Robbins Patent - George D Bissel Company Research This Document: Dropbox/Genealogy/Documents/Doc0378.txt -------------------------------------- HeinOnline - http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?collection=journals&handle=hein.journals/amlyr5&div=93&id=&page= The American Lawyer 5 Am. Law. 181 (1897) Lawyers Page 181 Photos-11/Ph8603-001.jpg "Hartford Conn - Senate concurred in appointment of judges of inferior courts as follows: ... George D Bissell, deputy judge of the Borough Court of Naugatuck" --------------------------------------------------------------- George D Bissell served as Warden [mayor] of Naugatuck, Connecticut from 1893-1894 Source: http://www.naugatuckhistory.com/hi-naugatuck_mayors.htm ------------------------------------------- Boston Weekly Journal, Thursday, July 30, 1885 Business Troubles Failures and Assignments in New England F. C. TROWBRIDGE, liquors and billiards, Naugatuck, CT., has made an assignment to George D. BISSELL. It is estimated that he owes about $2500 and has assets of about $700. Source: http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/CT-RIVER-VALLEY/1999-06/0929656978 ------------------------------------- American Agriculturist, Volume 35, No 1 - Jan 1876, page 36 "The Robbins Washer" Title American agriculturist, Volume 35 Publisher Orange Judd Company, Publishers, 1876 Original from the University of Michigan Digitized Oct 30, 2009 Source: Google Books http://books.google.com/books?id=qRDnAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA36&lpg=PA36&dq=Bissell+Co+Naugatuck,+CT&source=bl&ots=-WYFG2vTOG&sig=BNmQ4chWJMhOcy_1o4xVpy2ZRG0&hl=en&ei=Q8NOTdqtE4Wdlgf92pTZDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Bissell%20Co%20Naugatuck%2C%20CT&f=false Genealogy/Documents/Doc0379.pdf Image of ad: Photos-11/Ph8603-002.jpg Extract: THE ROBBINS WASHER Patented by Henry R. Robbins, of Baltimore, Md. Manufactured and Sold by Geo. D Bissell & Co., Naugatuck, Ct. Every housekeeper is willing to admit that a really good washing machine would prove a priceless boon to all the households in the land; since it would save not only time and labor, but wear and tear of material; and would also prevent much of the annoyance and discomfort incident to "washing day." The proprietors of the Robbins Washer claim that they are sending out a machine that will perfectly cleans without injury the most delicate fabric. It is constructed upon an entirely new principle -- that of forcing water by downward pressure through the clothes - thus softening and removing the dirt by one operation. By its use all rubbing or friction is avoided; this alone will effect a saving of many times its cost, to an ordinary family, in the course of a year. It can be used with any common wash-boiler; no wash-board needed; requires only from fifteen to twenty-five minutes to wash a boiler full of clothes - and leaves them, after rinsing, clean and sweet and free from streaks or stains. It is cheap, simple, easy to operate, never gets out of order, and will last a life-time. The Philosophy of the whole thing is fully explained in our Treatise on the Art of Cleaning Fabrics, which we will sen free to any address upon application by letter or postal card. Every housekeeper should send for one. Retail price of the machine - No. 1, family washer, $3.50; No. 2, small hotel size, $5.00; No 3, steam washer, for Hotels, Hospitals and Laundries, $25.00. - Sample machines of No. 1 and No. 2 washers sent to to those desiring agencies @ $3.00 and $1.00 respectively. WE WANT IMMEDIATELY active energetic business men to act as General Agents to introduce the Robbins Washer into every town in the United States. To the right sort of men liberal terms will be given. - Canvassers can make more money at selling the washer than at any other business. Send for circulars giving full description, terms to agents, &c., &c. All orders must be accompanied with cash. Remit by check, registered letter, or money order to Geo. D. Bissell & Co., Naugatuck, Ct. Read what the people say about the Robbins Washer Eatontown, NJ, Sept 23d 1875 -p Geo. D Bissell & Co.: Gents: The machine came all