Thomas Robins (inventor)


Thomas Robins, Jr. was an American inventor and manufacturer.

Biography

He was born in September 1, 1868, in West Point, New York to Thomas Robins, Sr. He attended Princeton University.

Career

In 1891 he began work on a conveyor belt for carrying coal and ore for Thomas Edison and his Edison Ore-Milling Company in Ogdensburg, New Jersey. His conveyor belt received the grand prize at the Paris Exposition in 1900, and first prizes at the Pan-American Exposition and Saint Louis Exposition.
Based on his invention he started the Robins Conveying Belt Company and of the Robins New Conveyor Company. In 1915 he was appointed to the Naval Consulting Board.

Personal life

On April 26, 1894 he married Winifred Hamilton Tucker in Boston, Massachusetts. They lived together at 40 East 66th Street in New York City and had a home in Stamford, Connecticut, called Saddle Rock House designed by prominent NYC architects, Hunt and Hunt. Together with his wife, he had:
He died on November 4, 1957, at the Nestledown Convalescent Home in Stamford, Connecticut, aged 89.