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Henry D. Stover
| Name | Henry D. Stover |
| Ortssitz | New York City |
| Art des Unternehmens | Maschinen-Unternehmer und -Erfinder |
| Anmerkungen | Lebte in Boston und dann in New York. Siehe auch: "Stover Machine Co.". |
| Quellenangaben | [Bishop: History of American manufacturers 2 (1868) 595] http://vintagemachinery.org/mfgindex/detail.aspx?id=817&tab=7 |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 11.03.1856 |
Erteilung des U.S.-Patents 14.421 für "Machine for cutting irregular forms" (Holzbearbeitung); vergl. auch 1858 |
| 19.05.1856 |
Erteilung des U.S.-Patents 17.315 für "Dogging lumber in planing machines" (Einspannvorrichtung für Hobelmaschinen) |
| 19.05.1856 |
Erteilung des U.S.-Patents 17.343 für einen "Rotary planing-cutter" (Holzbearbeitungsmaschine) |
| 31.08.1858 |
Erteilung des U.S.-Patents 21.379 für "Machine for cutting irregular forms" (Holzbearbeitung); vergl. auch 1856 |
| 1859 |
Eintragung der "Stover Machine Co." unter den Gesetzen des Staats New York. Man beginnt das Geschäft an der Ecke Pearl und Elm Streets, mit Verkaufsraum om der No. 13 Platt Street, New York |
| 14.08.1860 |
Erteilung des U.S.-Patents 29.633 für "Improved cutter-head for rotary planing" (Holzbearbeitung) |
| 21.08.1860 |
Erteilung des U.S.-Patents 29.727 für "Improved shaping and molding machine" |
| 21.08.1860 |
Erteilung des U.S.-Patents 29.728 für eine Hobelmaschine |
| 04.09.1860 |
Erteilung des U.S.-Patents 29.923 für eine verbesserte Hobelmaschine |
| 18.12.1860 |
Erteilung des U.S.-Patents 30.993 für eine Holzhobelmaschine |
| 23.07.1861 |
Erteilung des U.S.-Patents 32.904 für eine Hobelmaschine |
| 22.06.1869 |
Erteilung des U.S.-Patents 91.788 für eine Radsatzdrehbank (Improved lathe for finishing the drive-wheels of locomotives) |
Zeit = 1: Zeitpunkt unbekannt
| ZEIT | 1868 |
| THEMA | Firmenbeschreibung |
| TEXT | Whose name is associated with many valuable machines that he has invented for working wood and iron, and the founder of the Stover Machine Company in New York, is a native of Castine, Maine. His paternal grandfather was the first male child born east of the Penobscot river, and the family, now numerous in the "Western as well as the Eastern States, includes among its members many distinguished for ability in mechanical, commercial and professional pursuits. His father was a thrifty and skilled manufacturer, and early instructed the son in the importance of industry and the routine of agricultural life. Between the ages of thirteen and fifteen, young Henry went to sea with his brother, who commanded a ship, making short voyages, and returning home each year so as to attend school during the winter, months. The town schoolhouse was located six miles from his home, and this long distance he was compelled to travel daily through dense woods and over roads rendered almost impassable by snowdrifts. In his fifteenth year, when he had received the rudiments of an education, he was apprenticed to a master who practiced the triple trade of house joiner, cabinet maker, and millwright. For two years he diligently applied himself in this craft, when, desiring a wider sphere of action, he succeeded in effecting an arrangement with his employer which released him from further obligation of service, and with a few shillings in his pockets, he set out for Boston, where, through the influence of Mr. Boyden, an eminent engineer, he obtained employment in one of the large machine tools and locomotive establishments of that city. Here he became familiar with both the methods of making tools used in the manufacture of locomotives and the construction of locomotives themselves, and obtained such reputation that an offer was made to him to take charge of the finishing department of the Tredegar Locomotive Works, at Richmond, Virginia, which he accepted, and for some time resided in that city. His next position before commencing business for himself, was in the employ of the Globe Works, in South Boston, and then after a long service and training in the best schools where he had acquired skill in all departments, not only as a practical machinist, but as a draughtsman and pattern maker, he formed a partnership with J. W. Bicknell, and established the firm of Stover & Bicknell. In 1859, they removed their works to New York and organized the Stover Machine Company, which has since become famous for the number and variety of excellent tools and machines which it has produced and distributed in this and other countries. During the last five or six years, Mr. Stover has applied his mind to invention with distinguished success, especially in the department of tools for working wood and iron. His Combination Planer, patented in 1865, for planing all kinds of wood, is a most remarkable and effective machine. It has been adopted, not only in the principal wood-working establishments of this conntry, but also of Europe, and recently an order for one of the largest size, with other machines of has make, was filled for China. He has also invented an Iron Planer; a Moulding machine, in which a circular and gig saw are combined; a Shaping machine; a new style of Engine lathes; and an Iron Cutter and Puncher, by means of which boiler iron can be cut like paper, and the thickest bar iron can be clipped as easily as a pipe Btem. He is also the originator of the ornamental black walnut coverings on Locomotive "cabs," to protect the engineer and firemen from the inclemencies of the weather. Among his latest inventions is a new style of Cotton press, of which all who have seen the model speak favorably, and some predict that it will supersede all others. Mr. Stover is unquestionably a man of rare mechanical genius, and worthy to rank, with the foremost of American inventors. He is yet in the prime of life, and what he has already accomplished is probably but a foreshadowing of what will be evolved from the recesses of his naturally ingenious and fertile mind. The architect of his own fortune, he has sympathy for every worthy toiler who is striving for advancement, and among the young mechanics in the country, there are many who, indebted to him for patronage and encouragement, speak of him in terms which, to less partial ears, would eeein extravagant eulogium. An account of the Stover Machine Company, of which, he is President, will be given in a subsequent volume, though it may be said now that their machines and tools excited great admiration at the late American Institute Fair receiving the first premiums. |
| QUELLE | [Bishop: History of American manufacturers 2 (1868) 595] |
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