US Patent: 313,194 
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| Device for Locking Joints
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	        Patentee:
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 | Edward L. Gaylord (exact or similar names) - Bridgeport, CT |  
 
 
 
 
 
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| Not known to have been produced |  
 
 
 
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        Patent Dates:
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| Applied: | 
Sep. 03, 1884 | 
 
| Granted: | 
Mar. 03, 1885 | 
 
 
 
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        Description: |  
| Cast metal locking device with a flange on three sides and a wedge shaped projection at each end, slanting outward from top to bottom.  Doweling of the joint is considered unnecessary when two of these clamps are applied to the frame.
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