Burt's Machine Works, owned and operated by C. S. & S. Burt, was in business in 1865 through 1876, and perhaps for longer. They made shingle and barrel-head machines.

Information Sources

• The SMU DeGolyer Library listing of trade catalogs includes the following: "898. MACHINERY. C.S. and S. Burt. LOW'S PATENT SHINGLE SAWING MACHINE. LATEST IMPROVEMENTS. (Dunleith IL, 1865)."
• Ad in the 26 may 1866 issue of Scientific American:

  LOW'S PATENT SHINGLE AND BARREL-HEADMachine is offered as theBEST MACHINE IN USE.
  Is very Simple and Durable; Easy to Operate; Does Better Work than can be done on any other Machine, and More of it. Men who use it, say as follows:
  Pehan & Randall, Dubuque. Iowa, say, 'We average 20,000 with one man daily.'
  C. K. & A. B. Worth, Do Soto, Wis , say, 'We average 18,000 to 22,000 daily.' Hersey, Staples, & Co., Stillwater, Minn., say, 'It saves 23 per cent, of sawing, and does better work.' Wm C. Childs, Kendallville, Ind., says, 'We saw from 10,000 to 18,000 of hard wood per day.' Topping Bros., & Co., Muscanda, Ill., say, 'Your machine is incomparable as a Shingle or Barrel-head saw.'
  All the above are Single Saws. Hand Feed. We build Double Machines, and both Self and Hand Feed. Send for Circular, giving prices, and full description, and cut, to C. S. & S. BURT, Dunleith, Ill,Manufacturers, and Owners of Patent, orS J. AHERN, 88 Wall street, New York,Wholesale and Retail Agent.

• H. H. Low, of Galena, IL, received an 1858 patent for a shingle machine; the patent was not assigned to anyone else. The patent was reissued (i.e., corrected) twice, in 1866 and 1867. The reissues were both assigned to Charles S. Burt of Dunleith, Ill.
• The front page of the 16 June 1866 issue of Scientific American carried an article, complete with large engraving, of this company's shingle and barrel head sawing machine.
• Mentioned in the November 1872 issue of Manufacturer & Builder, in an article listing exhibitors at the Cincinnati Industrial Exposition.
• Listed in a work published by the United States Centennial Commission, Official Catalog of the 1876 International Exhibition, as a maker of "machines for sawing shingles, barrel-heads, etc."
• Listed in Kenneth Cope's American Cooperage Machinery and Tools. "Products included Evart's patent shingle and heading sawing machine, which could produce 25,000 to 30,000 shingles per day or 8,000 to 12,000 pieces of barrel heading; and Low's patent shingle and barrel heading sawing machine with a similar capacity. The Evart's patent machine had been previously made by J. Greenwood & Co." To view the Evarts patents, see the patents section below.