US Patent: 16,529
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| Machine for cutting veneers
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Patentee:
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| Peter Cook (exact or similar names) - Tonawanda, NY |
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Patent Dates:
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Feb. 03, 1857 |
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From 1860-11-24 Scientific American |
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Jeff Joslin
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Description: |
| This elegantly designed machine was manufactured but met with market resistance. According to the 1873 "Subject-matter index of patents for inventions issued by the United States Patent Office", this patent was granted an extension. The patent commissioner's report on the application for extension says, The whole time of the applicant has been devoted to introducing it into use, and his diligence has been untiring. His want of success has been without fault on his part... Besides the insolvency of those who purchased his machines on credit, loss of his building, tools, and material by fire, and other calamities, two things have specially contributed to his failure. A strong prejudice was entertained against the products of the machine for a long time, it being apprehended that they would prove wanting in soundness, and it was only at a late period that their merit became established in the community. At an early date after obtaining his patent the applicant, having no means to manufacture his machines, sold two-thirds of it to parties who undertook to set up the requisite works for that purpose, and to introduce the machines into market. But they were encountered so strongly by the prejudices mentioned that all their attempts were defeated. They became discouraged, and abandoned the enterprise, and left the applicant to meet their liabilities, which he did to a ruinous extent; and the title to two-thirds of the invention being in their hands, he was for a long time embarrassed in disposing of it... The applicant's statements show that he has received on account of the invention but $7,880, and against this he charges $7,391.81 expended..." |
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