US Patent: 115,110
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| Improvement in machines for cutting splints
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Patentee:
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| Anton F. Scow (exact or similar names) - Chicago, IL |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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| Granted: |
May 23, 1871 |
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Description: |
| The following is based on an entry in the 1874 "Decisions of the Commissioner of Patents": Anton F. Scow was a shop foreman for one Samuel I. Russell. Scow was directed to build a splint cutting machine, and Russell suggested "putting on an eccentric", which Scow did. Scow then applied for, and was granted, this patent. There is no evidence that Russell was aware that this had occurred. More than two years later, Russell applied for a patent. Scow's testimony made clear that he perceived "invention" to mean creating the implementation; the idea was agreed to be Russell's. The Board and Examiner agreed that Russell was the true inventor and therefore Scow's patent was invalid. The long delay between Russell's invention and the patent application was deemed not to constitute abandonment, and he was ultimately granted patent 149,343. |
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