Niles Tool Works - Assigned Patents

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Niles Tool Works
Cincinnati, OH; Hamilton, OH, U.S.A.
Manufacturer Class: Metal Working Machinery & Steam and Gas Engines

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Patent Number	Date	Title	Name	City	Description
97,908	Dec. 14, 1869	Improved radial drilling-machine	George A. Gray Jr.	Cincinnati, OH	Frank Millward - patent attorney
113,651	Apr. 11, 1871	Improvement in turning and boring-mills	George A. Gray Jr.	Cincinnati, OH
114,670	May. 09, 1871	Improvement in Railroad Car-Axle Lathes	George A. Gray Jr.	Cincinnati, Hamilton County, OH
138,394	Apr. 29, 1873	Machines for Turning Pulleys	George A. Gray Jr.	Hamilton, Butler County, OH
241,719	May. 17, 1881	Boring Mill	George T. Reiss	Hamilton, Butler County, OH
258,533	May. 23, 1882	Adjusting-gearing	Alexander Gordon	Cincinnati, OH	This is the earliest instantiation we can find for the "sensitive drill" friction-drive mechanism, which has a metal disk mounted on the end of the input shaft, and a rubber disk at right angles and connected to the output shaft. The rim of the rubber disk rubs against the metal disk, and is forced to rotate when the metal disk rotates. The rubber disk can be moved longitudinally along its shaft (which coincides with a diameter of the metal disk), varying the speed of the rubber disk's rotation. If the rubber disk crosses the center point of the metal disk then its rotations stops and reverses. As a method of power transmission, the idea is an old one, and this patent does not cover that idea per se. Therefore, it is quite possible that there are older versions of this drill press design.
		Adjusting-gearing	George T. Reiss	Hamilton, OH
263,334	Aug. 29, 1882	Lathe Rest	Alexander Gordon	Cincinnati, Hamilton County, OH	James W. See - patent attorney This invention pertains to follow-rests, center-rests, and shafting-rests for lathes. We claim as our invention; 1. In a lathe-rest to receive collars having a cylindrical exterior, the combination of a collar-bearing having an admission gap or throat arranged at an angle of about forty-five degrees, and a vertical set-screw arranged over the axis of said bearing, substantially as and for the purpose set forth. 2. In a lathe-rest, the combination of a bottom bearing for the collar, a vertical set-screw arranged over the axis of the collar, and a divided collar having a tongue-and-groove joint, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
		Lathe Rest	James W. See	Hamilton, Butler County, OH
267,026	Nov. 07, 1882	Screw Cutting Lathe	James W. See	Hamilton, Butler County, OH	The patent lists the assignee as "Miles Tool Works:. We believe that this is a misprint for Niles Tool Works.
273,313	Mar. 06, 1883	Metal Screw Machine	George T. Reiss	Hamilton, Butler County, OH
292,948	Feb. 05, 1884	Pulley Lathe	George T. Reiss	Hamilton, Butler County, OH
322,969	Jul. 28, 1885	Drilling-machine	George T. Reiss	Hamilton, OH	This machine simultaneously drills the wholes in a rail-car wheel.
334,538	Jan. 19, 1886	Lathe for Turning Shafting	Walter J. Muncaster	Cumberland, Allegheny County, MD	Abstract: In order that the objects and advantages of the present invention may be the better understood, I shall state some of the difficulties met with in existing machinery of this class, and then explain the manner in which the same are avoided. Ordinarily, the shaft to be turned is mounted upon the centers of the head and tail stocks, and the end nearest the headstock is connected and caused to rotate with the faceplate thereof by a lathe-dog. Under such arrangement the tailstock center, being stationary, is ground and worn away by the rotation of the shaft thereon, and the shaft being driven from one end only is apt to spring or twist, unless very heavy, thus greatly interfering with the speed and accuracy of the work. Heretofore it has been necessary also to dismount the shaft when the cutting-tools neared the dog, reverse the shaft end for end, carry the tools back, and finish the portion previously held by the dog. To obviate these o difficulties, I provide a faceplate for the tail stock, as well as for the head stock, and employ a dog at each end of the shaft, and provide means for driving both faceplates alike, so that the shaft is turned with equal power at both ends, and that when the tools approach the dog at either end said dog can be removed and the tools ran clear to the end of the shaft, while the latter is driven from the opposite end. To further provide for this full travel of the tools, I employ a separable dog having two tails of more than ordinary length, the extra length being necessitated by a similar extension of the lathe-centers to give room for the tools between the faceplates and the ends of the shafts. Under this plan it is not necessary to reverse the shaft end for end to finish it, and it is therefore unnecessary to run the tool stock or carriage back for that purpose. Under existing plans, however, the tool stock or carriage must be run back: with each new shaft, because the tools can work only one way. To avoid this necessity. I so construct and arrange the tool stock that it may be swung horizontally about a central pivot on the carriage, and the tools thus made to work back to the starting-point, the lathe being of course reversed with each reversal of the tool stock. Claim: The combination, in a lathe, of a frame, a headstock provided with a face-plate, a tailstock provided with a face-plate, a shaft carrying a pinion in mesh with the faceplate of the head-stock, a sleeve mounted upon the shaft and carrying a pinion in mesh with the faceplate of the tail-stock, said sleeve adapted to slide upon the shaft, but to rotate only in unison therewith, and an arm projecting from the tailstock and having the sleeve loosely journaled in it, whereby the sleeve and its pinion are maintained always in fixed relation to the faceplate of the tailstock. In a lathe, the combination of a frame, A, a head-stock, B, provided with a face-plate, D, a tail-stock, X, provided with a face-plate, I', a shaft, F, provided with a pinion, E, meshing with faceplate D, a sleeve, G', encircling and adapted to slide upon the shaft F, a pinion, 112, carried by said sleeve and meshing with faceplate I', and an arm, J', swiveled upon the spindle Y of the tail-stock, and having the sleeve G' journaled in it.
