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Patent Number Date Title Name City Description
546,512 Sep. 17, 1895 Wood-shaping machine Charles H. Ellingwood Harrison, ME "My invention relates to improvements in shaping-machines for hollowing wooden chair-seats and similar irregular surfaces, and its object is to provide for the quick and accurate reproduction of such irregular surfaces of any required form or dimensions." The inventor's company, Ellingwood Mfg. Co., Harrison, Maine, manufactured chairs.
633,185 Sep. 19, 1899 Machine for cutting and tenoning stock Charles H. Ellingwood Tidioute, PA "My invention relates to a machine to be used in connection with the manufacture of chairs and other articles where small stock is used and where mortise-and-tenon joints are made. The machine comprises means for automatically gripping and holding the stock while the same is moved to a position to be operated on by the saws and chucks to cut the same into desirable lengths and make tenons thereon and to means for releasing said stock after so acted upon by the saws and chucks."