IMPROVEMENTS IN PORTABLE SAWING MACHINES
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jean Pierre Fittère, of Castelnau Magnoac, in the
Department of the Hautes Pyrénées, in the Empire of France, Joiner,
Sealed the 3rd May 1861, and dated the 8th November 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jean Pierre Fittère
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 8th November 1860.
I, JEAN PIERRE FITTERE, of Castelnau Magnoac, in the Department of the
Hautes Pyrénées, in the Empire of France, Joiner, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PORTABLE SAWING
MACHINES," to be as follows:-
My proposed sawing machine will differ from the fixed machines now in
use, only inasmuch as all the pieces composing it may be disjointed and
remounted with the greatest facility, and that it may therefore be transported
to places hitherto inaccessible to such machinery, and from which the wood
cannot be removed unsawn except at great cost. I propose constructing a
framing to consist of eight vertical pieces of wood tied at bottom and top by
cross pieces also of wood, and provided with tenons which take into mortices,
iron bolts passing through them, so that it will only be necessary to place nuts
on these bolts to secure the whole apparatus when mounted, and to unscrew

page_text: them when it is desirable to take the sawing machine to pieces. The proposed
sawing machine will be worked by a locomotive or fixed steam engine accord-
ing to circumstances.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Jean Pierre Fittère in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
7th May 1861.
.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JEAN
PIERRE FITTÈRE, of Castelnau Magnoac, in the Department of the Hautes
Pyrénées, in the Empire of France, Joiner, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-fourth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Jean Pierre Fittère, Her special licence that I, the said Jean Pierre
Fittère, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said Jean Pierre Fittère, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PORTABLE SAWING MACHINES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Pierre Fittère, my executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands
and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause
the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Jean Pierre Fittère, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, reference being had to the Drawing hereunto annexed,
and forming part of this my Specification; and as the mechanism of my
sawing machine is so simple that a glance at the Drawing will suffice to make
it perfectly understood I will confine myself to an indication of the Figures
representing different views thereof :-
Figure 1 shews the under framing seen from beneath; Figure 2, the same

page_text: seen from above, with the two chariots charged with timber; Figure 3, front
view in perspective; Figure 4, view of right end; Figure 5, view of left end;
Figure 6, back view in elevation; Figure 7, view of upper framing; Figure 8,
longitudinal section shewing view of interior; Figure 9, slide of small framing,
and Figure 10, slide of large saw. Figures 9 and 10 are drawn to a scale of
one-fifth their natural size, and the other Figures to a scale of one-
fiftieth. My machine will be worked by a fixed or portable steam engine
or other power, according to circumstances, and it may be constructed at
various prices, but sufficiently low to be within reach of workmen requiring
it for carpenters or cabinet work. The mortices and tenons joining the parts,
and the bolts securing the whole together, as shewn in the Drawing above
described, render it evident that my machine is constructed principally with a
view to portability, and that it may be taken to pieces and remounted with the
greatest facility, permitting its transportation to places inaccessible to ordinary
sawing machines, and from which timber could be removed unsawn only at
great cost; but my machine may also be transported by rail without taking
to pieces by simply placing it upon four truck wheels, or it may travel in like
manner upon ordinary roads by placing it upon suitable wheels.
In witness whereof, I, the said Jean Pierre Fittère, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Second day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
FITTERE, JEAN PIERRE, Menuisier. (L.S.)
Witness. La signature Fittère, Jean Pierre,
a été apposée par lui en présence de
M. Arieu, Notaire à Castelnau Magnoac,
ARIEU.