Alexander Stivens
or Alexander Stiven, of Dunn and Stivens
1841 Advert: 'STIVEN'S PATENT-LEVER CHUCK. ALEXANDER STIVEN takes leave repectfully to call the attention of Engineers, Millwrights, Machine Makers, and Others, to his LEVER CHUCK, which, for simplicity and universality of application for boring and turning, he flatters himself will be found superior to all others now in use, being capable of fixing eccentric as well as concentric, and binding either inside or outside with equal facility and power. It is calculated for the heaviest boring mill or turning lathe.
The principle upon which this machine is constructed is applicable to an inumerable variety of other equally useful tools, such as binding tables for drilling, slotting, planing, end shaping machines, screw cutting engines, universal stays for slide lathes, binding blocks, &c.
An inspection is only necessary to satisfy any person of its great utility. It can be seen at the workshop opposite Mr. Fairbairn's works, Canal-street, Great Ancoats-street; or at his resdeuce No 41, Mill-street, Great Ancoats-street, Manchester.' [1]
1844 Patent. Alexander Stiven of 86 Drake Street, Rochdale, for an improved, simple, and compound parallel vice.[2]
1847 Insolvent. 'Alexander Stivens, late of Phoenix-street, Manchester, Lancaster, Machinist.—In the Gaol of Lancaster.[3]
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Sources of Information
- ↑ Manchester Times - Saturday 13 March 1841
- ↑ Preston Chronicle - Saturday 09 March 1844
- ↑ The London Gazette Publication date:8 October 1847 Issue:20780 Page:3577