Show CUTTING CUTTING- STEEL TIMBER R It Is 11 Done Dono With n R Saw Weighing Four lour Hundred Ton Tom A new V piece of machinery to expedite the delivery of armor plates for the new warships will ill shortly be added to the tel steel plant of t Carnegie Phipps Co Penn Penn- sylvania It Is a n new w saw faW all In one piece weighing tone tons that will cut a 0 steel nickel-steel armor plate M as an ordinary saw cuts a I. plank These arm plate range ID lu weight from eight to thirty eight tons and andreach andreach andreach reach a length of twenty feet Icet and a thickness o of twenty Inches Tho The armor annor of a 0 modern war vessel cannot be put on like a n sock rock all in once once piece It la Is built on the franc frame of the h ship like the scales o of a a. fish In finishing the plates for fitting they have to be beveled along the edge where they fit together has bas been done I heretofore with the tho machine which slowly and laboriously a a. shaving ring at a a. time cut them down to the desired shape This saw has hos a blade seven and balf half feet in diameter geared f from om above and revolving revolving re reo re- re horizontally The armor plate Is placed on a tilting table w which I Is adjustable to any angle and presented to the saw end end- wise the Tho forward motion of the carrying table thrusts the plate steAdily against the teeth and an angular slab of f cold steel nickel weighing perhaps a dozen tons 1 Is 16 taken oil off the slab like a pine lon log o It be used also for cutting plates Into any desired dimen York ra j i. i |