Aretus A. Wilder - Assigned Patents

Manufacturers Index - Aretus A. Wilder

Aretus A. Wilder
Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Manufacturer Class: Wood Working Machinery & Steam and Gas Engines

Patents

This page contains information on patents issued to this manufacturer.

Submitting Patent Information

If you find a patent number or patent date by this manufacturer that is not on this list, please contact the Site Historian.

Key to Links for Patent Information

USPTO = U.S. Patent Office . Images of the actual patent can be viewed on the U.S. Patent Office web site but a special TIFF viewer must be installed with your browser in order properly work. More information on how to configure your computer to view these patents can be found at TIFF image Viewers for Patent Images.
DATAMP = Directory of American Tool And Machinery Patents . A sister site to VintageMachinery.org with information on patents related to machinery and tools. A much easier user interface than the USPTO's for finding information on machinery patents.

Patent Number	Date	Title	Name	City	Description
X9,485	Mar. 08, 1836	Propelling wheel	Aretus A. Wilder	Warsaw, NY	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.
3,897	Jan. 31, 1845	Machine for boring and cutting screws	Aretus A. Wilder	Detroit, MI	"The nature of my invention consists in an improvement in drilling or mortising metal by means of a useful combination in machinery, whereby the operation is greatly simplified and expedited."
5,322	Oct. 09, 1847	Grain and straw separator	Hiram Berdan	Plymouth, MI
7,912	Jan. 21, 1851	Leeway-indicator	Aretus A. Wilder	Detroit, MI	"...a new and useful Improvement in an Apparatus for Indicating the Leeway Made by Ships and other Vessels... My invention relates to an improvement in the manner of attaching and combine the vane which passes through the water, with the rod which communicates with, or carries the pointer showing its position, above the deck or, inside the vessel, for the purpose of allowing the vane to be drawn up into the vessel when, passing over shoals or, from other causes, not requiring its use.".
7,978	Mar. 11, 1851	Copying-press	Aretus A. Wilder	Detroit, MI
9,495	Dec. 21, 1852	Planing-machine	Aretus A. Wilder	Detroit, MI	This fixed-knife planer was undoubtedly an attempt to avoid the Woodworth planer cartel.
389	Mar. 07, 1853	Machine for planing, tongueing and grooving boards	Aretus Andrews Wilder	ON, Canada	Aretus A. Wilder was actually from Detroit. XC patents are Canadian patents issued between 1824 and 1869. "The machine is so constructed that boards to be planed, can be clamped to the reciprocating beds, whilst being fed by the backward motion of the planes, so that they will be free to move over the stationary bed plate upon which they are planed."
RE249	Nov. 15, 1853	Improvement in machinery for planing lumber	Aretus A. Wilder	Detroit, MI
13,734	Oct. 30, 1855	Clapboard-machine	Aretus A. Wilder	Detroit, MI
RE840	Oct. 18, 1859	Clapboard machine	Aretus A. Wilder	Detroit, MI
26,803	Jan. 10, 1860	Clapboard	Aretus A. Wilder	Detroit, MI	"The nature of my invention consists in rounding or beveling the lower outside corner of clapboards... The object is to facilitate the painting and to make a surface by so rounding or beveling the edges, that the building covered by this siding... shall be completed washing by the rain..."
33,095	Aug. 20, 1861	Hydrant	Benjamin B. Moore	Detroit, MI
38,084	Mar. 31, 1863	Improved machine for making hoops	Aretus A. Wilder	Detroit, MI	From "Scientific American"'s summary of this patent: "This invention consists in the employment of two circular saws placed on one mandrel, in connection with feed rollers, a pressure and a curved plate, all arranged in such a manner that the timber from which the hoops are formed may be sawed of a uniform width throughout its entire length, and the timber then divided into hoops, the whole work being done simultaneously at one operation."
38,085	Mar. 31, 1863	Machine for pointing and checking hoop-bolts	Aretus A. Wilder	Detroit, MI	From "Scientific American"'s summary of this patent: "This invention relates to a new and useful machine for pointing the ends of the timber or bolts from which barrel hoops are split, and also for checking the ends of the timber or bolt preparatory to splitting the same into hoops. The invention consists in the employment of a double-beveled rotary cutter wheel in connection with a feed table and checking knife."
RE2,247	May. 15, 1866	Improvement in machines for sawing and edging clapboards	Aretus A. Wilder	Detroit, MI
54,801	May. 15, 1866	Improved propeller	Aretus A. Wilder	Detroit, MI
		Improved propeller	William Gooding	Detroit, MI
62,303	Feb. 19, 1867	Improved railroad car-starter	Aretus A. Wilder	Detroit, MI
64,609	May. 07, 1867	Improvement in planing machines	Aretus A. Wilder	Detroit, MI
84,924	Dec. 15, 1868	Washing machine	Aretus A. Wilder	Detroit, MI	This patent was withdrawn; we know of it from the weekly listings of issued patents in "Scientific American".
		Washing machine	John Wilder	Detroit, MI
133,135	Nov. 19, 1872	Improvement in bolt-machines	Aretus A. Wilder	Detroit, MI
136,886	Mar. 18, 1873	Improvement in dummy or traction engines	Aretus A. Wilder	Detroit, MI
196,064	Oct. 09, 1877	Improvement in bolt-locks for rail-joints	Aretus A. Wilder	Detroit, MI
230,514	Jul. 27, 1880	Safety-governor for elevators, &c.	Aretus A. Wilder	Detroit, MI
248,539	Oct. 18, 1881	Safety attachment and governor for elevators	Aretus A. Wilder	Detroit, MI
269,250	Dec. 19, 1882	Hand-drill	Aretus A. Wilder	Detroit, MI	Strictly speaking, this is not a ratchet drill, as the mechanism uses rollers that bind against stops to affix the shaft to the handle while allowing the handle to rotate freely in the other direction.
297,894	Apr. 29, 1884	Nut-lock	Aretus A. Wilder	Detroit, MI