Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-06-19
THE RUTLAND HERALD.
FRIDAY. JUNE 10, 1878.
rne steam stone Cutter Company,

rue steam stone Cutter Company.
This company was organized January
qO 1865. for the purpose of '"manu-
featuring, selling and using machines
for cutting stone under the Wardwell
ratents. Up to this time four success
hl machines had been built for Mr..
Wardwell, one by Mansfield & Stimson,
Of Rutland, and three by Luke Buzzell,
II. .Iohnsbury. In the year SO twelve
machines were built for the newly or
oanized Steam Stone Gutter Company,
two single and four double-gang ma
chimes at st. Johnsbury by J. Fl. Pad
dock. and six double-gang machines at
Poulney by. H. NJ. Ruggles. In '66
Rusgles built eight more at Poultney,
and in 81 Mansfield & .Stimson built six.
The first double-gang machine, built
for the company, but not by them, was
put to work in June, 1865, on the North
Niddlrbury marble quarry, and during
,br same summer other machines were
pot ~ work in different parts of the
country. These machines were fur
nished with double feed-tl1at is,
would cut both ways. But in order to
cut back the gang of cutters had to be
removed and reversed on account of
their stepped arrangement, and this it
was found consumed so much time that
it was more profitable to cut in but one
direction and gig back. But this diff
Guilty was obviated by adoptinga stepped
arrangement in the points, running each
way, that Is, the middle chisel was the
longest and those on either side were
each a little shorter. In this manner
the effective series Of step was preserved
and the machine made capable of cut
ting both ways, one-half of the gang
cutting as it moved forward and the
other as it ran back. All these va
rious improvements were secured by let
ters patent, bearing various dates and
numbers In 1867 letters patent We're
granted for improvements in the motive
powerand operating machinery, which
increased tle efficacy of the machine and
ihe facility OF working it.
In the summer, of 1868 the erection OF
The shops where the company is now
located, and where they have since
built their own machines, was COM
menced. Up to this time thirty work
ing machines had been constructed and
set at work, and now the company I'M
dertook to do their own manufacturing.
The manufact6ry was completed in the
fall of SO and has since been driven tc
its utmost capacity-and often beyond
its capacity-in filling orders. The
building is S0x40 feet, with fire;proof
blacksmith shop in the rear, and a novel
and convenient apparatus for hoisting
and loading the machines, for shipment,
in front. The machine itself. is known
as
NAEDW ELL = biONh AAaA'-'AAA-+-'N'
QUARRYLNG MACHINE.
II consists of heavy frame, made OF a
single >iece of forged iron, of. great
strength nd durability, mounted on
aanged wheels which run on. a track
like tbat Of ; raiIu '%y, set on the bed OF
the quarry. This fra nc suppo,,s .n'
engine, boiler, and other ~ 49, !.
The engine is of six horse p, "e' ~
shaft carrying balance wheels at
end. A couple of levers are riveted, a..
their rear ends, to the frame, the upper
one being free, at its forward end, in
sliding strap. The free end of the sec
ond lever passes through a mortice in
clamp and actuates gang of FIVE CHS
els, securely bound together by foot and
head clamps Motion is communicated
to the upper lever first and is then car
ried to the second by means of clasps
placed between rdbber springs. In
case of false stroke or if an obstruc-
ton Is encountered, these rubber springs
compress and by their yielding prevent
any breakage or other serious results
from a shock. The chisel-bars
haYe serrated heads made to fit head
clamp similarly serated. This arrange
met prevents their being kn ocked up OF
Otherwise displaced. These gangs OF
cutters are placed one on each side OF
ihe forward part of the machine, out
side the rails and frame, antl move free
" In an upright stand ard. They art
from seven to fourteen feet in length
according to the depth of the channel tc
Oe cut. In the main shaft is worm
winch acts upon too ,thed wheel whose
smart extends diagoI ially downward tC
'ue rear of the mael Iine, where it ter
inmates in bevel pinion. Upon thu
rear axle are placed two beveled gear
winch may. be thrown into action will
'ne plnion. Wher the machine is re
v qu'red to be static mary these gears ar
~ paced as not to engage with tn
pinion, and they fre locked in their de
S'fed positions by short lever. Th'
machine is provided ith windlass fo
'sising the gangs of drills out of tn
channel.
Inc entire length of the machine I
en ieet' IL weighs abou four tons, bu
When fully fitted up for SHINING will
extra gangs of cutters, zone hundred
.ee'of track, tool chest, ct, c., about si,
sols is the weight. The six horse engin
= Iu Doiier has lookup safel y valve, Sc
:" carry eighty pounds of ste, I'M.