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Originally Posted by ryanw95
it also has "PAT: SEPT 21 1880" and "PAT: FEB 15, 1887" on the bed.
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The patent dates refer to features of the lathe, most likely not the lathe itself.
Patent #230800 is for a snap hook dated August 3, 1880. You need to go to
www.google.com/patents and start searching patent numbers until you come to some machine tool or lathe. When you get to Sept. 21, 1880 slow down and look at every patent number for that one date. There may be 50 or 100 on that date but one of them will be for some feature on that lathe.
Even when you find it you still may not know what the manufacturer of the lathe was. The patent may have been granted to someone who then sold or licensed the patent to some other manufacturer to use. But.. it may be a patent for a specific machine tool manufacturer.
Without knowing diddly about this I'd guess the patents were for some element of the carriage drive or the headstock gear train on the outboard end of the lathe (left end). That's just a guess..
Dutch
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