| US Patent: 361,055 
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| Micrometer Gage | 
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| Patentee: |  |
 | Albert H. Emery (exact or similar names) - Stamford, CT |  
 
 
 
 
| Manufacturer: |  | Not known to have been produced |  
 
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| Patent Dates: |  
| Applied: | Apr. 20, 1886 |  
| Granted: | Apr. 12, 1887 |  USPTO (New site tip)
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                        Joel Havens
 
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| Description: |  | Knight & brothers - patent attorneys 
The subject of this invention is a gage for taking accurate internal measurements. The invention relates, first, to constructing a micrometer-gage with a handle or holding pieces of wood or other material which is a poor conductor of heat, so that the heat from the hand may not be communicated to the metal of which the gage is composed; and, further, to connecting the handle or holding-pieces to the body of the gage by pins or fastenings of a material non-conductive of heat, as hereinafter explained. The invention further relates to means for adjusting the nut or screw socket on the micrometer-screw, so as to adapt the latter to work and measure with great accuracy, and to take up or compensate for any wear between the parts; also, to provisions for readily fixing the gage at any measurement to which it may be set. To these ends I construct the screw socket with a transverse slit extending on both sides of the micrometer-screw, and the set screws by which the screw-socket is adjusted to the said micrometer-Screw, and I provide, in addition to said set-screws, by which the parts are-kept in the required adjustment to adapt them to work accurately together, a locking screw, by which, without interfering with the set-screws, the nut or screw-socket may, when desired, be clamped upon the micrometer-screw, so as to lock the same and prevent its motion, and thus retain the gage at any adjustment to which it may be set. The invention further relates to the provision of screw-legs of different lengths, constituting the measuring-foot of the gage, interchangeable and adjustable for the purpose of accurately setting the instrument at a determinate gage length while the micrometer-screw is at zero, and in connection therewith set-screws for fixing the said adjustable foot-screws at the required adjustment. |  |