Category: Machines

  • William Stewart

    William Stewart from Fort Washington, Maryland has a resume that includes setting up the historic tin shops at Ohio Village in Columbus and Zoar Village and the Carroll County Farm Museum. He donated an 1887 Pocock machine for bending sheet metal.

  • Bead Roller

    A Tinsmiths Bead Roller? Following the discussion about whether it is a swedge or swage comes the name of roller machine.  Most often the names were what the machine did.  This is seen in the patent description by A W Whitney in 1847. Most often we hear these machines called rolling machines, which we always…