Penniman's Atlas Press Company filed for an injunction barring Eames from making an arbor press and demanding that rights to the improved press be transferred to Atlas Press Co. As we might expect, there was confusion in the marketplace and misdirected mail. Eames Co., and began manufacturing 'Eames Presses'-same product name, same old company name, same old location. He then organized a new corporation under the abandoned name of his former business, G. In 1916, Eames was granted another patent on an improvement to the arbor press (the addition of gears and ratchet between the lever and the rack on the ram). In 1914 he patented an improved press table, and this improvement was assigned to Atlas Press Co., in accordance with the original business agreement. Eames took over the old premises, running a machine shop business and manufacturing some of his other inventions. Eames sold his share of the business to Penniman, who moved the business to new quarters and renamed it to Atlas Press Co. Penniman took over business management of the company and soon the formerly thriving business was beset by strife and financial difficulty. fell to his daughter and her husband, John H. He died from his injuries a few days later, age 55. In June 1913, Everard was injured in a stair collapse while visiting a paper plant in Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario. The press was an immediate success, and was awarded a patent in September of 1912. Company ownership was shared equally between the two men, with Eames running the design and manufacturing side of the business and Everard managing the commercial and financial side. In late 1911, Eames and Everard established G. Everard, trained as a printer but who had made his money in a family business that manufactured regalia for the Masons and other fraternal organizations. He found a partner in another Kalamazoo resident, Herbert H. In that year he had an idea for an improved arbor and mandrel press but felt he did not have the capital to properly exploit his invention. Eames had a modest business manufacturing some of his inventions, including wooden pulleys and drill grinders. The early life of professional inventor-and co-founder of what became Atlas Press Co.-Gardner T.

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