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R. Hoe & Co.
New York, NY, U.S.A.
Company Website: http://www.pacific-hoe.com/
Manufacturer Class: Wood Working Machinery, Metal Working Machinery & Steam and Gas Engines

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Patent Number	Date	Title	Name	City	Description
X6,178	Oct. 04, 1830	Printing press	Isaac Adams	Boston, MA	Most of the patents prior to 1836 were lost in the Dec. 1836 fire. Only about 2,000 of the almost 10,000 documents were recovered. Little is known about this patent. Only the patent drawing is available. This patent is in the database for reference only.
X7,560	Apr. 29, 1833	Making fellies	James Hamilton	New York, NY	This patented design was seen in 2006 in an 8-page catalog on eBay (asking price, $495). The catalog is from 1833 or 1834 and illustrates "Hamilton's sawing and boring machine, and Wiswell's spoke machine". The article quotes a writeup from a committee of the American Institute, which mentions that Hoe & Co. was manufacturing these machines for the New York market, and rights were available for other territories. The Hamilton machine sold for a whopping $350, and requires about 2 horsepower worth of water-power to run.
X7,849	Nov. 19, 1833	Spokes	Daniel H. Wiswell	New York, NY	Most of the patents prior to 1836 were lost in the Dec. 1836 fire, including this one.
X9,445	Mar. 02, 1836	Power printing press	Isaac Adams	Boston, MA	Most of the patents prior to 1836 were lost in the Dec. 1836 fire. Only about 2,000 of the almost 10,000 documents were recovered. Little is known about this patent. Only the patent drawing is available. This patent is in the database for reference only. In 1858 Adams's business became the property of Hoe & Co., who continued to manufacture the machines with added improvements. In all more than a thousand, in no less than fifty-seven sizes, were sold for use in the United States, some being sent to other countries. In these machines, the type is placed upon an iron bed, after the usual manner of the hand press, and this bed is raised and lowered by straightening and bending a toggle joint by means of a cam, thus giving the impression upon the iron platen fixed above it, and firmly held in position by upright iron rods secured to the bottom bar, a strong cross-piece, at the base of the machine. The ink fountain is at one end of the press; the inking rollers travel twice over the form, in a movable frisket frame, while the bed is down; the paper is taken in by grippers on the frisket and carried over the form, when the bed rises and the impression is given; and finally the sheets pass forward from the frisket by tapes to a sheet flier, which delivers them on the fly board. One thousand sheets per hour is the maximum speed of the larger sizes of the Adams press. Although many of these machines were made and great numbers are still used, and notwithstanding the fact that it was thought by many experienced printers that fine book and cut work could be done. A Short History of the Printing Press, 1902, pg. 11
385	Sep. 20, 1837	Planing machine	Alonzo G. Hull	Brooklyn, NY	From Stephen D. Tucker's "History of R. Hoe & Company, 1834-1885". "A machine was built in 1837 for planing boards, and other thin lumber for Dr. A. G. Hull, under his direction. This was an expensive machine and a number of alterations were made. As finally arranged, the lumber was fed forward by a chain and carried first under rotary cutters. It then passed under a stationary knife fitted similar to the 'iron' of a hand plane, which took off a smoothing cut, but trouble was always experienced by this knife occasionally lifting splinters from the lumber. I never heard how this machine succeeded in practical operation."
2,629	May. 20, 1842	Double-cylinder printing-press	Richard M. Hoe	New York, NY	This press could do six thousand pages per hour, which was a significant advancement; Hoe continued to make improvements, until his 1847 version was capable of printing 20,000 complete newspapers per hour. The inventor was a principal of R. Hoe & Co., which made circular sawblades.
2,656	May. 30, 1842	Machinery for grinding and polishing metallic surfaces, particularly saw-plates	Richard M. Hoe	New York, NY	Richard M. Hoe was a principal of saw-maker R. Hoe & Co. This patent was extended for seven years.
5,188	Jul. 10, 1847	Improvement in printing-presses	Richard M. Hoe	New York, NY	The inventor was a principal of printing machinery maker R. Hoe & Co.
5,200	Jul. 24, 1847	Improvement in printing-presses	Richard M. Hoe	New York, NY	The inventor was a principal of prirnting machinery maker R. Hoe & Co.
5,199	Jul. 24, 1847	Improvement in rotary printing-presses	Richard M. Hoe	New York, NY	The inventor was a principal of printing machinery maker R. Hoe & Co.
5,212	Jul. 31, 1847	Inking apparatus for printing-presses	Richard M. Hoe	New York, NY	The inventor was a principal of printing machinery maker R. Hoe & Co.
