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These saws should be made six at a time.
Our ones (the thickest) used first on big cuts or in
case of a break, one of the usual saws (thinner) can
follow in. This can not be done with a thicker one.
The old and thinnest saws come used when
thin cuts or smaller specimens is desired.
For abrasive uses unused cornflourum (
may have said energy) fed to saw automatically with
water stored to machine above the plane of cutting.
This abrasive is then used on the grinding machine.
The feeding of the abrasive is as follows:
funnel to pour in energy.
energy holder.
slipper
feeding stopper with hole to let energy
through.
pipe to make energy down in case
of closing.
water pipe.
funnel to catch energy and water and lead
it to feeding hornb.
feeding horns of club rim or tin to
the top of which is fastened thick
leather. This to prevent saw from cutting
plan into club rim. Both leads
to automatically feed the
abrasive.