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			Manufacturers Index - Hervey Law 
  
  
    Hervey Law
  
  
  Wilmington, NC; Chatham, NJ, U.S.A.
  
  Manufacturer Class: 
  Wood Working Machinery
  
  
  
 
                
                    
                        
                         
  
 
		
                        
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    | 2,272 | Sep. 30, 1841 | Machine for planing boards and timber of other kinds | Hervey  Law | Wilmington, NC |  |  
    | 3,719 | Aug. 28, 1844 | Machine for cutting match-splints | Hervey  Law | Wilmington, NC |  |  
    | 5,792 | Sep. 19, 1848 | Machine for planing rived staves | Hervey  Law | Wilmington, NC | The 1849-01-04 "Farmer and Mechanic" carried an ad for "Law's Newly Invented Stave Dressing and Jointing Machine.—This machine dresses and joints the rived staves of ALL shapes and dimensions, without assorting or waste of stock, finishing them in a beautiful manner, ready for the Truss Hoop, at the rate of 6 to 8 staves per minute. It needs only to be seen to be approved. A machine will be in operation, at Wm. Bardon's, 102 Front Street, Brooklyn, every working day, between 9 and 12 A. M." The 1848-12-09 Scientific American confirms that Law was mkaing the machines: "Mr. Law... has brought on his machines from Wilminton, N. c. and set them in operation in Mr. Burdon's Foundy, No. 100 Front st. Brookyn." |  
    | 6,309 | Apr. 10, 1849 | Planing-machine | Hervey  Law | Wilmington, NC |  |  
    | 6,443 | May. 08, 1849 | Machinery for dressing staves | Hervey  Law | Wilmington, NC |  |  
    | 15,738 | Sep. 16, 1856 | Machine for cutting paper | Hervey  Law | New York, NY |  |  
    | 42,200 | Apr. 05, 1864 | Machine for cutting paper | Hervey  Law | Chatham, NJ |  |  
    | 83,513 | Oct. 27, 1868 | Improvement in machines for cutting paper | Hervey  Law | Chatham, NJ | This patent is of interest because the inventor was an early innovator of planing machines. |  
    | RE5,503 | Jul. 29, 1873 | Improvement in paper-cutting machines | Hervey  Law | Chatham, NJ |  |  
    | 213,579 | Mar. 25, 1879 | Improvement in shutter-workers | Hervey  Law | Chatham, NJ | Of interest because the inventor was in early innovator in planers. |  
    | 242,660 | Jun. 07, 1881 | Potato-peeler | Hervey  Law | Chatham, NJ | Of interest because the inventor was in early innovator in planers. |  
    | RE9,930 | Nov. 15, 1881 | Potato-peeler | Hervey  Law | Chatham, NJ | The inventor was in early innovator in planers. |  |