US Patent: 34,174 - Machine for planing and edging clapboards


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US Patent: 34,174

Improved planing-machine
Machine for planing and edging clapboards

Patentee:

Charles P. S. Wardwell (exact or similar names) - Lake Village, NH

USPTO Classifications:

144/124, 144/286.1, 144/286.5, 144/39

Tool Categories:

woodworking machines : cutter head machines : wood planers

woodworking machines : specialty woodworking machines : clapboard machines

Assignees:

None

Manufacturer:

C. P. S. Wardwell - Lake Village, NH

Witnesses:

John Blaisdell

J. W. Thyne

Patent Dates:
Granted:	Jan. 14, 1862

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Vintage Machinery entry for C. P. S. Wardwell

Description:

This designed was subsequently improved by the inventor in patent 160,372. An example is reported, labeled, 'CPS WARDWELLS PATENT JANUARY 14,1862'. We presume that it was manufactured by the inventor.

In his book "History of the Planing Mill', Charles Tompkins said of this clapboard planer, "The Wardwell machine planed one edge thinner, but it required the lumber to be sawed 5/8 of an inch thick, in order to make siding or clapboards 1/2-inch on the thick edge, and the labor and waste of stuff in planing the other edge down to 1/4 of an inch, was a serious objection to the machine, and probably one reason why it never came into general use, when a board 3/4 or 7/8 of an inch thick, after being planed both sides and both edges, could be sawn in two diagonally, and make two clapboards with only the waste of the saw kerf."