This company is known only through patent records: there were patents from 1884 through 1894 that were granted to James Pleukharp and assigned to this company.
Pleukharp is much better remembered as a furniture maker, under the name James Pleukharp & Co. They specialized in tables, especially dining tables and kitchen tables. We have received many reports of furniture from this company. Please note that this web site is focused on woodworking machinery, and furniture is outside our scope. All the information we have on James Pleukharp & Co. is already on this site. You might want to check out the patents we have for Pleukharp, as most of them are related to his furniture.
Information Sources
- From patent records; see the "Patents" tab near the top of this page.
- Searches of the "Making of America" archives came up dry on information related to Pleukharp Barrel Machine Co., as did web searches.