Manufacturers Index - Thomas Reeves & Co.
Thomas Reeves & Co.
New York, New York, U.S.A.
Manufacturer Class:
Wood Working Machinery
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May. 16, 1848
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Machinery for making moldings
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Alfred T. Serrell |
New York, NY |
Extended 1862-05-20. The inventor was a New York cabinet-maker. Since the patent was extended it must have been used.
An ad in the 1853-54 Williams' Cincinnati Directory for J. B. Holmes, maker of "wood mouldings of any desired style" touts their "New York Moulding Planing Mill, Patented 1848". This patent is the only viable candidate for that patented moulding machine. The inventor was himself a manufacturer of wood moldings, with two warehouses and showrooms in New York City. This patent was reissued and then, after the threat of a lawsuit from the Woodworth planer cartel, was reissued again where any conflict with the Woodworth patent was disclaimed.
The publication specification contains an unusual disclaimer that indicates that John Lawrence has been assigned, for six years from 1849-09-01, the rights to this patent in "that part of the city of New York lying east on a line commencing at the south end of Whitehall street, thence proceeding northwardly up the middle of said street to ins intersection into Broadway, up the middle of Broadway to the intersection with Chatham street, up the middle of of Chatham street to the intersection with the Bowery and by the railroad and Union Square to the middle of the Fourth avenue, and up the middle of Fourth avenue to the northerly termination thereof". |
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RE187
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Jan. 07, 1851
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Improvement in machinery for making moldings
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Alfred T. Serrell |
New York, NY |
This reissue of the important Serrell molder patent is to make a broader claim than the original patent, which covered the combination of three things: a feed mechanism, rotating cutters, and a stationary plane. Other people took his ideas and implemented two out of the three to avoid infringing. This reissued patent covers the feed works in combination with either the rotating cutters or the stationary planer. Serrell's real innovation was his feed mechanism that gave the flexibility to choose where on the work-piece to engage the feed, so that the marks made by the feed mechanism could be limited to areas that would be removed by the action of cutting the molding. Since Serrell did not claim the feedworks by itself, there must have been some prior art, perhaps for an application unrelated to making wood moldings.
"I do not claim to have invented parallel grooved feed-rollers to force in the material being planed; but I do not know of any previous machine in which an angular roller has been applied, of either one or more conical rings or disks, that operated to feed material of varying angular forms into the machine by contact with the parts that have to be removed by the cutters; neither do I claim the rotary cutter for forming mouldings, nor a common moulding plane; but I do not know of any machine in which these two have been employed together—the cutter to give the shape, and the moulding plane to finish the surface..."
According to the 1873 "Subject-matter index of patents for inventions issued by the United States Patent Office", this patent was granted an extension. It was also re-reissued to disclaim any conflicts with the Woodworth planer patent 71. |
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RE243
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Jun. 21, 1853
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Molder
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Alfred T. Serrell |
New York, NY |
According to the 1873 "Subject-matter index of patents for inventions issued by the United States Patent Office", this patent was granted an extension. This reissue was to disclaim anything that conflicted with the Woodworth planer patent 71. |
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31,678
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Mar. 12, 1861
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Feeding-roller for rotary planing
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Alfred T. Serrell |
New York, NY |
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