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1834 Article-Hoe, R., & Co., Wiswells Yoke Cutter |
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Mechanics' Magazine, and Journal of the Mechanics' Institute, V3, 1834, pg. 207 |
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Wiswell’s Yoke Cutter for Dressing Spokes of Wheels
By means of a circular saw operating in connection with the cutter wheels, the timber is squared and cut to any length that may be required, and the tenons of the spokes are then formed of any required dimensions. . The spoke being presented to the action of the first cutter, or tenon wheel, by hand, the tenon is formed in less than a minute, and the body of the spoke is dressed into shape and smoothly finished, first on one side and then on the other, by two operations, in another minute, more perfectly than it could be by any mere hand tool, though used by the nicest operator. No means of forming the round tenon which is to be inserted in the rim was exhibited. This, it is obvious, must be affected by a fourth operation. The whole machine is evidently capable of a more perfect construction than that examined by the commit. tee; but such as was exhibited in operation is evidently a useful improvement, and a labor-saving machine of great profit. It saves all the time which an operator by hand necessarily expends in judging by his eye of the exactness of the shape given, and to be gained by his tool, and may be operated in artificial light, when the laborer by hand would be scarcely able to judge of his own work. There is therefore much gained by the art of making wheels, which artists in that branch of mechanics will find profitable to themselves, as they can employ their journeymen more usefully on other parts of the wheel, and in adjusting them to each other. |
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1834 Hoe, R., & Co., Wiswells Yoke Cutter
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