US Patent: 537,214 - Machine for hobbing worm-gears


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US Patent: 537,214

Machine for hobbing worm-gears

Patentee:

Volney W. Mason, Jr. (exact or similar names) - Hyde Park, MA

USPTO Classifications:

409/22

Tool Categories:

metalworking machines : gear making machines

Assignees:

None

Manufacturer:

Not known to have been produced

Witnesses:

B. J. Noyes

C. B. Crocker

Patent Dates:
Applied:	Jan. 25, 1894
Granted:	Apr. 09, 1895

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Vintage Machinery entry for Volney W. Mason & Co.

Description:

The inventor was the son of the founder of the Volney W. Mason Co. So far as we can tell that company manufactured neither gears nor gear-making machinery. The son also obtained a pair of patents for composite gears, 711,991 and 763,993. In 1904 he was the New York City agent for the Taylor Iron & Steel Co. of High Bridge, NJ. A 1911 patent for a crusher-head, 993,783, was granted to Mason, Jr., and assigned to the Edgar Allen American Manganese Steel Co. of Augusta, ME.