US Patent: 329,014
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Chute
Improvement in Chutes for Delivering Lumber
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Patentee:
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| James W. Haines (exact or similar names) - Genoa, Douglas County, NV |
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Patent Dates:
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Sep. 20, 1870 |
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Joel Havens
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Description: |
| This invention was used by many lumber companies in the Sierra Nevada forests to deliver logs from the stump to the sawmills.
Abstract:
This invention has for its object to furnish to the public an improved chute for facilitating the transportation of timber of all kinds from the tops or sides of mountains, or other elevations, and consists n constructing a chute so as to present a V-form in cross-section, the same being arranged on an incline corresponding, more or less, to the surface of the ground over which it passes, and brought in connection with a spring, or other water-supply, to receive the water therefrom, and thus form a smooth canal throughout its entire length.
Claim:
The chute A, of V-form, in cross-section, arranged on an incline in whole or in part, and adapted to receive a flow of water, for the conveyance of timber. |
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