Manufacturers Index - Huntoon & Lynch; R. K. Huntoon
Huntoon & Lynch; R. K. Huntoon
Concord, NH; Boston, MA, U.S.A.
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Wood Working Machinery & Steam and Gas Engines
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22,400
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Dec. 21, 1858
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Machine for turning tapering twists on wood
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Reuben Kidder Huntoon |
Concord, NH |
This carving machine was used to make serpentine balusters, bed-posts and the like. It won a large Silver Medal at the 1855 Fair of the American Institute but the inventor, R. K. Huntoon, did not have the financial resources to make a success of it. Co-assignee J. B. Rand was a machinist and piano-forte manufacturer, who we suspect asked Huntoon to develop this machine for his piano-making business. By 1868 Rand was making and selling this machine although we have found only a single mention of this fact so Rand likely did not make much money on it either. |
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60,192
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Dec. 04, 1866
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Improvement in steam-engine governors
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Reuben Kidder Huntoon |
Boston, MA |
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186,702,913
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Oct. 17, 1867
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Improvements in governors for steam and various other engines
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Reuben Kidder Huntoon |
Boston, MA |
This Huntoon & Lynch governor was an important innovation, although the design was much improved over the next decade. It is not known whether this version was ever manufactured in Great Britain. |
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71,015
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Nov. 19, 1867
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Governor for Steam Engines
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Reuben K. Huntoon |
Boston, Suffolk County, MA |
"The common and well known 'ball-governor,' attached to pendulous arms, cannot well be used for marine engines... My improved governor...is especially applicable to the engine of navigable vessels..."] |
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82,729
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Oct. 06, 1868
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Improvement in governors for steam-engines
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Jeremiah A. Marden |
Boston, MA |
This patent consists of improvements to R. K. Huntoon's patent 71,015. |
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RE3,759
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Dec. 14, 1869
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Improvement in Steam-Engine Governors
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Reuben Kidder Huntoon |
Boston, Suffolk County, MA |
The patent repeatedly identifies the patentee as Reuben Kiden Huntoon. Every other source; other patents, obituary, genealogy sites, give his middle name as Kidder, and so we render it here. |
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111,677
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Feb. 07, 1871
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Improvement in governors for steam-engines
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George F. Pottle |
Boston, MA |
"The nature of my invention consists in a new arrangements of the floats and buttresses in the interior of a vessel containing some suitable fluid, the whole constituting a governor for steam-engines." |
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D4,653
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Feb. 14, 1871
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Design for an engine-governor case
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John Augustus Lynch |
Boston, MA |
This case is for the Huntoon governor, invented by R. K. Huntoon (patent {}) and manufactured by several firms including Lynch & Buckingham. |
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162,444
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Apr. 20, 1875
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Improvement in metal-turning lathes
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Thomas Wilbraham |
Philadelphia, PA |
The inventor went on to co-found Wilbraham Bros., makers of the Baker Blower, used to provide draft in smelting furnaces. The also took over the business of manufacturing the Huntoon governor from R. K. Huntoon following Huntoon's death. |
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194,041
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Aug. 14, 1877
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Improvement in apparatus for regulating the supply of steam to gas-exhausters
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Reuben Kidder Huntoon |
Wakefield, MA |
This governor regulates the supply of steam to a steam engine when it is operating machinery for extracting gas. "The construction and mode of operation of the Allen steam-governor being well and publicly known, need not be herein particularly explained, except that it consists of a paddle-wheel, f, arranged within a corrugated case, g, having wings on its inner sides and about two-thirds filled with oil. The casting is centered on the spindle or shaft, c, from which an arm, h, provided with an adjustable weight, i, extends. The spindle k of the paddle-wheel has a pulley, l, fixed on it, which is usually run at a speed of about four hundreds revolutions per minute by a belt from another pulley driven by the steam engine. ..." |
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207,421
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Aug. 27, 1878
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Improvement in gas-exhaust regulators
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Reuben Kidder Huntoon |
Wakefield, MA |
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252,423
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Jan. 17, 1882
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Device for drawing metal tubes
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Edwin B. Buckingham |
Brookline, MA |
This patent is of minor interest because the inventor was previously a partner in Lynch & Buckingham, which for a time made the well-known Huntoon governor. |
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257,494
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May. 09, 1882
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Gas-exhaust regulator
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Reuben Kidder Huntoon |
Franklin, MA |
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