"The Patent King of the United States" Justus A. Traut

Oh you can hear old Woody crying a lake of tears, just finding a few parts to a Stanley #45 plane like two cam stops, a fence support and one beading stop along with one knob. Sigh one only wonders where the rest of the parts are?

Justus A Traut was born on June the 12th, 1839 in Postsdam, Stadtkreis Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany. He died on March the 9th 1908 aged 68 years old. He is buried in the Fairview Cemetery in New Britain, Connecticut.

From what I gather he had 148 patents (now did he come up with all of them, me thinks not) From the readings he worked at the Stanley company for 50 years, His first patent was issued on June 20th 1865 and his last patent was on November 3rd, 1908 and it was issued posthumously almost 8 months after his death.

How did he do it one might ask ? Simple he had a workshop of men under him and at his direction they came up with improvements and as you might have guessed it he got the credit so to speak.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/45057047/justus-a-traut

https://archive.org/details/stanley-patent-adjustable-cam-stop-no-45-and-55-planes-1902

https://archive.org/details/Stanley45Plane/page/n9/mode/2up

https://www.ebay.com/itm/STANLEY-45-BEADING-STOP/265009245739?hash=item3db3c82e2b:g:vn4AAOSwYAtf-3Ik

Part 2

http://www.datamp.org/patents/displayPatent.php?id=8833

https://craftsofnj.org/index.php/bevels

http://oldtooluser.com/Patents/Planes/533329/Traut_533329.htm

https://patents.google.com/patent/US716150A/en

Part 3

http://datamp.org/patents/advance.php?id=8956&set=5

https://eaiainfo.org/2020/03/02/justus-trauts-bull-nozed-convertible-block-plane/

https://eaiainfo.org/2017/01/16/justus-trauts-early-adjustable-110-block-planes/

https://eaiainfo.org/2018/01/06/trauts-model-shop-chamfer-planes-part-1/

http://www.handplanepatents.com/no-342235-plane-justus-a-traut-1886/

https://store.woodsmith.com/products/plough-plane-patent-poster

http://www.handplanepatents.com/no-308332-rabbet-plane-justus-a-traut-1884/

http://www.handplanepatents.com/no-338570-bench-plane-justus-a-traut-1886/

https://eaiainfo.org/2015/04/17/justus-trauts-bull-nose-plane/

I think he was born with it.

From an old tools list conversation.


The #72 *is* covered by a different patent, #36,973, granted on
11/18/1862 by Justus Traut's father Frederick:

http://www.datamp.org/displayPatent.php?number=36973&type=UT


The whole thought process, referring to Stanley marking gauges.

http://swingleydev.com/ot/get/131705/single/

"The Patent King of the United States" Justus A. Traut

. Did the stuff you got go with this model? All I have is this, a friend of mine was going to buy it but his interest may have cooled. If I had more parts maybe it would make a better display? ...or maybe you need this for your set? I like this but was never a carpenter.

Didn’t look closely enough, your pieces are later, having non-threaded slides. My bad.
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Most people think Xerox invented the plain paper copier. The did NOT ! They bought the patents from some guy who could not come up with the funding to get the product to market !

The first plain paper copier was not "office friendly". It was more like a printing press. One machine "shot" the image. You then placed it in a second machine to actually print the copies. They did not sell many, but they came up with an "all-in-one" machine similar to what we all know within a year or two !

Actually it was FAR bigger and the one I used to use didn't have a flat imaging surface it was CURVED adn had a heavy flexible rubber, (probably lead weighted) cover.

History is littered with inventors ahead of the need or the technology to make it work.

History is also littered with companies who had a guy with an idea and didn't appreciate him. Addressograph-Multigraph was a giant in office machinery and one of their guys kept saying plain paper copying was the way to go, just needed development. But the powers that be bought patents for electrostatic special paper and heat fused copying because it was workable right then. Xerox went with plain paper and soon A-M was on the skids.

But then, Xerox had their missed opportunity; at their PARC, their guys developed the mouse point-and-click system, along with several other now universal computer ideas, but showed them to Steve Jobs who immediately stole their ideas, added them to his own and you know the rest of the story.

jack vines

I guess lightning can strike twice as they say and today I picked up a simple wooden Stanley level level the #102, patent # 421,786 with a total cost of .40 cents back in the turn of the century by non other then Mr. Traut.

I found some more cool information about his contracting days at Stanley in case anyone is interested in reading it.

https://datamp.org/patents/search/advance.php?id=10517&set=23

https://archive.org/details/StanleyToolsCatalogueNo341907/page/n23/mode/2up

https://eaiainfo.org/2015/04/17/justus-trauts-bull-nose-plane/

Did you get the #45 together? I have a #55 that I need to get back with that I need to upgrade a couple small parts. Haven't used it in awhile and forgot about needing to upgrade.

Have you used the 45 at all?