116	Jun. 13, 1848	Printing Press	Isaac Adams	Boston, Suffolk County, MA	RX patents are reissues of X patents that were destroyed in the Dec. 1836 patent office fire. In 1858 Adams's business became the property of Hoe & Co., who continued to manufacture the machines with added improvements. In all more than a thousand, in no less than fifty-seven sizes, were sold for use in the United States, some being sent to other countries. In these machines, the type is placed upon an iron bed, after the usual manner of the hand press, and this bed is raised and lowered by straightening and bending a toggle joint by means of a cam, thus giving the impression upon the iron platen fixed above it, and firmly held in position by upright iron rods secured to the bottom bar, a strong cross-piece, at the base of the machine. The ink fountain is at one end of the press; the inking rollers travel twice over the form, in a movable frisket frame, while the bed is down; the paper is taken in by grippers on the frisket and carried over the form, when the bed rises and the impression is given; and finally the sheets pass forward from the frisket by tapes to a sheet flier, which delivers them on the fly board. One thousand sheets per hour is the maximum speed of the larger sizes of the Adams press. Although many of these machines were made and great numbers are still used, and notwithstanding the fact that it was thought by many experienced printers that fine book and cut work could be done. A Short History of the Printing Press, 1902, pg. 11
13,197	Jul. 03, 1855	Machine for Mitering Printers' Rules	William McDonald	New York, NY	Applies to beveling the ends of printers' metallic rules for forming miter joints thru use of a shooting board.
25,199	Aug. 23, 1859	Feeding paper to printing-presses	Richard M. Hoe	New York, NY	Of interest because this patent was used by saw maker R. Hoe & Co.
55,774	Jun. 19, 1866	Improvement in registering apparatus for printing-presses	James Kirk	Dover, DE	The assignee also made saws.
58,664	Oct. 09, 1866	Improvement in saws	Warren P. Miller	San Francisco, CA	Insertible tooth that is circular in shape and larger than 180 degrees.
60,151	Dec. 04, 1866	Improvement in printers' galleys	Alexander T. De Puy	New York, NY
RE2,899	Mar. 17, 1868	Improved Machine for Mitering Printers' Rules	Wm. McDonald	New York, NY	Applies to beveling the ends of printers' metallic rules for forming miter joints thru use of a shooting board. Believed to been produced due to the reissue of the patent 13 years after the initial patent was awarded.
77,958	May. 19, 1868	Improvement in bookbinders' bevelling-machine	William P. Chase	Boston, MA	The assignee also made saws.
RE3,066	Aug. 04, 1868	Improvement in printers' galleys	Alexander T. De Puy	New York, NY
81,811	Sep. 01, 1868	Improvement in saws	Warren P. Miller	New York, NY	An improvement on patent 58,664. This patent insertible saw tooth was featured in a display ad in the 1872-10-19 Scientific American; see the "Patent Pictures".
81,812	Sep. 01, 1868	Improvement in saws	Warren P. Miller	New York, NY
87,695	Mar. 09, 1869	Improvement in printing-press fly-frames	Theodore H. Mead	Boston, MA	The assignee was a maker of printing presses and circular sawblades.
87,587	Mar. 09, 1869	Improvement in register-points for printing-presses	Andrew Overend	Philadelphia, PA	The assignee was a principal of R. Hoe & Co., a maker of printing presses and circular sawblades.
87,950	Mar. 16, 1869	Improvement in lithographic-printing presses	August Hippolyte Marinoni	, France	The assignee was a principal of R. Hoe & Co., maker of printing presses and circular sawblades.
151,043	May. 19, 1874	Improvement in saws	Warren P. Miller	New York, NY
155,143	Sep. 22, 1874	Devices for Cutting Off and Dressing the Ends of Tubes	William Chester	New York, NY
168,338	Oct. 05, 1875	Improvement in saws	Warren P. Miller	New York, NY
RE8,323	Jul. 09, 1878	Improvement in insertible-saw-teeth	Warren P. Miller	Brooklyn, NY
211,035	Dec. 17, 1878	Improvement in saw-teeth	Warren P. Miller	Brooklyn, NY
RE8,534	Jan. 07, 1879	Improvement in saws	Warren P. Miller	New York, NY
977,474	Dec. 06, 1910	Movable work-gage for stereotype-trimming machines, &c.	Frederick Grafton Lougee	, England	A threaded screw engages with a movable rack to which the fence is fastened. The fence can be quickly adjusted by disengaging the rack and re-engaging the screw thread, which forces the adjustment to be an integer multiple of the thread pitch. A fine adjustment knob rotates the screw, which moves the rack and fence. This type of mechanism has since become popular for box joints jigs, such as the Incra I-Box jig.
		Movable work-gage for stereotype-trimming machines, &c.	George F. Read	, England
1,423,511	Jul. 25, 1922	Routing tool	James N. Baker	Brooklyn, NY
1,630,671	May. 31, 1927	Guard for planing machines and the like	Andrew J. Retz	New York, NY