US Patent: 29,096
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| Surveyor's tackle-case
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Patentee:
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| William H. Paine (exact or similar names) - Sheboygan, WI |
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Patent Dates:
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| Granted: |
Jul. 10, 1860 |
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Jeff Joslin
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Description: |
| This elaborate and relatively expensive surveyor's tape with accessories formed a complete kit as needed by "chain men", i.e., land surveyors: tape marked in yards and feet, links, set of ten pins, thermometer, rings for the tape ends, and an index plate for counting tally, all packed i a bock that could be hung from the waist or neck of the "follower", who was responsible for using the pins and keeping the tally. The kit was manufactured for a relatively brief time and surviving examples are exceedingly rare. The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History has one in its collection although it is not on display (Museum ID number PH.337003). The inventor also patented a temperature compensation mechanism for a surveyor's tape (patent 29,514) and that invention, applied to a steel tape in a simple leather case, was manufactured into the 1920s. |
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