A NEW OR IMPROVED MACHINE FOR MORTICING, TENONING, SAWING, BORING, DRILLING, AND GROOVING WOOD
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Kimberley, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Wholesale Ironmonger and Manufacturer, for the Invention of
"A NEW OR IMPROVED MACHINE FOR MORTICING, TENONING, SAWING, BORING,
DRILLING, AND GROOVING WOOD."
Sealed the 18th March 1862, and dated the 27th September 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Kimberley at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 27th
September 1861.
I, JAMES KIMBERLEY, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Wholesale
Ironmonger and Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED MACHINE FOR MORTICING, TENONING, SAWING,
BORING, DRILLING, AND GROOVING WOOD," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists of a machine constructed as herein-after explained,
which said machine may be used for morticing or tenoning, and may also be
used for sawing, boring, or drilling and grooving wood. That part of the
machine by which the morticing is effected may be made to work simul-
taneously with that part by which the other operations enumerated are
effected; or either part of the machine may be made to work separately. The
motions of the several parts of the machine are taken from a driving shaft,
which may be worked by hand, or by steam or other power. The morticing
chisel, which has a reciprocating motion in a vertical line, is driven by a train
of toothed wheels from the driving shaft, an excentric on the last wheel of the

page_text: said train having a connecting rod jointed to it, which said connecting rod is
also jointed to the slide carrying the morticing chisel. The said excentric and
connecting rod convert the rotatory motion of the train of wheels into the
required rectilinear motion. The table which carries the work to be morticed
has a clamp, which fixes the said work, and is made to traverse the base of
the machine by means of a screw, which engages in a screw box underneath
the said table. The said screw carries a ratchet wheel on its end, and a pall
or click acted on through a cranked lever by an excentric on the main shaft
gives a slow motion to the said screw. The table is thus made. to advance
after each descent of the morticing chisel. The said table may also be made
to move by hand by means of a winch on its end. The saw shaft is driven by
a band from the driving shaft, and receives a rapid rotatory motion. The
upper edge of the rotating saw passes through-the top of a bench fixed to the
frame of the machine, and the work to be sawn is advanced along the bench
against the rotating saw, either by hand or screw. By removing the saw
from the saw shaft, and attaching a boring or drilling tool thereto, the said
shaft may be employed for boring or drilling. By substituting a saw with
broad teeth, or two or more saws or cutters of the ordinary kind, at the option
of the workman, the machine may be used for grooving. The tenoning is
effected by the circular saw and a moveable table or bench. The various
parts of the machine may be readily thrown into and out of gear at pleasure,
and all the essential parts are provided with such means of adjustment as are
required to adapt them to work of different 'descriptions.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said James Kimberley in the Great Seal Patent Office on the g
22nd March 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
KIMBERLEY, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Wholesale Iron-
monger and Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of September, 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 James Kimberley, Her special licence that I, the said James Kimberley,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said James
Kimberley, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree

page_text: 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 "A NEW OR IMPROVED MACHINE FOR
MORTICING, TENONING, SAWING, BORING, DRILLING, AND GROOVING WOOD," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said James Kimberley, 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 James Kimberley, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement
thereof, that is to say :-
My Invention consists of a machine constructed as herein-after explained
and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing, which said machine may be
used for morticing or tenoning, and may also be used for sawing, boring, or
drilling and grooving wood. That part of the machine which the morticing
is effected may be made to work simultaneously with that part by which the
other operations enumerated are effected; or either part of the machine may
be made to work separately.
Figure 1 of the Drawing represents an end elevation of a machine con-
structed according to my Invention; Figure 2 is an elevation of one side, and
Figure 3 an elevation-of the other side of the same; Figure 4 is a plan, and
Figure 5 a longitudinal vertical section of the said machine, the said section,
Figure 5, being taken through the dotted line in Figure 4. The same letters
and figures of reference are employed to indicate the same parts in the several
Figures of the Drawing.
The motions of the several parts of the machine are taken from the driving
shaft a, which may either be worked by hand by means of the winch b, or by
steam or other power. The block of wood c to be morticed is fixed upon the
table d by the screw clamp e, the said clamp e holding the block of wood firmly
between its end and the plate f. The said table d during the action of the
machine is made slowly to traverse the base g of the machine in the manner
herein-after explained, the said table d working on the dovetail on the said
base g; i is the morticing chisel, which has a reciprocating motion in a
vertical line in the upright k. The said morticing chisel i is worked by the

