Manufacturers Index - Hall & Brown Wood Working Machine Co.
Hall & Brown Wood Working Machine Co.
St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Manufacturer Class:
Wood Working Machinery
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164,276
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Jun. 08, 1875
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Improvement in machines for making fence-pickets
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Ebenezer B. Rowe |
Chicago, IL |
This machines forms the ornamental head of fence pickets. The machine is shown in an undated Hall & Brown catalog, as their "Standard Picket Header". |
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Improvement in machines for making fence-pickets
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Peter C. Dufour |
Chicago, IL |
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Improvement in machines for making fence-pickets
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Hillary Dufour |
Chicago, IL |
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231,310
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Aug. 17, 1880
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Tenoning-machine
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Gorham O. Hall |
St. Louis, MO |
"My improvement relates to the device for giving to the head-stocks the required vertical adjustments; and it consists in supporting the head-stocks in their vertical position by a vertical screw, each head-stock being supported on a screw-threaded collar or nut on the screw, said collar forming the hub of a bevel-wheel and turning in an ear or lug of the head-stock or adjustable plate in which the cutter-shaft has bearing. The construction is such that the head-stocks are raised and lowered simultaneously by the turning of the vertical supporting-screw, and each of the head-stocks has independent vertical adjustment by the turning of its supporting-nut upon the screw. The bevel-wheel nut is turned by a bevel-wheel on a spindle to whose end a winch is placed." |
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244,335
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Jul. 12, 1881
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Circular sawing machine
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Daniel O. Strifler |
St. Louis, MO |
This patent was bought or licensed by J. A. Fay & Co. The design was improved in patent 303,923 by William H. Doane, who was the president of J. A. Fay & Co. The improved design was then improved again in patent 319,395.
The connection to Hall & Brown is somewhat speculative. Charles S. Brown is a witness, and he was also vice-president of Hall & Brown. A 1914 catalog Hall & Brown shows an "Improved cabinet double cut-off saw" that appears to be descended from this patent's design. |
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276,259
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Apr. 24, 1883
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Band-saw guide
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Reuben McChesney |
Frankfort, NY |
"The Frankfort Directory" for 1883 lists Reuben McChesney as a machinist residing at 152 Main.
From the November 1887 issue of "Manufacturer & Builder" comes the following letter.
"Some Remarkable Band-Saw Work.
"'Visitors to Coney Island will see in the Sea Beach Palace Exposition some wonderful work done by a man who works out the most delicate articles with a band saw 19 feet long, and revolving at the rate of over a mile a minute. Upon this machine the skilled operator recently sawed out four chairs, all complete, with legs and backs, but so small that four were placed on the end of a lead pencil at one time. Then a dozen knives and forks of the most diminutive size were made and placed around the lead pencil. So small were they, that, although the entire dozen were placed around the pencil, not one of them touched the other. Then the operator trimmed his finger nails on the huge saw as cleverly and as easily as one could do it with a penknife. Wetting his thumb, he pressed the ball of it into some sawdust, and then sawed the sawdust off the thumb without scratching the skin, yet a single nervous twitch of the arm would have cost him a hand. All sorts of curious puzzles are turned out with astonishing rapidity from all sorts of misshapen blocks of wood. Even articles of clothing, as thin and flexible as cloth, are worked out by this magician from little pieces of wood with his big saw. The cap he works in was sawed out of over one thousand pieces of wood, no two of which are the same size or shape.'
"The above article, which appeared in the October issue of the Lumber World, has attracted considerable attention. Since September 26th last, I have been sawing at the Mechanics Fair in Boston, and am giving the same exhibition I gave at Coney Island, attracting thousands of people daily, some of whom were interested merely as sight-seers, others watch my work, and for chances to question me about it.
"Although a man may be thoroughly acquainted with the use of band saws, he cannot accomplish the result I do unless he is equipped with the proper tools. Without giving my preference of band-saw machines, there being several good ones on the market, I can say that, as regards band-saw blades, I have a preference, and since 1883 have used only the Simonds blade in exhibition work. Their blades are made in such a way that I can always count on them, and, sawing only in public, I cannot afford to take any chances whatever of having my tools give out or break. Whereas all other band-saw makes, including makers of the French blade, punch the teeth out of their blades, the Simonds band saw is made by milling the tooth into the blade. In punching the teeth out of a narrow band-saw blade, the blade must necessarily receive a strain; within the milled-tooth blade, however, this strain is entirely done away with. While at Coney Island, I wore some of these blades down so narrow that I could not hold them in the filing vise any more, and was forced to lay them away. I have a number of the Simonds saws worn too narrow for any kind of use, and they have not broken at all yet.
"I do not know who wrote the article above quoted, but, it having fallen into my hands, I take this opportunity to thank the party for calling attention to my skill as a band sawyer. As far back as 1878, I used these saws; 28 to 30 gauge, for slabbing ivory tusks, and my success in this work was almost entirely owing to this same material.
"R. MCCHESNEY. The Original Mohawk Dutchman. Boston, November 10th, 1887." |
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423,300
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Mar. 11, 1890
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Split wooden pulley
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Samuel S. Adkins |
St. Louis, MO |
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511,205
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Dec. 19, 1893
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Feed mechanism for woodworking machines
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Edwin Judd |
St. Louis, MO |
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555,378
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Feb. 25, 1896
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Woodworking machinery
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Edwin Judd |
St. Louis, MO |
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767,545
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Aug. 16, 1904
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Jointer-guard
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Jacob A. Davidson |
Eau Claire, WI |
This guard seen on a Hall & Brown 12" jointer, and on a Frank H. Clement Co. 16" jointer. In the latter instance the guard was labeled with the Badger name. Another Hall & Brown jointer has a guard labeled, "The Badger jointer guard. J. A. Davidson & Co., Eau Claire, Wis." |
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985,473
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Feb. 28, 1911
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Blade-truing device
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John R. Thomas |
St. Louis, MO |
"My invention relates to improvements in the means of grinding or truing the series of knives or cutters disposed in the rotating holder or cutter-head employed in the type of wood-working machine termed a planer." |
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1,807,120
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May. 26, 1931
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Saw
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Harold Lacey Lewis |
St. Louis, MO |
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