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1857 Image-John D. Dale, Universal Planing, Moulding and & Sash Machine |
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Transactions of the American Institute of the City of New York 1857 pg 123 |
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Dale's Universal Planing, Moulding and Sash Machine.
The inventor furnishes the following description of the work done by this machine:
1. Truing or taking boards, planks and other carpenter stuff out of wind and dressing up timber of any size under fourteen inches thick and twenty-two inches wide.
2. Planing, tonguing and grooving boards and planks.
3. Making boards, planks, &c., into several mouldings at once, either of the same or various patterns, and separating the same.
4. Making boards, planks, &c. into sash stuff and tenanting the same.
5. Doing other tenanting work.
6. 'Working circular mouldings and doing circular work of every description.
This has been effected by constructing a machine in the compass of which is contained all the apparatus necessary for effecting any of the above mentioned purposes at the will of the operator, and employing very little (if any) more machinery than is employed in machines made for performing only one of the operations above enumerated.
As each one of these, by the methods now in use, requires a separate and expensive machine, it is very obvious that one which in itself is capable of performing all of them, possesses every conceivable advantage over others, both as respects economy of time, room and money, as well as superiority of work. In addition to this, the operations of working circular mouldings and of making and tenanting sash stuff cannot so well or so readily be prepared by any other machine, as they can by this.
With this machine, the time and labor now required to cut and tenant sash stuff by those in ordinary use, and the numerous handlings which are made necessary, are all dispensed with. To tenant and cut a plank of the requisite length into as many sash pieces as its width will allow whether they be few or many requires but three handlings.
An entire board is worked into mouldings of the same or various patterns, and each moulding separately divided, at one and the same operation, with a rapidity inconceivable to those who have not witnessed it.
An entire board or plank of any width is accurately trued or taken out of wind throughout its whole length at one operation.
The construction of this machine and the consequent readiness with which the carriage can be used either as a vibrating or as a continuous feed, and the various parts of the apparatus made to accommodate themselves to the size of the stuff of any thickness from half an inch to fourteen inches, and of any width from an inch to twenty-two inches, enables it to be employed for the purpose of planing, squaring or truing the large pieces of timber used for floor joists, &c., with the same rapidity and facility as planks or boards for flooring.
The peculiar characteristic of this invention, is the arrangement and disposition of its parts, which, while they are as few and simple as those of any one of the machines which do but one variety of work, are so constructed and put together, that at the pleasure of the operator the entire nature of the machine is instantaneously and completely changed, and those portions which are not immediately and directly in use, can be moved out of the way so as not
to interfere with the operator, or such portions of the machinery as are actually in operation.
The means by which this novel and desirable arrangement has been so successfully effected, are in themselves extremely simple and devoid of complication, and will be readily comprehended and appreciated by the practical machinist, upon the most careless inspection of the working model, to which attention is earnestly requested. A diploma awarded. |
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1857 John D. Dale, Universal Planing, Moulding and & Sash Machine
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