Improvements in Horizontal Saw Frames.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Mar., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 20th Nov., 1889-Accepted, 21st Dec.. 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Improvements in Horizontal Saw Frames.
I, FREDERICK ROBBINS LANE of Honeystreet in the Village of Woodborough.
County of Wiltshire Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as
follows:-
This Invention relates to steam or water power horizontal sawframes and the object
of the improvement is to render such frames portable by constructing them in a
number of parts which may be readily detached for transport.
These parts consist in the first place, of two metal rails or wood sleepers which are
laid on or sunk into the ground at a suitable distance apart in a direction at right
angles to the line of the saw. In the centre of each rail a chair is fixed in which
chairs are laid the ends of a stout beam of timber which is mortised towards each end
to receive tenons formed on the lower ends of vertical posts the upper ends of the
posts being surmounted by metal caps which are connected with each other by a
suitable tie rod. To each metal cap are attached three guy ropes or tension rods
provided with eyebolts and tightening nuts or other suitable stretching device. One
guy
"connects the cap with the extreme end of the horizontal ground beam and the
other two are attached respectively to the ends of the rail which supports the end of
the said beam. Thus constructed the sawframe is practically rigid and can be set up
or taken down in a few minutes.
Dated this Eighth day of March 1889.
HUGHES, ELI & HUGHES,
76, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Horizontal Saw Frames.
I, FREDERICK ROBBINS LANE, of Honeystreet, in the Village of Woodborough,
County of Wiltshire, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This Invention relates to steam, gas, or water power horizontal sawframes, the
object of the improvements being fo render such frames portable, by constructing
them in a number of parts, which may be readily detached for transport, and re-erected
when required.
In the accompanying drawings Fig. 1 represents a front elevation of a horizontal
saw frame, constructed according to my Invention.
Fig. 2 represents a plan view of the same, and Fig. 3 represents an end elevation of
the same. Fig. 4 represents a detail of the chairs.
A represents two rails or sleepers which may be of either wood or metal, and which
are laid on, or sunk into, the ground, at a suitable distance apart, in a direction at
right angles to the line of the saw. In the centre of each rail is, or may be laid, a
chair A, fixed as shewn in Fig. 4, in which chairs are laid the ends of a stout beam of
timber B, which is morticed towards each end, to receive the tenoned ends of two
vertical posts C, the upper ends of the posts being surmounted by metal caps C, which
are connected together by tie rod C, and nuts c. From each metal cap radiate three
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guy or tension rods D, provided with tightening nuts d, and other suitable
stretching device such as d', may be employed. One of each set of these guy rods
connects the cap C to which it is attached," with the extreme end of the horizontal
beam B, and the other two of each set connect the cap C, to which they are attached
respectively to the ends of the rails A which support the said beam.

page_text: Thus constructed, the saw frame is practically rigid, and can be set np, or taken
down, in a few minutes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion and in what manner the same may be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
:-
In horizontal sawing machinery, a portable structional frame, consisting of sleepers
such as A, ground rail such as B, and uprights such as C, rigidly tied together by rods
such as C, and D, substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 20th day of November 1889
HUGHES, ELI & HUGHES,
76, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.