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- Title
Saving Fingers with SawStop.
- Abstract
This article features SawStop, a tablesaw that stops almost instantaneously when in comes in contact with human skin. Developed by Stephen Gass, a patent attorney with a PhD in physics, the device can detect contact with skin in about 5 milliseconds and automatically stop the blade, thus preventing accidental mutilation. The safety system works by recognizing the differences between the electrical properties of wood and the human body; any change in the electrical signal and the blade shuts down immediately. Having been spurned by established woodworking machine manufacturers, Gass raised about $2 million in venture financing and began last fall producing circular tablesaws in Taiwan.
- Subjects
SAWS; GASS, Stephen; INDUSTRIAL safety; MUTILATION &; maiming; WOODWORKING machinery
- Publication
Forest Products Journal, 2005, Vol 55, Issue 9, p12
- ISSN
0015-7473
- Publication type
Article