Photo Index - Lane & Bodley - Reciprocating Mortising Machines

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Manufactured/Badged by:
Lane & Bodley
Cincinnati, OH

Machine Specifications
Machine Class:	Wood Working Machinery
Machine Type:	Mortising Machine
Machine Size:	No. 5 & No. 6
Submitted By:	Dave Potts

Machine Specifications
Description/Model:	Reciprocating Mortising Machines
Date of Manufacturer:	1870
Serial Number:
Last Updated	10/31/2003 11:07:52 PM

Comments:

These are a engravings "lifted" from John Richards 1872 book "A Treatise on the Construction and Operation of Wood Working Machines". Richards has many patents credited to his name while working with the J.A. Fay Co. of Cincinnati, Ohio in the 1860s, but none of their machines are featured in his 1872 book. Instead, many examples of another Cincinnati firm, Lane & Bodley, are given, including some beautiful engravings.

The first machine featured a graduated stroke of the chisel and a hub dividing/indexing head.

Lane & Bodley also built a No. 6 Model for rail car mortising. Note the additional boring auger, too. A side-bar on the engraving claims that 1500 of these machines are in use

Photo 1:

Comments: Mortiser with hub indexing/dividing head
Source: From John Richards "A Treatise on the Construction & Operation of W-W Machines" (1872)

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Photo 2:

Comments: Rail Car Mortiser
Source: From John Richards "A Treatise on the Construction & Operation of W-W Machines" (1872)

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