William Edwin Sykes

William Edwin Sykes (1883-1943) of W. E. Sykes

Inventor of the Sykes gear generating machine.

Brother of Arthur Sykes

1914 'LOCAL INVENTIONS.—The following particulars are especially prepared for the Middlesex & Bucks Advertiser," by Messrs. Rayner & Co.. Regd. Patent Agents, of 5, Chancery Lane, London. who will give all assistance and advice quite free to any of our readers on all matters relating to Patents and Inventions Trade Marks or Designs.
No. 15,862. " Gear Cutting Machines," W. E. Sykes, Sylvanhoe Upton Road. Slough. In gear cutting machines of the type using a reciprocating pinion shaped cutter, means are provided to tilt the cutter from the work during the non-cutting stroke. The cutter is rotatably mounted in a tool holder pivoted and is adapted to be rotated synchronously with the work piece for generating the tooth curve through gearing from a spindle carried by a sliding carriage and rotated by a worm wheel driven from the same source that rotates the work. Full copies ... '

1934 'Congratulations to Mr. William Edwin Sykes, of the firm of W. E. Sykes and Co., of Staines, who has been presented with the Edward Longstreth Medal (founded in 1890 by Edward Longstreth, of Philadelphia) for his development of gear generators for cutting gears. The presentation was made at The Franklin Institute. Philadelphia, recently. Mr. Sykes is native of Huddersfield and formerly resided in the Greenway, Uxbridge, and Upton-road, Slough, during his business connection with the Power Plant Co. of West Drayton. Mr. and Mrs. Sykes visited England last summer and their many friends in this neighbourhood will be pleased to hear of Mr. William Sykes' success.'

1936 Report in Engineering on a paper presented at the 43rd general meeting of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers held in New York,'on "Methods Used in Producing Marine Gearing," by Mr. W. E. Sykes, although illustrated principally by reference to the methods and tools employed by the author’s firm, the Farrel-Birmingham Company, of Buffalo, N.Y., treated the subject from first principles, and provided an interesting survey of the precision standards now obtaining in American marine gearing manufacture. ....'

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