Photo Index - Burke Machine Tool Co. - #22

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Manufactured/Badged by:
Burke Machine Tool Co.
Cleveland, OH; Conneaut, OH; Cincinnati, OH

True Manufacturer:
Burke Machine Tool Co., Cleveland, OH; Conneaut, OH; Cincinnati, OH

Machine Specifications
Machine Class:	Wood Working Machinery
Machine Type:	Drill Press
Machine Size:	10"
Submitted By:	Mike Knight

Machine Specifications
Description/Model:	#22
Date of Manufacturer:	c.1915, reconfigured c. 1940
Serial Number:
Last Updated	11/15/2010 4:28:26 PM

Comments:

I went to see this press from CL without the benefit of a photo. It had clearly undergone modifications common to the Burke presses surviving into the 1930s and beyond. As I looked it over the early cast-iron core and Yankee-thrift "updating" reeled me in. Power plant is a 1/4 hp RI motor made by Leland Electric of Dayton, Ohio (active 1926-51 according to the OWWM database). Notice the old leather-belt spindle pulley under the v-belt one. The machine reminds me of a futuristic water pump on Mars...dreamed up by someone in 1910.

Photo 1:

Comments: reconfigured setup
Source: Blackberry

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Photo 2:

Comments: original belt pulley
Source: Blackberry

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