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Dough Kneader & Roller
Judy W. Reed

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Judy W. Reed
Judy Woodford Reed (c. 1826 – c. 1905) was an African-American woman alive during the 1880s, whose only records are a US patent and censuses. Reed, from Virginia, is considered the first African American woman to receive a US patent. Patent No. US305474 for a "Dough Kneader and Roller" was granted September 23, 1884. The patent was for an improved design of existing rollers with dough mixing more evenly while being kept covered and protected.
Little is known about Judy Woodford Reed, or Reid. She first appears in the 1870 Federal Census as a 44 year old seamstress in Fredericksville Parish near Charlottesville, Virginia, in Albemarle County, along with her husband Allen, a gardener, and their five children. Ten years later, Allen and Judy Reed were still in Virginia, this time with a grandson. Sometime between 1880 and 1885, Allen Reed died, and Judy W. Reed, calling herself “widow of Allen,” moved to Washington, D. C., where she resided, with her children, at 1906 K Street, N. W.
Reed’s first patent, Patent No. US305474, made her the first African American women who officially received a US patent, inventing the Dough Kneader and Roller and was classified as “B29B7/562 Mixing; Kneading continuous, with mechanical mixing or kneading devices with movable mixing or kneading devices with rollers or the like, e.g. calendars with co-operating rollers, e.g. with repeated action, i.e. the material leaving a set of rollers being reconducted to the same set or being conducted to a next set with means for axially moving the material on the rollers”.
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Dough Kneader & Roller
Judy W. Reed

Biography
Judy Woodford Reed (c. 1826 – c. 1905) was an African-American woman alive during the 1880s, whose only records are a US patent and censuses. Reed, from Virginia, is considered the first African American woman to receive a US patent. Patent No. 305,474 for a "Dough Kneader and Roller" was granted September 23, 1884. The patent was for an improved design of existing rollers with dough mixing more evenly while being kept covered and protected.
Little is known about Judy Woodford Reed, or Reid. She first appears in the 1870 Federal Census as a 44 year old seamstress in Fredericksville Parish near Charlottesville, Virginia, in Albemarle County, along with her husband Allen, a gardener, and their five children [3] Ten years later, Allen and Judy Reed were still in Virginia, this time with a grandson.[4] Sometime between 1880 and 1885, Allen Reed died, and Judy W. Reed, calling herself "widow of Allen," moved to Washington, D. C., where she resided, with her children, at 1906 K Street, N. W.
Reed's first patent, Patent No. US305474, made her the first African American women who officially received a US patent, inventing the Dough Kneader and Roller and was classified as "B29B7/562 Mixing; Kneading continuous, with mechanical mixing or kneading devices with movable mixing or kneading devices with rollers or the like, e.g. calendars with co-operating rollers, e.g. with repeated action, i.e. the material leaving a set of rollers being reconducted to the same set or being conducted to a next set with means for axially moving the material on the rollers".
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