1862 London Exhibition: Catalogue: Class 7.: S. Worssam and Co
1745. WORSSAM, S., and Co., 304 King's Road, Chelsea.
Wood-working machines.
Machines for sawing, planing, moulding, mortising, tenoning, grooving, rabbeting, etc.
MACHINES IN FULL OPERATION.
PLANING MACHINE with roller feed for planing floor boards, deck plank, etc. This machine will plane, groove, tongue, edge, and thickness at one time, boards of 13 in. wide by 6 in. thick at one operation, at the rate of 50 feet a minute.
PATENT PORTABLE DEAL FRAME, for sawing at one time two deals of 14 in. wide by 4 in. thick, into thin boards. This frame is supplied with an air cylinder which takes the weight of the swing frame and saws, and prevents the necessity of a counterbalance on the fly wheel. It requires no excavations, and works entirely above the floor. It is fitted with S. Worssam and Co.'s patent silent feed.
THE GENERAL JOINER, for sawing, grooving, tongueing, rabbeting, moulding, tenoning, boring, cross-cutting, and squaring off, etc. etc.
PATENT MORTISING MACHINE with square hollow chisel, and auger working inside.
IMPROVED MOULDING MACHINE with top and bottom and one side cutter, for working mouldings of any pattern.
SMALL TENONING MACHINE with upright saw spindle for cutting double tenons, and sliding plate fitted with spring stops.
Tools.
- A 7-ft. best cast-steel circular saw.
- Set of Wilson's patent cylindrical gouges.
- Set of patent augers.
- Set of band saw blades.
- Selection of plane irons, tenoning cutters, etc.
DRAWINGS.
- Patent timber frame with cylinder overhead.
- Ditto ditto to drive from below.
- Patent double timber frame (for Russia).
- Patent planking frame.
- Patent double-deal frame.
- Veneer saw.
- Improved band saw machine.
- Fret saw.
- Large rack circular saw bench.
- Small ditto ditto.
- Combined rack bench and band saw.
- Sleeper saw bench.
- Self-acting saw bench.
- Plain saw bench.
- Double-edging bench.
- Grooving and rabbeting bench.
- Patent timber cross-cut saw.
- Ransome's pendulum cross-cut saw.
- Improved scantling ditto.
- Rabbeting, grooving, and chamfering machine.
- Planing, surfacing, and squaring-up machine.
- Whine's patent dovetailing machine.
- Boring machine.