US Patent: 252,028 
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| Flexible gearing
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	        Patentee:
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 | Alonzo S. Gear (exact or similar names) - New York, NY |  
 
 
 
 
 
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| Not known to have been produced |  
 
 
 
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        Patent Dates:
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| Applied: | 
Jan. 28, 1881 | 
 
| Granted: | 
Jan. 10, 1882 | 
 
 
 
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                        Jeff Joslin Vintage Machinery entry for A. S. & J. Gear & Co. 
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        Description: |  
| This spring drive belt was indeed manufactured by the assignee, who claimed, a few months after this patent was issued, that they had already sold 300,000 of them. But the company disappeared from sight within a few more months. |  
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