US Patent: 8,870
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| Machine for tonguing boards
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Patentees:
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| Henry D. Edgcomb (exact or similar names) - New York, NY |
| Ransom Crosby (exact or similar names) - New York, NY |
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Patent Dates:
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| Granted: |
Apr. 13, 1852 |
| Reissue Information: |
| Reissued as RE221 (Jul. 13, 1852) |
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Jeff Joslin
Vintage Machinery entry for Ransom Crosby
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Description: |
| In 1859, Ransom Crosby of Newark, NJ, won a special premium at that year's New Jersey Agricultural Fair for his exhibits of "Patent Imported lathe and rod wire" and "Hall's patent mitering machine" (see patent 21,194). Both exhibits won Diplomas.A Ransom Crosby died as a prisoner of war during the Civil War. We do not know if this was Sr. or Jr., of perhaps a different Ransom Crosby altogether. |
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