US Patent: 161,970 
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| Portable Steam Engine
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	        Patentee:
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 | Frank F. Landis (exact or similar names) - Lancaster, PA |  
 
 
 
 
 
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| Not known to have been produced |  
 
 
 
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        Patent Dates:
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| Applied: | 
Apr. 01, 1874 | 
 
| Granted: | 
Apr. 13, 1875 | 
 
 
 
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                        Joel Havens  "Vintage Machinery" entry for F. F. & A. B. Landis 
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        Description: |  
| Abstract:
My invention consists in the combination of a cold-water reservoir with the boiler of a portable steam engine, in such a manner that the said reservoir shall form the bed for the crankshaft journal-bearings, substantially as and for the purpose hereinafter set forth.
Claim:
In a portable steam-engine, the water-reservoir A, located between the boiler and the crank-shaft, and supporting the bearings of the latter.
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