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James Woodbury
Winchester, MA, U.S.A.
Manufacturer Class: Wood Working Machinery

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Patent Number	Date	Title	Name	City	Description
10,512	Feb. 07, 1854	Planing-machine	James A. Woodbury	Winchester, MA	This invention is for a so-called Bramah-wheel planer, that is, a planer with a disk-shaped cutterhead where the disk is parallel to the surface to be planed.
10,703	Mar. 28, 1854	Machine for tonguing and grooving tapering boards	John Absterdam	Boston, MA
		Machine for tonguing and grooving tapering boards	William B. Merrill	Boston, MA
11,984	Nov. 21, 1854	Presser-bar for planing machines	Harvey Snow	Dubuque, IA	According to the 1873 "Subject-matter index of patents for inventions issued by the United States Patent Office", this patent was granted an extension.
13,808	Nov. 13, 1855	Planing-machine	James A. Woodbury	Winchester, MA	This patent was extended; see the link "Patent extension decision" for details. The patent describes the use of a stationary diagonal cutter placed after the cylindrical cutterhead; the stationary cutter planes away the ripples left by the cylindrical cutter; however, this is not claimed because it was an old idea and the patent examiner erroneously allowed this text to remain. The inventor was ordered to remove this text before the patent was extended as described in the patent extension decision. The important part of the patent proved to be the mechanism to adjust the pair of matcher-heads using a pair of screws. The Woodworth planer had one fixed matcher head with the other adjusted by a screw. Woodbury's improvement was, arguably, not patentable. But for reasons lost to history, the US Patent Office was lenient in granting planer-related patents around the time that the Woodworth patent monopoly was ending.
19,806	Mar. 30, 1858	Rotary cutter for tonguing and grooving	James A. Woodbury	Winchester, MA
20,527	Jun. 08, 1858	Planing-machine	James A. Woodbury	Winchester, MA
21,474	Sep. 07, 1858	Journal-box	Harlow W. Thayer	Sandwich, MA	This patent was reissued and also granted an extension.
33,863	Dec. 03, 1861	Projectiles	James A. Woodbury	Boston, Suffolk County, MA
41,116	Jan. 05, 1864	Improvement in jig-saws	Louis M. Berry	Boston, MA
		Improvement in jig-saws	Nathaniel S. Graves	Boston, MA
107,334	Sep. 13, 1870	Improved Wire-Cutter	Frank Carew	South Hadley Falls, MA	The primary claim of this patent relates to the longitudinally tapered dovetail channels for retaining the correspondingly shaped cutter inserts. The use of set screws to affix the inserts in place is also mentioned. Original manufacture of CAREW nippers is hard to discern; by the early 20th Century they appear to have been made by Otis A. Smith at Rockfall, CT, with M.W. Robinson Co. at New York City as selling agent. In the 1953 THOMAS REGISTER, Otis A. Smith Co. is listed as a subsidiary of M.W. Robinson Co. References Nathan Thompson's July 14, 1868 patent (80031).
125,650	Apr. 09, 1872	Improvement in Tempering Steel Railrod Rails	James A. Woodbury	Boston, Suffolk County, MA
125,651	Apr. 09, 1872	Tempering the Treads of Car Wheels	James A. Woodbury	Boston, Suffolk County, MA
125,648	Apr. 09, 1872	Improvement in Railway Rails	James A. Woodbury	Boston, Suffolk County, MA
125,649	Apr. 09, 1872	Improvement in Railway Car Wheels	James A. Woodbury	Boston, Suffolk County, MA
RE5,323	Mar. 11, 1873	Improvement in journal-boxes	Harlow W. Thayer	Sandwich, MA	This patent was extended and reissued. The original patent was co-assigned to Woodbury and Solomon A. Woods but this reissue was assigned to Woodbury and Thayer.