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GLEANINGS IX BEE CULTURE. 



Eeb. 



WIACHINEKY FOR MAKING 0:^E-PIECE 

 SECTIONS, AND HOW TO USE IT. 



THE WAY WE AVORK AT OUR SHOP. 



aT takes three different machines to make 

 these sections to advantage, besides the 

 — ' usual planers and cut-off and ripping 

 saws. I have explained to you in the A B C, 

 and in Gleanings about a year ago, how 

 the bolts of pieces of plank were to be cut off 

 and dovetailed across the ends. We here 

 give you a picture of the gang of eight saws, 

 mounted on a table, ready for use. 



spurs, to cut the end of the Avood down 

 squarely. These are also adjustable, for 

 grinding and setting. The machine is mount- 

 ed on a frame, similar to the one above. The 

 expense is exactly the same, — $30.00 for the 

 whole machine, or only i?22.00 without the 

 table. 



SIACniNE FOR CUTTING THE GROOVES, OR 



DOVETAILING, IN THE ENDS OF 



THE FLANK. 



Our friends often complain of tlie expense 

 of this machine ; but unless it is made very 

 strong, with a heavy mandrel, and wide pul- 

 ley for the belt, much trouble will be expe- 

 rienced in having the mandrel heat, the saws 

 smoke, etc. The whole expense of the ma- 

 chine, nicely fitted ready for use. will be 

 S30.00. 



CUTTER - HEAD FOR MAKING THE EN- 

 TRANCE FOR THE BEES. 



After the bolts are grooved with the above 

 machine, the passage for the bees is cut in 

 each piece. This can only be done nicely 

 and rapidly with a cutter-head, as shown. 



Just the head and mandrel are shown, 

 that we may understand clearly the con- 

 struction. It is as you see, really a small 

 planer, having adjustable knives to be taken 

 out and ground and set, like any planer 

 knives. Besides these knives, there are four 



GRAY S IMPROVED MACHINE FOR MAKING 

 THE ALL- IN-ONE-PIECE SECTIONS. 



The three saws are set on an arbor so as to 

 be adjustable at different distances, as they 

 were last year ; but instead of a drum to feed 

 the pieces, we have a table that slides back 

 and forth. The stripes are placed in a sort 

 of hopper, which you see rising above the 

 rest of the machine. Well, this sliding table 

 pushes one piece for vard so as to slide un- 

 der the saws. This iillows the pile to drop 

 down, and the slide then pushes another 

 against it, and so on. The mechanism that 

 moves the slide is as follows : On the oppo- 

 site end of the mandrel that holds the saws, 

 from the driving pulley, is another smaller 

 pulley. A belt from this goes on a wheel 

 seen in the lower part of the machine. On 

 the shaft of this wheel is an endless screw, 

 working in the teeth of a wheel attached to 

 an upright shaft. On the top of this shaft 

 is a crank that carries the sliding table by 

 means of a pitman. The machine grooves 

 40 sections a minute. After some rather ex- 

 pensive experiments with saws made of teeth 

 Qt different patterns, we have got one that 

 cuts a clean, smooth groove, without any 

 fibers hanging. Two of the teeth are large 

 half-circles, something like a chopping- knife, 

 and then comes on a straight square tooth, 

 to scrape out the wood. Next, two more 

 knife-teeth, and so on. The speed of these 

 saws is about -l-.OO per minute. Eor making 

 Farmer's honey-boxes, or boxes of any kind 

 requiring wider stuff, the pitman is detached, 

 and the sliding table is moved by hand. The 

 machine, as it is now made, can not well be 

 furnished for less than about ST5.00. The 

 handle at the right, is for stopping the feed; 

 the rod in the centre, is to be pressed Avith 

 the foot, when putting in more strips. 



