| US Patent: 600,604 
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| Device For Swaging Gold-Plate For Crown or Bridge Work | 
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| Patentee: |  |
 | William Harah Baird (exact or similar names) - Burlington, IA |  
 
 
 
 
 
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| Patent Dates: |  
| Applied: | Jun. 15, 1897 |  
| Granted: | Mar. 15, 1898 |  
 
USPTO (New site tip)| Patent Pictures: |  |  |  | William Harah Baird patent March 15, 1898 |  Google Patents
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| Description: |  | Parallel jaw pliers frame with jaws comprising upper and lower swage blocks for forming gold tooth crowns and bridges. Baird was a Burlington, Iowa dentist. 
The focus of the patent is on the swage dies; the form of the pliers is incidental. A known example has the swage blocks mounted on a BERNARD parallel jaw pliers frame bearing the May 6, 1890 patent date, i.e. patent no. 427,220. |  |