On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 8:15 AM Bill Ghio via OldTools <
oldtools@s...> wrote:

> Last week Jim Bode posted this WHITKER Patent February 6, 1866 Handled Saw
> Rabbet Plane:
>
>
> https://www.jimbodetools.com/collections/whats-new/products/whitker-
patent-february-6-1866-handled-saw-rabbet-
plane-83424">https://www.jimbodetools.com/collections/whats-new/products
/whitker-patent-february-6-1866-handled-saw-rabbet-plane-83424
>
> From his posting I explored DATAMP and found the patent info:
> http://www.datamp.org/patents/displayPatent.php?pn=52478&id=8776
>
> DATAMP says, "Not known to have been produced”, yet Bode pictures one, and
> a well used one at that.
> So the question is: Copies, independent invention or was it manufactured?
>
>
DATAMP info is known to be slow to update.  Their default seems to be Not
Known to Have Been Produced.  Last time I found a vise patent not on
DATAMP, I shared it with the steward.  He had a back log of 600 patents to
enter, mine was on his list.

This book said it was commercially produced and well recieved.

https://books.google.com/books?id=sLEmAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA220&dq=whitker+
patent+saw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjd8N738ODeAhVCqVQKHbmLAZwQ6AEIKjAA#v=onepage&q&
f=false">https://books.google.com/books?id=sLEmAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA220&dq=whitker+
patent+saw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjd8N738ODeAhVCqVQKHbmLAZwQ6AEIKjAA#v=onepage&q&
f=false

Per Woodworking Tools, 1600-1900, it was sold by Pratt & Green

https://archive.org/details/WoodworkingTools16001800/page/n53


Interesting that DATAMP has his name mis spelled compared to the patent
document

-- 
Kirk Eppler, still stinking at spray painting in HMB, CA