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Patent Number Date Title Name City Description
573 Jan. 20, 1838 Improvement in the machine for sowing or planting ruta-baga and other seeds or grain Niram R. Merchant Guilford, NY
1,366 Oct. 12, 1839 Improvement in machines for planting corn Niram R. Merchant Guilford, NY
    Improvement in machines for planting corn Orin G. Merchant Guilford, NY  
2,724 Jul. 16, 1842 Stove Abel Cornell Guilford, NY
    Stove Niram R. Merchant Guilford, NY  
32,449 May. 28, 1861 Improvement in boring-machines Niram R. Merchant Guilford, NY An example of this invention appeared in a Martin J. Donnelly auction (actually, it was the improved version patented in 1876 as 177,652). The inventor died in 1863, a decade before this patent was reissued. "The object of this invention is to obtain a simple and efficient machine for simultaneously boring two holes at different distances apart for dowels, designed chiefly for the use of coopers for boring the pieces of cask-heads which are connected by dowels."
See also patent 132,187, which was awarded to another resident of Guilford (who had a connection to Merchant's Guilford Iron Works) and which disclaims this patent.
121,555 Dec. 05, 1871 Improvement in water-wheels Jesse S. Teed Guilford, NY
RE5,222 Jan. 07, 1873 Improvement in boring-machines Niram R. Merchant Guilford, NY The inventor had died in 1863. "The object of this invention is to obtain a simple and efficient machine for simultaneously boring two holes at different distances apart for dowels, designed chiefly for the use of coopers for boring the pieces of cask-heads which are connected by dowels."
177,652 May. 23, 1876 Improvement in doweling-machines Andrew P. Merchant Guilford, NY