This short-lived but influential maker of woodworking machinery was formed in 1903. One product was a heavy self-feeding jointer; the design was licensed by Canada Machinery Corp. for the Canadian market. Another successful product was their glue-joint rip saw, which is a sort of tablesaw that is specialized for ripping operations, cutting an edge clean enough to glue into a panel without jointing first. Falls originated the continuous-feed glue jointer.

From September 1912 Wood Craft

In 1916, two Falls executive, A. G. Studeman and Mark Hoeper, purchased Jenkins Machine Co. By September 1917, E. B. Hayes Machine Co. had licensed their sawmill machinery line to Jenkins Machine Co. as the Hayes organization focused on manufacturing truck transmissions. The details are murky, but by 1920 Falls and E. B. Haye had both been absorbed into Jenkins Machine Co., under the control of Studeman and Hoeper.

Information Sources

• A 1906 glue-joint saw patent, awarded to Frank Diehl, was assigned to one George P. Myers. A Falls Machine Co. machine has been seen matching this patent (it's in the Photo Index). A 1907 glue-joint saw patent was explicitly assigned to this company. A reasonable guess it that this company was formed sometime during 1906-1907.
• A January 1908 Wood Craft article on the Falls undercut planer (a self-powered jointer)
• History of Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, Past and Present, Volume 2, by Carl Zillier, 1912.

  Angelo R. Clas received his early education in Milwaukee and later became a student of Harvard University, from which institution he was graduated in 1908. At the completion of his university course he returned to Milwaukee, where he was engaged as an architect in his father's business for a period of two years. He then removed to Sheboygan, where he now resides. He is interested in the Sheboygan Falls Machine Company, of which concern he is the secretary, Gustave Huette being its president and Mark Hoeper acting in the capacity of treasurer. This institution is one of the important manufacturing companies of Sheboygan Falls. Its business is the manufacture of wood-working machinery, automobile and marine motors and gas stationary engines for power plants. They carry on their annual pay roll a list of two hundred and fifty employes. The company was incorporated in January, 1903.

• There is a 1915 patent assigned to E. B. Hayes Machine Co., and a 1917 patent assigned to Falls Machine Co.
• 1916-11-09 Motor Age.

  Jenkins Company Sells—The Jenkins Machine Co., Sheboygan, Wis., has been purchased from William W. and Louis Wolff by A. G. Studeman, formerly an executive of the Falls Machine Co., Sheboygan Falls, Wis., and Mark Hoeper, until now assistant treasurer and purchasing agent of the J. I. Case Plow Co., Racine. Wis. The Jenkins company is capitalized at $70,000 and will not change its name or capital for the present.

• 1916-11-10 Hardwood Record.

  The Jenkins Machine Company of Sheboygan, Wis., one of the largest manufacturers of woodworking machinery in the Middle West, has been purchased by A. G. Studeman and Mark lloeper from W. W. and Louis Wolil', who succeeded the late David Jenkins, founder, about twenty years ago. The concern is incorporated for $70,000. A. G. Studeman, formerly with the Phoenix Chair Company of Sheboygan and more recently with the Falls Machine Company, is president. Mark iloeper, secretary, was formerly associated with the Northern Furniture Company of Sheboygan and the Falls company.

• An ad in a 1920 issue of The Woodworker says, "Jenkins Machine Co., successors by purchase to Falls Machine Co. and E. B. Hayes Machine Co."