| US Patent: 685 
 | 
| Machine for mortising timber, &c. | 
| 
| Patentee: |  |
 | Ira McLaughlin (exact or similar names) - Sunderland, VT |  
 
 
 
 
| Manufacturer: |  | Not known to have been produced |  
 
 | 
| Patent Dates: |  
| Granted: | Apr. 07, 1838 |  USPTO (New site tip)
 Google Patents
 Report data errors or omissions to steward 
                        Jeff Joslin
 
 | 
| 
| Description: |  | From the Journal of the American Institute: "The claim under this patent is to 'the method of securing the chisel, by which means it can be readily reversed; and the method of moving the chisel backward and forward.' The remark on the foregoing patent, may, we thing, apply generally to this." See 684 for that foregoing patent. |  |