US Patent: 5,659X
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| Mill for sawing shingles
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Patentee:
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| Richard McOmber (exact or similar names) - Galway, NY |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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Oct. 10, 1829 |
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Jeff Joslin
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Description: |
| Most of the patents prior to 1836 were lost in the December 1836 fire. Only about 2000 of the almost 10000 documents were recovered. Description from the Journal of the Franklin Institute, V5 1830 page 23-24. "For a Machine for Sawing Shingles; Richard M'Omber, Galway, Saratoga county, New York, October 10. Thirty-five well filled pages of foolscap are occupied with the description of this machine, although the instrument itself is not very complex. Numerous patents have been obtained for shingle machines, some of which strongly resemble the present, and are in successful operation. A circular saw is driven by a whorl and band; the block from which the shingles are to be sawed is fixed by dogs, or holdfasts; the carriage upon which it is secured is made to traverse backwards and forwards, and a cant is given to the block, to regulate the thick and thin end. The claim is to 'the application of springs and cords, in the manner described, to produce the feeding of the shingle block, up to the saw, and the readjustment of the carriage after a shingle is sawed.' The peculiar mode in which the gauges are fed which regulate the thickness and shape of the shingles. The mode of drawing back the block piece, &c. of the carriage after the shingle block is sawed up. The mode of ungearing the machine when the shingle block is sawed up. The peculiar construction of the cog wheel by which the carriage is impelled forward until a shingle is sawed, and then permitted to return by the vacancy on said cog wheels. We have not thought it necessary to attempt a description of these respective parts, because they do not appear to us to possess much either of novelty or of merit in the combination." |
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