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Brown & Bradford
Brown & Bradford
This little-known company made foot powered machinery including wood lathes. "Brown" was probably George W. Brown, who received an 1877 patent for a ratchet foot-power mechanism for machinery including "saws, lathes, emery-wheels, &c." Much less certain is the identity of "Bradford". Horace C. Bradford of Providence received an 1873 patent for a crank movement; the machine shown in the patent drawing is a small metal planer.
This is a beautiful small lathe and i like the grinder attached to the table.
brown's patent 1877.
This is the other patent mentioned in the history.
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