Wood & Light Machine Co. - Assigned Patents

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Wood & Light Machine Co.
Worcester, MA, U.S.A.
Manufacturer Class: Wood Working Machinery & Metal Working Machinery

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Patent Number	Date	Title	Name	City	Description
72,147	Dec. 10, 1867	Lathe Box and Journal	Aurin Wood	Worcester, Worcester County, MA	Thomas H. Dodge - patent attorney Figure 1 represents a perspective view of my improved lathe-box and so much of the journal as is necessary to illustrate my invention, the cap of the box being shown turned back to expose the bearing of the journal. Fig. 2 represents a longitudinal central section of the box and journal when the cap is down, and Fig. 3 represents a cross-section of the same.
72,148	Dec. 10, 1867	Improved Lathe for Turning Shafting	Aurin Wood	Worcester, MA	Thomas H. Dodge - patent attorney The operation is as follows: The reservoir or receptacle H is filled with soda-water, into which the end of the pump, or a pipe or hose connected thereto, enters, so that when motion is imparted to the shaft E to be turned, it will give motion to wheel d, and the water is pumped up and forced through pipe or tube e into the cup 0, from which it freely runs through holes in the bottom of the cup upon all that part of the shaft being turned, and thus keeps the points of the turning-tools from heating, and in proper condition for turning the shaft in an accurate manner. The water, after cooling and lubricating the tools and turning-mechanism, falls into the receptacle or reservoir H to be pumped up again. The friction-wheel d may be covered with some elastic substance, sack as rubber, and the wrist-pin, to which the pump-piston it attached, may be fitted in a slot in the wheel d, so that the throw of the piston can be adjusted to pump more or less water, as may be desired, and, instead of operating the pump by the friction-wheel d bearing against the shaft E, it may be driven by separate and independent mechanism, arranged in any convenient manner, and the pump may be attached and supported upon the outside of slide B, if preferred.
76,130	Mar. 31, 1868	Engine Lathe for Turning Shafting	Aurin Wood	Worcester, MA	Thomas H. Dodge - patent attorney
113,824	Apr. 18, 1871	Shaping Metals	William H. Warren	Worcester, Worcester County, MA	Abstract: The nature of my invention consists in certain special improvements in shaping-machines. Claim: The combination, with the reciprocating slide C and head-block D, which carries the cutting-tool, of the automatic feeding device, consisting of" the parts F F', a, U, H, dl, J, Ki, f, IL, and IL', arranged in relation to each other, substantially as shown and for the purposes set forth. The combination, with frame A, of the table R Y R', vertical slide S, feed-screw V, shaft VÂ°, pinions V', rack X, and pinion VP'.
115,795	Jun. 06, 1871	Improvement for Slotting Machines	William H. Warren	Worcester, Worcester County, MA	Abstract: This invention has relation to slotting-machines, and is designed to obviate the drag or friction of the cutting-edge of the slotting tool against the edge of the slot during the upward movement of the slotting bar. In ordinary slotting-machines the cutting-tool is secured directly to the slotting-bar, and with it has only a vertical movement, ascending in precisely the same line as it descends. The consequence is, therefore, that the edge of the cutting-tool rubs against the surface which it has cut when it ascends, and thereby injures not only the tool, but the work also. My improvement consists in the attachment of the cutting-tool to a block, so pivoted as to rock to and fro and by means of suitable devices connected therewith, relieve the tool from the injurious friction. Claim: In a slotting machine, the rocking block Ef, in combination with the rectifying-slide H, the lever k, and the friction-clutch J M, or its equivalent,
116,243	Jun. 20, 1871	Improvement in Metal Planers	William H. Warren	Worcester, Worcester County, MA	Chipman Hosmer & Co. - patent attorneys Abstract: This invention has relations to machines for planing metals; and it consists in the application of certain devices, hereinafter described, by means of which the work-table, having a reciprocating rectilinear motion, is made to traverse an augmented distance, and otherwise improved in its mode of operation. Claim: The wheel J, shaft I', pinions i', and racks 1" M, in combination with the rockshaft E, applied to a planing-machine for the purpose of increasing the travel of the work -table.
130,258	Aug. 06, 1872	Improvement in Slotting and Shaping Machines	William H. Warren	Worcester, Worcester County, MA	Munn & Co.- patent attorneys
RE5,739	Jan. 20, 1874	Metal Shaping Machine	William H. Warren	Worcester, Worcester County, MA	Abstract: The nature of my invention consists in certain special improvements in shaping-machines. Claim: The combination, with the reciprocating slide C and head-block D, which carries the cutting-tool, of the automatic feeding device, consisting of" the parts F F', a, U, H, dl, J, Ki, f, IL, and IL', arranged in relation to each other, substantially as shown and for the purposes set forth. The combination, with frame A, of the table R Y R', vertical slide S, feed-screw V, shaft VÂ°, pinions V', rack X, and pinion VP'.
149,020	Mar. 24, 1874	Metal Shaft Turning Lathes	Aurin Wood	Worcester, Worcester County, MA
151,948	Jun. 09, 1874	Improvement in devices for transmitting motion	Aurin Wood	Worcester, MA	This patent date and number were seen on a drill press from Wood & Light Machine Co., along with patent number 151,912.
		Improvement in devices for transmitting motion	Joseph F. Light	Worcester, MA
497,738	May. 16, 1893	Boring-mill	Aurin Wood	Worcester, MA	The inventor was co-founder of the Wood & Light Machine Co., established in 1852 and dissolved in 1892, which is before this patent was actually issued.