334,832	Jan. 26, 1886	Car Wheel Lathe	John Richardson Williams	Chicago, Cook County, IL
340,207	Apr. 20, 1886	Lathe	Alexander Gordon	Hamilton, Butler County, OH
344,082	Jun. 22, 1886	Metal Planing Machine	James K. Cullen	Hamilton, OH	James W. See - patent attorney
344,083	Jun. 22, 1886	Gaging Device for Car Wheel Lathes	James K. Cullen	Hamilton, Butler County, OH
		Gaging Device for Car Wheel Lathes	James W. See	Hamilton, Butler County, OH
344,580	Jun. 29, 1886	Lathe	William W. Hubbard	Philadelphia, PA	Abstract: My invention consists of the combination, with a lathe, of an attachment whereby objects of larger diameter can be turned, bored, or otherwise worked than can be done on the lathe itself. Claim: A lathe having a, main spindle and provided with a supplementary spindle having a faceplate at right angles to the main spindle, and gears connecting the two spindles.
361,648	Apr. 19, 1887	Driving Dog for Lathes	George T. Reiss	Hamilton, Butler County, OH	Abstract: This invention pertains to a driver to be attached to the faceplate of a lathe and project therefrom to engage and drive the work to be turned. The invention has been devised with special reference to the turning of steel-tired car-wheels, which are fastened upon their axles. (5) Such wheels are generally built up with web- plates secured together by numerous bolts through the web of the wheel, and the driving is generally done through the medium of one or more of these bolts, or of holes from which the bolts are removed. Claim: A lathe-driver fitted for attachment to a faceplate and provided at its outer end with a radial slot, and a thimble disposed loosely in said slot and having a central hole adapted to engage over a bolt-head, nut, or other projection from the face of the work to be driven combined substantially.
362,618	May. 10, 1887	Drilling-machine	Alexander Gordon	Hamilton, OH
364,307	Jun. 07, 1887	Lathe	James W. See	Hamilton, Butler County, OH
406,003	Jun. 25, 1889	Turret-lathe	George T. Reiss	Hamilton, OH
430,088	Jun. 10, 1890	Lathe	George T. Reiss	Hamilton, OH	"This invention pertains to improvements in that class of lathes designed for operation on the driving-wheels of locomotives..."
462,792	Nov. 10, 1891	Feed Mechanism for Lathes	Zorester B. Coes	Hamilton, Butler County, OH
525,444	Sep. 04, 1894	Chuck	Zorester B. Coes	Hamilton, Butler County, OH
527,140	Oct. 09, 1894	Taper Turning Tool for Lathes	Zorester B. Coes	Hamilton, Butler County, OH
532,766	Jan. 22, 1895	Taper Turning Tool for Lathes	Zorester B. Coes	Hamilton, Butler County, OH
535,486	Mar. 12, 1895	Taper Turning Tool for Lathes	Zorester B. Coes	Hamilton, Butler County, OH
535,487	Mar. 12, 1895	Turret Lathe	Zorester B. Coes	Hamilton, Butler County, OH
547,740	Oct. 08, 1895	Milling-machine	George T. Reiss	Hamilton, OH
		Milling-machine	John B. Crockre	Hamilton, OH
570,093	Oct. 27, 1896	Metal Planing Machine	Henry Hess	Hamilton, Butler County, OH
579,976	Apr. 06, 1897	Reciprocating metal-paring machine	Alexander Gordon	Hamilton, OH
713,614	Nov. 18, 1902	Tool Relief for Metal Planers	Adolph L. De Leeuw	Hamilton, Butler County, OH
721,942	Mar. 03, 1903	Electric Switch System	Adolph L. De Leeuw	Hamilton, Butler County, OH
723,840	Mar. 31, 1903	Controlling Switch System	Adolph L. De Leeuw	Hamilton, Butler County, OH
764,115	Jul. 05, 1904	Speed Changer	Adolph L. De Leeuw	Hamilton, Butler County, OH
D140,986	Apr. 24, 1945	Design for a boring machine	Otto E. Schurr	Hamilton, OH	General Machinery Corp. employed a whopping 4500 people at the time, building artillery pieces, tanks, diesel engines, etc., for the war effort. The company was a merged organization that included the former Niles Tool Works, which had been acquired from Niles-Bement-Pond Co.