US Patent: 1,753,590 
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| Workholder for bar-grinding machines
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	        Patentee:
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 | Frederic K. Benedict (exact or similar names) - Big Rapids, MI |  
 
 
 
 
 
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| Not known to have been produced |  
 
 
 
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        Patent Dates:
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| Applied: | 
Dec. 27, 1927 | 
 
| Granted: | 
Apr. 08, 1930 | 
 
 
 
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                        Jeff Joslin Vintage Machinery entry for Covel Mfg. Co. 
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        Description: |  
| "A locomotive guide bar is a heavy piece of work quite wide and several feet long, and its working fact, on which the engine cross head is to slide, must be ground to a true plane and it must also be parallel with the faced pads or bearing surfaces that are provided on the back face of the bar near its ends..." |  
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