US Patent: 249,749 - Machine for shearing metal


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US Patent: 249,749

Machine for shearing metal

Patentee:

Bernard Gallagher (exact or similar names) - Saint John, NB Canada

USPTO Classifications:

83/530, 83/588, 83/647.5

Tool Categories:

metalworking machines : metal shearing machines

Assignees:

None

Manufacturer:

Not known to have been produced

Witnesses:

Alban Andrén

Henry Chadbourn

Patent Dates:
Applied:	Mar. 03, 1881
Granted:	Nov. 22, 1881

Patent Pictures:

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Vintage Machinery entry for Gallagher Mfg. Co.

Description:

This shear is "especially adapted for the purpose of cutting boot or shoe patterns of metal or pasteboard..."

This patent provides solid links between this Bernard Gallagher of Saint John, New Brunswick, and Bernard Gallagher of Lynn, Massachusetts. Lynn was a hotbed of boot and shoe manufacturers, and the Lynn-based Gallagher made machinery for that market, including shears strongly resembling this patent drawing. In addition, the two witnesses were based out of a Boston patent office and these men were also witnesses on the Lynn-based Gallagher's patents, e.g., patent 341,803. The most likely explanation is that these Bernard Gallaghers are one and the same.