Baxter D. Whitney & Son, Inc. - Assigned Patents

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Baxter D. Whitney & Son, Inc.
Winchendon, MA, U.S.A.
Manufacturer Class: Wood Working Machinery

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Patent Number	Date	Title	Name	City	Description
1,522	Mar. 25, 1840	Machine for stretching cloth in the process of fulling	Baxter D. Whitney	Winchendon, MA	Co-inventor Whitney went on to patent and manufacture woodworking machinery.
		Machine for stretching cloth in the process of fulling	George W. Lawton	Winchendon, MA
17,992	Aug. 11, 1857	Machine for smoothing planed wooden surfaces	Baxter D. Whitney	Winchendon, MA	This is a fixed-blade planer, which scrapes the surface of rough stock. "The object of my present invention is to obtain a machine that will be capable of smoothing the surfaces of boards and similar stuff, whether such stuff has been previously reduced to a uniform thickness and perfectly plane surface or not; and this I accomplish by allowing the block which carries the scraper or smoothing knife to have a small amount of vibration to accommodate to any inequalities in the surface to be smoothed, while the stuff rests on a rigid plane bed or carriage. "This machine will be found particularly well adapted to smooth the surfaces of thin stuff such as is used for the hoop or sides of light wooden boxes (cheese boxes &C.) and veneered stuff." The 1871-07-22 issue of Scientific American carried a list of patents for which extensions were requested, including this one. The extension was subsequently granted.
AI186	Jan. 12, 1858	Bench plane	Baxter D. Whitney	Winchendon, MA
29,534	Aug. 07, 1860	Lathe	Baxter D. Whitney	Winchendon, MA
60,812	Jan. 01, 1867	Improvement in planing-machines	Baxter D. Whitney	Winchendon, MA	The innovation here is a means of preventing the buildup of pitch on the feed-rolls. "My invention consists in making the size of the back-pressure feed-roll or rolls, or the size of the gear-wheel which drives them, so as to give the surface of the roll or rolls a greater or less motion than the front feed-rolls and lumber to be planed, thus causing the back roll rolls to slip a trifle on the planed surface, and thereby preventing any accumulation on the rolls, to cause indentations in the planed wood."
63,773	Apr. 09, 1867	Improvement in machines for grinding saws	Baxter D. Whitney	Winchendon, MA
99,810	Feb. 15, 1870	Improvement in wood-turning lathe	Edward Ripley	Rutland, VT	Improvement to patent 29,534, which is one of the very early back-knife lathe patents.
		Improvement in wood-turning lathe	Loring Atwood	Rutland, VT
103,532	May. 24, 1870	Improvement in machines for bottoming fruit-baskets	Baxter D. Whitney	Winchendon, MA
103,533	May. 24, 1870	Improvement in cutters for cutting the bodies of fruit-baskets	Baxter D. Whitney	Winchendon, MA
126,602	May. 07, 1872	Improvement in band-sawing machines	Baxter D. Whitney	Winchendon, MA
126,603	May. 07, 1872	Improvement in machines for sawing staves	Baxter D. Whitney	Winchendon, MA
126,764	May. 14, 1872	Improvement in band-sawing machines	Baxter D. Whitney	Winchendon, MA	Note that Hezekiah B. Smith (founder of H. B. Smith Machine Co.) was a witness to this patent.
137,583	Apr. 08, 1873	Improvement in band sawing-machines	Baxter D. Whitney	Winchendon, MA
147,535	Feb. 17, 1874	Improvement in circular files	Baxter D. Whitney	Winchendon, MA
147,536	Feb. 17, 1874	Improvement in sharpening-machines	Baxter D. Whitney	Winchendon, MA	This patent was subsequently improved in patent 390,931.
165,463	Jul. 13, 1875	Improvement in band sawing-machines	Baxter D. Whitney	Winchendon, MA	This bandsaw upper-wheel mounting uses a weight to maintain constant tension on the blade. This mechanism has been seen on saws made by Baxter D. Whitney, the inventor.
