US351116A - Veneer - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

F, MANKEY.

VENBER.

No. 351,116. Patented Oct. 19, 1886-.

Ely. 3.

ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT QEEICE.

FREDERICK MANKEY, OF VILLIAMSPORT, PENNSYLVANIA.

VENEER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 351,116l dated Qctober 19, 1886.

Application filed August Q5, 1855. Serial No. 175.287. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known thatv I, FREDERICK MANKEY, of WVilliamsport, Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Veneers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a veneer or thin sheet of wood designed for the purpose to which veneers are ordinarily applied, but novel in that it has upon its surface and integral therewith raised portions or elevations eX- tending transversely across the grain of the Wood.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l represents a board or plank suitably cut for the production of my improved veneers. Fig. 2 is a perspective View of a veneer. Fig. represents a veneer applied to the curved surface of a bracket, in section; and Fig. 4 is a front View of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

In producing my improved veneers I form, preferably upon both surfaces of a thin board or plank, and by the action of rotary cutters, a series of ridges or projections, A, running crosswise to the general direction ofthe grain, and, preferably, at right angles thereto, as shown in Fig. l. This done, I divide said board lengthwise into two thin sheets by any suitable cutting blade or saw, thus producing two sheets of veneer, each similar to that shown in Fig. 2. A veneer thus formed has its grain running transversely to the direction of the ridges or projections; hence it may be readily bent around curved surfaces, to which it is attached by glue or cement, in the ordinary Way. Such a curved body, with Veneer B thereon, is shown in the bracket represented in Figs. 3 and 4.

By means of this veneer objects may be ornainented so as to present the appearance of having carved or molded surfaces with depressions andprojections, the character of the design of which can, of course, be varied by changing the form and arrangement of the transverse cutting according to fancy; but the variations may be comprised under the general term of surface cross-cutting.7

I do not in this present application claim u the processes which I have above described for making the improved veneers, it being my intention to file a separate application for such processes.

I claim as my invention- As a new article of manufacture, a wood veneer having formed upon its surface and integral with its substance solid elevations or projections running transversely to the grain, substantially as described.

FREDERICK MANKEY.

sVitnesses:

ADDIsoN Gannon, GEO. L. SANnEasoN.

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