US Patent: 8,162
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| Auger
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Patentee:
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| Ransom Cook (exact or similar names) - Saratoga Springs, NY |
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Patent Dates:
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| Granted: |
Jun. 17, 1851 |
| Reissue Information: |
| Reissued as RE2,513 (Mar. 19, 1867) |
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Kirk Eppler
"Vintage Machinery" entry for James Swan Co.
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Description: |
| The lips or cutting edges have a curved or gouge shape at their ends with a back sloping of the edges to give the edges a skew sliding or drawing movement when cutting.It is unknown if the inventor was the maker of this bit. Ransom Cook is reported as having an auger making association with Lamson & Goodnow Mfg. Co.An article in the 1901-11-21 American Machinist mentions Ransom Cook in passing, including the following, from a footnote. "Later on Cook had a shop and laboratory of his own at Saratoga Springs, N. Y. He was the patentee of an improved auger which removed the chips better than the old kind. The story of the invention is rather curious. Cook observed a borer insect working his way into a tree and ejecting the chips with facility. This led him to think that the end of an auger might be constructed on the same principle as the cutting apparatus of the insect. He therefore secured one of the little animals, brought it to his laboratory, examined it under a microscope, and utilized the knowledge gained." |
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