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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



i^EB. 



NEW" IMPEOVEMiENTS IN HIVE-MAK- 

 ING MACHINERY. 



SAW-TABLES, ETC. 



ip FTER Mr. J. S. AVanier, our foreman, 

 |, had got our uewbuildinio- with itsjiew 

 ¥ machinery nicely in running order he 

 ^ set to worlv to devise some improve- 

 ments in some of our wood- working 

 machines, to render them safer to the sawyer 

 as well as to make them accomplish more 

 and better work. Below we give you a view 

 of one of the machines which he has devised 

 and improved. 



Fourthly, should the saw get out of line, as 

 it is apt to do, the set-screw holding one of the 

 spur-wheels to the long screw may be loos- 

 ened. By a slight turning of the screw, in- 

 dependently of the other, the gauge may be 

 made exactly parallel to the saw. The set- 

 screw, before mentioned, may then be tight- 

 ened. We can furnish this machine, when 

 desired, at the old price ; i. e., $25.00, includ- 

 ing the miter-board shown on top of the 

 machine, and one of our heavy mandrels. 

 Formerly we have sent out one of the small 

 mandrels in one of these machines. For 

 50c extra we will put in a mandrel that will 

 take 9 groovers. 



SAW-TAULE, \VITH WAKNEl 

 MENT. 



This machine is for general-purpose work, 

 such as we propose to send out. The im- 

 in-ovement consists in having the distance 

 from tlie ripping-gauge to the saw regulated 

 by an endless chain and screw arrangement. 

 The cliahi, as shown in the right of the en- 

 graving, passes over two toothed wheels, or, 

 technically, spur-wlieels. The latter are at- 

 tached to the end of the two rods having 

 square-cut threads eight to the inch. To 

 each end of the parallel gauge is fastened a 

 nut through which the long screws pass. 

 Now, when this gauge is exactly i)arallel to 

 the saw, any width required for ripping stuff 

 may be quickly obtained by grasping the 

 chain in the middle and pulling it one way 

 or the other. Both screws will, under neces- 

 sity, travel at the same rate of speed, as the 

 chain can not slip. In obedience to the 

 screw, botli ends of the gauge will travel at 

 the same rate, and the gauge wall, in conse- 

 (inence, remain exactly parallel. 



This is a great improvement over the old 

 parallel gauge, for the following reasons: 

 It permits of a very fine adjustment, even to 

 the "■ splitting of a liair." if the stuff ripped 

 is discovered to be a little '' scant" or a little 

 "flush,'" a sliglit pulling or pushing of tlie 

 chain will secure the exact width. This 

 could not be easily done by the old plan. 

 Secondly, the gauge is held much more se- 

 curely, there being no possibility of a shuck. 

 Thirdly, when the required width for rip- 

 ping is secured, the gauge does not have to 

 be fastened down, the nut-and-screw ar- 

 rangement holding it perfectly stationary. 



WARNER S AUTO3IAT10 MACHINE FOR CUT- 

 TING INSETS IN THE SECTIONS. 



The next to which we invite your atten- 

 tion is an autDmatic machine for cutting the 

 insets to the bolts, or pieces of planks, prior 

 to being ripped up into strips. The bolts 

 are simply piled in the tray shown in the 

 rear of the machine. They are then auto- 

 matically shoved through and thrown upon 

 the floor' in the foreground. This is done by 

 a pair of endless chains with now^ and then 

 a raised link so as to catch the blocks. The 

 pile of blocks then drops down, and the bot- 

 tom one is shoved out as before. The chain, 

 together with a pair of raised links, is shown 

 in the front of the machine. The device for 

 holding the blocks firmly over the cutter- 

 head as the blocks pass over is a series of 

 four wheels mounted on two one-inch shafts. 

 They are shown in the cut together with a 

 pair of cutter- heads. 



This machine will accomplish in three or 

 four hours what would require a whole day 

 by the old way of shoving blocks over a cut- 

 ter-head by hand, cutting out l)ut one inset 

 at a time. Not only that, but- it is operated 

 with entire safety to the one feeding it. 



Bight here it is proper to remark, that this 

 machine was the outgrowth of an accident 

 to one of our old trusty men while cutting 

 out the insets in the old way. A little knot 

 was the cause, it having caught in the cut- 

 ter-head, revolving at a high rate of speed. 



