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Manufacturers Index - Plessisville Foundry / Forano Ltd.

Plessisville Foundry / Forano Ltd.
Plessisville, QC, Canada
Manufacturer Class: Wood Working Machinery & Metal Working Machinery

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Patent Number Date Title Name City Description
429,807 Jun. 10, 1890 Power-hammer spring Philippe Dènéry Dupont St. Johnsbury, VT
36,927 Jul. 04, 1891 Coil spring power hammer Philippe Dènéry Dupont St. Johnsbury, VT This is, roughly, the Canadian equivalent of US patent 429,807.
642,070 Jan. 30, 1900 Power-hammer Edward H. Blossom St. Johnsbury, VT
1,431,434 Oct. 10, 1922 Sawing machine Omeril Tardif QC, Canada
1,748,906 Feb. 25, 1930 Lath machine Lucien Carrier QC, Canada
    Lath machine Omeril Tardif QC, Canada  
2,090,324 Aug. 17, 1937 Road grader attachment Jean-Baptiste Boisvert QC, Canada
2,174,116 Sep. 26, 1939 Stone crusher Georges A. Bilocq QC, Canada
2,232,431 Feb. 18, 1941 Rotating elevator Georges A. Bilocq QC, Canada The invention is a material elevator for a stone crusher. The assignee also made woodworking machinery.
2,707,884 May. 10, 1955 Composite gear wheel Jean-Baptiste Boisvert QC, Canada "Let us consider, for instance, the dryer gears, as used in many paper mills, having a diameter of four to seven feet, a four to ten inch face, meshing in a group of twenty to sixty in a single paper machine, driven from motors totalling up to a thousand horsepower; half of these gears should be made with non-metallic teeth to resist the velocity of nearly two thousand feet per minute now required to satisfy the increased paper demand."
2,863,551 Dec. 09, 1958 Aligning conveyor system Georges Albert Bilocq QC, Canada
3,038,587 Jun. 12, 1962 Log conveying apparatus Georges A. Bilocq QC, Canada
3,040,861 Jun. 26, 1962 Log feeding mechanism Georges A. Bilocq QC, Canada
3,048,285 Aug. 07, 1962 Log feeding machine Georges A. Bilocq QC, Canada
3,129,823 Apr. 21, 1964 Centering mechanism for paper rolls and the like Georges A. Bilocq QC, Canada
3,214,000 Oct. 26, 1965 Feed regulating apparatus for logs or the like Georges A. Bilocq QC, Canada
3,279,582 Oct. 18, 1966 Inspection station for wood logs Georges A. Bilocq QC, Canada
3,329,251 Jul. 04, 1967 Long log ejector Georges A. Bilocq QC, Canada
3,417,854 Dec. 24, 1968 System for electro-mechanically feeding wood logs into shafts Georges A. Bilocq QC, Canada
3,420,590 Jan. 07, 1969 Dustproof bearing for idler roller Georges A. Bilocq QC, Canada
3,443,676 May. 13, 1969 System for mechanically feeding wood logs into shafts Georges A. Bilocq QC, Canada
3,511,356 May. 12, 1970 Device for receiving aligning and conveying wood logs Georges A. Bilocq QC, Canada
3,516,458 Jun. 23, 1970 Guides for twin blade saws Constantin Hedrei QC, Canada
3,638,792 Feb. 01, 1972 Grinder-feeding system Georges A. Bilocq QC, Canada
3,703,196 Nov. 21, 1972 System for controlling the setting of a quadruple band saw Constantin Hedrei QC, Canada
3,783,725 Jan. 08, 1974 Mechanical shears Marcel Payeur QC, Canada
3,805,969 Apr. 23, 1974 Log turning assembly Georges A. Bilocq QC, Canada
3,815,763 Jun. 11, 1974 Grinder feeding system E. Peter J. Hooper ON, Canada
    Grinder feeding system Georges A. Bilocq QC, Canada  
4,046,042 Sep. 06, 1977 Circular shear cutting device Marcel Payeur QC, Canada
4,172,481 Oct. 30, 1979 Flail device Maurice J. Brisson QC, Canada "The present invention relates to a flail device and, more particularly, to a rotating device equipped with flails which, under centrifugal force, extend to break or condition objects, such as detaching branches, leaves or bark from trees or conditioning ski slopes, etc."
4,214,616 Jul. 29, 1980 Tree delimbing apparatus Maurice J. Brisson QC, Canada
4,653,561 Mar. 31, 1987 Log debarking machine Marcel Payeur QC, Canada