Wood Planing Machine
date: label: date made
content: 1861
notes: label: Description
content: This is a model of a wood-planing machine patented under U.S. patent No. 32,926 on July 30, 1861 by George Rinewalt of Pendleton, Indiana. This planing machine was specially designed for manual operation as it features an adjustable reciprocating planer and a feed-mechanism. Through these additions, Rinewalt’s machine allows the user to cut and plane wood to different thicknesses, avoids friction while cutting, and preserves the cutting edge of the planer.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Mechanical and Civil Engineering
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MC.308809
label: catalog number
content: 308809
label: accession number
content: 89797
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Planing Machine, Wood
label: Object Name
content: Wood Planer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/2 in x 12 5/8 in x 13 1/2 in; 24.13 cm x 32.0675 cm x 34.29 cm