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employed in machines made for performing only one of the ope- 

 rations above enumerated. 



As each one of these, by the methods now in use, requires a 

 separate and expensive machine, it is very obvious that one which 

 in itself is capable of performing all of them, possesses every con- 

 ceivable advantage over others, both as respects economy of time, 

 room and money, as well as superiority of work. In addition to 

 this, the operations of working circular mouldings and of making 

 and tenanting sash stuff cannot so well or so readily be prepared 

 by any other machine, as they can by this. 



With this machine, the time and labor now required to cut and 

 tenant sash stuff by those in ordinary use, and the numerous 

 handlings which are made necessary, are all dispensed with. To 

 tenant and cut a plank of the requisite length into as many sash 

 pieces as its width will allow whether they be few or many re- 

 quires but three handlings. 



An entire board is worked into mouldings of the same or vari- 

 ous patterns, and each moulding separately divided, at one and 

 the same operation, with a rapidity inconceivable to those who 

 have not witnessed it. 



An entire board or plank of any width is accurately trued or 

 taken out of wind throughout its whole length at one operation. 



The construction of this machine and the consequent readiness 

 with which the carriage can be used either as a vibrating or as a 

 continuous feed, and the various parts of the apparatus made to 

 accommodate themselves to the size of the stuff of any thickness 

 from half an inch to fourteen inches, and of any width from an 

 inch to twenty-two iiiches, enables it to be employed for the pur- 

 pose of planing, squaring or truing the large pieces of timber used 

 for floor joists, &c., with the same rapidity and facility as planks 

 or boards for flooring. 



The peculiar characteristic of this invention, is the arrangement 

 and disposition of its parts, which, while they are as few and sim- 

 ple as those of any one of the machines which do but one variety 

 of work, are so constructed and put together, that at the pleasure 

 of the operator the entire nature of the machine is instantaneously 

 and completely changed, and those portions which are not imme- 

 diately and directly in use, can be moved out of the way so as not 



