Patent Model - Improvement in Weighing-Scales
Maker and role
Thomas Stetson (b.1827, d.1916), Patentee
E. & T. Fairbanks Company (estab. 1824), Assignee
Production date
Sep 15 1875
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Object detail
Media/Materials
Wood, iron, brass
Measurements
2 1/4 x 9 3/4 x 4 3/4" (5.7 x 24.8 x 12.1cm)
Description
Stetson's invention "is adapted for railroad-track scales and other heavy scales, were it is important to employ what is generally known as knife-edges to receive the strain, and where the first and second levers require provisions for a lateral, longitudinal, and irregular motion relatively to each other. The invention affords each knife-edge a fair bearing on a long surface, and allows one set to move horizontally in all directions relatively to the others." (Patent Number 167,705)
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Object number
2015.14.2021a,b
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