Manufacturers Index - Martin Rich
Martin Rich
Ithaca, NY, U.S.A.
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Wood Working Machinery
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X5,838
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Feb. 19, 1830
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Dog irons
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Martin Rich |
Candor, NY |
Most of the patents prior to 1836 were lost in the December 1836 fire. Only about 2000 of the almost 10000 documents were recovered. For this patent, the specification survives but the drawing is lost. The hand-written specification is difficult to read but the following is our best effort at transcribing it.
"The Blocks to which the dogs are made fast are similar to the common head Block now in use. The Dogs are two half Bails on each Block like those generally used except the following difference. One of the half bails has three teeth two of them on the upright part of the dog one at the top and the other about the centre. These teeth must be of sufficient length and width for a screw to pass through each. Two screws are made of Iron about three fourths of an inch in diameter and about four inches long. These screws are for a set or gauge for the sawed side of the log to bear against. A nut about two inches square is put on the end of each screw next to the log, also a nut on each screw of the other side of the tooth for the purpose of binding the screw if it should ever ??? loose. The other tooth in the ??? ??? so far from the upper tooth on the upright post as to admit the screws. The other half bail is to have three similar teeth except as follows. The upper teeth on the upright part is to be a double tooth, that is to say, one half of the tooth is to be perpendicular on the edge. The other half horizontal about half an inch shorter. The two upper teeth on the bail about two inches apart. The advantage in the above described dogs over any other now in use is that the boards will all be of an equal thickness: that the saw will run entirely through the log, that is more conceived(?) to sit in the right than any other." |
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Feb. 19, 1830
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Sawmill Dogs
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Martin Rich |
Candor, Tioga County, NY |
Listed in A List of Patents Issued by the United States, from 1790 to 1847, 1847, pgs. 275 & 539.
NX series patents are pre-July 1836 patents that do not have numbers and are not listed in the X patent series. They have been arbitrarily assigned NX numbers, which consists of the issue date in ISO format followed by a single number to separate multiple patents issued on the same date. This is to allow them to be entered into the Datamp file. These patents are listed in the List of Patents for Inventions and Designs, published in 1847. They are entered here for reference and further research only.
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X5,915
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Apr. 13, 1830
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Dog irons
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Martin Rich |
Candor, NY |
Most of the patents prior to 1836 were lost in the December 1836 fire, including this one. The Journal of the Franklin Institute reported on this patent when it was issued. "'The dog star rages,' at least in Tioga county, New York; these dogs, however, are not affected with hydrophobia, as without abundance of water they would remain in a state of quiescence. Mr. Rich obtained a patent for a dog of an improved breed, in February last, since which two, or rather four of his neighbours, have become his competitors, as we have already noticed; he now comes forward with another dog, which we are informed will retain his hold upon a log of wood, without letting go, after once his teeth have been made to enter it.
"In the dogs patented by Mr. Andrews, No. 14, one of the half bails is made to slide endways upon a square iron bar attached to the head block on one side of the kerf, the bar itself turning on pivots in staples driven into the block. In the present patent, each bail is to be so fixed, that the log may be shifted without loosening the dog. The iron bars are cut into notches, or teeth, on one angle, and into these notches springs fall, to hold the bails in their places. A spring attached to one of the bails falls into notches upon - a strip or bar of iron fastened to the block, at the back of the dog, to aid in gauging the thickness to be cut. These parts are not very clearly described; the drawing, however, is sufficiently well executed, but it is entirely without written references, and thus fails in an important point. We are not told for what the present patent is taken, although the new and the old are manifestly mixed up together in the description." |
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X7,416
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Feb. 08, 1833
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Saw mill dogs
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Martin Rich |
Ithaca, NY |
Most of the patents prior to 1836 were lost in the December 1836 fire. Only about 2000 of the almost 10000 documents were recovered. Little is known about this patent as both specification and drawing are lost. |
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X8,048
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Mar. 06, 1834
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Saw mill dogs
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Martin Rich |
Ithaca, NY |
Most of the patents prior to 1836 were lost in the December 1836 fire. Only about 2000 of the almost 10000 documents were recovered. Little is known about this patent because both drawing and specification are lost. |
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X8,715
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Mar. 25, 1835
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Lever sawmill dog
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Martin Rich |
Caroline, NY |
This patent's drawings and specifications are available; only about 20 percent of the patents were restored after the 1836 Patent Office fire. |
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X8,725
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Mar. 27, 1835
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Dog gauge saw mill
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Martin Rich |
Caroline, NY |
Only the hand-written patent specification survives; the drawings and model were destroyed in the 1836 Patent Office fire. |
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152
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Apr. 28, 1835
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A certain apparatus to be attached to saw mills
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William M. Jackson |
ON, Canada |
XC patents are Canadian patents issued between 1824 and 1869.
Inventor Rich was an American from upstate New York (Candor, Ithaca, Caroline) who received several US patents for sawmill dogs.
"The one to effect the fixing or setting of the log by hand, for the purpose of cutting the stuff truly parallel, without any stump end; and the other to affect the same purposes, in a more effectual manner, by a self-acting of the log by a combination of cast iron levers." |
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A certain apparatus to be attached to saw mills
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Martin Rich |
ON, Canada |
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X9,439
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Feb. 25, 1836
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Saw mill dogs
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Martin Rich |
Ithaca, NY |
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1,751
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Aug. 28, 1840
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Sawmill-dog for setting logs
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Martin Rich |
Ithaca, NY |
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