US Patent: 1,564,114
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| Portable Rail-Sawing Machine
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Patentee:
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| W. C. Reinhardt (exact or similar names) - Racine, Racine County, WI |
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Patent Dates:
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Oct. 10, 1924 |
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Dec. 01, 1925 |
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Joel Havens "Vintage Machinery" entry for Racine Tool & Machine Co.
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Description: |
| Abstract:
This invention relates to the class of metal sawing machines of the cross cut type in which the saw carrying frame reciprocates in an approximately horizontal direction anti has a swinging movement in a vertical direction to attain1 the proper feed or cut of the saw in the continued operation of the machine, and snore particularly to the portable type of such machines used for sawing track rails in situ.
Claim:
In a portable sawing machine of the class described, the combination of a main frame having one of its lower corners formed for bearing engagement with the bottom flange of a railway or like rail so as to position the frame wholly to one side of said rail, a vertically movable and horizontally reciprocating saw blade with its carrying and operating mechanism mounted on said frame, an upright guide post fixed on said frame, and a claw member formed for engagement with a top flange of the aforesaid rail and attached to the upright post in a vertically and a horizontally adjustable manner, the weight of the main frame and mechanism mounted thereon tending to cant and bind the aforesaid' means of attachment upon the rail. |
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