Photo Index - E. E. Abbott - Abbott's Improved Bearing Box

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Manufactured/Badged by:
E. E. Abbott
Gananoque, ON

Machine Specifications
Machine Class:	Wood Working Machinery
Machine Type:	Other
Machine Size:	1" shaft
Submitted By:	Art Shaw

Machine Specifications
Description/Model:	Abbott's Improved Bearing Box
Date of Manufacturer:	1860s?
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Last Updated	1/27/2012 8:10:29 PM

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This arbor and bearings by E E Abbott have been laying around my barn for several years. They came from a local auction, but I don't remember just where. There is so little evidence remaining of what Abbott made, that even fragments like this are important. I speculate that it was from a sash sticker or similar application where there was a cutter head about 2 1/4" wide with a 3/4" bore. And of course it would have had a flat belt pulley rather than the V-belt. It is typical of E E Abbott in that the machines he made were wood frames with cast bearings like this that bolt to the frame. He also used a lot of hand forged parts like wing nuts and diagonal braces in the wooden frames, and from the data that Jeff has found, he probably made all the bolts in the same factory. The self oiling feature is shown in photo 4. It consists of oil reservoirs in the lower half of the bearing casting, with some kind of wicking material to carry the oil to the shaft. I am guessing that the original wick would have been wool felt, rather than the cotton fabric that is in it now.

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