| US Patent: 31,459 
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| Stave-machine | 
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| Granted: | Feb. 19, 1861 |  
 
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 Vintage Machinery entry for E. & B. Holmes
 
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| Description: |  | The nature of our invention relates, first, to connecting the cutter frame to the stationary or gear frame of the machine by means of flexible or yielding connections so the cutter frame may oscillate or move in any direction according to the peculiar requirements of each stave to be dressed; second, in the arrangement of yielding or flexible mouth pieces in a cutter frame which has a yielding or flexible connection to the gear or stationary frame so as to allow a crooked or winding stave to pass between them and at the same time steady and hold the stave so as to insure the proper action of the cutters thereon. |  |