. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 16.—Grooved face for metallic planes patented by E. G. Storke. Patent 96052, October ig, i86g. consistent in one respect—their quest for multipurpose solutions through the perfection of the combination tool. William Loughborough, of Rochester, New \'ork, in 1859, inxented an "Iron Fillister-Plane, the principles of which are applicable ... to panel- plows, match-planes, dados, rabbets, and to bench- ;' How did Loughborough propose to accom- plish this? First, referring to his drawing (fig. 18), by the construction of
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 16.—Grooved face for metallic planes patented by E. G. Storke. Patent 96052, October ig, i86g. consistent in one respect—their quest for multipurpose solutions through the perfection of the combination tool. William Loughborough, of Rochester, New \'ork, in 1859, inxented an "Iron Fillister-Plane, the principles of which are applicable ... to panel- plows, match-planes, dados, rabbets, and to bench- ;' How did Loughborough propose to accom- plish this? First, referring to his drawing (fig. 18), by the construction of an iron stock for fillisters, dados, rabbets, match-planes, and panel-plows; second, in the construction of a parallel fence, F, for fillisters and match-planes; third, in the construction and arrangement of a stop, P, moving diagonally to the line of pressure upon it, the same being applicable to the dado and panel-plow; fourth, in the appli- cation and arrangement of the spring cap, C, in combina- tion with the screw 2 or any other adjustable or fixed I'ulcrum; fifth, the combination of the adjusting screw i with the bit, B, and spring cap, C; sixth, the application and arrangement of the spur, M. Charles Miller, of Brattleborough, in 1870, detailed a plane readily "convertible into a grooving, rabbeting or smoothing-plane,' one later manufactured by the Stanley Plane and Level Company (fig. 19). The same year an even more amazing piece of Yankee ingenuity, as well as a departure from the traditional, was a plane patented by Russell Phillips (fig. 20). The multipurpose urge that prompted so many American innovations is nowhere better described than in Phillips' specification: This invention combines in one implement elementary features now only found in several independent tools, the result being a great saving in space in transportation, as well as in stores and carpenters' shops, and enabling a mechanic to obtain, at small comparative cost and in a compact and effi
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