US Patent: 6,573 - Machine for contracting the circumference of wrought-iron bands


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US Patent: 6,573

Machine for contracting the circumference of wrought-iron bands

Patentee:

William Massey (exact or similar names) - Greene County, IL

USPTO Classifications:

72/303

Tool Categories:

specialty machines : metal tire apparatus : tire shrinkers

specialty tools : metal tire repair tools : tire shrinkers

Assignees:

None

Manufacturer:

Not known to have been produced

Witnesses:

I. N. Pigott

F. P. Vedden

Patent Dates:
Granted:	Jul. 03, 1849

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Description:

This is a "hot" tire setter: the tire (made of wrought iron) is heated to red hot before using the device of this invention to circumferentially compress the band to shorten it. This patent was reissued twice as RE887 and RE888, representing a division of the original patent.