Patent Model - Improvement in Carpenters' Squares and Bevels
Maker and role
Emile Simonin, Patentee
Production date
Feb 01 1876
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Object detail
Media/Materials
Wood
Measurements
16 x 20 x 2 1/2" (40.6 x 50.8 x 6.4cm)
Description
Simonin's patent "consists in a sliding slotted bar, provided with a set-screw, which pivots it to the corner of a triangular body... so as to be set at any angle with the adjoining edges of said square, being designed to fill the place of three separate instruments, viz., square, bevel, and miter, and also to ascertain the angle between meeting lines or surfaces or transfer them." (Patent Number 172,938)
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Object number
2015.14.2108
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