This company, known to have been active from at least 1907 to 1927, made machine guards, most notably a jointer guard and a shaper guard.

Advertisement from the September 1912 issue of "Wood Craft"

Information Sources

• See p. 17 of our 1927 Gustafson & Scott catalog.
• A 1904 patent for the Champion jointer guard was not explicitly assigned to this maker but there is no doubt it covers the guard shown in the above-mentioned Gustafson & Scott catalog. The patent was granted to Frank Streich and Franklin P. Burkhardt of Chicago.
• A 1907 patent for a jointer guard was granted to Frank Streich and explicitly assigned to this maker.
• Article about the Champion Jointer Guard in a 1907 issue of Wood Craft.
• The March 1907 issue of The Foundry carries a note: "The Champion machinery Co., Joliet, Ill., has purchased aditional property to erect a new foundry for the manufacture of castings for its own use. Work on the new plant will begin at once."
• A 1910 issue of Wood Craft lists the following makers of jointer guards:
  • Badger Jointer Guard Co., Eau Claire, Wis.
  • Champion Machinery Co., Joliet, Ill.
  • F. W. Hall, Whitinsville, Mass.
  • The Nye Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
  • John A. White Co., Dover, N. H.
• A 1909 issue of Wood Craft lists Champion as a maker of hand protectors, jointer guards, and shaper guards.
• A 1912 issue of Wood Craft lists Champion as a maker of shaper guards.
• A 1914 issue of Wood Craft has an ad for the Champion jointer guard.
• From Woodworking Safeguards for the Prevention of Accidents in Lumbering and Woodworking Industries, by David Van Schaack, 1913:

  Champion Guard. A well-known guard of the automatic type is shown in Fig 154 (page 104). It is called the Champion Automatic Flexible Safety Guard and is manufactured by the Champion Machinery Co., of Joliet, Ill. The cover for the knives is of wooden slats so fastened together as to make the entire covering flexible. The guard is held up against the guide by a spring at the point of attachment to the table. When it is pushed away by material being fed to the knives, the flexible cover drops down to the side of the machine frame so as not to be in the way of the operator. The picture shows the material going through, the guard being pushed aside just enough to permit its passage.

• From Bakers Review, volume 33 (1916): lists Champion Machinery Co., of Joliet, Ill., as a maker of blending machinery, cake machinery, cracker machinery, dough dividers, and mixing machinery.