NX Patent: NX-182,802,281
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| Manufacturing of Scythes by Welding and Rolling Iron and Steel together
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Patentees:
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| Elizabeth H. Bulkley, widow of C. Bulkley (exact or similar names) - Colchester, New London County, CT |
| Chauncey Bulkley, deceased (Estate of) (exact or similar names) - Colchester, New London County, CT |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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Feb. 28, 1828 |
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Joel Havens
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Description: |
| NX series patents are pre-July 1836 patents that do not have numbers and are not listed in the X patent series. They have been arbitrarily assigned NX numbers, which consists of the issue date in ISO format followed by a single number to separate multiple patents issued on the same date. This is to allow them to be entered into the Datamp file. They are entered here for reference and further research only.
The two preceding patents (this one and 5,018X) were granted in pursuance of a special act of congress, passed on the 18th of February, 1828. The petition upon which this act was founded, set forth that Chauncey Bulkley had, during his life time, been the inventor of several valuable machines, of the benefits of which he had been deprived, by his generous, but misplaced confidence in others; that he had exhausted his own resources in bringing these inventions to perfection, and had at length been removed by death, leaving his family in a destitute condition, and unable, therefore, to obtain patents for the two preceding improvements.
“Take a bar of iron of a suitable size for the blade of the scythe. Hammer it till one side is a little thinner than the other; then take a thin plate of cast steel, and weld it upon the thin edge of the bar, and then roll it down to a proper degree of thinness for the blade of a scythe. Cut the plate, if necessary, into suitable lengths for a scythe, and punch holes in the back edge of the plate; then turn up the back edge of the plate, at a right angle, as high as may be requisite for the thickness of the back; then take the back, which is to be forged of iron, and punch holes through it, corresponding with the holes in the plate. Rivet the back firmly on the plate, then turn the scythe in the usual way. The back must be made so wide at the heel as to admit of the blade being riveted upon it with two rivets.”
Journal of the Franklin Institute Vol. 5, Aug. 1829 pg. 133
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