Vertical Spindle Gear Cutter
notes: label: Description
content: This vertical spindle gear cutter was originally used in the Case Brothers Paper Mill in Manchester, Connecticut, which was a division of the larger Boise Cascade Corporation.
label: Description
content: In 1971, the Case Brothers Mill was decommissioned, with production moving to the company’s plant in Brattleboro, Vermont. Much of the machinery was discarded, but this gear cutter was gifted to the Smithsonian.
label: Description
content: In 1861, Alfred Wells Case and Albert Willard Case founded the Case Brothers Paper Mill in South Manchester, CT. The company originally washed cotton waste for the manufacture of guncotton for the use of Union troops during the Civil War. When the war ended, the brothers began papermaking. A machine shop was built in 1888 to build Case-designed paper-making machinery. In 1967, the business was sold to Boise Cascade, an international forest products company.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
content: United States: Connecticut, Manchester
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanical and Civil Engineering
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Boise-Cascade Paper Company, through John Wasserlein
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MC.330759
label: accession number
content: 304258
label: catalog number
content: 330759
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Gear Cutter
label: Object Name
content: cutter, gear