US Patent: 409,457 
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| Steam-engine
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	        Patentees:
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 | Joseph W. Dennis (exact or similar names) - Buffalo, NY |  
| Frank A. Shoemaker (exact or similar names) - Buffalo, NY |  
 
 
 
 
 
| Manufacturer: |  
| Not known to have been produced |  
 
 
 
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        Patent Dates:
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| Applied: | 
May 13, 1889 | 
 
| Granted: | 
Aug. 20, 1889 | 
 
 
 
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                        Joel Havens "Vintage Machinery" entry for J. W. Dennis 
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        Description: |  
| "This invention relates to that class of steam-engines which contain two or more cylinders and connected pistons moving therein, and in which the steam is admitted to a chamber formed at the junction of the cylinders and admitted from said intermediate chamber to the outer ends of the cylinders and exhausted therefrom by a rotary valve. The object of our invention is to produce a simple engine of this kind which is composed of comparatively few parts, which can be constructed at small expense, and which is easily kept in order." |  
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