Manufacturers Index - C. P. S. Wardwell
C. P. S. Wardwell
Lake Village, NH, U.S.A.
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Wood Working Machinery
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11,625
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Aug. 29, 1854
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Machine for cutting tenons
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Charles P. S. Wardwell |
Lake Village, NH |
The tenoning machine is intended for making square tenons on bedstead frames, etc.
Wardwell advertised his tenoning machine in 1854-1863 ads in Scientific American. Cole, Davis & Co. advertised in 1854 issues of Scientific American. |
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13,735
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Oct. 30, 1855
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Machine for cutting double tenons
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Charles P. S. Wardwell |
Lake Village, NH |
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16,814
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Mar. 10, 1857
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Circular sawing machine
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Charles P. S. Wardwell |
Lake Village, NH |
This double-arbor tablesaw was a big commercial success, and the basic design remained popular for over 100 years until better combination blades made it less advantageous to have two different blades readily available. The Wardwell saw was sold by Wardwell himself from 1857-1863 (based on ads in Scientific American), then by James Goodrich & Co. (1867 ad), L. D. Fay of Worcester (1868-1869 ads in Scientific American), then by Rollstone Machine Works (1872-1883 ads in Manufacturer & Builder).
Wardwell applied for an extension to this patent. It appears that his request was denied. |
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17,536
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Jun. 09, 1857
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Improvement in cheese-hoops
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Charles P. S. Wardwell |
Lake Village, NH |
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34,174
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Jan. 14, 1862
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Improved planing-machine
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Charles P. S. Wardwell |
Lake Village, NH |
This designed was subsequently improved by the inventor in patent 160,372. An example is reported, labeled, 'CPS WARDWELLS PATENT JANUARY 14,1862'. We presume that it was manufactured by the inventor.
In his book "History of the Planing Mill', Charles Tompkins said of this clapboard planer, "The Wardwell machine planed one edge thinner, but it required the lumber to be sawed 5/8 of an inch thick, in order to make siding or clapboards 1/2-inch on the thick edge, and the labor and waste of stuff in planing the other edge down to 1/4 of an inch, was a serious objection to the machine, and probably one reason why it never came into general use, when a board 3/4 or 7/8 of an inch thick, after being planed both sides and both edges, could be sawn in two diagonally, and make two clapboards with only the waste of the saw kerf." |
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50,188
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Sep. 26, 1865
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Machine for making knitting-needles
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Charles P. S. Wardwell |
Lake Village, NH |
Of interest because the inventor was a notable woodworking machinery inventor and maker. |
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121,562
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Dec. 05, 1871
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Improvement in the methods of riveting latch knitting-needles
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Charles P. S. Wardwell |
Lake Village, NH |
Of interest because the inventor was a notable woodworking machinery inventor and maker. |
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160,372
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Mar. 02, 1875
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Improvement in planing-machines
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Charles P. S. Wardwell |
Lake Village, NH |
This design is an improvement of Wardwell's earlier patent 34,174.
C. P. S. Wardwell was most famous for his "Wardwell's patent saw-bench" of patent 16,814. |
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216,070
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Jun. 03, 1879
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Blind-slat planing machine
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Charles P. S. Wardwell |
Lake Village, NH |
Inventor was deceased. |
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