US Patent: 259,661 
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| Band-saw guide
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	        Patentee:
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 | William Bowker (exact or similar names) - Somerville, MA |  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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        Patent Dates:
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| Applied: | 
Apr. 10, 1882 | 
 
| Granted: | 
Jun. 20, 1882 | 
 
 
 
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                        Jeff Joslin Vintage Machinery entry for Bowker & Williams Hoop Machine Co. 
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        Description: |  
| "...a new and useful Improvement in machinery for Sawing Barrel-Hoops from Poles...improved mechanism for guiding each (bandsaw) and bending it laterally to cause it to cut into the poles a kerf in parallelism, or about so, with the surface which may be borne along against the pressure roller." |  
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