259,958	Jun. 20, 1882	Bed and presser for planing-machines	Baxter D. Whitney	Winchendon, MA
302,456	Jul. 22, 1884	Compound lathe-chuck	Baxter D. Whitney	Winchendon, MA
		Compound lathe-chuck	Herbert W. Howe	Hubbardston, MA
305,648	Sep. 23, 1884	Gearing	Baxter D. Whitney	Winchendon, MA
305,647	Sep. 23, 1884	Planing-machine	Baxter D. Whitney	Winchendon, MA
342,664	May. 25, 1886	Gearing	Baxter D. Whitney	Winchendon, MA
343,094	Jun. 01, 1886	Gearing	Baxter D. Whitney	Winchendon, MA
343,352	Jun. 08, 1886	Gearing	Baxter D. Whitney	Winchendon, MA
343,937	Jun. 15, 1886	Gearing	Baxter D. Whitney	Winchendon, MA
351,676	Oct. 26, 1886	Machine for smoothing wood surfaces	Baxter D. Whitney	Winchendon, MA
371,399	Oct. 11, 1887	Planing-machine	Baxter D. Whitney	Winchendon, MA	Improvements to patent 259,958.
390,931	Oct. 09, 1888	Sharpening-machine	Baxter D. Whitney	Winchendon, MA	This patent is an improvement on patent 147,536. It "relates to certain improvements in sharpening-machines used for the purpose of producing a more perfect scraper-edge..." and uses a diamond burnisher.
434,284	Aug. 12, 1890	Saw-gage	Byron S. Loveland	Winchendon, MA	Assignee Whitney invented the rotary surface planer in 1837, and founded machine maker Baxter D. Whitney & Son, Inc. He died in 1915, aged 98. The invention itself is a rip fence.
459,325	Sep. 08, 1891	Feed-roller	Baxter D. Whitney	Winchendon, MA
489,772	Jan. 10, 1893	Stave-sawing machine	Baxter D. Whitney	Winchendon, MA
514,579	Feb. 13, 1894	Boring-machine	Baxter D. Whitney	Winchendon, MA
515,388	Feb. 27, 1894	Machine for cutting barrel-staves, &c.	Baxter D. Whitney	Winchendon, MA
519,739	May. 15, 1894	Feed-roller for wood-planing machines	Willard N. Sawyer	Winchendon, MA
541,303	Jun. 18, 1895	Step-bearing	Baxter D. Whitney	Winchendon, MA
577,904	Mar. 02, 1897	Expansible reamer	Baxter D. Whitney	Winchendon, MA
639,384	Dec. 19, 1899	Journal-box	John W. Heaton	Chattanooga, TN
664,519	Dec. 25, 1900	Wood-planing machine for curved work	Baxter D. Whitney	Winchendon, MA
678,847	Jul. 16, 1901	Wood-turning lathe	Byron S. Loveland	Winchendon, MA
		Wood-turning lathe	Baxter D. Whitney	Winchendon, MA
719,349	Jan. 27, 1903	Wood-turning lathe	Byron S. Loveland	Winchendon, MA
746,719	Dec. 15, 1903	Barrel-stave-sawing machine	Byron S. Loveland	Winchendon, MA
832,264	Oct. 02, 1906	Presser-bar for planing-machines	Byron S. Loveland	Winchendon, MA	The assignees were the principals of Baxter D. Whitney & Son.
1,107,810	Aug. 18, 1914	Scraping-machine	Byron S. Loveland	Winchendon, MA	The assignees were the principals of Baxter D. Whitney & Son.
1,212,618	Jan. 16, 1917	Wood-planing machine	Arthur E. Folsom	Winchendon, MA	The assignee was the son of Baxter D. Whitney, who had died in 1915; his son succeeded him as owner of Baxter D. Whitney & Son, Inc.
1,338,822	May. 04, 1920	Cutter	William C. Farnum	Winchendon, MA
1,363,192	Dec. 21, 1920	Cutter-head	William M. Whitney	Winchendon, MA	"The primary object of the invention ... is to provide means for removably securing a cutter head to its driving spindle, which will not necessitate the cutting-away of the interior of the cutter head. A more specific object of the present invention is to provide a cutter head with an integral boss formed at one end thereof, and to so construct this boss that it may be firmly but removably secured to the driving spindle of a shaper or other form of cutting machine."
