| US Patent: 104,507 
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| Method of Making Files | 
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 | Thomas S. Smith (exact or similar names) - Cincinnati, OH |  
 
 
 
 
| Manufacturer: |  | Not known to have been produced |  
 
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| Patent Dates: |  
| Granted: | Jun. 21, 1870 |  USPTO (New site tip)
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| Description: |  | To make the files, I take a sheet of iron, steel, or other suitable metal, having a thickness adequate to the use for which it is made, and, by means of a planing-machine, groove one or both, surfaces of the sheet metal in such a manner that sharp parallel ridges are formed over the entire sheet ,of metal, Which, is then placed in the former and the files struck out. |  |