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<p>[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 196008, member: 44"]Here is history of the B. Walter furniture maker and this table slide. It seems he, Bossler Walter was in partnership with a Thomas Hennessey who had patented a "table slide, the mechanism under a table that allows it to be pulled apart for the placement of additional leaves." Seems more than 1 million of these table slides were produced a year. The partnership stsrted in Wabash in 1887. After a few years Walter bought out Hennessey.</p><p><a href="http://www.indianahistory.org/our-services/books-publications/hbr/b-walter.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.indianahistory.org/our-services/books-publications/hbr/b-walter.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.indianahistory.org/our-services/books-publications/hbr/b-walter.pdf</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Youtube showng the table slide:</p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]B7aVStTnHOM[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 196008, member: 44"]Here is history of the B. Walter furniture maker and this table slide. It seems he, Bossler Walter was in partnership with a Thomas Hennessey who had patented a "table slide, the mechanism under a table that allows it to be pulled apart for the placement of additional leaves." Seems more than 1 million of these table slides were produced a year. The partnership stsrted in Wabash in 1887. After a few years Walter bought out Hennessey. [URL]http://www.indianahistory.org/our-services/books-publications/hbr/b-walter.pdf[/URL] Youtube showng the table slide: [MEDIA=youtube]B7aVStTnHOM[/MEDIA] --- Susan[/QUOTE]
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