US38351A - Improved wood-horse - Google Patents

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ENOOH WHITTEMORE, OF NORTH PARIS, MAINE.

IMPROVED WOOD-HORSE.

Specification formingpart of Letters Patent No. 38,35 l, dated April 28, 1863.

To all 'whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, ENocH WHITTEMORE, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of North Paris, in the county of Oxford and State of Maine, have invented an Improved WoodHorse for Supporting a Stick of Wood while being Sawed; and I do hereby declare the saine to be fully described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l is a top view, Fig. 2 a side elevation, and lig. 3 a vertical section,of the same.

The nature of my invention consists in a combination and arrangement of a jawed 1ever, or its equivalent, and two treadles, with the wood-horse, the prrpose of the said jawed lever being to hold a st ck of wood rmly on the wood horse during the process of vsawing such stick.

In the drawings, A denotes a wood-horse of the ordinary construction. Between the two end crosses or frames, a a, of the said woodllorse there is arranged a broad lever, B, provided with two jaws, b b, each of which is arranged close against one of the crossed bars of one of the frames. The inner faces of these jaws are provided with teeth or spurs c c c, and thereare similar teeth or spurs, d d d, on the wood-horse, as shown in the drawings.

The fulcrum of the lever B is the upper crossbar, e, which unites the two frames of thehorse. The lower arm of the lever rests on the front lower cross-bar, j', and has an arm or treadle, g, projecting rearward from it, and over the front arm of a lever or treadle, h, whose fulcrum is the other or rear lower cross-bar, i, of the wood-horse. If after a stick of wood may have been laid on the crotch of the horse the person who is to saw the same will press his foot on the rear treadle, he will cause the spurred jaws ot theleverB to beforcedagainst the stick so as to firmly hold it in place and prevent it from rotating under the action of the saw while cutting into the stick. After the log or stick of wood may have been sawed the sawyer has only to press his foot on the front or upper treadle to cause an opposite movement of the lever B, such as will relieve the spurs of its jaws from the log.

I claim- The combination and arrangement of the jawed lever and its treadles withthe woodhorse, the same being substantially as and to operate together as specied. ENOOH WHITTEMORE.

- Witnesses:

JOHN REED,

J osIAH D. WHITTEMORE.

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