| US Patent: 251,305 
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| Lathe-Chuck | 
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| Patentee: |  |
 | Dwight Slate (exact or similar names) - Hartford, Hartford County, CT |  
 
 
 
 
| Manufacturer: |  | Not known to have been produced |  
 
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| Patent Dates: |  
| Applied: | Aug. 13, 1881 |  
| Granted: | Dec. 20, 1881 |  USPTO (New site tip)
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                        Joel Havens
 "Vintage Machinery" entry for E. Horton & Son Co.
 
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| Description: |  | W. E. Simonds, patent attorney
My improvement relates to that class of combination-chucks: 
 i.e., those which may be changed from universal to independent, and vice versa, which have an annular gear for engaging with pinions on the various screws which operate the jaws and a loose ring back of the annular gear for use in meshing and unmeshing the annular gear from such pinions. The improvement is a device different from those which have preceded it for causing the meshing and unmeshing of said annular gear and said pinions. |  |