationary screw,
to which power is applied by the thumb and finger, or any other suitable
means, combined with a nut moveable in or between guides, which nut has on
its sides a claw or projection, so as to press on to the moulding when screwed
down, and hold it fast whilst being planed or reduced to a bevel and proper
lengths. On the inside at the lower part of the mitre box is a moveable slide
or gauge, which can be fixed in its place by a set screw, so that two or more
lengths of moulding can be guaged to the same length.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Robert Elmy Garrood in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 23rd January 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
ELMY GARROOD, of High Street, Chelmsford, in the County of Essex, Carver
and Gilder, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Robert Elmy Garrood, Her special licence that I, the said Robert
Elmy Garrood, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Robert Elmy Garrood, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN MITRE BOXES AND SHOOTING BOARDS," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Robert Elmy Garrood, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing-under-my, or their,
or one of their hands and seals, 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 Robert Elmy Garrood, 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 Drawings, that is to say :-
The Invention has for its object improvements in mitreing mouldings for
picture frames, and such like things. For this purpose I apply to the
ordinary mitre box or shooting board (as used by joiners) a stationary screw,
to which power is applied by the thumb and finger, or any other suitable
means, combined with a nut moveable in or between guides, which nut has
on its sides a claw or projection, so as to press on to the moulding when
screwed down, and hold it fast whilst being planed or reduced to a bevel and
proper length. On the inside, at the lower end of the mitre box, is a moveable

page_text: slide or guage, which can be fixed in its place by a set screw, so that two or
more lengths of moulding can be guaged to the same length.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a mitre box; Figs. 2 and 3 are sections of
The same letters [refer to similar parts in all the Drawings. The
sides of the box a, a, are secured together by braces or cross pieces b, b, and
by the top c; the bottom d is held in its place by the screw e at the mouth
end of the box. At the lower end and attached to the bottom of the box is a
set or adjusting screw f for the purpose of elevating or depressing the bottom
of the box, so as to adjust the bevel or angle with the mouth of the box g.
A cramp is fitted to the inner sides of the box, and has a stationary screw
combined with a nut moveable in guides, with a claw i projecting for the
purpose of pressing upon the moulding when acted upon by turning the
hand wheel l, and securing it whilst the end m of moulding is being planed to
the bevel of the mouth of the mitre box. A slide or guage n is fitted to the
inner part of the box for the purpose of regulating the moulding to any length.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner
in which it is performed, I declare that I claim as of my Invention, the
adaptation and application to mitre boxes and shooting boards of every
description of a stationary screw, combined with a nut moveable in or between
guides, and having a projecting claw or clutch, which is pressed down on to
the moulding when acted upon by turning the hand wheel, and so cramping
and firmly holding the moulding.
And I also claim as of my Invention the application and adaptation of a set
screw for guaging the mouldings, as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Elmy Garrood, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this 22nd day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
ROBERT ELMY GARROOD. (L.S.)