US Patent: 6,707X
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| Sawing shingles, &c.
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Patentee:
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| Jonathan Hobbs, Jr. (exact or similar names) - Falmouth, ME |
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Patent Dates:
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Aug. 18, 1831 |
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Jeff Joslin
"Vintage Machinery" entry for Jonathan Hobbs, Jr.
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| This patent's specification survives but the drawing is lost. According to a research paper from Old Sturbridge Village, The Maine Historical Society has in its collection a bill of sale: "Bill of Sale of Cyrus Cummings of Cumberland, Joshua M. Rideout and George W. King of Portland to Jonathan Hobbs of Falmouth, their rights in Hobbs' invention of machine for sawing clapboards and shingles". It is dated September 18, 1832.Hobbs also received an 1836 patent for a shingle machine, 25. That design uses a circular saw and a traveling carriage for the log.About this earlier patent, the Journal of the Franklin Institute was dismissive. "We shall not attempt to give any idea of this machine further than to say that a circular saw is used in it, and that there is an apparent complication of parts about it, which would require more time and attention for its examination than we can at present devote to it. The specification itself is five yards long, and closely written, and refers throughout to numbers upon the drawing. Without this, therefore, the ideas of the patentee could not be made known; and as these do not appear to extend to anything new in principle, but to be confined to the special arrangement of the respective parts, we pass them without further notice." |
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