US Patent: 35,778
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| Improvement in machinery for cutting veneers
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Patentees:
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| Harrison Parker (exact or similar names) - Boston, MA |
| Jonathan C. Sleeper (exact or similar names) - Boston, MA |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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| Granted: |
Jul. 01, 1862 |
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History of Parker & Sleeper
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| The 1870 Boston Directory, page 954, has this text ad: "Parker & Sleeper, dealers in Mahogany and fancy woods, Proprietors of the most celebrated Patent Veneer Cutting Machine in the World. A great variety of veneers constantly on hand. Salesroom and factory, No. 10 Travers St., cor. Portland, Boston. Harrison Parker, J. C. Sleeper." The 1866 edition has the same ad except that the address is 173 Blackstone Street, near Haymarket Square.From the 1879 book New England Manufacturers and Manufactories, by J. D. Van Slyck, page 763, in a history of Parker & Sleeper (see link). "In 1860 Mr. Parker's attention was called to a new mode of cutting veneers, invented and patented (26,627) by B. F. Sturtevant, of Boston."The firm bought the exclusive right to use this patent, and proceeded to construct a machine for cutting veneers by the new method. The machine was put into operation in July, 1860, and its first work was the cutting of some bird's eye maple veneers. The machine cuts crotches, and mottled, curled or cross-grained wood of every kind, producing veneers in which the color and grain lines are fully brought out, without injuring the fiber or wasting the stock...." There is no mention of their subsequent improvements and there is no suggestion that they ever manufactured (or had manufactured for them) veneer machines except for use in their own shop. |
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