The History of Woodworking Tools in US


Fastening Devices for Handle on Handsaws by Wiktor Kuc

Welcome to this section of our website.  We are attempting to gather information and photographs on known, patented and not, fasteners for a saw handles and create this resource available. 

If you have information that is missing here, photograph of the label screw and /or screws, please let me know.  You can email your information to: Info@wkFineTools.comThis work is in progress. 07/2006

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27,354 - 03/06/1860
Henry Disston - Philadelphia, PA

None

Method of Securing Handles on Handsaws
Henry Disston - Philadelphia, PA

 

 

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72,766 - 12/31/1867
F. Washbourne, New York, N.Y.

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Improvement in Bolts for Saw-Frames, &c.
Richardson Brothers - Newark, N.J.
Henry Disston & Son - Philadelphia, PA

The patent document describes invention, in part, as:

"This invention relates to the making of screw-bolts, such, for example, as are used for attaching the blade of a saw to its frame or handle.  Such bolts have hitherto been made of one piece of metal, the ordinary mode of making them being to cast them, the head and shank being made in one piece."

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Manufactured:
82,299 - 09/22/1868
James E. Emerson, Trenton, NJ

None

Saw Handle
Not known

 

 

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98,180 - 12/21/1869
Daniel T. Munger, Waterbury, CT

Daniel T. Munger - Waterbury, CT
Rufus E. Hitchcock - Waterbury, CT
Heading Screws
Wheeler, Madden & Clemson-Middletown, NY
Richardson Brothers - Newark, NJ
Harvey W. Peace - Brooklyn, NY
Shurly Dietrich - Galt, Ontario Canada

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143,128 - 09/23/1873
Thomas S. Disston - Philadelphia, PA
08/21/1873
Thomas S. Disston - Philadelphia, PA
Henry Disston & Sons - Philadelphia, PA
Hand Saws
Henry Disston & Sons - Philadelphia, PA
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181,648 - 08/29/1876
Henry Disston - Philadelphia, PA
01/21/1876
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Securing Saw-Handles to Blade
Henry Disston & Sons - Philadelphia, PA

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256,493 - 04/18/1882
William McNiece - Philadelphia, PA
01/27/1882
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Saw Handle Clamp
J. D. Rodgers & Bro.,
4098 Lancaster Ave,  Philadelphia
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323,833 - 08/04/1885
William R. Towse - Columbus, Ohio
02/25/1885
None

Saw Handle
Not known
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375,350 - 12/27/1887
Charles Glover - Hartford, CT
08/02/1886


Saw Screw
Henry Disston & Sons - Philadelphia, PA
E. C. Atkins & Co. - Indianapolis, IN
Simonds Manufacturing Co. - Fitchburg, MA

 


 
   
   

 
 

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