Show wire cable with teeth of sand cuts out slate A saw with ith teeth of sand Is usel to saw out large blocks in the slate beds of I 1 chis tn ingenious eDIOUS device consists of a three strand wire cable 1 which Is built into an endless belt the lal cat ie le Is 1 guided by orlen orienting tint pullens hah ad j t tl I 1 embel e t the face fie to be sawed As it arrives at the p in int to he c nt it sand Is sa s1 S lied led over it he e c ible by means of a stream of water tie tl e eq of sai sat d lo 10 aging in the tw st of it tte e cable the cable able drags tt it e sand under con side rille ie pressure and at 11 I 1 agh gh bleet u 1 a the bed if f tl ti e state and ni d 1 ly cuts its way tt it r ugh the cuttina being a trifle larger larer than the it d ameter of the cable the savings effected by tl if Is means run into a figure as n nut u h as ro per cent of the usual amount of wasie waste Is going on to v rk out a d of cutting the slate into the sie of sheets to he ship ed H ut bv by piling several slabs stabs on top of each other and cutting them all at once with the wire saw |