US Patent: 339,314
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| Spiral lathe
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Patentee:
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| Valentine Merklen (exact or similar names) - New York, NY |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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| Applied: |
Oct. 07, 1885 |
| Granted: |
Apr. 06, 1886 |
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Description: |
| "This invention relates to an improved machine for turning wooden spirals for use in chair-backs, panels, and similar purposes, the machine being intended to turn them out quickly and uniformly; and the invention consists in the combination of a rotary cutter, a guide-rest for the blank at right angles to said cutter, a longitudinal guideway, a traversing carriage, and a rotary feed-rod supported by the carriage and provided with a chuck in front of the same, and with a spiral groove that is engaged by a fixed fork, so as to feed the black that is clutched to the end of the feed-rod to the guide-rest and rotary cutter, so as to expose it to the action of the latter and cut it into spirally-twisted shape."The Merklen Brothers, at 390 Third Avenue in New York City, were furniture makers.Valentine Merklen had moved from Alsace to New York in 1872 after the Franco-Prussian war. |
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