Editing Paper machine (section)

=== Similar designs ===
Records show [[Charles Kinsey]] of [[Paterson, NJ]] had already patented a continuous process papermaking machine in 1807.  Kinsey's machine was built locally by Daniel Sawn and by 1809 the Kinsey machine was successfully making paper at the Essex Mill in Paterson.  Financial stress and potential opportunities created by the [[Embargo of 1807]] eventually persuaded Kinsey and his backers to change the mill's focus from paper to cotton and Kinsey's early papermaking successes were soon overlooked and forgotten.<ref name="Bidwell">{{cite book|last1=Bidwell|first1=John| title=American Paper Mills, 1690–1832: A Directory of the Paper Trade with Notes...| date=2013| publisher=Dartmouth College Press|isbn=978-1-58465-964-8|pages=154–155 |url=http://www.upne.com/1584659648.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120910170629/http://www.upne.com/1584659648.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=September 10, 2012}}</ref><ref name="HAER NJ-6">{{cite journal| title=Historic American Engineering Record Essex Mill NJ-6|journal=National American Engineering Record| page=3| url=http://cdn.loc.gov/master/pnp/habshaer/nj/nj0100/nj0180/data/nj0180data.pdf|publisher=National Park Service Department of the Interior Washington D.C. 20240|quote=The Essex Mill is historic as the first new mill site leased by the Society for Establishing Useful Manufacturers, and as the scene of some of the earliest experiments with continuous paper manufacture in the United States.}}</ref>

Gilpin's 1817 patent was similar to Kinsey's, as was the John Ames patent of 1822.  The Ames patent was challenged by his competitors, asserting that Kinsey was the original inventor and Ames had been stealing other people's ideas, their evidence being the employment of Daniel Sawn to work on his machine.<ref name=Bidwell />