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Patent Number Date Title Name City Description
99,269 Jan. 25, 1870 Improved lathe-dog Jonathan B. West Geneseo, NY The inventor would later establish the West Tire Setter Co. in Rochester, NY.
101,330 Mar. 29, 1870 Tire Tightener Jonathan Burns West Geneseo, Livingston County, NY
200,637 Feb. 26, 1878 Improvement in Machines for Setting Tires Jonathan B. West Geneseo, Livingston County, NY Claim:
My improvement relates to those machines in the form of a chain or band which are placed around the wheel and tightened to compress the tire. Such machines are well known, and I lay no claim to such broadly.
444,165 Jan. 06, 1891 Gage for tire-setters Jonathan B. West Rochester, NY
520,817 Jun. 05, 1894 Machine for setting tires Jonathan B. West Rochester, NY
570,525 Nov. 03, 1896 Car-wheel Jonathan B. West Rochester, NY The "car-wheel" in question is a railway wheel, especially a locomotive driving-wheel. The wheel has a metallic center that is machined as usual and then a continuous flanged iron "tire" that is compressed onto the center using the machine of patent 520,817.
634,280 Oct. 03, 1899 Car Wheel Jonathan B. West Rochester, Monroe County, NY Claim:
The herein-described car-wheel, consisting of a metallic wheel-body provided with outwardly-flaring bevels on its outer edge, one on each side, and a continuous rolled tire, provided with two flanges on the inside, said tire being contracted by hydraulic pressure to fit saidl body, and the flanges on the inner part of the tire being bent inwardly to engage with the bevels on the wheel-body, whereby the amount of pressure exerted upon the tire for contracting it upon the periphery and sides of the wheel-body may be regulated with exactness.
653,462 Jul. 10, 1900 Sprocket-Chain Jonathan B. West Rochester, Monroe County, NY Claim:
A sprocket-chain composed of U-shaped links and plain links, the U-shaped links being arranged on the inner sides of the plain links, and pintles for connecting said series of links, both series of links being substantially of the same width and length.
758,361 Apr. 26, 1904 Power Hammer Henry W. Hathorn Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, IA In 1908, Hathorn sold his rights to this patent to West Tire Setter Co. of Rochester, NY.

Patented in Canada, #89,850.