Stephens Patent Vise Co. - Assigned Patents

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Stephens Patent Vise Co.
New York, NY, U.S.A.
Manufacturer Class: Metal Working Machinery

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Patent Number	Date	Title	Name	City	Description
4,319	Dec. 20, 1845	Machinery for riveting pipes	Jonathan Ball	New York, NY
38,249	Apr. 21, 1863	Improvement in locks for fire-arms	Anson P. Stephens	Brooklyn, NY	Of interest because the inventor also patented and manufactured bench vises.
42,236	Apr. 05, 1864	Improvement in vises	Anson P. Stephens	Brooklyn, NY	The 16 November 1867 issue of Scientific American carried this description of the Stephens patent vises displayed at the American Institute Fair: "The Parallel Vise of Messrs. Stephens & Co., 91 Liberty street, N. Y., is shown in several different sizes. It is one of the most useful and ingenious implements of the kind that has come under our notice. The claim of the makers that it is stronger, more durable, and can be adjusted in less time, holding firmer than screw vices, appears to be well sustained. It is a superior article." A Martin J. Donnelly tool list for February 2000 showed a Stephens Patent Vise Co. catalog of 8 pages, ca. 1878.
67,080	Jul. 23, 1867	Improved tap for cement-lined pipes	Nathan Stephens	Brooklyn, NY
186,800,851	Mar. 12, 1868	Vices, &c.	Anson Parsons Stephens	Brooklyn, NY	This patent is the British equivalent of US patent 42,236. The vise uses a moving jaw sliding along a bar and held in place by a toggle and cam lever. To that known mechanism, Stephens used a T-shaped bar and formed a complementary shape on the underside of the sliding jaw. In addition, a toothed steel rack is fixed to the slide of the T-bar that engages with the toggle clamp. A leaf spring engages the outer end of the rack bar to pull it forward when the toggle is released.
78,336	May. 26, 1868	Improved composite pipe	Anson P. Stephens	Brooklyn, NY	Of interest because the inventor also patented and manufactured bench vises.
87,985	Mar. 16, 1869	Improved rotary metal-cutter	Anson P. Stephens	Brooklyn, NY
94,146	Aug. 24, 1869	Improvement in joints for cement-pipes	Melvin Stephens	Brooklyn, NY
96,282	Oct. 26, 1869	Improved base for bench-vises	Anson P. Stephens	Brooklyn, NY
105,507	Jul. 19, 1870	Improvement in vises	Anson P. Stephens	Brooklyn, NY	Improvements to patent 42,236. According to the November 1875 issue of "Manufacturer & Builder", the Stephens Patent Vise Co. were exhibitors at that year's American Institute Fair: "Stephens Patent Vise Co., of this city, exhibit Stephens parallel vise with swivel taper table and pipe attachments." The November 1872 issue carried a similar notice.
125,345	Apr. 02, 1872	Improvement in branch-couplings for cement pipes	Melvin Stephens	Brooklyn, NY
125,625	Apr. 09, 1872	Improvement in vises	Anson P. Stephens	Brooklyn, NY
126,100	Apr. 23, 1872	Improvement in devices for lining cement pipes	Melvin Stephens	Brooklyn, NY
187,201,341	May. 03, 1872	Improvements in vices for machinists and others	Anson Parsons Stephens	Brooklyn, NY	This patent is the British equivalent of US patent 125,625.
127,438	Jun. 04, 1872	Improvement in the manufacture of cement pipes	Anson P. Stephens	Brooklyn, NY	The inventor operated the Stephens Patent Vise Co. There are other cement pipe patents to others with the surname Stephens so we presume that manufacturing cement pipe was some kind of family business.
RE4,980	Jul. 16, 1872	Improvement in joints for cement-pipes	Melvin Stephens	Brooklyn, NY
132,699	Oct. 29, 1872	Improvement in pipe-couplings	Melvin Stephens	Brooklyn, NY
137,970	Apr. 15, 1873	Improvement in cement-lined pipes	Melvin Stephens	Brooklyn, NY
141,091	Jul. 22, 1873	Improvement in broaching-machines	Anson P. Stephens	Brooklyn, NY
142,528	Sep. 02, 1873	Improvement in cement-lined pipes	Melvin Stephens	Brooklyn, NY
143,473	Oct. 07, 1873	Improvement in machines for punching sheet metal	Melvin Stephens	Brooklyn, NY
144,155	Oct. 28, 1873	Improvement in rotary shears for metal	Melvin Stephens	Brooklyn, NY	These shears were primarily intended for cutting strips of metal used in the inventor's manufacturing of cement-lined cast iron pipes; making stove-pipe and speaking-tubes are also mentioned in the specification.
