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1905 Article-W. B. Mershon Co., Band Resaw |
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Wood Craft, Dec 1905, pg. 135 |
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10/2/2015 12:52:23 PM |
A New Band Resaw
W. B. Mershon & Co. of Saginaw, Mich., have recently introduced a machine of a type that has been extensively used abroad, particularly in England and Germany, for a number of years, but is something of a novelty in American woodworking plants. It is especially adapted for resawing short stock and for reducing short bolts or flitches to box lumber of any required thickness by successively slabbing off from the face until the stock has been worked right up to the bark. It is also a very convenient resaw for use in piano factories or manufacturing plants where a machine is required that will not only do fine resawing but which can be adapted to a wide range of work in the nature of general ripping. The fence recedes five inches from the saw in one direction, and the driven press roll recedes eight inches in the opposite direction. It is evident that the machine has considerable capacity and can be conveniently utilized for almost anything in the way of resawing or ripping that is ordinarily required in a cabinet shop, furniture plant or piano factory.
The illustration shows a special type of this machine. It is equipped with a setting lever which may be engaged instantly at any of two or more desired points by means of adjustable stops attached to the curved quadrant seen at the left; the fence is thus accurately secured at suitable positions to admit of stock of varying thicknesses being sawn to the requisite dimensions. For instance, suppose it is desired to saw slabs ranging from one to six inches in thickness into ½-inch boards by depressing the set-works lever and locking it, the thinner slabs may be converted at once into ½ inch boards, while by raising the set-works roll and locking it a thicker slab could then be passed through the machine, and a piece say 3¼ inches thick removed there from, which could in turn be resawn into six ½-inch boards.
When so preferred the machine may be furnished with a special rubber-faced roll instead of the fluted-iron roll, adapting it to the working of dressed lumber or valuable imported wood. The machinery weighs 4,500 pounds, will carry saws up to 4½ inches wide and is self-contained, requiring no special foundation. |
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1905 W. B. Mershon Co., Band Resaw
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