Photo Index - Curtis Machine Corp. - Router/Duplicator

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Curtis Machine Corp.
Jamestown, NY

Machine Specifications
Machine Class:	Wood Working Machinery
Machine Type:	Other
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Submitted By:	Brian Chandley

Machine Specifications
Description/Model:	Router/Duplicator
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Last Updated	8/16/2003 12:00:00 AM

Comments:

This machine was distributed by the William H. Field Co. in Boston. It was purchased at an estate auction on 8/14/03. The owner made rowing shells and owned the machine for over 30 years. The age is not known. The wall on the left was where the item to be duplicated was stationed, as well as blanks for the items to be made. He made the chair seats on this as an example. A rowing shell seat has two pockets for the rower's buttocks, and the seat slides along a rail in the center of the boat.

If you look at the vertical machine on the right, you can see three router positions stationed on an armature. The armature allows the movement of all three positions simultaneously in any direction. The center position is the referencing point, and the top and lower routers would then carve out the blanks. There were multiple bits, allowing the user to duplicate a wide variety of designs in addition to the shell seats. The wood wall on the left is 10' tall.

The machine runs on DC and has an inverter to convert the currency. I was amazed at how the armature moves with the slightest push of a finger - very precise.

Now why did I buy this? First, at the auction, no one bid and I bought it for $60. I just bought a Walker Turner RAS for $65 and was feeling mighty gloatful. Besides, I hated to see it get trashed. We were buying woodworking equipment for a men's rural sober living facility. We hope to train the clients in furniture building/cabinet making etc. We have the manpower to take it apart and store it. We have not powered it up yet.

Any thoughts on the machine would be appreciated. The owner's nephew has the documentation on it but I think he wants to hold us up for it. We are trying to get it for nothing or a reasonable sum.

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Comments: Router duplicator
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Comments: Armature
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