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Manufacturers Index - Greenwich Machine Works

Greenwich Machine Works
Greenwich, NY, U.S.A.
Manufacturer Class: Wood Working Machinery & Steam and Gas Engines

History
Last Modified: Dec 14 2010 8:44PM by Jeff_Joslin
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This maker of woodworking machinery and steam engines was active in the mid-1870s. Their machines were available as either manually powered or lineshaft powered. One machine they advertised was Weaver's Patent machine: a combined scrollsaw, circular saw, planer, and boring machine.

Information Sources

  • The August 1874 issue of Manufacturer & Builder has an article describing the workings of the Weaver's patent combination machine. The speed multiplier mechanism really does seem to be as ingenious as the article claims.
  • An article in the August 1875 issue of Manufacturer & Builder features this firm's treadle scrollsaw and/or tablesaw. It cost $75 when configured as either a scrollsaw or tablesaw, or $90 when configured as both. William Weaver, the patentee, is described as "general agent" of Greenwich Machine Works. "Besides the machine described, and other wood-working contrivances, this firm have on hand several other machines, among which are Beach's spiral spring scroll saw, Taplin's horse-powers, Woodworth's national water-wheel governor, horizontal, vertical, and rotary steam-engines, turbine water-wheels, shafting, and hangers." They were probably resellers of all these products; the Beach's patent scrollsaw was manufactured by Henry L. Beach.
  • The 1876 work, Draft-book of Centennial carriages, displayed in Philadelphia, at the International exhibition of 1876, mentions "Greenwich Machine Works, of Greenwich, N. Y.", as an exhibitor of woodworking machinery at the Centennial Exhibition.
  • The October 1876 issue of Manufacturer & Builder lists this firm as an award winner for their exhibition of woodworking machinery at the Centennial Exhibition.