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1887 Article-Egan Co., Band Re-Sawing Machine |
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The Woodworker, V6 #9, Nov 1887, pg. 20 |
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We illustrate here with a new band re-sawing machine for rapid sawing. It is designed and constructed for light and heavy work, and an improved system of gearing—having the two front feed rolls close to the saw blade, and an ingenious device connecting the top of roller brackets—enables the rollers to straighten the plank while being sawed, making a great saving in time and material, and commends itself to all mill men. The wheels are 60 inches in diameter, with extra large hubs and spokes and built up rims perfectly balanced, with very large steel mandrels running in self-oiling boxes, and so connected to the mandrels as to make it impossible for them to get loose and run out of true. Each wheel is supported by an outside bearing on each side of the column, there being three bearings to both upper and lower shafts.
The feed is very powerful, consisting of six large feed rolls heavily geared, driven by a patent graduating feed, enabling the operator to change the speed instantly, by turning a hand wheel while the board is being fed through the machine. A ratchet lever handy to the operator is connected to the upper guide, made so as to change the guide instantly to suit the width of board to be cut, and hold the saw blade steady in the cut. The patent guides are claimed to be the most perfect yet put on a machine, and are made so as to support the blades when crowded too fast, and the improved roller back is a great improvement. The capacity of this machine is very great, and it works equally as well in hard as in softwood. It cuts 36 inches wide and 12 inches thick. Several pieces of narrow stuff can be cut placed between the rolls one above the other. The rate of feed is from 0 to 50 feet per minute.
Large planing mills, box factories, picture back stock and trunk makers, jobbing shops, and others requiring a first-class re-saw, will find this machine first-class in every way. The makers furnish with each machine one four-inch saw blade and the necessary wrenches. The tight and loose pulleys are 30x8½ inches and should run 500 revolutions per minute.
For further information and prices, address the manufacturers, The Egan Company, 236 to 256 West Front Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. |
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1887 Egan Co., Band Re-Sawing Machine
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