US Patent: 105,930 - Improvement in traversing machine


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US Patent: 105,930

Improvement in traversing machine

Patentee:

Valentine Foland (exact or similar names) - Indianapolis, IN

USPTO Classifications:

144/1.1, 144/92, 408/22, 83/786

Tool Categories:

woodworking machines : human powered machines

woodworking machines : cutter head machines : wood planers

Assignees:

None

Manufacturer:

Valentine Foland - Indianapolis, IN

Witnesses:

John Pollitt

Spencer Hiatt

Patent Dates:
Granted:	Aug. 02, 1870

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Description:

This hand-powered machine can do mortising, tenoning, drilling, and sawing. A later version, not patented, was also able to do planing.

R. L. Polk's Indianapolis City Directory for 1881 listed this inventor as a carpenter residing at 288 E. Merrill. The inventor exhibited his "Hand Traversing Machine" as a planer at the Indiana State Fair in 1884.