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368,021
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Aug. 09, 1887
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Lathe
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Charles Smith |
Belleville, NJ |
This double-spindle lathe was a solution to the problem of job shops occasionally needing a big lathe but then having that machine using up floor space most of the time. The lathe is strongly associated with machinery dealer J. J. McCabe. In McCabe's 1919 obituary he was described as having conceived and patented this double spindle lathe. McCabe presented himself as manufacturing this lathe but it was also sold by Cincinnati maker Dietz, Schumacher & Boye, a maker whom McCabe represented in New York. It is likely that Dietz, Schumacher & Boye was manufacturing this double-spindle lathe on behalf of McCabe.
The inventor also had a patent for a trolley wheel, and one for a loom, plus some related to paper making machinery. |
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D34,627
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Jun. 04, 1901
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Design for a frame for steady-rests for lathes
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James J. McCabe |
New York, NY |
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D34,628
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Jun. 04, 1901
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Design for a frame for tail-stocks for lathes
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James J. McCabe |
New York, NY |
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1,258,136
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Mar. 05, 1918
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Engine-lathe
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Alvin W. Needham |
Brooklyn, NY |
This patent covers a "variable swing" lathe where the rear way is much lower than the front way. When only modest capacity is needed, the headstock and tailstock are positioned closer to the front way, which provides better access to the work and a more convenient working height. When more capacity (swing) is needed, the headstock and tailstock are shifted rearward. An article in the April 1918 issue of Machinery describes the lathe, and then the September 1919 issue has a note that the lathe design had been licensed by J. J. McCabe Lathe & Machinery Corporation and was being manufactured for them by the American & British Mfg. Co. of Providence (with a geared head replacing Needham's cone-pulley design). That latter firm owned the old Corliss Engine Works and we believe that is where the lathes were being made. We have seen a couple of surviving examples of this lathe, although Mr. McCabe's own approach to combining two sizes of lathe, his double-spindle lathe (see patent 368,021), is considerably more common. Links to the two Machinery articles are provided in the VintageMachinery.org history page for J. J. McCabe. |