US Patent: 290,889
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Rule or Measure
Tailor's Square
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Patentee:
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| Frank J. Kellogg (exact or similar names) - Battle Creek, MI |
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Patent Dates:
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| Applied: |
Feb. 27, 1883 |
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Dec. 25, 1883 |
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Ralph Brendler
"Professor" Frank J. Kellogg and his Patent Medicine
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Description: |
| This rule features a series of holes that can be registered by a second arm to lock the two legs of the rule at a specific angle.
This patent was produced as "Mme. Kellogg's French Tailor's System", which is really odd because the inventor was a man named Frank from Battle Creek Michigan. Apparently he felt the tool would sell better to seamstresses if it had a woman's name on it.
"Professor" Frank J. Kellogs was a well-known huckster and purveyor of patent medicines such as Sanitone Wafers, Malto-Fructo, and Rengo. He was no relation to the Kellogg bothers that ran the famous Battle Creek sanitarium (and went on to form a cereal empire), but apparently used the name and location to lend legitimacy to his medicine business. |
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