GB Patent: GB-184,309,724
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| Construction of boxes for the axles or axletrees of locomotive engines and carriages, and for the bearings or journals of machinery in general, and also for improvements in the oiling of lubricating the same
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Patentees:
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| Isaac Babbitt (exact or similar names) - Boston, MA |
| William Edward Newton (exact or similar names) - Chancery-Lane, London, England |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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May 15, 1843 |
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Wikipedia biography of Isaac Babbitt
Lawsuit, Newton v. Grand Junction Railway Co.
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Description: |
| This patent is equivalent to the 1839 US patent 1,252, which was granted to Isaac Babbitt for a journal bearing. That patent was very important because it described a composition for bearing metal that is now known as Babbitt: fifty parts tin, five of antimony and one of copper. In an egregious oversight, the US patent did not apply to the metal composition itself; that oversight was rectified in this British version of the patent. In 1847 a Russian patent was obtained as well, which also covered the metal composition.William Edward Newton was granted numerous British patents on behalf of American inventors, who, under the laws at the time, were not allowed to directly apply for British patents. Thus, this patent is described as a "Communication", meaning that the idea was not original to the patentee. We have listed Isaac Babbitt as a patentee in our database but the original patent specification does not (and could not) list him as such.In 1846 Newton sued the Grand Junction Railway Company for infringing this patent: see link. |
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