Manufacturers Index - Willard Earl
Willard Earl
Hubbardstown, MA; Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Manufacturer Class:
Wood Working Machinery
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X1,997
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Sep. 03, 1813
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Machine for sawing shingles
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Willard Earl |
Hubbardston, MA |
This patent was lost in the 1836 patent-office fire and not restored.
Willard Earl's shingle mills were mentioned in a 1965 paper prepared by the Department of Research at Old Sturbridge Village, "New England Village Sawmills 1790-1840" by Barnes Riznik. "As early as the year 1821, and perhaps at an even earlier date, Willard Earle began the manufacture of his patented shingle machine at a small shop in Hubbardston, Massachusetts. In the 1830s, Earle's patented design was built by at least three other shopes, in Henniker and Franklin, New Hampshire, and in Westminster, Vermont, where machine builders had purchased Earle's patent right." The references are given as Massachusetts Spy, August 15, 1821; Jonas Reed, A History of Rutland, Worcester County, Massachusetts (Worcester, 1836), p. 32; New Hampshire Patriot and State Gazette, September 21, 1829, May 30, 1830; North Star, May 31, 1831; Brattleboro Messenger, April 10, 1829. |
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X3,631
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Dec. 28, 1822
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Machine for making shingles
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Willard Earl |
Boston, MA |
This patent gives improvements to the inventor's 1813 patent 1,997. This patent was litigated in Earl v. Page, 6 N.H. 477, 26 Am.Dec. 711 (N.H., 1834). According to a research paper from Old Sturbridge Village, Earl's shingle machines of this era could cut about a dozen shingles per minute. By the 1830s his revised designs could cut as many as sixty shingle per minute. That article says that they could not find any information on the design of Earl's shingle mills. But see the link for patent specification and partial drawings.
From the 1886 book, "Federal Decisions, Vol. XXV. Patents, Copyright and Trade-marks", this patent was involved in the following litigation. "Substitution of a new element in an old combination, Earle v. Sawyer, 4 Mason, 1." Elsewhere it mentions "Earl v. Page. Shingle-machine. Abandonment. Not, failure of consideration. 6 N. H. 477. Earl v. Sawyer. Shingle-machine. Want of novelty. Patentability. Drawings are part of specification. Rule of damages. 4 Mason, 1; 1 Robb, 490." |
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