Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1891-12-11
LOGS CUT, NOT SAWED.
From the New York sun.

| FROM thc New Ork sun.
] A new underwriting machine was
tried yesterday afternoon at the works
OF the Bradley Draw Cut Lumber
Cutting Company, Greenpolnt, L. l.
There were present Dr. Edward Brad
ley Of 10 East Thirtleth street ono OF
the inventors; Albert Lewis of the
Wildesbarre Lumber Compony, one of
the largest lumber concerns in Penn
sylyania: J. w. and w. Z. Smith Of
the Eagle Stream Sawmin, Green
point, and Peter McLaren OF Perth,
Ontario, one OF the largest lumber
dealers in Canada.
The experiment was highly success
full. The machine, upon which DR..
Bradley and Thomas S. Crane Of New
ark have been working for the past.
five years, is 42 feet long, Is feet wide,
and feet high. IT'S weight is 45 tons.
The object Of this invention, which
may largely do away with the use Of
/ buzz saws, is to economize time and
lumber itself The machine will take
a log eight feet and cut boards from it
at the rate OF forty minute OF any
width from 1872 Of an inch to one inch
in thickness. There is not the slight
est wa, te of material in the cutting.
tits calculated that when saws are
used one-fourth Of the wood is wasted
in sawdust and planning if inch boards
ara being cut. In saving boards lie
OF an inch in thickness the loss is 2I5
per cent. Of the boards turned out.
The knife is three feet long and it
weighs 500 pounds. 1t works with
draw motion, a sort OF combination OF
knife and saw, which prevents the
1bers Of wood from breaking. "A roll
er preceding the knife congresses the
wood and aids in this matter, which
the inventors found was the most diff
icult OF the ends to be beattalned. The
knife II moved by wooden connect
ing rod fastened to a wheel ten feet in
diameter Every revolution of this
wheel makes board.
The machine is fed by an apparatus
which is controlled by two screws set
in babbett metal. A chain gear con
meets the two screws so that they move
with absolute accuracy, thus making
the boards exactly the same width
from one end to the other. A system
Of cogs is so arranged that by chang
ing the size Of the cogwheel the width
Of the beard to be cut is regulated.
The total output of the machine when
in running order will be from SO, 600 to
100000 feet a day.
The new invention, it is said, will
reyolutionize the making Of boards for
cigar hoxes, back of pictures, butter
boxes, and the like. Yesterday after
noon ash, cherry, birch, and Eastwood
logs were cut The boards dropped
from the blade as smooth as if rubbed
with sandpaper. uMr. Lewis said il was
the most perfect thing he ever saw.
"With our saws, he continued, 1--WE
cannot cut dry lumber at all, aud this
machine cuts anything. Neither
could our saws cut a bUard 1872 OF an
inch in thickness as this will. But
the best thing it will accomplish viii
be tue tremendous saving in the wood
itselfr
Or. Bradley and Mr. Crane has per-
sIstently stuck to this project for five
years, and at last they think reward
has come. The machine will un-
doubtedly be introduced shortly in all
the big lumber tracts OF the country
The logs can be flOated by stream
right down to II and then shipped out
to civilization all ready for use as
boards.