Hewes & Phillips Iron Works - Assigned Patents

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Hewes & Phillips Iron Works
New York, NY; Newark, NJ, U.S.A.
Manufacturer Class: Wood Working Machinery, Metal Working Machinery & Steam and Gas Engines

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Patent Number	Date	Title	Name	City	Description
54,153	Apr. 24, 1866	Improvement in cut-off valves	Joseph L. Hewes	Newark, NJ
112,626	Mar. 14, 1871	Improvement in machines for tapping boilers	Joseph L. Hewes	Newark, NJ	This patent was perhaps used by Hewes & Phillips of Newark, a maker of machine tools and drill presses, plus water valves, steam engines, and rock drills.
		Improvement in machines for tapping boilers	Parley I. Perrin	Taunton, MA
127,768	Jun. 11, 1872	Improvement in stop-valves for water-pipes	Joseph L. Hewes	Newark, NJ
148,884	Mar. 24, 1874	Improvement in machines for making gear-wheel patterns	Joseph L. Hewes	Newark, NJ	Here is a quote from the patent specification: "At the present time the pattern-cogs of the patterns used for molding cog-wheels are fitted into the runs by hand, by sawing and chiseling out dovetail grooves across the face of the pattern, making corresponding tenons on the blocks of which the teeth are to be formed, fitting in said blocks, and then dressing the blocks down to the finished shape. "Throughout the range of pattern-making, which is an art requiring the greatest skill in all its branches, there is perhaps no part of it more difficult and requiring more skill than this part of the making of a pattern-wheel, for the wheels made from the pattern will be unsatisfactory unless the teeth are exactly uniform in size, shape, etc., as is well known to all makers and users of machinery. "Now, I propose to do all the fitting of the rim and the teeth, and the finishing of the teeth, by mechanical devices, and thus not only secure the exact uniformity of shape and dimensions peculiar to the use of special tool for special work, but largely economize in time and labor as well." This patent was perhaps used by Hewes & Phillips of Newark, a maker of machine tools and drill presses, plus water valves, steam engines, and rock drills.
153,254	Jul. 21, 1874	Metal Planing Machines	Joseph L. Hewes	Newark, Essex County, NJ	Munn & Co. - patent attorneys
164,736	Jun. 22, 1875	Improvement in valve-gears for steam-engines	Joseph L. Hewes	Newark, NJ	Inventor Hewes was deceased.
350,554	Oct. 12, 1886	Planing-Machine Cushioning Device	Franklin Phillips	Newark, Essex County, NJ	Crane & Miller - patent attorneys This invention relates to that class of machines in which a casting of any desired form is secured upon a movable bed and traversed longitudinally beneath a cutting-tool, the rate of movement toward the tool being limited, as from twelve to twenty feet per minute, according to the hardness of the iron and the endurance of the tool which, operates upon it. There is, however, no necessary limit to the speed of the table and its attached casting in the reverse direction, except the difficulty of arresting the motion of the table at the end of its stroke without injury to the reversing mechanism; and the object of the present invention is to connect a spring or air cushion adjustably to the table, so as to gradually check the motion of the latter before the reversing mechanism is fully actuated. As the reversing mechanism in such machines is usually actuated by a direct connection with the moving table, it is obvious that a diminution in the speed of the table before the reversing mechanism is operated will entirely obviate the difficulty which arises in actuating the table with a quick return motion and operating the reversing mechanism by direct connection thereto.
350,555	Oct. 12, 1886	Planer Table Cushioning Device	Franklin Phillips	Newark, Essex County, NJ
378,106	Feb. 21, 1888	Friction Feed Mechanism for Iron-Planers	Franklin Phillips	Newark, NJ	Crane & Miller - patent attorneys The object of this improvement is to operate the tool-feeding mechanism of a reciprocating planer by a frictional connection with the reversible pinion-shaft used to actuate the planer table and the invention consists in the combination, with a friction-drum driven by the pinion-shaft, of a feed-shifting device operated by a strap pressed upon such drum and released when the feed movement is effected. The intermittent tension of the strap is effected by a lever which has its end operated in contact with a segment concentric with the friction-drum, the end sections of the segment being movable and being shifted by the reversing mechanism of the planer. The frictional connection of the feeding mechanism with the reversible pinion-shaft is maintained only during the period required to actuate the feed, and is then wholly released, so as to arrest the parts in frictional contact and to remove the frictional resistance to the motive power. The tool-feeding mechanism upon a planer consists commonly in a screw mounted in a cross-head and fitted to a nut upon a sliding carriage which sustains the tool. The rotation of the screw thus propels the carriage and tool at the desired rate along the cross-head, the tool meanwhile operating upon the material which is attached to the reciprocating planer-table. The rotation of the screw is effected during the reverse movement of the table, and is commonly produced by a ratchet wheel and pawl, the pawl being carried by an oscillating arm hinged upon the screw or upon a stud adjacent thereto and vibrated by some sort of connection with the belt-shifting mechanism of the planer. The reversible table is not shown herein nor the feeding devices, as they are already well known; and my invention is applicable to any machine having a shaft rotated alternately in opposite directions, as the pinion shaft of a planer-table, and having a mechanism shifted at each end of the cutting-stroke, as the belt shifting device in such a planer.
378,105	Feb. 21, 1888	Dash-pot for steam-engines	Franklin Phillips	Newark, NJ
420,887	Feb. 04, 1890	Escape-valve for dash-pots	Franklin Phillips	Newark, NJ
494,746	Apr. 04, 1893	Governor for steam-engines	Franklin Phillips	Newark, NJ
500,271	Jun. 27, 1893	Valve for engines	Franklin Phillips	Newark, NJ
929,008	Jul. 27, 1909	Dash-pot	Franklin Phillips	Newark, NJ	Improvements to patent 378,105.