US Patent: 170,396
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Improvement in tenoning-machines
Double-end tenoner
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Patentee:
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| Edward H. Rees (exact or similar names) - Mansfield, OH |
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Patent Dates:
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| Applied: |
Dec. 31, 1873 |
| Granted: |
Nov. 23, 1875 |
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Report from Commissioner of Patents on this patent
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Description: |
| The inventor charged Richards and Berry, recipients of patent 143,532, with interference: Rees claimed that he had invented the double-ended tenoning machine before they did. Rees testified that he conceived the machine in the latter part of 1871 when he was general superintendent of the Mansfield, Ohio, Machine Works. The first working machine was put into operation on March 15, 1872. Rees said that he got the idea upon seeing a car-borer that had been made by J. A. Fay & Co., which the Works had received on the 27th of November 1871. The testimony of Rees and various others on his behalf were consistent. It appears that Richards and Berry got the idea of a double-ended tenoner from a letter sent (on 6 March 1872) by a customer to the firm of Richards, London & Kelley. The evidence shows that from that point onwards, Richards and Berry moved quickly to design, build, and patent the machine. They testified that they had, in fact, conceived the idea before 26 February, but the Commissioner of Patents found that testimony to be self-serving and unsupported by the other evidence. Priority for invention was given to Rees, though the two machines were sufficiently different that both were granted patents. Rees was required to remove some claims that were present in Richards' and Berry's machine but not present in Rees's early drawings. |
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