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1863 Article-T. J. Wells, Portable Sawmill |
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Scientific American, V 08 #7, 14 Feb 1863, pg. 120 |
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Improved Hand Saw-mill
The demand for light, portable and efficient tools is always greet, and we think that there is large field open to our inventors in this direction, which seems to have been but partially explored. We illustrate this week another portable sawing apparatus, which is exceedingly simple in its working parts. The bench or block, A, has bracket or pillow-block, has teeth of a peculiar shape and this peculiarity enables it to cut with much greater ease than would be supposed from the arrangement of the machine. The teeth are chisels, as the reader will see by looking at the angle of inclination at which they strike the timber. They make a very clean cut, and we are ensured that a “stick" as large as will pals under the saw-bearing an be cut with ease; this on the working size would be about four inches. The guide, F, and index at the side, gages the cut with reference to the saw, and the smell roller, a, let into the frame, facilitates the entrance of the stuff to be cut. No feeding apparatus is needed on this tool, as from the formation of the tooth the timber is drawn in as fast as it can be cut. This saw mill is the invention of Thomas J. Wells, and was patented Dec. 16, 1862. Further information can be had by addressing him at 40 Dey Street, New York. |
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1863 T. J. Wells, Portable Sawmill
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