1,363,476	Dec. 28, 1920	Scraping-tool-forming machine	Byron S. Loveland	Winchendon, MA	An improvement to patent 390,931; this machine sharpens veneer scrapers.
1,383,707	Jul. 05, 1921	Art of making gear-cutters	William C. Farnum	Winchendon, MA
1,386,082	Aug. 02, 1921	Drum-saw machine	William M. Whitney	Winchendon, MA
1,405,879	Feb. 07, 1922	Swinging bracket for heel-shaping machines	John H. Vinton	Keene, NH
1,460,874	Jul. 03, 1923	Woodcutting machine	Alphonzo White	Winchendon, MA
1,460,875	Jul. 03, 1923	Rotary gear pump	Alphonzo White	Winchendon, MA
1,476,385	Dec. 04, 1923	Indicator	Alphonzo White	Winchendon, MA	"This invention relates to indicators for use upon internal grinding machines to indicate the adjustment of the grinding wheel. It is now common practice to grind the cylinders of internal combustion engines and other cylindrical surfaces to size..."
1,499,949	Jul. 01, 1924	Spindle-lubricating means	Willard N. Sawyer	Winchendon, MA	This spindle-shaper lubrication system uses a wick to provide a steady bearing lubrication to a sump, where a slinger throws up a mist of lubrication onto the bearings. In addition to the lubrication system, a treadle moves a wrench that holds the spindle from rotating when needed. The lubrication system of this patent was used for decades on all Whitney shapers and was an important factor in their success.
1,509,056	Sep. 16, 1924	Spindle-holding means	Willard N. Sawyer	Winchendon, MA
1,515,641	Nov. 18, 1924	Drum-saw machine	William M. Whitney	Winchendon, MA	The inventor is the "Son" in Baxter D. Whitney & Son.
1,527,098	Feb. 17, 1925	Grinding-machine bearing	Alphonzo White	Winchendon, MA	"A special type of grinding machine designed to grind out the cylinders of internal combustion engines..."
1,567,865	Dec. 29, 1925	Woodworking machine	Willard N. Sawyer	Winchendon, MA
1,580,094	Apr. 06, 1926	Tool-operating machine	Alphonzo White	Winchendon, MA
1,776,236	Sep. 16, 1930	Stopping mechanism for electrically-driven spindles	Frank S. McQueston	Winchendon, MA	This is an improvement to patent 1,776,238.
1,776,238	Sep. 16, 1930	Method of and mechanism for stopping rotary shaper spindles	Robert L. Smith	Winchendon, MA	See also patent 1,776,236.
1,782,243	Nov. 18, 1930	Cutter spindle	Frank S. McQueston	Winchendon, MA
1,798,512	Mar. 31, 1931	Wood shaping and finishing machine	Otis W. Young	Winchendon, MA	An improvement to patent 1,597,748.
1,807,561	May. 26, 1931	Cutter guard	Alphonzo White	Winchendon, MA
1,921,715	Aug. 08, 1933	Wood shaper	Alphonzo White	Winchendon, MA	The inventor is the "Son" in Baxter D. Whitney & Son.
		Wood shaper	William M. Whitney	Winchendon, MA
1,961,044	May. 29, 1934	Fluid actuated clamp	Alphonzo White	Winchendon, MA
		Fluid actuated clamp	Austin W. Hawes	Winchendon, MA
2,125,239	Jul. 26, 1938	Workpiece drive for power shaping machines	Austin W. Hawes	Winchendon, MA	Stock-feeding mechanism
2,141,631	Dec. 27, 1938	Wood-shaping machine	Austin W. Hawes	Winchendon, MA	An improvement to patent 1,567,865.
		Wood-shaping machine	William M. Whitney	Winchendon, MA
2,142,863	Jan. 03, 1939	Duplex wood shaping machine	William M. Whitney	Winchendon, MA	An improvement to patent 1,567,865.
2,732,867	Jan. 31, 1956	Facing machine with resilient fingers belt feed	Alliot D. May	Winchendon, MA
		Facing machine with resilient fingers belt feed	Daniel L. Webster	Winchendon, MA