US Patent: 5,699X
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| Manufacturing of Chandeliers From the Crystalization of Salts
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Patentee:
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| Franklin Ransom (exact or similar names) - Buffalo, NY |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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Nov. 03, 1829 |
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Joel Havens
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| Most of the patents prior to 1836 were lost in the Dec. 1836 fire. Only about 2,000 of the almost 10,000 documents were recovered. Little is known about this patent. There are no patent drawings available. This patent is in the database for reference only.
"By turning to page 188, of our last volume, it will be seen that a patent (#5,537X) was granted on the 13th of June last, to F. B. Merrill, of Buffalo, for ornamenting the skeletons of chandeliers, &c. by immersing them in a saturated solution of alum, or other salt; chandeliers so ornamented being intended as cheap substitutes for those of cut glass. The present patent is obtained for the same thing precisely, and both the inventors or discoverers reside in the same town; which of them invented, or discovered it first, or whether they discovered it originally in a chemist's laboratory or a lady's boudoir, we are not informed. Ornaments of this description were familiar objects in our boyish days, sometime far back, in the last century; although it had then been discovered that crystals would attach themselves to twigs interwoven in the form of baskets, grottoes, and pyramids, the knowledge that sticks, or wires, bent in the shape of the frame of a chandelier, was, it seems, reserved to become one of the notable improvements of the present day."
Journal of the Franklin Institute, V5, Oct., 1830, pg. 126 |
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