Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-06-03
Pages Patent Circular Saw Mills.

Pages Patent Circular Saw Mills
|GEORGE PAGE q Co, Baltimore,
~ Md, beg leave to inform the public generally and
planters in particular that they still continue to manufacture
their celebrated IMPROVED PATENT PORTABLE CIR
CULAR SAW MILLS, and from their increased facilities are
prepared to fill all orders with despatch, and in style
Workmanship which cannot fail to give entire satisfaction
and insure profit to purchasers. t
They manufacture three classes of mills, either Of which
calculated be driver by water Their third
class mill is also adapted to be driven Ivy horse power
| They also manufacture STEAM ENGINES AVID ROLLERS
of all kinds and Sizes also HORSE POWERS suited a
to drive their third class Saw Mill, md for all Plantatim
Farm purposes Their Steam and Horse Powers cannot
eNceed by those of any other builders in the country,
whether regard be had to quality of materials excellence
workmanship durability and effectiveness of operation
Gentlemen disposed purchase will be furnished with @
scrptive pamphlets containing prices terms &C. on aPp
ton to STARK, DAY STAUFFER,
| [je3-Gm] "a Canal street, New Orleans
| IMPORTANT LAW DECISION.
George Page rs. Anes d Green.-ln the Circuit (ous
United States Maryland Distrct-Refore Judge Giles J.
This was an action brought for infrin cement Of p
granted the plaintiff in 1s4, for improvements in ah
Portable Circular Saw Mill.
The patentee claimed the means of affiXng and gudE
the circular saw by allowing end play to its shaft in con-
binaon with the of guiding it by friction rollers en-
bracng near ts periphery to have its centre en
unchecked faterally.
There good deal OF conflicting testimony as to con-
structon of the machine that the subject o: the suit The
defendants having made but before the action had b
commenced. This fact, however, the jury found Tor @
plaintiff Conceding it was insisted that the SHIFT made
by defendants had journals turned down upon it. the shoulders
| of which limited the end play and saved the machm
from infringing patent that required the end play to DO
limited without any check and it coEtended that's
machine such describe ed in the specification, without
check on the shaft to the end play would answer n
purpose aimed at, hut would be worthless
The plaintiff here contended, however, that the popa
reading of the specification showed alternative consM
tion either to make the shaft with without reduced
and shoulders.
Neither party sought instructions from the Court but VIII
equal confidence in the specification went before the jl
1t was admitted on all hands, that up to the dae W.
plaintiffs invention the circular for large logs was W.
known Since the date of the invention housaDo
them had been sold. No other change in the common cs
struction of the circular previously in use was sp
than the giving of end play to the shaft There wa ~
icng testimony relating this value Of the end p
witnesses referring to the same MILL declared did os
without than with it but they contradced ~ WIN. ~.
who said that it did than another MIL III I aM
neighborhood which had the usual end play, and a
the general value of the end play they conadfeo
witnesses who had made experiments especially In 'S
ascerainng the fact various mills. On this polnh w
the verdict of the jury sustained the plaintiff
In arguing the cause the plaintiffs counsel inSss i
the essence of Pages invention consisted in giving u
play to the shaft which operated to take the shes :.
the machine where the periphery Of INC .,,v
kept steady by rollers that was the rgdiy OIL the Ia
together with rigdty at the centre of the saw h
the useful effect when the saw was from four to sA a.
diameter That in avaiInp of Pages discovery OF ms
the defendants had invaded his rights, and ina. u i, an
of the Infringement whether by an eighth Of an men la
inch of end p " no limit being prescribed by the P
and the extent Of end play depending ndeeo, " dean
circumstances was of no cnsenence so long the VIZ
dants constructed machine having end play, more " @