Lorenzo Beach patented a horse rake in 1860, and his son, Henry Lloyd Beach, began manufacturing the rake. Beach received an 1867 scrollsaw patent, followed by an 1868 horse-rake patent. By 1870 he was manufacturing scrollsaws.
Beach continued to improve and diversify his line of scrollsaws, and he achieved considerable success with them. He later diversified into other woodworking machinery, primarily tablesaws and related resaws and crosscut saws.
In 1889 Beach took on a partner, and operated as Beach, Brown & Co.
By 1893 Beach was again selling scrollsaws under his own name, and Beach's son, Harry Wilber Beach, was selling the tablesaw that Beach, Brown had introduced.
Henry L. Beach died in the early 1900s, and by 1911 the Beach Manufacturing Co. was making and selling the Beach line of products.
Information Sources
- From a genealogy page: Henry Lloyd Beach "was a machinist and established a factory to manufacture his father's horse hay rake. He later invented and manufactured a line of scroll-sawing machinery and other wood working tools, winning a variety of prizes at trade shows and fairs. In 1890 he began serving as president of the First National Bank of Montrose, Pennsylvania. An account of his life and family is given in J. H. Beers & Co., "Biographical Record of Northeastern Pennsylvania", 1900, at pp. 188-190. He died sometime after 1900."
- Beach operated under his own name: Henry L. Beach, or H. L. Beach, or Henry Lloyd Beach.
- 1870 to 1894 ads, 1870, 1873 and 1876 articles in
- Manufacturer & Builder
. Listed in Planers, Matchers & Molders in America as active in 1897.
- An 1889 article and 1890 ad in
- Manufacturer & Builder
are for Beach, Brown & Co., makers of "Beach's Celebrated Scroll Sawing Machines" and other machines regnognizable as Beach machines.