US Patent: 385
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Planing machine
Planer-matcher
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Patentee:
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| Alonzo G. Hull (exact or similar names) - Brooklyn, NY |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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Sep. 20, 1837 |
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Jeff Joslin
Vintage Machinery entry for R. Hoe & Co.
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| From Stephen D. Tucker's "History of R. Hoe & Company, 1834-1885". "A machine was built in 1837 for planing boards, and other thin lumber for Dr. A. G. Hull, under his direction. This was an expensive machine and a number of alterations were made. As finally arranged, the lumber was fed forward by a chain and carried first under rotary cutters. It then passed under a stationary knife fitted similar to the 'iron' of a hand plane, which took off a smoothing cut, but trouble was always experienced by this knife occasionally lifting splinters from the lumber. I never heard how this machine succeeded in practical operation." |
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