Yates-American Machine Company
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CompanyYates-American Machine Company
Certificate Type
Capital Stock
Date Issued
April 17, 1936
Canceled
Yes
Printer
Western Bank Note Company
Signatures
Hand signed
Approximate Size
11 3/4" (w) by 7 3/4" (h)
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Historical Context
P.B. Yates, a Beloit, Wisconsin industrialist who was founder of P.B. Yates Machine Company (later the Yates-American Machine Company), one of Beloit's larger manufacturing concerns. In 1883, P.B. Yates established the Berlin Machine Works, which originally manufactured sanding machines, in Berlin, Wisconsin. The plant moved to Beloit in 1887, where it grew from 13 employees and one salesman to 500 employees and 200 different woodworking machines.
Mr. Yates revolutionized existing practices with many of his innovative machines, and also built a reputation for marketing machines that were superior in quality to any others on the market. His insistence on quality and durability was responsible for the rapid advance of the Yates-American Company to the forefront of the woodworking machine industry, where it enjoyed a world-wide reputation.
Yates purchased the American Woodworking Machinery Company, with plants in Rochester, New York, and Hamilton, Ontario, in addition to its Beloit plant. Yates-American was one of the earliest manufacturers to have its own foundry and pattern shops; combined with manufacturing and assembly, it was one of the few companies to control production from the time of design to time of sale and use. These machines were involved in virtually every stage of woodworking operations, and it was estimated that most American furniture was fabricated at some stage on a Yates-American machine.
They were also installed by the hundreds in schools, where they were used for instructional purposes. They were accepted as the standard for school use just as they were in the industrial field.
In the 1930's, the company began to diversify, moving into the radiator field, and building condensers and evaporators for air conditioning and refrigeration industries.
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