1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue: Class VI.: William Furness
401. FURNESS, WILLIAM, Liverpool — Patentee.
Patent machines for working in wood. Power mortising machine, stated to be simple in adjustment and operation, and self-acting in its half rotary reverse motion, which changes the face of the chisel.
Foot mortising machine; to be used with any size of chisel, from an eighth of an inch to two inches; the peculiar form of the chisel enables it to hold the cone and lift it out of the mortice at each return stroke.
Tenoning machine; to be worked either by hand or steam power. The tenon is finished at one operation, without gauging or setting out the work.
The figure represents this machine.
Planing machine; adapted for squaring up hard or soft wood, from four to fifty feet in length, from eight to forty inches in width, and from one quarter of an inch to thirty inches in thickness.
Moulding machine. Any description of joiners' mouldings can be cut by this machine with great rapidity, and in such an accurate manner as not to require the use of any other tool. It is equally useful in sash-sticking, either in hard or soft wood. Its construction is simple, and is easily kept in order.