US Patent: 544,891
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| Lathe for turning lasts, &c.
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Patentee:
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| Wilbert F. Gilman (exact or similar names) - Springfield, VT |
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Patent Dates:
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Jan. 25, 1895 |
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Aug. 20, 1895 |
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Jeff Joslin
Vintage Machinery entry for Gilman & Son
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| "This invention relates more particularly, but not exclusively, to machines for turning or shaping last-blocks into lasts of the shape and form of a required model, such machines being of the general character illustrated and described in Letters Patent of the United States to Farley B. Gilman, granted February 16, 1892, and numbered 469,084; and the invention relates particularly to the improved mechanism hereinafter described, whereby the swinging frame supporting the model is pushed out automatically after the last is finished, whereby the carriages which sustain the cutter-head and the model-wheel are returned automatically into position for turning another last, whereby the product is stopped, right side up, uniformly at a select point, and whereby the machine is improved in certain details of construction..."From a web site with information on the Springfield downtown historic district: "The Springfield Art and Historical Society, also known as the Miller Art Center and previously called the Whitcomb Mansion, "The Pillars", and the Gilman Mansion, was built in 1866 by Prentis Whitcomb, a wealthy financier associated with Jim Fiske and Jay Gould of New York City. In the 1890s it was the home of Wilbert Gilman, owner of the Gilman Mill, a lathe manufacturing plant, which was located on the east bank of the Black River at the foot of Elm Street until it burned in 1968. The house was remodeled in c.1917 by Walter Slack who had purchased the Gilman interests." |
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