146,287	Jan. 06, 1874	Improvement in Milling-Machines	Dwight Slate	Hartford, Hartford County, CT	Lemuel W. Terrell - patent attorney Milling-tools have heretofore been usually mounted upon an arbor or mandrel at the end of a lathe-mandrel, and the outer end of the arbor of the milling-tool has been supported by a center that is screwed up by the lathe center. In this case, the severe strain to which the milling - tools are subjected is liable to spring the parts, and prevent the milling-tool working true; besides this, the friction causes warmth and expansion in the mandrel that binds the parts in the heads of the lathe. My invention is made for insuring a reliable support to the shaft or mandrel of the milling tool, for allowing the parts to expand under change of temperature, and for easily removing one set of milling-tools and substituting another. I make use of a tubular extension to the mandrel that serves to support such mandrel, and also to clamp the milling-tools upon the arbor or mandrel. This tubular extension is sustained by a journal box or bearing, in which it revolves, and it is free to slide endwise under the varying conditions of temperature, or when being screwed up to clamp the milling tools, or unscrewed for their removal.
149,263	Mar. 31, 1874	Improvement in sheet-metal cement-lined pipes	Anson P. Stephens	Brooklyn, NY
155,473	Sep. 29, 1874	Improvement in cement-lined pipes	Nathan Stephens	Brooklyn, NY
156,105	Oct. 20, 1874	Bench Vise Jaws	Benjamin F. Stephens	Brooklyn, NY
156,386	Oct. 27, 1874	Improvement in movable vise-jaws	Benjamin F. Stephens	Brooklyn, NY	These patent vise jaws were an available attachment for "woodworkers, coach or harness makers" in an 1880 Jackson & Tyler catalog.
158,539	Jan. 05, 1875	Improvement in cement pipes	Melvin Stephens	Brooklyn, NY
163,341	May. 18, 1875	Improvement in devices for connecting, holding, and punching sections of sheet-metal pipe	Melvin Stephens	Brooklyn, NY
205,434	Jun. 25, 1878	Hand Vise	Benjamin F. Stephens	Brooklyn, Kings County, NY	Lemuel W. Terrell - patent attorney In this vise the front jaw has a tubular stock at right angles to the face of the jaw, in which stock a bar upon the back jaw slides and is guided by a slot and pin. The screw that actuates the jaws is applied in this stock. Around the stock is a clamping-eye, through which a screw passes to act against a follower in the eye and clamp the stock at any position to which it may be turned within the clamping-eye. The clamping-screw is either at the end of a handle by which the vise is held, or it may be upon a clamping stand or bed upon a bench, or it may be the mandrel of a turning-lathe. In either instance the vise can be made to hold any article that is to be filed, turned, bored, or otherwise worked, or the jaws may be used to hold any cutting or boring tool or bits, so that this tool is of general utility, especially upon small or hand work.
232,892	Oct. 05, 1880	Vise	George A. Hickcox	Brooklyn, NY	A Spring is used to draw the movable jaw toward the object.
234,930	Nov. 30, 1880	Taper jaw for vises	Benjamin F. Stephens	Brooklyn, NY	Improvements to patent 125,625, granted to Anson P. Stephens.
235,177	Dec. 07, 1880	Vise-jaws	Benjamin F. Stephens	Brooklyn, NY
235,469	Dec. 14, 1880	Chuck for planing-machines	Benjamin F. Stephens	Brooklyn, NY
319,144	Jun. 02, 1885	Method of utilizing old boiler-tubes	Matthew L. Ritchie	New York, NY
		Method of utilizing old boiler-tubes	Nathan Stephens	Brooklyn, NY
412,558	Oct. 08, 1889	Surface for grinding and crushing	Anson P. Stephens	New Brunswick, NJ
629,177	Jul. 18, 1899	Cycle driving mechanism	Anson P. Stephens	New York, NY	This patent, along with patent 629,178 and 629,179, describe a bicycle where the front wheel is driven by pedals and the rear wheel is steered by the handlebars. The pedals pump up and down rather than move in a circle. The inventor had operated the Stephens Patent Vise Co.
629,178	Jul. 18, 1899	Cycle driving mechanism	Anson P. Stephens	New York, NY
629,179	Jul. 18, 1899	Steering mechanism for cycles	Anson P. Stephens	New York, NY