page_text: train of toothed wheels l, m, n, the first toothed wheel being fixed on and
receiving its motion from the driving shaft a; o is a connecting rod jointed at
one end to the slide p carrying the morticing chisel i, and at the other end to
the crank fixed on the toothed wheel n. By the motion of the shaft a,
toothed wheels l, m, n, and the crank and connecting rod q, o, the required
The
reciprocating rectilinear motion is given to the morticing chisel i.
position of the chisel i in its holder can be adjusted by the arm 22. After each
descent of the morticing chisel i, the table d carrying the wood block c is
made to advance with an intermittent motion in the following manner:―r is
a screw underneath the base of the machine (see Figure 5), upon which screw
a screw box s connected to the table d works. On one end of the screw ra
ratchet wheel t is fixed. u is a pall or click turning on one end of the bell-
crank lever v, the said lever turning on the axis of the screw r. The lever v
is connected through the connecting rod w and bell-crank lever x with the
army of the excentric y³ (see Figure 5), the said excentric being situated on
the axis of the toothed wheel n. By the motion of the excentric y transmitted
through the arm y, lever a, connecting rod w, and lever v, the pall or click u
is made to push forward the teeth of the ratchet wheel t, and thereby to give
a slow intermittent motion to the screw r. The said screw working in the
screw box s connected with the table d thus communicates a slow intermittent
motion to the said table. By turning the pall or click u on its centre, so as
to make it engage on the opposite side of the ratchet wheel t to that
represented, motion in an opposite direction may be given to the screw r
The return motion of the table d is effected by lifting the pall or click u from
the ratchet wheel t, and turning the winch r² on the axis of the screw r in the
required direction. Or the said winch may be used for giving the advancing
motion to the table d, instead of using the self-acting mechanism just described.
At the side of the machine opposite to that at which the driving shaft a is
situated is another shaft z, carrying at its end a saw 1. A band 2 from
a pulley 3 on the driving shaft a passes over a pulley 4
and gives a rapid rotatory motion to the said shaft and saw.
of the rotating saw 1 passes through the top 5 of a table or
said table or bench being carried by the frame of the machine. The matter
to be sawn is placed on the bench or table 5ª, and advanced against the
rotating saw 1 by hand, or by a screw. The table or bench 5, 5, is capable
of being raised or lowered, in order to accommodate its height to the different
sized saws employed in the following manner :-On the frame of the machine
are fixed two dovetails 6, 7, in which dovetails the slides 8, 8, secured to the
bench or table 5, 5", work. 10 is a screw working in a bracket 11, the said
on the shaft z,
The upper part
bench 5, 5, the

page_text: bracket being fixed to the frame of the machine, the top of the said screw
bearing against the under side of the table or bench 5, 5. By turning the
screw 10 in one or other direction, the table or bench 5, 5, can be raised or
lowered at pleasure, the said table or bench being guided in its motion by the
dovetails 6, 7, and slides 8, 8. The dovetail slides may after the adjustment
of the table be fixed in the dovetails by the screws 12. The tenoning is
effected by the circular saw 1, and a moveable table or bench. By substituting
a saw with broad teeth for the saw 1, or two or more saws or cutters of the
ordinary kind, at the option of the workman, the machine may be used for
grooving. By removing the saw 1 from the shaft z, and attaching a drilling
or boring tool to the said shaft, the said shaft z and boring or drilling tool may
be employed for boring or drilling. For boring or drilling where a slow
motion is required, a boring or drilling tool may be attached to the end of the
driving shaft a. By throwing off the driving band from the pulley 4, the
shaft carrying the saw, or a drilling or boring tool can be thrown out of gear
with that part of the machine by which the morticing chisel is actuated, or by
unscrewing the connecting rod o from the crank q, the morticing chisel i may
be thrown out of gear, and the shafts a and z worked alone. All the essential
parts of the machine are provided with such means of adjustment as are
required to adapt them to work of different descriptions, as will be understood
by an examination of the Drawing.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I do not
limit myself to the precise details herein described and represented in the
Drawing, as the same may be varied without departing from the nature of
my Invention; but I claim as my Invention, a new or improved machine for
morticing, tenoning, sawing, boring, drilling, and grooving wood, the parts of
which are arranged or combined and worked essentially in the manner herein-
before described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Kimberley, have hereunto set my
band and seal, this Eighteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
Witness,
ALFRED KIMBERLEY.
JAMES KIMBERLEY. (L.s.)