OK and the lady who tried one "pronounces them perfect." Yours &c Frank Flower Salt Lake City, Sept 27, 1875 - Messars. Geo. D. Bissell & Co.: We have tried the Little Washer, and it is pronounced a completer success - M Cannon, Box 77, Salt Lake City, Utah. Merrimac Mills, Fairfield, Jefferson Col., Iowa, Sept. 29th, 1875 - Gentlemen: The Washer Received. Like it very much. We will order two or three dozen in a few days. Save us as large a territory as possible. Would like the State of Ioway if it would not be asking too much. Yours Truly, Caleb Bates. Centreton, New Jersey, Oct 4th 1875 - The Washer came all right, Sept 29th. My wife has washed with it twice, and she is perfectly delighted with it. It takes out the dirt complete. Among over three thousand different patents on Washers, I am fully convinced that this excels all, in the perfection of its work, in the quickness of doing it, in cheapness, and in the durability of its construction. I am an ordained minister of the M. E. Church, although not at work in the active ministry. Yours, Julius Wilcox, Centreton, Salem Co., N.J. Office of Empire Loom Works, R. Reynolds' Sons, Stockport, Col. Co., N.Y., Nov. 22d, 1875 - The Robbins' Washier you sent me, has proved itself the greatest labor-saving auxiliary in the washing department of our household, we have ever used or seen. It fully realizes all you guarantee in your circular; and i shall recommend it wherever I can. Yours truly, R. Burns Reynolds. Eatontown, Nov. 27th, 1875. Gents: I am confident that if you would send your circulars, etc., giving full particulars, to the address of A. P. Flower, Esq, Spring Valley, Minnesota, you would secure a great market for your unrivaled machines. As Mr. F. (my cousin) is in the hardware business, (firm of Alley & Flower), he could sell a great many. I feel interested in spreading your little Washier in every section of the country. My wife would not part with the one we have for $500, if she could not procure another. It is certainly the only washier in existence that is of any account. I am, yours very truly, F Flower The above are extracts from a few among hundreds of letters we have on file at our office. The originals will be fully shown to all who may desire it. Don't fail to send for descriptive circular, terms to agents, &c., &c., to Geo. D. Bissell & Co., Naugatuck, Ct.. -------------------------------------------------- Scientific American, 5 Nov 1881, page 295 [Google Books] URL: http://books.google.com/books?id=YIE9AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA295&lpg=PA295&dq=%22Henry+R+Robbins%22+Baltimore,+MD&source=bl&ots=WSmcIOFs6J&sig=qx0krtc5hv8G7CBLwFuCFKHTDWY&hl=en&ei=f8hOTZqVEYK8lQek27DzDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22Henry%20R%20Robbins%22%20Baltimore%2C%20MD&f=false Extract: A Can Soldering Machine. Mr. Henry R. Robbins, of Baltimore, Md., has patented an improved machine for soldering the beads of tin cans to the bodies thereof. In this machine the cylindrical body of the can, having its heads applied, is held in horizontal position, and rotated by vertically moving supports and rotary bolders or clamps, while the molten solder is discharged upon the jonints of the can heads from an upper receptacle by hollow istons or chargers which are controlled by; the operator. A liquid flux is automatically supplied to the joint and soldering irons brought in contact with the can by the same motion which brings the altter up agains the discharge tubes of the molten solder receptacvle containing the chargers. A single rotation of the can holders will suffice to secure a firm soldering of the beads to the body of the can, which may then be removed by sliding one of the rotary can holders away from the end of the can. The machine is very ingenious and complete in all its details. -------------------------------------------- Henry R Robbins - Justice of the Peace Anne Arundel County Court, Chattel Records, 1845-1851, page 334 URL: http://www.msa.md.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc2900/sc2908/000001/000818/html/am818--334.html --------------------------------------------------------------