| US Patent: 12,705 
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| Device allowing circular-saw spindles to yield | 
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| Patentee: |  |
 | Hiram Wells (exact or similar names) - Florence, MA |  
 
 
 
 
 
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| Granted: | Apr. 10, 1855 |  USPTO (New site tip)
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 Vintage Machinery entry for H. Wells & Co.
 
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| Description: |  | Device allows lateral movement of sawblade to accommodate springing of the log. "For this purpose as in Orlando Child's patent of December 17th 1850, of which I am the proprietor, springs have been used and applied to journal boxes. With my improvement no such application of springs becomes necessary; nor do I use any collars on the saw spindle; nor friction rollers to embrace the saw near its periphery as is described in the patent of George Page—dated July 16th, 1841, the device I use being applied to the shaft or spindle and within one of the boxes thereof." The referenced patents are 7,832 and 2,174. |  |