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Manufacturers Index - Jerome S. Moseley
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From about 1871 until at least 1887, Jerome S. Moseley manufactured a patent scrollsaw plus a variety moulder and a planer.


From December 1872 Industrial Monthly

Information Sources

  • An 1870 New York state directory lists "Moseley & Carpenter (J. S. Moseley and A. Carpenter), scroll sawyers, 10 Mulberry" in Syracuse. Carpenter's first name (listed elsewhere in the directoy) was Adelbert.
  • The September 1872 issue of Manufacturer & Builder has a substantial article, with engraving, on Moseley's scrollsaw.
  • Ads in late 1872 and early 1873 Manufacturer & Builder: "Moseley's Patent Scrolls-saw Machine. The inventor, having had long experience in scroll-sawing in all its branches, has devised this machine with a view of meeting every contingency, and is satisfied that a careful examination of the same will convince any scroll-sawer that success has crowned his efforts. Jerome S. Moseley, Syracuse, N. Y."
  • Briefly mentioned in 1873 Manufacturer & Builder.
  • Listed in a work published by the United States Centennial commission, Official Catalog of the 1876 International Exhibition, as a maker of a scrollsaw and a boring machine.
    In all of the wood-sawing machines on exhibition, the great principles involved in their mechanical construction are the many devices for starting, stopping, and controlling its speed without taking the attention of the operators from their work. The manner of holding the saw, and the manner of giving the saws more or less "rake or feed," have been the difficult problems to solve. Moseley's Patent Eureka Scroll Sawing Machine, with its improved apparatus, can be run at a speed from 800 to 1100 revolutions per minute, and will saw the lightest veneered work, such as piano or melodeon work, and is capable of running saws from one-sixteenth of an inch wide to any width that can be practically used in a scroll saw machine. The blower and self-adjusting blowpipe is a new feature, which adds greatly to the convenience of running and working this machine. It is attached in a simple manner to the upright shaft in which the saws are worked, and serves every purpose of blowing gently away from the work all sawdust that accumulates. The machine is admirably adapted for all kinds of scroll sawing, from the lightest to the heaviest, and does the work well. This machine received the first prize medal at the Fair of the New York State Agricultural Society, held at Utica in the fall of 1870; also at Elmira, 1872; also at Albany, 1873, and at Rochester, 1874; also received a medal of special award at the Fair of the American Institute, held at New York City in 1872; and the first prize medal at the International Exhibition, Buffalo, N. Y., 1872.
  • Ad in 1887-04-01 The Mechanical News.