
On This Day in Sawyer History Mar 9th
James E. Emerson, of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, United States, claims an invention as it relates to the method of operating band saw mills. File claimed March 9, 1886.
The object of this invention is to construct the frame work of a band saw mill that it can easily and cheaply attached to a portable or other circular saw mill and have the band saw do the work of a circular saw without in any way changing or disarranging the operating parts of the circular saw mill [with few exceptions].
Patent awarded February 1, 1887.





