US Patent: 86,469
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| Improvement in blowers
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Patentee:
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| Benjamin F. Sturtevant (exact or similar names) - Boston, MA |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Feb. 02, 1869 |
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Jeff Joslin
Vintage Machinery entry for B. F. Sturtevant
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| Chandler W. Jones's "Planers, Matchers & Molders in America" says this of Sturtevant: "In 1856, at the age of 23, with 20 cents in his pocket after paying his fare to Boston (from Maine) he successfully sought a backer for his invention. Soon he improved that machine after designing a means to make veneer strips which were fed through his peg-maker. This vastly increased production. By 1860 he had seven or eight men busy all day making shoe pegs, but also producing huge amounts of fine dust at the same time. So, once more he put on his thinking cap, and this time designed an exhaust fan which got rid of the irritating and unhealthful problem."The utility of the fan was immediately apparent, and Sturtevant shifted his effort from manufacturing shoe pegs (and the toothpick-making machines he had also developed) to building blowers. This new activity had tremendous demand in all types of ventilating and waste removal situations. No industry needed his product more than the woodworking industry, and no machines in the woodworking industry needed blowers more than the planer-matcher and the molder."Thus Sturtevant became the first concern to manufacture fans commercially in the U.S... The Sturtevant Corporation survives to this day as a division of Westinghouse Electric Corporation..." |
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