The STORY of HOME MADE --
HAND MADE ROPE
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Dann Johnson
3 hook
machine: Patent
686,440 Nov 12 1901 Orson Bucklin
4
hook
machine: Dec 22 1908 Matchette &
Smith
The 4 hook Dec 1908
Pat Rope Machine ( and variants).
Gearing is a 3:1 ratio.
Main (sun) gear has 27 teeth,
The small (Planetary) gears have 9 teeth,
and the hooks on my machine are
threaded into the gears as if they were large nuts.
I consider this to be a variant
of the 3 hook Bucklin rope machine..
The big gear ( Sun Gear) is marked in raised letters,
Pat. Dec. 22, 1908
Research
provided by
John Flory documents
that this 4 hook machine received a Canadian Patent.
But was Patented by two Americans Matchette and Smith.
I verify that
the hooks and gears are interchangeable,
and virtually identical with those of the 1901 patent,
as if they came from the same mold.
Berg Rope
1908
Machine
Hawkeye (New
Era
1911) Rope Machine
Meyer
1924
Rope Machine
Royal Rope
Machine
Sherwood
Rope Machine
1913
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