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Manufacturers Index - Williams & Orton; Orton Machine Co.

Williams & Orton; Orton Machine Co.
San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Manufacturer Class: Wood Working Machinery & Steam and Gas Engines

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Patent Number Date Title Name City Description
235,233 Dec. 07, 1880 Shingle-sawing machine Oley C. Hanson Eureka, CA
289,094 Nov. 27, 1883 Shingle-sawing machine Oley C. Hanson Eureka, CA
331,730 Dec. 01, 1885 Planing-machine Gerrit V. Orton San Francisco, CA The inventor—or someone with the same name, and there were at least three men of that name at the time—had been with J. A. Fay & Co., and then worked for woodworking machinery manufacturers Williams & Orton in San Francisco in 1899.
At the time this patent was issued, the assignees, Silas W. Gregory and Henry P. Gregory, were co-owners of H. P. Gregory & Co., which was a large woodworking machinery dealer and the sole distributor on the Pacific Coast for J. A. Fay & Co., the Tanite Co., and others. An 1884 article described them as "importers, commission merchants and manufacturers"; we do not know what they manufactured themselves.
785,825 Mar. 28, 1905 Pressure-roller for wood-planing machines Collins K. Orton San Francisco, CA See patent 985,366.
985,366 Feb. 28, 1911 Impelling pressure-roller for wood-planing machines Collins Knapp Orton San Francisco, CA Improvements to the inventor's patent 785,825.
1,112,085 Sep. 29, 1914 Cutter-head Collins K. Orton San Francisco, CA