US Patent: 845,697 - Combination lathe, borer, planer, bandsaw, circular saw


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US Patent: 845,697

Carriage-machine
Combination lathe, borer, planer, bandsaw, circular saw

Patentee:

John W. Crain (exact or similar names) - Winchester, KY

USPTO Classifications:

142/55, 144/48.4

Tool Categories:

woodworking machines : wood lathes

woodworking machines : combination machines

woodworking machines : wood drilling and boring : drill presses

metalworking machines : drilling and boring : drill presses

woodworking machines : cutter head machines : wood planers

woodworking machines : bandsaws

Assignees:

None

Manufacturer:

Buffalo Forge Co. - Buffalo, NY

Witnesses:

S. W. Powell

J. A. Boone

Patent Dates:
Applied:	Mar. 28, 1906
Granted:	Feb. 26, 1907

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Vintage Machinery entry for Buffalo Forge Co.

Description:

This combination machine was intended primarily for wagon makers and was manufactured by Buffalo Forge Co. as their Crain Combination Woodworker, between about 1910 and 1922. Production likely ended because steel-tired wagons were becoming obsolete.

From a Buffalo Forge Co. ad in the April 1913 "The Blacksmith and Wheelwright", page 605: "Crain Combination Woodworker / Besides the large capacity, conveniently arranged and easily operated Band Saw, Circular Saw, Planer and Lathe, this machine possesses features of peculiar interest to blacksmiths, being the invention of Mr. Crain, a practical wagonmaker, for 25 years prominent in his trade. Its facilities for wagon manufacturing in general and for drilling tire on wheels, equalizing and tenoning spokes, rounding and boring rim of wheel, etc., in particular, are illustrated in our woodworker catalog, which we will be glad to send you. This machine has the unqualified endorsement of every smith who is using it, and is in itself a complete little woodworking power shop. Can be driven by belt from electric motor or gasoline engine."